1. Patrick Bacon_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Polk City, IA 50226 baconp2002@yahoo.com
Experience:
Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN
BI Manager – Enterprise Data Warehouse March 2013 - Current
o Managed all HR and budgetary aspects of my team with an operating budget of over $1.2 million.
o Supervised diverse teams across shared service centers to deliver CRM integration and BI solutions
across Thomson Reuters, a company with annual revenue of $12+ billion.
o Managed teams responsible for delivering 15-20 enhancements per month.
o Conducted performance reviews, recommended candidates for promotion, and managed performance
improvement plans.
o Implemented new governance process to simplify and standardize CRM integration and EDW BI project
requests from Unica Campaign area in Finance & Risk business unit.
o Performed project manager and business analyst functions on minor enhancement programs enabling core
team to drive solution from start to end.
o Responsible for design oversight and approval of BI EDW solutions across all divisions of Thomson
Reuters. The BI EDW solution is used by over 10,000 users across the company.
o Partner with DBA’s to address issues and implement software patches.
o Met with key business stakeholders on regular basis to evaluate, prioritize, and plan BI project portfolio
across Legal, Tax & Accounting, Intellectual Property & Science, and Finance & Risk divisions of
Thomson Reuters.
o Significant project accomplishments:
• Delivered Enterprise Customer Master EDW BI solution that will be utilized by all Thomson Reuters
business units. My responsibilities included project planning, requirements analysis, data profiling,
data modeling, ETL design, directing ETL contractor resources, designing Business Objects universe,
and solution demonstration for key stakeholders.
• Delivered Corporate Real Estate EDW BI solution that provides ability to analyze utilization and
spend. My responsibilities included analysis of solution architecture as part of business case, project
planning (multiple phases), requirements analysis, data profiling, collaborated with my core team on
data model design, ETL design, Business Objects design, partnered with Quality Assurance team for
testing, and built strong partnership with a new group of EDW business stakeholders.
• Delivered EDW BI portion of Demand Management program which included enhanced response
metrics tied to solicitations, new product usage subject areas to provide visibility of customer activity
from beginning to end, and enhanced analytics related to use of training/education applications. My
responsibilities included project planning, requirements analysis, data profiling, collaborated with my
core team on data model design, ETL design, Business Objects design, and Unica table catalogue
design.
Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN
Lead Software Engineer – BI/DataWarehouse team March 2010 – March 2013
o Managed 2 teams, with a total of up to 12 direct reports, responsible for delivering Unica Campaign,
CRM, and EDW BI solutions.
o Developed governance process to standardize design and development across EDW development teams
centralized under new BI center of delivery.
o Partnered with business stakeholders to evaluate, prioritize, and plan BI project portfolio across Legal,
Tax & Accounting, and Intellectual Property & Science divisions of Thomson Reuters.
o Recruited, interviewed, evaluated, and hired 6 resources.
o Conducted performance reviews, recommended candidates for promotion, and managed performance
improvement plans.
o Coached and mentored direct reports on data warehousing concepts, technology, and career development.
2. o Responsible for design oversight and approval of BI EDW solutions across all divisions of Thomson
Reuters.
o Lead design and delivery of large complex star schema data models and solutions across Legal, Tax &
Accounting, and Intellectual Property & Science business units.
o Extensive experience analyzing and profiling data as part of data model design and requirement
evaluation.
o Performed project manager and business analyst functions on minor enhancement programs enabling core
team to drive solution from start to end.
o Partnered with SAP Business Warehouse, Business Objects, and other technology teams across United
States, UK, and India to deliver BI EDW solutions.
o Lead projects spanning across finance, marketing, sales, commissions, manufacturing, order to capture,
operations, and corporate functions.
o Significant project accomplishments:
• Lead migration of EDW platform from DB2 to Oracle. Project required modifying 2500+
Informatica processes and 600+ EDW tables. My responsibilities included partnering with
Architecture to implement new EDW and ETL standards, project planning, requirements gathering
and analysis, management of 5 ETL developers across multiple locations, coordinate delivery of
solution with Business Objects team, UAT testing, and production implementation.
• Provided technical leadership and guidance on program to migrate legacy Finance & Risk data
warehouse environments to shared Oracle EDW environment. Program resulted in savings of more
than $2 million due to migration to shared platforms (EDW and Business Objects), reduction in
license fees, and reduction in contracting resources. My responsibilities included data model
analysis, project planning, issue resolution, and technical guidance.
• Implemented BI reporting solution for commissions and sales reporting areas reducing manual
processes and providing robust analytical capabilities. My responsibilities included playing business
analyst role, project planning, data profiling, data modeling, ETL design, and management of 2 ETL
resources.
• Implemented multiple product usage BI solutions to support strategic marketing and sales programs.
• Provided design oversight and managed resources that delivered Intellectual Property & Science BI
EDW program which included integrating 15+ order capture systems, SFDC, and product usage
systems.
Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN
Sr. Software Engineer – BI/DataWarehouse team November 2007 – March 2010
o Designed and implemented EDW star schemas for projects associated with training, usage, commission,
opportunity, and marketing data initiatives.
o Designed Business Objects Universe and collaborated with development team to implement solution.
o Performed data modeling in DB2 and Oracle environments.
o Collaborated with business users from multiple United States locations, Sweden, Denmark, UK, India,
Canada, and Argentina to deliver high quality solutions.
o Created deployment plans to ensure enhancements are rolled out correctly.
o Coordinated and worked effectively with multiple business and technical groups to implement a user
number expansion project.
o Provided 24x7 production support
o Documented processes and provide training for team members
o Created standard ETL testing document for large project to bring new business unit into the Eagan based
EDW environment.
o Played key role in adding UK partner to Eagan based marketing solutions. This included sizing,
planning, coding, testing, and scheduling new process flows into Siebel (CRM application) and EDW
(reporting).
o Directed contractors on major initiatives.
o Designed and implemented process changes that decrease development time by 50% when adding new
organizations into base load processes for Siebel and CRM EDW.
3. o Developed expert level knowledge of CRM load processes into MDB (internal marketing database),
Siebel, and EDW.
o Built strong relationships with business partners by providing quick resolutions to issues.
Securian Financial Group St. Paul, MN
Programmer Analyst Senior Programmer Analyst, Systems Analyst May 2002 – November 2007
o Analyzed Group and Life insurance data to create a report generation process consolidating claim
information across product lines.
o Developed Informatica processes to retrieve, standardize, and load marketing data to a new Customer
Relationship Management web site used by financial advisors.
o Designed, developed, and implemented customer matching process using Trillium and Informatica.
o Implemented Informatica process to convert existing data stored in a Windows based application to the
new CRM solultion.
o Provided 24x7 technical support to clients including problem recognition, analysis, and resolution.
o Received 2005 Securian Torchbearer award for using the power of ingenuity and the spirit of mutuality to
provide financial security for our customers
o Completed analysis and design by reviewing documentation and working directly with the external web
site vendor.
Technical Expertise:
Data modeling
o 6+ year experience designing large complex star schema data models.
o Experience using ER Studio for data model development.
Oracle
o Experience using bulk integration strategies, data modeling, performance tuning SQL in large EDW
environment (current version: 11g).
Informatica
o 10+ years’ experience using PowerCenter (current version: 9.1)
o Experience using FTP, Flatfile, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server. Siebel, Unica, Eloqua, SFDC, SAP Business
Warehouse, SAP application connections.
o Extensive experience performance tuning mappings.
PL/SQL
o 8+ years using PL/SQL to test solutions, analyze production issues, and profile data.
Business Objects
o Experience using XIR3 and XIR4 WEBI platforms.
o 6+ years experience designing Business Objects universes
o 7+ years experience with report development to support solution testing.
OBIEE
o 4+ years experience designing data models that support dash boarding
UNIX shell scripting
o Develop and test UNIX scripts that use PMDM commands to run Informatica processes.
Trillium (entity matching software)
o 4 years experience developing batch and Informatica based solutions
o Developed multi-step matching process for contacts from 20+ sources
ESP (scheduling tool)
o Designed and implemented multiple applications
o ESP Admin experience
Database Tools
o Toad, WinSQL, Oracle SQLDeveloper
Education: Central College – Pella Iowa
Bachelor of Science May 2002
Major: Management Information Systems
Study Abroad: Carmarthen, Wales January 2000 to July 2000
4. Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas– St. Paul Minnesota
Master of Business Administration May 2010
References available on request