Dallas, Texas, United States
• U.S Citizen, Canadian born • Qualified by over 21 years of industry experience including several full life cycle implementations with all aspects of the analytics value chain including Gen AI and product management. • A team player with excellent communication (native English and French), user interaction, interpersonal skills, leadership, and a passion for mentorship & coaching. • Focused on strategic digital transformation initiatives through cloud and on-prem platforms. • Extensive experience in requirement gathering including gap analysis, functional requirement specifications, blueprints, and technical architecture. • Expertise in analysis, design, data modeling, data mesh, complex transformations, load scheduling, performance tuning of data loads, queries, and development of interactive dashboards. • Excellent EQ proficiency through change management, community building and unlocking the full potential of any developer. • Trusted career advisor and life long learner. • Former Chapter Chair of America’s SAP User Group (ASUG) for Central Texas. • Expertise in designing and developing analytical solutions sourced from SAP MM, PP, SD, APO-DP, APO-SNP, FI, COPA and IS-U modules as well as non-SAP sources. • Presented Executive Mobile Dashboards at the SAP for Utilities 2012 conference in Hollywood, Florida • Presented IoT use cases at the Wind Farm Data Management and Analysis Forum 2016 in Hamburg, Germany and at the SAP Innovation Forum 2017 in London, England. • Was heavily involved in pre-sales, marketing, engagement management and intellectual product development.
• Responsible for leading the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) engineering practice. • Overseeing all data engineering efforts including capacity planning and modeling best practices. • Accountable for the end-to-end success of turnkey initiatives for strategic pricing, promotional sales planning solutions leading to a 2 to 3% in gross profit margins. • Responsible for enterprise data democratization ensuring robust implementation and measurable business impact through tools such as Dataiku, Databricks, Glean, PowerBI, Windsurf and Co-pilot. • Manage data domain expertise and efficiencies company wide including but not limited to store operations, merchandising, marketing, logistics & supply chain, fuels, loyalty, accounting and digital. • Mentoring and coaching managers, staff and senior data engineers. • Working as a liaison between the governance, platform, machine learning and data engineering teams for cutting edge technologies and methodologies adoption. • Ensuring uptime for all data products that have executive visibility of certified key performance indicators using retail data modeling solutions and medallion architecture. • Managing budget planning and forecasting.
• Managed full stack development teams focused on natural language processing (NLP) engineering solutions. • Led efforts for all Generative AI prototype exploration and proof-of-concepts including ESG reporting automation, legal text processing, media summarization and generation using agentic flows, amounting to approximately $16M in potential savings. • Mentored and coached new managers as part of associate resource group (ARG) initiatives. • Led the development of a natural language processing (NLP) application capable of classifying unstructured text using summarization and semantic search. • Provided leadership for delivering the data engineering, text classification, sentiment analysis and translation efforts for the associate engagement survey program that amounted to approximately $1.6 million/year cost avoidance. • Designed and implemented peer mentoring programs to encourage cross discipline opportunities with an 80% net promoter score (NPS) • Developed dashboards to visualize team capacity, capitalization and portfolio allocation spread over time. • Led hiring efforts for over twenty associates spanning across software engineering, data science and machine learning engineering.
• Managed a team of five senior data engineers and one scrum expert. • Developed and managed a time and material statement of work (SOW) that was delivered on time and on budget to stand up DataOps proof of concept. • Led efforts for delivering a cloud-based data engineering platform capable of abstracting configuration utilizing accelerators such as DBT, Azure data factory, Databricks and Snowflake. • Functioned as a liaison between Walmart and emerging data engineering technologies.
• Successfully delivered analytical tool training to milk plant manufacturing engineers and managers onsite in Fort Wayne, Indiana. • Led onboarding programs for new SAP engineers. • Mentored associates within and outside initiatives being led. • Managed Walmart’s end-to-end milk and meat manufacturing business intelligence (BI) initiatives including inputs for profit and loss statements. • Led the Sam’s Club and Walmart oil and gas analytics efforts resulting in approximately $240,000/year cost avoidance. • Led the ASDA petrol pricing analytics efforts contributing to an estimated $1.3 million/year cost avoidance. • Was the technical lead of SAP Business Warehouse and Hortonworks Hadoop initiatives focused on analytics.
· Led regional chapter strategy, programming, and operations for a professional community of SAP enterprise leaders and practitioners. · Planned and facilitated executive‑level forums and networking events focused on best practices, innovation, and cross‑industry collaboration. · Acted as a liaison between enterprise customers, technology partners, and system integrators to strengthen regional SAP ecosystems. · Drove sustained member engagement through clear communication, stakeholder alignment, and high‑value content delivery
· Led enterprise BI strategy, architecture, and delivery for Fortune 500 and regulated utility clients. · Delivered large-scale SAP BW/HANA, BOBJ, and analytics transformations replacing 50+ legacy systems. · Managed global delivery teams, offshore resources, and executive stakeholders. · Recognized with multiple client awards for delivery excellence and impact. Clients served: Hawaiian Electric Company, Flexsteel Industries Inc., EDF Renewable Energy, Aquarion Water, Lead BI Architect, PBF Energy, The Hershey Company, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Metropolitan Utilities District, Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperative