Joseph Delpercio
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Accomplished executive leader specializing in Data Analytics, Management, Business Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence. Enhances productivity, business outcomes, and profitability by integrating data, systems, people, processes, and technology with strategic business initiatives. Skilled at resolving complex business challenges, fostering high-performance teams, and effectively collaborating with diverse stakeholders. A persuasive communicator adept at driving innovation, achieving consensus, and building strong partnerships across all organizational levels and cultural backgrounds.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head of Data Office, Analytics, Engineering & Data Science
Zeus Company Inc.
Columbia, S.C.
02.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: World’s leading polymer extrusion and catheter design manufacturer for the medical, aerospace, energy, automotive, fiber optics, and other markets. Zeus has over 2,200 employees and 13 facilities worldwide.
- Recruited by CEO and CFO to drive innovation and conduct a digital transformation in the analytics and machine learning (AI) space. Given a mandate to transform the culture from a legacy-minded technology culture to a contemporary data/analytics and AI driven business partner culture and drive all of Zeus to be a data-first culture.
- Enterprise Data Strategy, Automation & Business Transformation: Leverage technology, automation, and data science to solve complex business challenges, optimize efficiency, and drive revenue growth. Lead the enterprise data science and analytics strategy, aligning predictive analytics, Edge computing, and AI-driven automation with business objectives. Partner with executives and leadership to embed data-driven decision-making and oversee the deployment of machine learning, prescriptive analytics, and closed-loop control systems to improve operational efficiency and scalability.
- Productivity & Operational Excellence: Increase team productivity by 40% through an advanced Edge computing and data science analytics framework that standardizes processes and metrics. Optimize capacity planning, introduce closed-loop data-driven process controls, and ensure compliance with robust data privacy policies.
- Advanced Analytics & Strategic Leadership: Lead prescriptive data science initiatives, managing data scientists and analysts to deploy machine learning-driven closed-loop control systems. Integrate Dataiku & Snowflake for real-time optimization, enhancing manufacturing & lead time performance and driving seven-figure bottom-line growth.
- Pioneering Automation & Data-Driven Process Control: Spearheaded automation and process control initiatives, integrating Ignition SCADA and Edge computing to enable real-time closed-loop control in manufacturing. Drive self-optimizing production systems, reducing downtime and increasing efficiency through predictive and prescriptive analytics.
- Innovation & Technology Adoption: Lead the adoption of Edge computing and prescriptive data science, improving analytical efficiency by 25%. Leverage real-time data science models to optimize processes, enhance agility, and secure a sustainable competitive advantage.
Board Member/Technology Advisor
BrightCheck
Walnut Creek, California
01.2023 - 06.2024
- Company Overview: Start-up, innovative public safety app, and anti-catfish verification solution designed to increase the safety of individuals using dating apps, websites, and in-person encounters.
- Guiding this early-stage startup to develop a clear technology strategy that aligns with its business goals and growth plans.
- Technology Strategy & Alignment: Advised an early-stage startup in developing a technology strategy aligned with business objectives and growth plans, enhancing scalability and innovation.
- Board Advisory & Strategic Guidance: Provided expert guidance to the board on navigating emerging technologies, AI, and market trends to strengthen product innovation and competitive positioning.
- Operational Efficiency: Mentored engineering teams on agile methodologies, reducing product delivery timelines by 50% and driving rapid iteration and deployment.
- Cybersecurity Leadership: Led the implementation of robust cybersecurity protocols, safeguarding customer data and intellectual property.
VP and Head of Center of Excellence (COE) Customer and Data Solutions/Architecture
Incorta, Inc.
San Mateo, CA
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Company Overview: Start-up end-to-end data and analytics platform that unifies data analytics, data science and data pipelines, allowing users to process large volumes of complex data while bypassing the warehousing step.
- Recruited by EVP, Strategy, and Development to leverage my prior experience as an Incorta customer, assume P&L responsibility, and revamp and lead the day-to-day management of a Center of Excellence (COE) for the Professional Services organization. Responsible for the lifecycle of the Incorta Platform system with a focus on agility and innovation, ensuring regular operations run smoothly by maximizing uptime, and ensuring updates and upgrades are applied promptly. Lead a global team of 5 direct and 35 in-direct reports.
- Innovation Leadership: Spearheaded innovation initiatives through controlled projects, ensuring adherence to defined standards across the organization to enhance operational excellence.
- Professional Services Revamp: Transformed the Professional Services organization into a Center of Excellence (COE), providing internal support and delivering tailored solutions to customers.
- Customer Retention Improvement: Reduced customer attrition by 50% by leveraging platform data to define the Voice of the Customer (VOC). Applied insights to enhance selling methods, refine messaging with a customer-centric focus, and establish best practices.
- Subject Matter Expertise & Collaboration: Acted as the internal subject-matter expert (SME) while fostering a culture of cross-collaboration, driving engagement and knowledge sharing across teams.
- Partner-Centric Service Model: Instituted a streamlined, partner-based approach for the services business, championing demand management and enhancing service delivery effectiveness.
Director Data Analytics, Data Management, BI Solutions, Engineering
Scientific Games
Las Vegas
05.2021 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: Global leader in the gaming and lottery industries serving customers from manufacturing, printing, and commercial facilities on six continents with 9,500 employees worldwide.
- Based on successful achievements in my consulting role, I was hired to continue my transformation work as a full-time employee. My role was expanded to include leadership of all BI Applications, Data Engineering, and Data Management for North America, Canada, India, and parts of EMEA. 20 Direct Reports Globally/30 in-direct reports.
- Strategic Consolidation Leadership: Successfully led multiple consolidations during the company’s aggressive reorganization and divestiture efforts, ensuring seamless transitions and operational efficiency.
- Data Lake Management: Spearheaded the establishment and management of a company-wide data lake to support all new technology initiatives, enhancing data accessibility and integration.
- Data Management & Business Intelligence Ownership: Served as the primary owner of enterprise-wide data management and business intelligence, driving best practices and data governance across the organization.
- Executive Guidance on BI & Data Strategy: Provided strategic guidance on business intelligence and data management to senior leadership, informing decision-making and aligning data initiatives with organizational goals.
- Reporting Segregation Leadership: Led the segregation of reporting processes during the divestiture of the lottery and sports betting business, ensuring compliance and continuity throughout the transition.
Enterprise and BI Solutions Leader (Consultant)
Scientific Games
Las Vegas, NV
09.2019 - 05.2021
- Company Overview: Global leader in the gaming and lottery industries serving customers from manufacturing, printing, and commercial facilities on six continents with 9,500 employees worldwide.
- Recruited by the VP of Enterprise Applications and contracted for a long-term engagement to transform the BI team with oversight for its transformation engineers. Mandated to provide the depth and breadth of analytics needed to deliver actionable data insights to solve business issues and positively impact company performance while improving responsiveness and efficiencies. Led and coached 12 BI professionals and a 24/7 global team of Directors, Managers, and DevOps professionals.
- Performance Transformation: Achieved a 10X increase in team performance within one year by establishing a full agile structure that promotes efficiency and adaptability.
- Employee Engagement & Satisfaction: Boosted employee satisfaction by 60% through targeted training, skill upgrades, and fostering a supportive learning environment that empowers independent communication with business stakeholders.
- Business Intelligence Redesign: Championed the redesign of the BI data team strategy into a lean, agile unit focused on delivering optimal customer service and enhanced access to actionable data, resulting in improved decision-making.
- Reporting Efficiency: Reduced reporting turnaround time from 3 months to 1-2 weeks by implementing the Incorta platform, eliminating traditional ETL processes and creating a unified data analytics and AI environment with direct data mapping capabilities.
- Data Integration & Visualization: Streamlined business insights by consolidating seven systems into a single layer, reducing a six-month effort to just two weeks through effective data visualization.
- Enterprise Data Migration: Co-managed two enterprise data migration initiatives, transitioning a $10MM legacy AS400 infrastructure to a robust Oracle EBS and SCM cloud environment.
- Automation in Finance Operations: Developed automated comparison logic via SQL Server and Incorta, reducing 2,400 man-hours for the finance team and streamlining validation processes for Finished Goods, Fixed Assets, Inventory, and Service Contracts.
- Digital Transformation: Led the digital transformation of an analog manual billing process into a scalable solution leveraging Azure services as the primary data store.
- Real-Time Reporting Implementation: Eliminated a two-day data delay and achieved real-time reporting by architecting and deploying over 20 rapid development projects within Incorta for Finance, Operations, and Gaming Services.
Senior Manager/Architect
Philips Healthcare
HQ-Amsterdam, Holland
08.2017 - 08.2019
- Company Overview: Dutch multinational corporation. Formerly one of the largest electronics companies in the world, currently focused in health technology with 83,000 employees across 100 countries.
- Recruited by VP of North America Operations with the mandate to completely revamp the data engineering and analytics team’s systems and visualizations. The team had no data structure, governance, and no leadership for over 1 year. Oversaw execution and provided leadership for the creation of the BI team’s reporting and BI solutions, including data architecture, data integration, and ETL management for a $4.5B business. Led a team of 25 (12 onshore and 13 offshore)
- Within 3 months, implemented a new ETL process, established governance of customer data management, and provided leadership, goals, guidance, and direction to the team.
- Saved over $700K in headcount when my team absorbed the responsibilities and workload after a team of 8 who were responsible for reporting and constructing data for sales operations (recognized for $2B-4B in revenue) resigned. Within 6 months, my team rebuilt a scalable data process by using Kanban and built a process that reduced the time to produce an outcome from months to between 1 hour and 1-day. Accomplished by hiring only 2 FTEs.
- Increased speed of delivery of a project by providing guidance and prioritization coaching for my team of 10 consultants and 2 employees.
- Contributed to 80% YOY revenue growth by leading the initiative to reduce Data and Analytics Platform from on-premises to Azure/AWS SQL Servers and hybrid infrastructure. Initiative enhanced and accelerated decision-making through a new platform and processes that amplified performance across sales, service, marketing, and multiple business units.
- Architected and implemented a single source ecosystem project to reduce expenses by $500K to $1MM by decommissioning legacy systems and reducing headcount.
- Oversaw and implemented the multi-million-dollar initiative to reduce manual efforts by utilizing Robotic Process Automation.
- Constructed a data performance model in SQL to display through a Tableau dashboard to provide a proactive way to see the health of data metrics for an external/internal customer.
Manager and Architect, Data Warehousing and Analytics
Prospira Paincare
05.2016 - 07.2017
ETL/BI Analyst IV
Centene Corporation
Atlanta, GA
02.2015 - 05.2016
Senior Systems Analyst (Contractor)
ADT, Inc.
Boca Raton, FL
07.2014 - 02.2015
Lead Business Systems Analyst
Fidelity National Information Services
Sunrise, FL
06.2013 - 07.2013
Project Manager/Business Analyst (Contractor)
Seminole Tribe of Florida IT
Hollywood, FL
12.2012 - 06.2013
IT Analyst
Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale
07.2010 - 04.2013
Education
MBA - Business Intelligence and Analytics
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FLBA - Finance
Florida Atlantic University
Fort Lauderdale, FLSkills
- Innovation Leadership
- Prescriptive Analytics and Solutions
- Process Automation (RPA)
- Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Data Visualization Tools (PowerBI, Tableau)
- Technology Assessments/Implementations
- Cloud Computing (AWS, Snowflake, Azure, GCP)
- Data Integration/Solutions
- Data Science Statistics
- Data Strategy Transformation Ignition
- Stakeholder Management
- Meticulous Attention to Detail
- Cross-functional Team Collaboration
- Business Strategy/Execution
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- AI/Edge AI/ML
- Outsourcing/Insourcing
- Data Architecture & Integration
- Communication & Storytelling
- Building/Leading/Retaining High-Performance Teams
Certification
- Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt – 6/2013
- Incorta 5 Fundamentals for Developers – 5/2022
- Incorta 5 Fundamentals for Administrator – 6/2022
Timeline
Head of Data Office, Analytics, Engineering & Data Science
Zeus Company Inc.
02.2023 - Current
Board Member/Technology Advisor
BrightCheck
01.2023 - 06.2024
VP and Head of Center of Excellence (COE) Customer and Data Solutions/Architecture
Incorta, Inc.
01.2022 - 01.2023
Director Data Analytics, Data Management, BI Solutions, Engineering
Scientific Games
05.2021 - 01.2022
Enterprise and BI Solutions Leader (Consultant)
Scientific Games
09.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Manager/Architect
Philips Healthcare
08.2017 - 08.2019
Manager and Architect, Data Warehousing and Analytics
Prospira Paincare
05.2016 - 07.2017
ETL/BI Analyst IV
Centene Corporation
02.2015 - 05.2016
Senior Systems Analyst (Contractor)
ADT, Inc.
07.2014 - 02.2015
Lead Business Systems Analyst
Fidelity National Information Services
06.2013 - 07.2013
Project Manager/Business Analyst (Contractor)
Seminole Tribe of Florida IT
12.2012 - 06.2013
IT Analyst
Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc.
07.2010 - 04.2013
MBA - Business Intelligence and Analytics
Nova Southeastern University
BA - Finance
Florida Atlantic University