ANIL POTTEM
Sr.Mgr Business Intelligence
Dallas,TX
Summary
Achievement-oriented professional with 18+ years of experience in Business Intelligence and Solution Architecture. Expertise in roadmap creation for Global BI EDW & IDW, data visualization, data virtualization, MDM, Cloud Integration & Migration, and BI industry standards. Track record of completing multi-million-dollar projects and managing budgets ranging from $3M to $15M, including full P&L responsibility. Experience in business analysis, data warehousing, and data virtualization. Strong leadership expertise, having successfully led strategic development, support, deployment, and integration services within schedule and budget. Successfully implemented large cloud migrations– Azure and experienced in end-end product implementation in a fast-paced Agile environment. Seasoned in creating program roadmap, measuring program success via enterprise score card and in risk management Value-centric leader who establishes professional relationships at all levels and demonstrates strong negotiation skills to coordinate with both business owners and vendor Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Sr Manager Business Intelligence
Baylor Scott & White
Dallas
08.2022 - Current
- Achieved a 1.2 M in Savings by Leading and delivering Cognos to Power BI Report Migration Project as process of Cognos decommission (2400 Cognos reports to 900 PBI as part of year 2023 & 2024 Initiatives
- Implemented & Delivered, AZURE Active Directory B2C for SCM Vendors (342) to connect to BSWH Environment and access Power BI Reports using RLS
- Implementing & Establishing the Enterprise Power BI CoP from ground up to maintaining a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement across the organization with a team of 12 direct reports to support around 400 + people in the organization across multiple departments
- Developed and implemented data governance policy in power BI Environment, resulting in 15 % data quality accuracy
- Lead Power BI architect driving architecture and governance decisions including Power BI Premium capacity and Pro license provisioning and allocation, user training and support, Dev, Prod environment configuration, reference diagrams and governance documents
- Collaborating with Business Executives & IT teams to ensure the architecture and infrastructure support the BI needs of the organization
- Orchestrated the development and deployment of a data migration for CCD to Snowflake, resulting in a 40% reduction in data processing times and supporting a 25% increase in data analysis efficiency
- Designed and Implemented Call Center data extraction in to CDP (Snow Flake) and delivered Analytical solution (12 BI Reports serving 500 + users across 3 call centers)
- Designed and Implemented & Configured PowerBI Log Analytics Workspaces and designed dashboards about User, query, Datasets activities
- Enhance the Power BI Gateway Infrastructure from existing for better performance & compute
- Championed a company-wide data literacy program, mentoring a team of analysts and enhancing the organization's data-driven culture, which led to a 10% improvement in strategic decision-making across departments
- Collaborate with IT and BI leadership to support the BI vision and strategy, recommending process improvements and implementation of best practices to continue to develop and up-level the skills, capabilities, and value produced by the team
- Responsible for the end-to-end ownership of a business intelligence team, including gathering inputs from leadership and partner teams, roadmap planning and prioritization, promoting best practices, and mentoring and developing team.
Principal Azure Architect
T-Mobile
Seattle
06.2015 - 07.2022
- Manages data Visualization & virtualization team representing Finance, Procurement, CIS, SCM, and Marketing for this major mobile communications company
- Serves as data point of contact and executes tasks related to user management, security, configuration & customization, workflow & approval management, communication templates, analytics reports, data management, and audits
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure team capacity and resource allocations required to meet project delivery schedules & budgets
- Provided supervision during solution design and delivery phases of SLC in alignment with reference architectures and business strategies
- Closely work with other departments within the organization, ensuring that they are aware of any technology changes that will affect their operations and collaborating on cross-functional projects
- Provides executive leadership for multiple teams, including 8 direct staff reports of architects and developers
- Led the development of solution roadmaps that effectively minimized data movement, resulting in significant client savings of $10M
- Designed, Implemented Architectural standards and principles for extracting data from Salesforce, Accruent Objects into Azure Synapse DB Using Azure Data Factory (ADF) in to Raw ,Silver, Gold layers respectively
- Designed, implemented data extraction pipelines from 09, Blue Yonder, Siterra Data sources using ADF and Databricks Layer and loaded data in to Azure Lakehouse
- Ensuring the architectural goals are met on all development projects and participating in activities of development lifecycle including estimation, coding, unit testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Analyzed complex business problems to execute the vision and strategy of the Compliance organization with the overarching goal to reduce operational risk across the enterprise
- Orchestrated the data architects to design the data warehouse in order to build out the analytics successfully toward internal business side reporting such as new product information, call center analysis, call center call agent hourly distribution report, customer care performance, calls by issue and resolution, product and skew information, skews by store zip code, stock at stores by zip code, promotions management and other BI reporting and analytic reporting information
- Implemented data quality management processes and frameworks to ensure accurate, consistent, and reliable data for business intelligence and reporting purposes
- Implemented & Configured data profiling tool Alation for Enterprise-wide applications (Power BI, Table & Lakehouse)
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive data governance framework encompassing data stewardship, data standards, data policies, and data management procedures to maintain data integrity and consistency
- Acting as Domain Architect for PowerBI COE Team for T-Mobile (Managing 13 individuals both onsite & Offshore) and Managing 13 P3 Premium capacity Nodes & 27 Enterprise Gateways with 700 + power BI Workspaces across T-Mobile Power BI Landscape
- Created target architecture diagrams and led architecture meetings including server topologies and hardware requirements to support multiple environments (Dev, Test, Prod) for both Azure and On-Premises environments
- Collaborated on and implement standards and changes to systems and processes
- Ensuring design and development follows enterprise standards, processes and policies Ensured Data transformations are done correctly and adhering to Database design practices
- Led a team of engineers to develop scripts for data extraction, transforming and loading which reduced load times by 50%
- Developed large-scale analytical models via Power BI Datasets and Azure Analysis Services to serve as semantic layer for data visualization, report development, and ad hoc analysis
- Designed, Developed & Delivered reports that Adhere to compliance procedure and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with all applicable regulatory standards and policies
- MS SSAS OLAP Cubes performance tuning and optimization
- Designed and configuration of the fully automated CI/CD lifecycle for the critical Enterprise Applications
- Architected and designed data implementation patterns and engineered solutions using native cloud capabilities that span data ingestion & integration (ingress and egress), data storage (raw & cleansed), data prep & processing, master & reference data management, data virtualization & semantic layer, data consumption & visualization layer
- Designed & Implanted ADF Pipelines to extract data from multiple Source systems such as Salesforce, API’s, Excel, Text files, JSON Files and targeting in to Lakehouse
- Designed & developed the solution to extract data from SAP BW using ADF loaded the data in to the Lakehouse & Synapse using Databricks Notebooks
- Established and maintained a centralized data catalog to provide a comprehensive inventory of available data assets, enabling efficient discovery and access for BI and analytics purposes
- Implemented metadata management practices to enhance understanding and visibility of data assets, including data definitions, data models, and business glossaries, facilitating effective data governance
- Designed and delivered the Tableau performance matrix across all servers and present it to the higher management for reviews
- Experience Implementing Proactive Tableau Environment Health Checks and Performance Threshold Alerting
- Administer and support a multi-tier Tableau infrastructure including upgrade analysis and planning, security administration, release management, capacity planning, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and general systems maintenance
- As Infrastructure Architect Achieved T-Mobile internal recognition for best team collaboration between business, Sol
- Owner, development, cloud hosting/services in short span
- Implemented & Configured PowerBI, ADF Log Analytics Workspaces and designed dashboards about User, query, Datasets activities
- Develop and maintain full-scale, detailed project plans to be used in tracking project milestones and deliverables.
BI Manager (Practice Lead)
PwC
Calgary
11.2012 - 06.2015
- Served as BI Manager for this multinational professional services company
- Gained experience in different areas of project management (Release Management, Vendor Management, and Resource Management) and worked in several RFP, RFT, RFQ & RFI process of various client initiatives
- Linde Gas, Master Data Management SME – Collaborated with client to define project scope and strategy with $3 M budget
- Led teams across 3 countries working on configuration and cleansing of various areas, including master data, purchasing, inventory management, invoicing, and vendor management
- Implemented data cleansing and data governance methodology
- TransCanada – Coordinated between streams of BI technologies and business facing roles within BI to brainstorm best solution for clients while managing team of 21 employees
- Designed, prototyped, and sourced new metrics contributing toward advanced analytics
- Performed project planning and BI assessment of current BI architecture
- Provided SAP BI Strategy Road Map that enables businesses to measure their performance and seek out competitive advantages and truly 'listen to their customers' using data mining and statistics
- Led application architecture design, including business, logical, and physical/technical architecture
- Provided a unique solution to access BPC cube using business objects reporting tools that helped client in saving 1.5 million in license as well bringing 3.7-Million-dollar business to PwC
- Standardized the business processes to establish consistency and clarity across the organization
- Develop clear documentation, such as standard operating procedures (SOPs), that outline step-by-step instructions for each process
- Established performance metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the effectiveness of streamlined processes
- Designed and developed ETL processes to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources into data warehouses, resulting in a 30% increase in data accessibility and a 20% reduction in data processing time
- Developed and executed a comprehensive change management plan to support the adoption of agile methodologies within the software development team, resulting in improved collaboration, faster delivery cycles, and enhanced team productivity
- Established and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior leadership, project teams, and end-users
- Acted as a trusted advisor and change agent, influencing and driving adoption of new strategies and initiatives across the organization.
Business Intelligence Manager
Accenture
Toronto
01.2011 - 10.2012
- Served as Business Intelligence Manager for this global professional services company working in resource management, project management, and financial management
- Created project budgets, plans, and requirements tractability matrix for all identified RICEFWDs
- Collaborated with technical architecture team to design technical architecture for proposed solution
- Orchestrated the IT security & governance team ensuring problem management discipline was effectively used to identify and eliminate incidents
- Implemented agile development practices to develop relevant solutions with full engagement of requirements owners
- Created an Architecture Blueprint that supports self-Service reporting Environment
- Scheduled and managed requirements workshops to gather requirements for information delivery framework
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, IT, legal, and compliance teams, to align data governance initiatives with business goals and establish effective communication channels.
Education
Master of Science (M.S.) - Communication Engineering, Internet Security
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Karlskrona, SwedenBachelor of Technology (B. Tech) - Electronics & Communication Engineering
J.N.T.University
IndiaSkills
ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING
Certification
Azure Certified Solutions Architect
Timeline
Sr Manager Business Intelligence
Baylor Scott & White
08.2022 - Current
Principal Azure Architect
T-Mobile
06.2015 - 07.2022
BI Manager (Practice Lead)
PwC
11.2012 - 06.2015
Business Intelligence Manager
Accenture
01.2011 - 10.2012
Master of Science (M.S.) - Communication Engineering, Internet Security
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) - Electronics & Communication Engineering
J.N.T.University