Bryan Cooke

Bryan Cooke

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  • About me

    Workday Certified Senior Principal Consultant @ Cognizant 📊 Reporting, Data Analysis, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Design and Development

  • Education

    • University of Florida

      1997 - 2000
      BS Business Administration - Decision Information Science

      Activities and Societies: IEEE

  • Experience

    • UF Information Technology (UFIT)

      Oct 2000 - Oct 2018

      Served as the reporting / data warehouse lead for a multi-year PeopleSoft Campus Solutions implementation and data conversion from the UF’s legacy mainframe student systems.• Gathered requirements for student data marts and provided technical direction / strategy for delivering various student reporting products and systems.• Responsible for approving technical reporting and data requirement specifications for work by the reporting development and ETL teams.• Responsible for managing communications and status reports to the project office for milestones of major data warehouse and reporting deliverables.• Responsible for developing and presenting change management plans for the reporting and data management aspects of the project to senior project executives, implementation partners, and campus sponsors. Show less Provided guidance and oversight for the management, definition, and development of BI and data warehouse services and solutions at UF. Created a core BI team within Enterprise Systems to ensure that BI representation was achieved across functional teams and provided a BI knowledge-base and best-practice repository. Provided the design and technical ETL requirements for data marts and led the design and development of a system of monthly financial reports for use across the university.• Led effort to replatform the data warehouse from DB2 to Oracle and migrated ETL platform from Informatica PowerCenter to IBM DataStage, this work was done as part of a major PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM application and database upgrade.• Responsible for a project to upgrade Cognos 8.4 to 10.2, this project led to a drastic decrease in the time required to produce the monthly financial reports for UF and provided a boost to overall reporting / analytic platform performance.• Developed ETL procedures to load university level budget data from Hyperion Public Sector Planning and Budgeting into the data warehouse for use by college budget officers and the creation of reports / data feeds to the Board of Governors.• Responsible for providing technical expertise to a team of BI architects and developers.• Approved technical aspects of project plans, established timelines, milestones, and resource requirements.• Responsible for reporting test plan definition and execution.• Worked as the primary technical lead for the Business Intelligence team tasked with developing a data warehousefor enterprise reporting needs.• Collaborated with a PeopleSoft implementation partner to develop ETL maps to deliver warehouse data fromPeopleSoft and legacy transactional systems. Show less

      • BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE / REPORTING PROJECT LEAD

        Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
      • BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE LEAD

        Oct 2000 - Jan 2016
    • University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions

      Oct 2018 - May 2022
      DIRECTOR OF DATA ANALYTICS AND APPLICATIONS

      Provide college level data and reporting products to all business areas of the college. Responsible for acquiring, transforming, and reporting college student administration, sponsored programs, human resources, and financial data to multiple external public health and health profession accrediting organizations.• Coordinated with college business directors to provide holistic and enriched reporting by integrating data captured at the college into the enterprise data warehouse for improved reporting.• Responsible for an ongoing effort to reduce dependence on college shadow systems by leveraging enterprise data integration tools and reporting platforms.• Created a system of dashboards for use by executive college leadership to monitor sponsored research proposal and award metrics at both the college and departmental levels.• Provide database and application management services and support for college business systems and associated user-base. Show less

    • Alight Solutions

      May 2022 - Jul 2024
      Workday Reporting & Analytics Architect - Managing Consultant
    • Strada

      Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
      Workday Reporting & Analytics Architect - Managing Consultant
    • Cognizant

      Nov 2024 - now
      Workday Senior Principal Reporting Consultant
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Workday - Launch Certification

      Workday
      Oct 2022
    • Workday - Reporting Certification

      Workday
      Jul 2022
    • Workday - HCM Certification

      Workday
      Jun 2022
    • Workday - Prism Analytics Certification

      Workday
      Oct 2022
    • Workday - People Analytics Certification

      Workday
      Jan 2023
    • IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 10 BI Reports

      IBM
      Jun 2014
    • Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) - Data Analysis and Design - Practitioner

      TDWI
      Apr 2017