Robert Wolfe
1012 Greyfield Lane
Sandy Springs, GA 30350
Phone: (404) 304-4372
e-mail:rob.wolfe@oraclegeeks.com
www: www.oraclegeeks.com
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I am an experienced Database and Business Intelligence professional with deep knowledge of Oracle tools. I have expertise in client facing and senior technical roles such as Sr Analyst and Architect as well as Team Lead and Manager. I have expertise in all facets of BI/DW including Project Management, Dimensional Modeling, Performance Tuning, ETL design and development, Report and Dashboard design and development as well as installation and administration. I am Comfortable dealing with personnel at all levels of an organization with varying degrees of technical ability and ensuring that business goals are accurately translated into requirements and then systems that fulfill those stated goals. Able to speak the language of business as well technology I can use my over twenty (20) years experience to bridge the gap between senior management and IT in order to deliver BI solutions that provide real business value to an organization.

Qualifications
20+ years as a computer professional
Outstanding hands-on Oracle Design and Development Skills
Extensive Data Warehouse Design and Development experience
Extensive Business Intelligence experience
Deep understanding of SQL and PL/SQL
Superior presentation skills
Experience in public and private sectors
Broad range of operating environments – PC's to Mainframes
Broad experience in various technologies – dumb terminal to WWW
Citizenship
US Visa
Eligible to work in the United States under the terms of NAFTA
Language
Write: English
Read: English
Professional Experience
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Hughes Telecommuncations Inc Atlanta, GA Nov 2010 - Present
Reporting to Director, IT, was a member of a team responsible for all enterprise reporting for a rapidly growing telecommunications startup.
Design and development of processes to support a special client promotion with value of over $8 million (25% of annual revenue) using Informatica, SQL*Loader, OBIEE and PL/SQL
Operational activities related to monthly commission/bonus process for sales force.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of OBIEE+ reports and dashboards.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of MS Excel based reporting solutions.
Analysis, Design, and Implementation of ETL using Informatica, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL
Installation, Configuration and Administration of OBIEE+ in a mixed Linux and Windows environment
Sourcing data from Oracle eBusiness, Seibel CRM, Oracle CCA (Call Center Anywhere), Flat Files, Oracle Business Intelligence Applications
Tools: OBIEE+ 10g and 11g (development and admin), Oracle Database (9, 10, 11), Microsoft Project, Oracle ERP (eBusiness), Seibel CRM, Oracle CCA (Contact Center), MS Excel (including macros, charting, pivot tables), PL/SQL, SQL
Manager, Reporting and Dashboarding
Valassis Communications Windsor, CT Sep 2009 - August 2010
Reporting to Director, Business Intelligence, led a team responsible for all enterprise reporting including a suite of tools that included OBIEE+, Business Objects, Hyperion and Oracle Discoverer.
Performance reviews and general management of 4 direct reports.
Coordination and implementation of changes to Oracle eBusiness reporting as a result of a system upgrade.
Coordination and implementation of changes to Oracle eBusiness reporting as a result of the consolidation of General Ledgers of a newly merged company.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of Oracle Discoverer queries.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of OBIEE+ reports and dashboards.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of MS Excel based reporting solutions.
Mentored client development staff in the area of PL/SQL and SQL optimization.
Maintenance of portal based reporting facility.
Tools: Oracle Discoverer, OBIEE, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11i, PL/SQL, SQL, Excel, SharePoint
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Valassis Communications Windsor, CT May 2007 - Sep 2009
Analysis, Design and Implementation of Oracle Discoverer queries.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of OBIEE+ reports and dashboards.
Analysis, Design and Implementation of MS Excel based reporting solutions.
Mentored client development staff in the area of PL/SQL and SQL optimization.
Maintenance of portal based reporting facility.
Tools: Oracle Discoverer, OBIEE, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11i, PL/SQL, SQL, Excel, SharePoint
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
Patriot Consulting Iselin, NJ Jan 2007 - May 2007
Gathered business requirements and designed Order Entry Data Mart for a leading direct mail media company
Mentored client development staff in the effective use of such tools as Oracle Warehouse Builder as well in the area of PL/SQL and SQL optimization.
Tools: Oracle Discoverer, Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, SQL, Excel
Senior Principal Consultant, Business Intelligence
Oracle Mississauga,ON Feb 2006 - Jan 2007
Held a series of facilitated workshops aimed at providing line staff as well as management up the to C-level an opportunity to provide input into the process of developing a roadmap leading to a long term reporting strategy for a business implementing Oracle E-Business suite.
Designed and developed a series of ETL processes to allow for the addition of new capabilities to a 15 TB data warehouse for a large retail organization in an engagement that came in on time and well under budget.
Tools: Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, SQL
Principal Consultant
Adelphia Communications Coudersport,PA Sep 2005 - Feb 2006
Lead ETL designer/developer, Co-Architect of 500 GB data warehouse for a large ISP/Cable company.
Mentored client staff in the effective use of various Oracle tools including PL/SQL code optimization. systems.
Tools: Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g, Oracle WorkFlow, AIX, Sun Solaris
Principal Consultant
Port Wallis Technologies Dartmouth,NS Feb 2004 - May 2007
Owner/Operator of a consultancy focused on e-commerce for small business.
Mostly small contracts implementing shopping carts, back-end payment processing and the like to new or preexisting small business sites.
Tools: Excel, HTML, Javascript, LAMP (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl/PHP), OpenOffice, Oracle 10g, Python, VBA, VBScript,XML, XSLT
Senior Analyst – Business Intelligence
Medavie (Blue Cross) Dartmouth,NS Jan 2002 - Sep 2005
Technical Lead of a team of developers and analysts responsible for the creation and maintenance for data warehouse and reporting applications for a mid-size health insurance company in a mixed Oracle environment.
Design and development of SQL, PL/SQL, and Pro*C code, as well as the use of Oracle Warehouse Builder to perform ETL functions for a 100 GB data warehouse.
Determining and implementing partitioning strategies in consultation with DBA group.
Migration of Oracle 7 database to 8i and then 9i including the migration of 500 Oracle Reports and 40 Oracle Forms to from Oracle Forms/Reports 6 to version 9i.
Extensive use of Oracle Designer as a modeling and design tool.
Tools: COBOL, Easytrieve, Excel, HTML, Java, Javascript, MS Project, Oracle 8, Oracle 9i, Oracle Designer, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Warehouse Builder, PL/SQL, PowerPoint, RUP, SQL, UML, VBA, XML, XSLT
Technology Architect
DMR Consulting (Fujitsu) Halifax, NS Apr 1996 - Jan 2002
Designed and developed a widely distributed, high availability, distributed Oracle database. At the time it was one of the largest in Canada.
Designed and developed a data conversion process to extract, transform and load 1 TB of data in a severely time constrained environment.
Creation of UI design standards for a Power Utility.
Design and development of mobile telecommunications billing system
Design and development of an on-line system that implemented measures as required by a youth criminal justice law using Oracle Forms and Oracle Application Server.
Physical Oracle DBA duties for several clients on an as-needed basis.
Design and development of an on-line system which implemented measures as required by a youth criminal justice law. This was a system that had a web interface written using Oracle Forms and Oracle Application Server to provide access to data stored in a central Oracle database.
Management of consulting assignments ranging in size from 1 to 15 consultants and having values in excess of $1,000,000.
Tools: C, C++, COBOL, DB2, Easytrieve, Excel, Lotus Notes, MS Project, Oracle 8, Oracle Designer, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Perl, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, XSLT
Principal Consultant
Informatique le Phare Aylmer, QC Apr 1995 - Apr 1996
Designed and developed electoral mapping application written using Oracle with portions acquiring data from Access and Foxpro databases.
Data Analysis using Powerplay and Impromptu.
Designed and developed Telecommunications fraud application for a major long distance carrier.
Tools: C, C++, Cognos DSS suite(PowerPlay, Impromptu), Crystal Reports, Excel, FoxPro, MS Access, MS Project, Oracle 8, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Perl, PL/SQL, PowerPoint, SQL, VBA
Business Development Leader – Software Development
Nutat Technologies Ottawa, Ontario Apr 1994 - Apr 1995
Oversaw the preparation of bids for government and private sector contracts.
Management of multiple teams of software developers.
Design of rules engine for telecommunications fraud detection.
Design and creation of Decision Support tools
Oversaw the creation of and delivered presentations containing highly technical information to various types of audiences.
Acted as Oracle DBA for various clients as required.
Tools: C, C++, Cognos DSS suite(PowerPlay, Impromptu), Excel, MS Project, Oracle, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, PL/SQL, PowerPoint, SQL
Programmer Analyst
Statistics Canada Ottawa, Ontario Apr 1988 - Apr 1994
Operational Database Administrator for corporate financial systems.
Designed and developed Decision Support tools.
Performed custom data analysis for financial systems
Tools: C, COBOL, Cognos DSS suite(PowerPlay, Impromptu), IBM Mainframe(JCL, ISPF macros, REXX), Oracle (various), Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, PL/SQL, SAS, SQL, TPL
Programmer
Coastal Oceanography Lab, Dartmouth, NS Sep 1986 - Sep 1987
Created computer models of ocean current flow in North Atlantic
Created graphical representations of radar data
Tools:Fortran, CDC Mainframe, Cray Supercomputer
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science
Acadia University Wolfville, NS May 1988
Programming Languages and Professional Tools

Skill level is on a scale from 1 (competent) to 5 (guru)
C
3
C++
2
Cobol
4
CSS
3
DB2
3
HTML
3
JavaScript
3
Oracle Designer
4
Oracle Forms
3
Oracle Reports
3
Oracle Warehouse Builder
3
PL/SQL
4
SQL
4 -> 5
XML
3
Operating Environments
Microsoft Windows (various flavours)
GNU/Linux
IBM mainframe
Unix (various flavours)
Oracle RDBMS – all versions up to 11g
Other Skills and Certifications
System analysis and design using both structured and OO methods
Business Analysis with Use Cases
Design of relational databases of all sizes
Oracle Database Administration (all versions up to and including 11g)
Technical Writing
Presentation creation and delivery
Project Management – both “waterfall” and Rational Unified Process
Team Leadership
Data Warehouse Design
Star Schema DW Design
Inmon DW Methodology
Kimball DW Methodology
IT Service Management Foundations Certificate
Software Quality Assurance