Andrea Landwehr
IT Leadership Professional
Sun Prairie,WI
Summary
Passionate leader experienced in setting technical strategy, building high performing teams, establishing technical programs, and managing relationships to ensure trust in provided services. With over 15 years of leadership experience, Andrea brings a focus on developing teams and programs to meet and exceed customer's needs. Experienced in all facets of management with highlighted areas in strategy, program management, talent development, and relationship management.
As a leadership professional, primarily spent time focused on data and analytics roles but has had additional responsibilities in Help Desk/Operations, Web/e-Commerce Technologies, SharePoint Content & Collaboration, and Database Architecture & Management groups. Andrea's diversity in IT teams and technologies allows for a more wholistic view of the solutions process.
Career Highlights:
Designed, developed and implemented reporting and analytics strategy for 4 different businesses including both the technical and functional processes, development of the team (organizational structure, roles and hiring), and budgets.
Technical solutions implemented:
- Reporting & Analytics: Power BI, BOBJ, SASS, SSRS, Qlik, and Tableau
- Data Warehouse: Oracle, MS SQL, Azure, and Snowflake
- ETL/ELT: Talend, SSIS, SAP Data Services and Informatica
- Service Management: JIRA, SharePoint w/3rd party add-on
Designed and implemented associate cross training programs and development opportunities.
Established guidelines for service management and SLAs.
Inaugural member DE&I Leader Committee (TDS) assisting in strategy and design of DE&I program within IT
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Intelligence Manager
TDS, Inc
04.2019 - Current
- Developed corporate strategy for reporting and analytic needs including team design, governance, new architecture, processes, and tools
- Guided implementation of a modern data approach using Talend, Snowflake, and Power BI
- Established roadmap and implementation path for migration of legacy systems and data to new strategy
- Established new roles with department to support architecture, development, and analysis through creation of Data Architect, Business Analyst, and Data Analyst roles
- Guided team through transition to modern platforms working through organizational change, training needs, and support.
BI and Data Manager
Nasco
07.2018 - 04.2019
- Created and established team guidelines, cross training, and environment documentation
- Developed JIRA to set up and implement teamwork tracking system
- Assisted with and managed roll out of JIRA as a tool for all of IT
- Established go forward strategy for reporting to migrate data platforms and align Qlik with more self-service abilities.
Business Intelligence Manager
Nordic Consulting Partners
02.2017 - 11.2017
- Completed build out of reporting strategy using MS Azure and Power BI to meet business needs
- Optimized data governance by implementing Microsoft Azure data warehousing strategy and data rules
- Increased report development time and consistency by developing reporting standards guide that included templates and code samples
- Established styling best practices by creating an in-depth style guide for report formatting.
Business Performance Reporting Manager
American Family Insurance
02.2016 - 11.2016
- Optimized service levels by implementing new workflow process to speed up the time from receipt to assignment of incoming support tickets which increased response to 24 hours from 72
- Reorganized work teams into areas of support, created backups for roles, provided cross training, and developed stronger relationships with our customer base
- Improved onboarding experience for new hires through a team guide including training materials, while reducing the process from 4 to 2 weeks.
Applications Team Leader
Appvion, Inc
01.2012 - 04.2016
- Managed Business Intelligence, DBA, SharePoint, and Web departments
- Redesigned reporting platform consolidating reporting tools from 8 to 1, merged all data into one warehouse from 3, and saved license costs of $150,000 yearly
- Updated technology and branding through launch of redesigned company website providing further reach to new customers, portal for current customers, and merging of multi-site HR/Benefits data
- Optimized performance of SharePoint by creating governance standards, removing 100gb of unnecessary files, and training users on storing and sharing via SharePoint.
Business Intelligence Manager
Schwabe North America
01.2005 - 01.2012
- Established reporting strategy to move into self-service analytics with a modern data architecture using MS SQL and Business Objects
- Implemented upgrade of the Business Objects architecture bringing environment to supported platform
- Aligned database structure with multi-site operations by upgrading SQL to Oracle to support parent company design standards and established new warehouse design model and brought consistency throughout organization
- Increased performance of systems by redeployment of architecture to move to SAP BO with BW.
Education
Associate of Science - Business
University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZBachelor of Science - Business Management
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZSkills
Leadership
Affiliations
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, TDS – 2023
- Corporate Leadership Liaison, TDS – 2022 - current
- Allouez Traffic and Safety Committee, 2009 – 2012
- Women in Technology Wisconsin, Inc. 2015-2016, 2020
- Girl Scouts of America – Troop Leader/Volunteer 2011 - June 2016
Timeline
Business Intelligence Manager
TDS, Inc
04.2019 - Current
BI and Data Manager
Nasco
07.2018 - 04.2019
Business Intelligence Manager
Nordic Consulting Partners
02.2017 - 11.2017
Business Performance Reporting Manager
American Family Insurance
02.2016 - 11.2016
Applications Team Leader
Appvion, Inc
01.2012 - 04.2016
Business Intelligence Manager
Schwabe North America
01.2005 - 01.2012
Associate of Science - Business
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Northern Arizona University
Training & Certification
- Agile Training, 2021
- Scrum Certification, 2017
Training & Certification
- Agile Training, 2021
- Scrum Certification, 2017