Dan Fraser

Experience

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  Blockbuster Inc.

  Feb 1995 - Feb 2000

  Project Leader
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  NDCHealth

  Dec 2000 - Dec 2003

  Lead Software Engineer

  • Designed, developed, implemented and supported the flagship web based product using MicroStrategy 7i and an Oracle 8.1.7.4 database. Product resulted in over $3,000,000 in revenue during the first year.• Acted as project manager on multiple projects. Duties included project planning, resource allocation, project management, requirements gathering (with internal and external customers), data architecting and design, custom ETL work, presentation layer design, development and implementation and providing weekly status to executive management.• Acted as technical liaison between NDCHealth and some of their major customers. Provided training and support to clients. Show less

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  Healthways, Inc.

  Jan 2004 - Dec 2008

  Mgr. Data Warehouse Reporting

  • Resource and technical manager of the new development team consisting of six full time employees and seven contract employees. • Responsible for $2M budget and resource allocation, project management of up to four projects simultaneously, mentoring, performance management, team morale and motivation, training, project estimation, communication of project and team status with senior management, and talent acquisition and retention.• Management of the Data Warehouse team during the design, development and implementation of the Status Reporting Data Mart using new Report Services technology from MicroStrategy. Data mart now supplies activity reporting for over 1000 clients. • Growth Champion of Strategic Growth Team for Application Software Development department. This resulted in a 100% improvement in inter-departmental communications and the development of an enterprise-wide strategic technology plan. Show less

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  LexisNexis

  Apr 2009 - Oct 2009

  Business Intelligence Manager

  • Resource and technical manager of the business intelligence team. Mentored development team on best practices and provided tips and tricks to improve their performance and the performance of the BI System.• Responsible for budget and resource allocation, project management of multiple projects simultaneously, mentoring, performance management, team morale and motivation, training, project estimation, talent acquisition and retention and communication of project and team strategy and tactical status with senior management.• Developed reporting strategic roadmap, implemented full SDLC processes, reorganized reporting infrastructure to provide for scalable, efficient, revenue-generating reporting services.• Lead BI Steering Committee consisting of COO and unit Directors. Provided updates on progress, made suggestions on tasks and priorities both short term and long term.• Implemented infrastructure upgrade plan. Went from a single Production Intelligence Server to four servers (Production, Test (for testing major upgrades), QA for use by QA department and Development). Next step was to change servers from Windows 2003 Advanced Servers to Sun 64 bit servers running Linux. This eliminated the memory problems and improved performance. Plan for Q4 of 2009 was to upgrade all servers to MicroStrategy 9.0.1.• Implemented performance tuning on server settings which increased performance by 4 times. Show less

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  Unisource Worldwide, Inc.

  Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

  Developer

  • Creation of several report grids, documents and a dashboard using MicroStrategy 8.1.2. Created facts, attributes, base formulas, transformations, custom groups and consolidations.• Performed analysis of BI infrastructure for areas of improvement and provided suggested road map.

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  BBVA Compass

  Mar 2010 - Apr 2015

  Application Team Lead

  • Created first reporting application within the first two months after implementing a new BI environment with 1200 users on a daily basis.• Created multiple dashboard applications which are now accessed by over 1200 bank managers system-wide on a daily basis for Customer Relationship Management activities.• Created dashboard for Executive Management team that is distributed via corporate iPads that contains information from multiple sources and multiple subject areas. Subjects included are Financial Income Statement and Balance Sheet data, Production and Productivity data, pipeline data, Human Resource, Peer information and Customer data. This application was completed in five months on time and under budget.• Developed and currently leads the Business Intelligence Center of Excellence that establishes and directs Standards and Best Practices for the Business Intelligence team. This team also works to provide collaboration with other teams, directs training for both developers and team customers, and provides and environment for testing of new ideas and techniques.• Assisted in standing up a complete MicroStrategy BI infrastructure which consists of clustered Production and Test environments based on the AIX platform using WebSphere as the web application portal. Show less

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  Infinity Insurance

  May 2015 - Mar 2016

  Sr. BI Architect

  Administers business intelligence tools used by the enterprise. Handles upgrades, patches, add-ons, and licensing. Communicates with Enterprise Analysts and business users to identify needs and recommend tool usage for specific analytical use cases. Works with the IT infrastructure team to ensure that hardware meets BI tool requirements. Assists analysts and business users with tool utilization, and acts as an advocate for BI tool adoption. Helps users self-serve in the process of creating dashboards and reports.__________________________________________________________________________________ SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES:1. Utilizes and configures enterprise BI tools for business user consumption. Tools include, but are not limited to Microstrategy and Analysis Services. Administers Microstrategy servers.2. Facilitates the connection of BI tools to a variety of source data platforms including, but not limited to, HP Vertica, Hadoop, SQL Server, and Oracle Exadata.3. Assists in requirement creation for end-to-end data flow from collection in applications to analytical consumption.4. Acts as a liaison between business/technical users and the third party BI technical support. 5. Handles maintenance of BI tools including upgrades, patches, versioning, and hot fixes.6. Manages BI tool security, and ensures that access to sensitive data through a BI tool is controlled. Handles user access maintenance.7. Responsible for source code to target mapping of analytic dimensional model from the relational dimensional model to ensure continuity of data integrity and conformity.8. Provides consultative support to members of the enterprise analytics and business users regarding BI tool utilization. Show less

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  Kemper Auto

  Mar 2016 - Jun 2021

  • Resource and technical manager of the business intelligence team. Mentored development team on best practices and provided tips and tricks to improve their performance and the performance of the BI System.• Responsible for budget and resource allocation, project management of multiple projects simultaneously, mentoring, performance management, team morale and motivation, training, project estimation, talent acquisition and retention and communication of project and team strategy and tactical status with senior management.• Developed reporting strategic roadmap, implemented full SDLC processes, reorganized reporting infrastructure to provide for scalable, efficient, revenue-generating reporting services.• Lead effort to move from on-premise implementation of MicroStrategy to AWS cloud-based implementation saving the corporation approximately $200,00 per year in maintenance, hardware and resource costs.• Acted as an advocate for BI tool adoption and promoting an understanding of current Business Intelligence technologies while providing excellent service to executive management and our internal business customers. • Utilized effective leadership in the evolution of a technology team, instilling and guiding the team through continuous process improvement. • Established effective and constructive relationships with our business customer and other technology groups external to Data Strategy & Analytics. • Provided guidance to ensure the user’s reporting and analytics are sourced from well organized, and trusted data.• Maintained a high level of engagement with the business users so as to preserve understanding of their evolving needs for information access, evolving the BI/DW platforms to meet and exceed the customer demands and expectations. Administers business intelligence tools used by the enterprise. • Handled upgrades, patches, add-ons, and licensing. • Helps users self-serve in the process of creating dashboards and reports. Show less Acts as an advocate for BI tool adoption and promoting an understanding of current Infinity Business Intelligence technologies while providing excellent service to our internal business customers. Utilizes effective leadership in the evolution of a technology team, instilling and guiding the team through continuous process improvement. Establishes effective and constructive relationships with our business customer and other technology groups internal and external to Data Strategy & Analytics. Provides guidance to ensure the user’s reporting and analytics are sourced from well organized, and trusted data. Maintains a high level of engagement with the business users so as to preserve understanding of their evolving needs for information access, evolving the BI/DW platforms to meet and exceed the customer demands and expectations. Administers business intelligence tools used by the enterprise. Handles upgrades, patches, add-ons, and licensing. Works with the IT infrastructure team to ensure that hardware meets BI tool requirements. Helps users self-serve in the process of creating dashboards and reports. Show less

  • Manager, Business Intelligence Technology Team

    Mar 2015 - Jun 2021

  • Manager, Business Intelligence Technology Team

    Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
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  Renasant Bank

  Jul 2021 - Jun 2024

  Business Intelligence Lead Architect, VP
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  Self-employed

  Jun 2024 - now

  CEO of Retirement

  Golf, photography, my car and my wife are all that interest me now.