Edwin Schouten

Lead Data Engineer and BI Developer

Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands

About

BI datawarehouse architect and developer, Database (sql) Specialist and Project/Line-Manager experience. Worked with lots of business solutions mainly in BI, ERP and Finance expertise. Using Oracle, MS-SQL Server, TeraData and other high end (bigdata supporting) environments in combination with front end reporting and analyzing tools such as MicrosStrategy, Cognos, SSRS, SSAS, PowerBI. Used to work in a consulting role, moving between (end)user -and technical level, translating the business needs into functional and technical solutions. +10yrs experienced in project -and linemanagement added with +10yrs in BI design and development.

Experience

  • Rademaker BV (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Lead Data Engineer/BI Developer
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Lead developer and Product Owner BI
      Sep 2021 - Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      As Product Owner responsable for the Business Intelligence product and solution landscape. Applying Scrum framework with a scrum team to achieve Product Goals within a Product Vision to serve the Rademaker organization.

  • iqbs Solutions (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Sr BI Consultant
      Mar 2017 - Aug 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      BI solutions consultant in general business wide applications. Microsoft Office 365/SQL server/Reporting and analyzing services/PowerBI tooling. Applying EDW solutions for ERP and Finance environments Infor, SAP, Navision, JDE, ERP open and other business applications. Specialist: SAP ECC and BW extraction using SSIS Theobald Xtract connector tools. Participating in several projects on international level owned by some big international companies.

    • Sr BI Consulatant
      Nov 2016 - Apr 2017 · 6 mos

      Phasing out BI application SAP BW using MS BI platform and Theobald SAP Xtract connector. Responsible for the extraction layer, building the connector database and developing all the required extractions based on SAP BW standard but also generic (created) Datasources and in some cases directly from tables. Also a big role in supporting the BI team in analyzing SAP BW deployed business logic and SAP business logic in general . The rest of the BI team was responsabel for developing the data warehouse and reporting facilities. The team in total functioned using scrum agile methodology in projectmanagement.

  • Isatis Group (9 mos)
    • BI Consultant
      Nov 2015 - Jul 2016 · 9 mos

      Forever Direct Europe IFS Application Management Supporting incident, change and problem management IFS, setting up and training key-user group, Quick report and IAL development, datamodel design IFS and ETL/datawarehouse development for BI reporting (Cognos front end).

    • BI Consultant
      Nov 2015 - Nov 2015 · 1 mo

      BI consultant - developer in: DWH (ODS, staging, dynamic area/semantic layer) , ETL and backend processes, datamodeling, project architect, frontend reporting and data analyzing. Specialized in retail business and supply chain concepts.

  • BI architect at Blokker Holding
    Mar 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Leading member in a team Developing a BI platform on a high end DWH infrastructure in a SAP Retail environment. .

  • Intertoys Holland (19 yrs)
    • Sr. BI Engineer
      Jul 2007 - Feb 2014 · 6 yrs 8 mos

      Further devellopment and optimization of the Business Intelligence and datawarehouse environment. Supporting and performing DBA-oriented and datamining-oriented activities (Oracle and SQL-server).

    • ICT Manager
      Apr 1999 - Jun 2007 · 8 yrs 3 mos

      Major Projects: Moving the HeadOffice to a new location (1999), Millennium (1999-2000), Euro (2001-2002), Implementing and unrolling over 300 locations an new (updated and extended) Shopmanagement and intranet solution on a ip-based wide area network infrastructure (2003 - 2006), WMS (supply-chain) implementation (2005), EDI implementation (2006), BI-migration (2006), EDI solution optimization (2007). General: extending and optimizing the office-automation ICT infrastructure, building a new, fast, optimized and always available international oriented ICT infrastructure to support all our commercial activities.

    • Team Manager Financial Department/Assistant Manager FO
      Mar 1995 - Mar 1999 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Coördinating the financial department (10 fte's), monthly financial processing, analysing and reporting. Starting and implementing a office automation environment, extended and optized throughout the following years. Idem a Bussiness Intelligence (BI) environment. Major Projects: New Financial Application (role: key-user, testing during implementation and application management functionally and technically; 1995/1996), implementation BI solution (role: idem; 1997), reporting tools and building reports (Cognos; 1998)