Robert
robert@datasamurai.com
512-484-5182
900 Stanford Ave
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Founder & Chief Analytics Officer
29 years experience W2
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Summary

Data & analytics professional with 20 years of experience leading business intelligence implementations at Fortune 500 companies, state government, and small & medium-sized businesses. Adept at engaging executive leadership, management, and technical or business resources to bridge the gap between IT and all aspects of a business. Proven ability to innovate, show a return on investment, present to leadership, and create high-performing teams that deliver sustainable and scalable solutions leveraging data and analytics.

SKILLS

  • Business Excellence / Six Sigma Green Belt
  • Business Intelligence & Analytics: Tableau, Alteryx, Paxata, Knime, Microstrategy, Data Robot, Other
  • Project Management Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall
  • Data Modeling & Mining, Architecture, Analytics, and Data Visualization
  • Other Software Expertise: ServiceNow, Hyperion, Peoplesoft, JIRA, Workday

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Attended 7 Tableau Conferences in the past 10 years and presented at 1 conference
  • Louisiana Scale-Up Program for emerging start-ups (2020)
  • Blue Cross Association Award for Fraud Identification using Business Intelligence (2017)
  • Accepted to Ben Franklin Tech Ventures, nationally recognized business incubator (2015)
  • Keystone Innovation Zone Technology Grant to build a Community Insights solution for Bethlehem Economic Development Corporation (2015)
  • Founded Data Samurai, business intelligence and data solutions company (2014)
  • Presented at the Association of Finance Professionals Conference on the topic, “Leveraging the Power of Data Visualization in Finance” (Oct 2014)
  • Co-authored leading practice brief with the International Institute of Analytics (Apr 2013)
  • Presented at Boeing’s IT Management Summit on “Agile Business Intelligence Enablement” (Feb 2013) – Contributed to a $10M hardware & professional services engagement
  • Tableau Conference on “Building a Community of Business Intelligence Practitioners” (Nov 2012)
  • Featured in Microsoft Prime, focused on analytical enablement for the enterprise (Spring 2012)
  • Founder of Austin Tableau User Group (2011)

Experience
Education
Attended in Business Administration and Communications
Trinity University 1995
Certifications
Six Sigma Green Belt
Data Science Bootcamp
TDWI, 2016
Tableau
Tableau Software, 2012
Skills
Business Intelligence
2021
24
Delivery Management
2021
23
Project Management
2021
23
Data Warehousing
2020
22
Tableau
2019
22
C-Level Management
2019
20
Data Visualization
2016
18
Analysis
2013
16
Data Management
2013
16
Hyperion
2013
16
Hyperion Planning
2013
16
Sentiment Analysis
2013
16
Systems Integration
2013
16
Analytics
2021
7
Data Analysis
2021
7
Data Lakes
2021
7
Case Management
2019
4
CIO
2019
4
Contract Management
2020
4
Data Architecture
2019
4
Data Science
2019
4
Microsoft Excel
2019
4
MS Excel
2019
4
Procurement
2019
4
Product Management
2019
4
Product Owner
2019
4
ServiceNow
2019
4
Stakeholder Engagement
2019
4
Vendor Management
2019
4
Big Data
2020
3
Hadoop
2016
2
Teradata
2016
2
Agile Methodology
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1
Business Analysis
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1
Data Governance
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1
Data Mining
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1
Data Modeling
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1
Financial Analysis
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1
HIPAA
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1
Human Resource
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1
JIRA
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1
Master Data Management
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1
MicroStrategy
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1
OLAP
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1
Peoplesoft
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1
Process Improvement
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1
Program Management
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1
QlikView
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1
Strategic Planning
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1
Technical Writing
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1
Waterfall
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1
Workday
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1