John J. Nolan

Experience

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  University of Maryland, Baltimore

  Jun 1982 - Mar 1987

  Lab Scientist II

  Created statistical packages and menu driven displays for biochemistry applications.

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  Westinghouse Electric Corporation

  Mar 1987 - Dec 1991

  Sr. Software Engineer

  Designed and coded kernel mode for a real-time, embedded, multiprocessor, 1750A MIL-STD computer system on an advanced radar system. Development and implementation of interruptive and non-interruptive tests of both hardware and software for state-of-the-art airborne radar.

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  Citibank, North America Investment Services

  Jun 1993 - Sept 1993

  MBA Summer Internship

  Devised a software quality test plan, using an automated software testing tool, for the standardized testing of in-house developed software. Managed the prototype development and analyzed results. Presented recommendations on effectiveness and feasibility to upper management.

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  Ernst & Young LLP

  Jul 1995 - Jun 2000

  Manager

  Joining E&Y’s Global Data Warehousing Solutions Team, managed teams in defining the business and technical requirements for the implementation of data warehouses. Analyzed mission critical reporting requirements to determine where, in the new system data architecture, the needed information could be obtained.

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  Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

  Jun 2000 - Aug 2004

  Manager

  Member of Ernst & Young / Cap Gemini’s Business Intelligence Leadership Team, with responsibilities for thought leadership, resource assignment/allocation, and managing RFP responses. Designed, developed, and implemented information strategy, data warehousing, data mining and information analytics services measure, analyze and optimize business performance across the entire enterprise.

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  Accenture

  Sept 2004 - Sept 2007

  Manager

  As part of Accenture’s Financial & Performance Management Practice, created both business analytics and performance management capabilities, using a wide range of tools and techniques to collect, organize, understand, and communicate information regarding industry, competitive position, enterprise performance, and other specific initiatives. Designed a BI/Data Warehouse Center of Excellence, which addressed the issues of database design, data integration, data quality, data governance, and metadata management. Show less

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  Neudesic

  Oct 2007 - Feb 2009

  Principal Consultant

  Joined Neudesic’s National Strategy Team to create a Corporate Performance Management practice. Our focus was driving and optimizing business performance by providing a framework for coordinating, automating and analyzing business methodologies, metrics, processes and systems, while leveraging Micosoft’s product offerings.

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  Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies

  Jan 2010 - Sept 2016

  Client Relationship Manager / Project Manager

  Responsibility for understanding, identifying, and documenting business requirements across all functional areas of WHEAS, while providing Customer Relationship Management services to SVP, VP, and Directors, focused on Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse / Analytics

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  J2 Global

  Nov 2017 - Dec 2019

  Technical Project Manager

  Technical Business Intelligence Project Manager – Oversaw all technical aspects of planning, coordinating, and facilitating Business Intelligence projects from start to delivery. Led and managed progress of projects from point of scheduling to release to production; clearly communicates project progress, resolves unknowns, and removes impediments that keep team from completing assigned work. -- Managed team consisting of 5 on-shore, 2 near-shore, and 3 offshore resourceso Partnered and built relationships with Product, Ops, Engineering, QA, Finance, Marketing, and Sales and established solid planning and execution process from sprint planning to stand ups to retrospectiveso Managed project End-to-End lifecycle, working in Agile methodology, defined roadmap and owned project delivery for multiple project teams, for local and overseas internal customerso Teamed with data scientists, analysts, developers, and subject matter experts to understand business requirements and translate requirements into technical and functional specificationso Communicated scope changes early and clearly to stakeholders, ensuring buy-in throughout organization -- Created cloud-based, global reporting Proof of Concept for heavily siloed organization, leveraging many of Amazon Web Services offeringso Designing data lake, based around S3 and Glacier storageo Leveraging Tableau and Redshift for reportingo Assessing DMS, Kinesis, Glue, and Airflow for ETL Show less

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  Internet Brands

  Feb 2021 - May 2023

  Senior Technical Project Manager

  Responsible for the overall project and program management function and team; providing leadership, coordination, strategic direction, and management of all technical project management processes and functions. Working with a broad group of technology, product, and business leaders, to ensure prioritization and successful delivery of initiatives across the health vertical -- Managed a cross functional team of both frontend and backend web developers, consisting of 3 onshore, and 7 offshore resourceso Successfully transitioned the development team from a Kanban to Scrum environment, resulting in a 16% increase in team velocity, despite increased number of production issueso Redesigned the grooming process, resulting in 11% reduction in the number of bugs discovered by the QA teamo Restructured the approval process for new functionality requests, including business case, prioritization, and timeline, eliminating 1 in 20 tickets, preventing the development team losing focused on critical areaso Initiated, led, and managed an innovative, fledgling, analytic and reporting solution to track website performance, create target lists, and identify trends Show less