Michael McKay

Experience

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  EDS Group

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1993

  Analyst

  Revenue and P&L profitability analyst for the Commercial Insurance division within EDS. Learned financial accounting from one of the leaders in the industry.

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  WorldCom

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1998

  Finance and Accounting, & Network Planning

  Developed cost efficient local access network designs, leveraging tariff knowledge, network topology knowledge, and financial analysis.

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  Williams Communications

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

  Pricing Manager

  Managed a pricing team of 10 resources. The team developed telecom data market based pricing for a host of data products. Performed profitability analysis of various price proposals for Sales, as well as business planning financial analysis for new and existing product offerings.

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  McLeod USA

  Mar 2002 - May 2005

  Sr. Network Planning Analyst

  Performed cost benefit analysis of various local fiber optic network designs. Performed NPV of equipment investment vs. forecasted sales revenues from the network implementation.

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  Deloitte Consulting

  Oct 2013 - now

  M&O Release manager for Health Provider systems. Coordinate activities to successfully complete the Maintenance & Operations releases. Activities include defining and gaining agreement with the overall scope; managing the scope and change management to avoid 'scope creep'; leading review of gate exit criteria. Coordinate with offshore development teams to ensure software development, and testing activities are on schedule, ensuring testing is fully completed; reviewing test results with the test team lead and coordinating a testing review meeting with the client. Coordinate with technology teams to prepare for the deployment; following up with responsible individuals to facilitate the deployment activities. Review final release notes with the client and subsequent publishing. Lead the go/no-go calls with the client and gain required approvals. Perform continuous improvement activities post-release in an effort to improve the overall process. Show less Manager of Deloitte's AMS support estimation and pricing team. Performs support sizing and financial analysis of Client IT topologies, and from the analysis develops custom proposal offerings for clients that meet their IT as well as budget needs and requirements. Developed user friendly pricing and support estimating tools for IT support of SAP, Oracle, and a host of other custom development program languages. Expert at programming in Microsoft Excel, and my specialty is making simple to use interactive tools of complex calculation processes. Expert in developing custom Tableau BI reports, that synthesize large quantities of data into value adding analysis. Show less Develop Business Intelligence capabilities for IT clients, using such tools as Tableau reporting solutions for various Consulting projects that leverage Tableau's server and automated data refresh capabilities. Have successfully developed value driven Tableau interactive visual and geocoding reports for internal and external clients, which have reduced reporting refresh and distribution times by factors of 5x, while greatly improving user's analytical and BI abilities for their data. Have build nimble COE team that can rapidly deploy to support Tableau reporting needs across the practice. Show less

  • Project Management Lead

    Sept 2017 - now

  • PMO Leader

    Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  • IT Senior Manager

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2016

  • Pricing and Solutioning Senior Manager

    Jan 2005 - Feb 2015

  • Business Intelligence Development Manager

    Oct 2013 - Sept 2014