Anthony Akande
Austin,TX
Summary
- Proactive and diligent professional bringing a successful 15 year career in business systems analysis, data analytics technologies and data warehousing particularly in the Healthcare sector.
- Business Leader proven to develop and implement business management initiatives. Creates business strategies, allocates resources, finds ways to increase productivity and assesses employee performance. Bridges communication between partners and suppliers with strong business acumen and managerial abilities.
- Responsible Team Coordinator with passion for managing complex responsibilities with organized and resourceful approach. Intelligent and analytical with excellent communication and collaboration skills. . Strong research, data entry and contract preparation abilities.
- Experienced in Driving ETL architectures in data warehousing environments, leveraging multiple data sources to deliver front to back design, identify gaps, and implement a robust framework.
- Effectively communicates and translates business needs into solutions both orally and written to Developers, DBAs, and agile project team to provide functional and mapping requirements and maintain efficient delivery.
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions using data modelling tools like
- Hands on technical proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Access, R, SAS, SQL, SAP, shell scripting, Eviews, VBA Language, Rest API, Python, Tableau, and REDCap, GCP, VS CODE, Collibra, MD-Staff, WinSCP etc.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Team Coordinator IT Systems
Ascension Health Care
01.2023 - Current
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, customer operations and external departments to gather and analyze requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and compliance with industry standards
- Performing analysis of all data in, out of and within data repositories to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for process improvement to increase operational efficiency
- Coordinate data integration activities, manage external audits, maintain policies and procedures. Manage IT teams to design, configure, and implement data solutions
- Lead the development and documentation of detailed business and system requirements, functional specifications, and workflow diagrams, ensuring clear team communication
- Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) and facilitate JAD training sessions for end-users to adopt new data assets and software successfully
- Work with SMEs to develop business rules, document test cases from UAT to help ensure successful project implementation
- Overall Oversight of projects, development of project plans and timeline.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in business analysis and technology to recommend innovative solutions for business challenges.
Senior Data Systems Analyst - Product Owner
Ascension Healthcare
04.2020 - 12.2022
- Set up ETL processes using SQL and Python scripts that built tables that feed Providers’ profiles on Ascension’s website (Find a Doc)
- Served as subject matter expert for the ETL process that feeds provider data to Reputation.com from MD-Staff
- Coordinate data integration activities for Ascension’s Master Data Management platforms (Reltio)
- Serve as a key expert in compiling and comprehending data from different sources for data delivery and governance
- Build, review, and maintain research databases in REDCap and SQL server
- Create data collection tools, data management documentation, and quality assurance processes
- Created queries and connected databases for data profiling and quality, created data visualizations using Tableau, and made recommendations for system integration
- Developed a deep understanding of data across multiple data domains and platforms and worked closely with business stakeholders to improve current data quality efforts
- Built and conducted testing plans to ensure valid data is available to the business
- Performed mapping of source data to a normalized data model
- Served as subject matter expert on data quality
- Served as a critical resource and expert in collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources to identify data quality issues and track data quality metrics over time.
Clinical Research Data Manager
Texas A & M
10.2019 - 03.2020
- Manage and oversee all data management processes on projects
- Provide expert advice on data management to a panel of experts from the Houston Police Department, Attorney General, Adult Protective Services, and the Medical Examiner officers
- Build, review, and maintain REDCap and Microsoft Access research databases
- Create data collection tools, data management documentation, and quality assurance processes
- Review and maintain data collection and tools, data management tools, and quality assurance processes
- Develop data management reports or dashboards data analysis plans, and monitor study status to ensure timelines are met.
Senior Data Analyst - Data Governance
Olympus
01.2017 - 08.2019
- Analyzed large amounts of data to identify trends and find patterns, signals and hidden stories within data.
- Created and automated data visualizations to present insights and tell compelling stories.
- Led master data conversion process from legacy J.D
- Edwards ERP system to SAP for multiple business partners in the Olympus Corporation of North America organizations
- Responsible for collecting data transfer specifications, UAT plan creation, data validation, and process documentation for master data fields during data migration
- Responsible for gathering business requirements when new master data fields are required and communicating them with IT and other business stakeholders
- Creating training materials and then presenting those materials to a wide variety of stakeholders to ensure a full understanding of master data
- Process optimization using automation tools eliminates redundancy and creates standard operating procedures.
Data Team Manager
Haver Analytics
06.2010 - 12.2016
- Evaluated employee performance and coached and trained team members, increasing quality of work and employee motivation.
- Cultivated positive, productive team environments, resolving conflicts quickly. Provided support for data analytical questions team members have difficulty addressing
- Continuously evaluate general and embargoed economic and financial releases for completion utilizing propriety software, Microsoft Access, email, and additional communication to meet industry regulations
- Spearhead all data analysis and data update issues
- Schedule appropriate number of employees to address time-sensitive data analysis and database updates
- Lead quality assurance and output verification for each database update, clearing outputs before the next database update in addition to monthly review with the director of database operations
- Maintain revisions to database update procedures to reflect current best practices, regulatory compliance, and documentation protocol
- Steer data development and projects monitoring data requests before prioritizing, projecting, and assigning
- Train and support database managers, initiating short courses for professional development
- Partner with database managers every six months to go over performance and constructive feedback.
Data Analyst
Haver Analytics
06.2008 - 05.2010
- Produced monthly reports using advanced Excel spreadsheet functions on each Middle Eastern or African country, which requires examination of financial statistics and analysis of population, language, currency, basic resources, energy, and major industries
- Identified, analyzed and interpreted trends or patterns in complex data sets to determine the country's economic status, what factors are responsible for its current state, and how it will perform in the future
- Plan, design, and research to aid in the interpretation of economic relationships and the solution of problems arising from production and distribution of goods and services
- Study economic and statistical data in different areas such as finance, labor, or manufacturing
- Devise methods and procedures for collecting and processing data, utilizing knowledge of available sources of data and various econometric and sampling techniques
- Compile, review, and analyze data to prepare reports and, if necessary, graphic illustrations, and formulate recommendations, policies, or plans to aid in market interpretation or solutions of economic problems
- Update, maintain, develop, and quality assure economic and financial databases for accuracy and reliability.
Education
Ph.D. - Health Information Technology
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Houston, TX08.2023
Master of Arts - Finance
Fordham University
New York05.2009
Bachelor of Science - Business Economics
Fordham University
New York05.2007
Skills
- Data Synthesis
- Operational Modelling
- Data Compiling
- Systems Analysis
- Data Acquisition
- Business Process Mapping
- System Development
- Requirements Analysis
- Process Development
- Data Modeling
- Data Mapping
- Technical Writing
- Specifications Documentation
- Business Analysis
- Data Warehousing
- Project Management
- Gap Analysis
- Oracle Business Intelligence
- Technical Design Documentation
- Database Management
Timeline
Team Coordinator IT Systems
Ascension Health Care
01.2023 - Current
Senior Data Systems Analyst - Product Owner
Ascension Healthcare
04.2020 - 12.2022
Clinical Research Data Manager
Texas A & M
10.2019 - 03.2020
Senior Data Analyst - Data Governance
Olympus
01.2017 - 08.2019
Data Team Manager
Haver Analytics
06.2010 - 12.2016
Data Analyst
Haver Analytics
06.2008 - 05.2010
Ph.D. - Health Information Technology
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Master of Arts - Finance
Fordham University
Bachelor of Science - Business Economics
Fordham University