Eric Wolf

Eric Wolf

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Data Analytics Technical Lead | Information Technology and Services Professional

  • Education

    • NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)

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      Computer Systems Technology Diploma Information Technology
    • University of Manitoba

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      Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Experience

    • Hitachi Solutions Canada

      Jan 2013 - Oct 2016
      Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

      Led and contributed to several Business Intelligence services involving several companies in the oil and gas, natural resources, and education sectors. Primary client was Enbridge Pipelines Inc., involved in many projects and initiatives undertaken within the Data Management and Business Intelligence teams, supporting business priorities and strategy.Designed and developed reporting and dashboard solutions to provide management reporting in an efficient and timely manner to all managerial levels including the Chief Information Officer (CIO).Provisioned various Key Performance Indicators and business metrics for multiple levels of reporting.Produced customized data and analytics solutions including supporting processes for data refresh and deployment and configuration between environments, to strengthen and align with the overall data strategy for the enterprise. Show less

    • Enbridge

      Oct 2016 - Mar 2022

      Led team of 6 people across several disciplines (MS Azure, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, SAS, Power BI), with the mission of providing operational support for the Enterprise Data Marketplace.Drove Power BI adoption by growing the platform to 11,000 reports representing approximately 7,000 users by delivering Power BI administration and management functions including licensing, premium capacity management, feature evaluation and enablement, education, and training.Achieved a 99.4% compliance rate for change tickets for 45 applications across the data analytics landscape by enforcing enterprise change release management policies and procedures. Show less Managed daily operational scrum status meetings with the aim of ensuring tasks and team member personal assignments were completed in a timely manner and to understand areas of concern. Collaborated as a technical lead and liaison between development teams, Data Management Operations, and Application Managed Services (AMS) to ensure product releases were executed safely and efficiently using foundational ITIL processes and protocols.Delivered proven technical expertise in determining causes of issues relating to the database infrastructure and working with AMS, the Enterprise DBA team, and project teams to correctly resolve issues to improve overall solution stability.Enforced industry best practices in relation to all areas of data warehousing and reporting efforts using MS Azure suite of tools, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, and Power BI to team members.Produced robust and reliable code and scripts used to extract, transform, cleanse, and move data into the data warehouse, including associated data quality processes and protocols.Implemented BI best practices for scorecard, dashboard, and report development, such that management reporting could be done in an efficient and timely manner, resulting in realizable business benefits including millions of dollars saved in cost avoidance.Development and delivery of client training workshops and sessions focused on Microsoft BI tools, including Power BI for 300 users across North America. Show less

      • Supervisor, Platform and Operations, Data Analytics Services

        Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
      • Senior Business Intelligence Advisor

        Oct 2016 - Apr 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL Foundation Level

      ITIL
      Jan 2014
    • Dale Carnegie Effective Communications and Human Relations

      Dale Carnegie Training
      Jun 2014
    • Data Strategy

      LinkedIn
      Apr 2022
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    • Microsoft Certified Professional: SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance

      Microsoft
      Nov 2010
    • Microsoft Business Intelligence Developer 2008

      Microsoft
      Nov 2010
    • Microsoft Certified Professional: SQL Server 2008, Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance

      Microsoft
      Nov 2010
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Eric Wolf
      National GTEC (Government Technology Exhibition & Conference) Silver Medal - Nov 2008 Built a data mart to support the requirements of Alberta Education’s Accountability Pillar On-line Reporting Initiative (APORI), whose mandate included the release of measure-based reports to Alberta schools and school jurisdictions
    • Awarded to Eric Wolf
      Alberta Education Recognition Award (Team Innovation Category) Government of Alberta Played a lead role in a number of Alberta Education endeavors including the aforementioned APORI project and a survey data mart to monitor student, teacher, parent, and school board official responses for the purposes of management reporting and planning.