Andrew J. Alcorn
E-Mail: andrew@andrewalcorn.com
Website: http://andrewalcorn.com
CAREER SUMMARY
Andrew is an enterprise information leader with over 20 years of experience across the banking,
telecommunications, manufacturing, internet service provider and third-party logistics industries. He is
experienced in developing strategy, roadmaps and project planning pertaining to enterprise information
management including data integration, business intelligence, master data management and data
warehousing. He has a proven record of success managing, designing, and deploying reporting,
analytical, data warehouse and data integration solutions. He has managed both local and geographically
diverse teams.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration
Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, May 1996, http://www.bakeru.edu/
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Finance and French (triple major)
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, May 1991, http://www.bsu.edu
Honors: Outstanding Graduating Senior, Department of Economics
Diplôme de Langue
Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 1990, http://www.univ-amu.fr/
Honors: Mention Bien
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Manager, Business Intelligence Architecture, Centric Consulting, April 2013 to Present
National Healthcare Management and Financial Solution Provider
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Data warehouse and mart design.
Data modeling, profiling and documentation.
Multinational Financial Services Corporation
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Documented the current state of the technical and business components of the client
environment.
Assessed the current state organizational readiness and process relative to business intelligence
and information management.
Based on the client business strategy and priorities:
o Collaborated with the client to create a BI vision and a multi-pronged strategy,
o Designed a recommended technology architecture leveraging corporate support structures,
current licensing agreements and existing organizational skill sets,
o Created a roadmap to achieve short term and long term goals using an agile approach,
o And designed an organizational structure to maximize resource utilization and to ensure
ongoing business alignment and responsive support.
Energy Company (Fortune 500 transmission, storage, distribution and generation)
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Designed data source integration from multiple billing sources.
Designed data mart to support vendor billing analytics.
International Automotive Parts Distributor
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Defined business intelligence strategy and roadmap.
Established governance process.
Created information catalog.
International Financial Services Company
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Performed a business intelligence assessment offering strategic and tactical directional changes
covering organization, security, governance, infrastructure, data modeling, reporting and data
management.
Digital Marketing Automation and Analytics Software Company
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Developed user stories, requirements solution overview, configuration detail and data model for
a marketing event management application.
Private Multi-Channel Marketing Integration Company
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Developed user stories, requirements solution overview and configuration detail for an
application to integrate the management of email and direct mail marketing campaigns.
Major Regional Property and Casualty Mutual Insurance Group
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Enabled multivariate predictive modeling of personal auto policies for the purposes of more
effective premium pricing and risk/exposure analysis. Successfully integrated data across many
subject areas including policy, claims, census, crime, weather, accidents & violations and ISO value
mapping.
Led the development team from manual coding practices to a tool based standard which
dramatically increased development efficiency.
Established standard practices for data modeling, design specifications and source code versioning.
Technologies: MS SQL Server 2008 R2, SSIS, SSAS, MDX, Team Foundation Server, SSRS, Data
Vault, Agile development.
Principal Data Architect, Brightpoint, Inc., February 2009 to April 2013
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Conceptualize immediate and long-range needs of business organizations globally, with respect to
business data strategy, enterprise data warehousing, reporting, and analytics.
Principal Architect for the business intelligence and data integration teams globally. Responsible for
the global business intelligence and data integration strategy and architecture.
Primary consultant for development and administrative teams with performance enhancements and
process improvements pertaining to data integration and business intelligence operations.
Committee member, Global Enterprise Architecture and Global Data Governance boards.
Ensure enterprise information goals and activities align to strategic business objectives through
negotiation with senior management, key stakeholders and departmental management.
Design and implement extensive performance improvements covering infrastructure (storage,
network, database and server), software and process domains.
Oversee business intelligence and data integration initiatives for adherence to architectural
standards and to leverage global synergies.
Direct assigned staff in various departments and divisions to ensure the completion of high quality
work in a timely and efficient manner.
Design and build proof of concept models in support of external customer proposals and internal
performance and functional improvement initiatives.
Technologies: Pentaho Data Integrator, IBI Webfocus, Qlikview, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server,
MySQL, Moody’s Analytics, IFS ERP, Evavi, Sterling, Red Prairie, Provia, JD Edwards, Informatica,
Data Architect Studio, Linux, Windows, PL/SQL, Data Vault, Java, scripting, Agile development.
BI Manager and Architect, Tempur-Pedic International, August 2007 to February 2009
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Global Business Intelligence team leader.
Created and gained executive approval for enterprise Master Mata Management strategy.
Led the technology selection for global business intelligence platform.
Completed the first deployment project of the BI program going into production in just under three
months and 12% under budget.
Provided enterprise reporting and analytics across two ERP systems and various silo applications.
Led development of integration and reporting capabilities between the SalesForce.com and the data
warehouse.
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Technologies: Business Objects Data Integrator and Web Intelligence, SQL Server DTS, Oracle, SQL Server,
MySQL, MS Dynamics AX, Oracle E-Business Suite, SalesForce.com, Altiris, Project Insight, Linux, Windows,
PL/SQL, Java, Batch and Shell scripting.
Business Intelligence Solution Manager, Level 3 Communications, June 1999 to August 2007
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Managed business intelligence team and acted as liaison with business leaders in the design and
deployment of business intelligence solutions to provide management key decision information
across systems and business organizations.
Led company synergy team with $3.8 million in reoccurring costs savings realized from 2006
through 2007 including consolidating legacy order entry, leased vendor services, outside plant,
reporting, application integration, billing systems and enterprise data warehouse integration.
Led the Enterprise Architecture Team. Refined and documented the enterprise architecture to
maintain database, application and infrastructure standards.
Designed and developed middleware solutions to enable business process and enterprise data to
flow seamlessly across systems and domains.
Conceptualized, defined and implemented system solutions from senior management’s vision,
strategy and review of business process.
Led business teams through process documentation, project definition and functional design.
Technologies: Actuate, Business Objects, SalesForce.com, Vitria, Datastream MP5, Metasolv, Solomon,
Remedy, Oracle 8,9, MS SQL Server, Kenan Billing, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Brio, Business Objects,
SalesForce.com, Informatica, Tibco, Metasolv, Remedy.
Senior Market Planner, GTE Wireless, 1996–1999
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Designed predictive analytic models using custom algorithms to forecast customer adoption by
mining data from multiple internal and external billing systems combine with competitive
intelligence data that provided financial and network capacity analytical outcomes used to create
pricing plans and launch new products.
Developed excellent project management skills derived from large-scale projects spanning multiple
business units; received employee excellence award and multiple employee initiative awards.
Assistant Internal Auditor, First Federal Bank of Kansas City, 1993–1996
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Created analytical tools for branch location research using consumer geospatial data and also to
target high probability customers for equity loan marketing.
Branch Manager, Banc One Financial, 1991–1993
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Pioneered and managed a successful new business market in the Kansas City area.
Exceeded production goals every quarter and set company record for the lowest branch
delinquency.