MACHELLE KESSLER
Business Intelligence Professional
NORTH BAY AREA,CA
Summary
Experienced business intelligence and analytics professional with a decade-long track record in translating complex data into user-friendly insights, streamlining business operations, driving solution deployment, and cultivating a culture of data-guided decision making. Brings projects together through the stages of solution development, documentation, training, implementation, and post deployment success measurement.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Manager of Business Intelligence
FRIEDMAN'S HOME IMPROVEMENT
6 2021 - Current
- Shared responsibility for enterprise application portfolio
- Responsible for leading strategic design and maintenance of BI applications, including data warehouse
- Work with cross functional teams including business/functional subject matter and system experts to foster turning data into corporate knowledge
- Lead technology projects that have BI, analytics and reporting implications
- Identify opportunities to enhance available data and processes for strategic decision support, through use of data science
- Co-manage enterprise dev-op's application and agile sprint planning and execution
- Manage and harmonize disparate data sources and reporting and analytic functions from D365 F&O, payroll data, RetailNext traffic data, Placer data, competitive pricing data.
- Manage EDI with merchandising vendors.
Manager of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Reporting
TRADITIONAL MEDICINALS
01.2019 - 05.2021
- Responsible for leading strategic design and maintenance of BI applications, including data warehouse
- Worked with cross functional teams, including subject matter experts, to foster turning data into corporate knowledge
- Managed reporting and analytic solution components and ensure deliverables met business needs
- Coordinated across business units to clearly define KPI's and ensure that reporting technology can depict business results
- Identified opportunities for enhancing available data and processes for BI
- Identified methods for sharing information across departments and increasing business user ability to leverage data independently
- Participate in software/application implementations, related to BI
- Managed team of BI Analysts.
Business Systems Analyst
TRADITIONAL MEDICINALS
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Responsible for launching data warehouse, defining data dictionary and creating process and governance.
- Managed disparate data sources and reporting functions from sources including, AX2012, SPINS syndicated data and RedZone.
- Brought on MS reporting tools for data consumption, including Excel add ins, Tableau and Power BI
- Launched PowerBI.com for enterprise reporting consumption.
- Fostered collaborative working relationships with business unit leaders and managed services vendors.
Sales and Marketing Analyst
JACKSON FAMILY WINE
04.2017 - 08.2018
Network CDM Coordinator/Business Intelligence Analyst
ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM
04.2013 - 04.2017
Revenue Cycle Analyst
MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL
06.2012 - 02.2013
Education
MBA - Business Management
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 08.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 08.2006 - 05.2008
Skills
- Problem solving
- Gap identification
- Data visualization for non-tech users
- Enterprise reporting
- Relationship nurturing and management
- Team building
- Project management
- Data governance
- Process definition
- Technical language to business language
- Agile mindset
- Organization and time management
Accomplishments
- Managed the implementation of multiple new data warehouses and tabular models
- Developed, built, and maintained enterprise reporting through the use of data science, including but not limited to metric awareness, master data maintenance, and enterprise strategic decision support.
- Lead and managed a multitude of software/platform implementations.
- Completed course through UC Berkeley Executive Education Data Strategy: Leveraging Data as a Competitive Advantage Certification,
Timeline
Manager of Business Intelligence and Enterprise Reporting
TRADITIONAL MEDICINALS
01.2019 - 05.2021
Business Systems Analyst
TRADITIONAL MEDICINALS
01.2019 - 01.2020
Sales and Marketing Analyst
JACKSON FAMILY WINE
04.2017 - 08.2018
Network CDM Coordinator/Business Intelligence Analyst
ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM
04.2013 - 04.2017
MBA - Business Management
Sonoma State University
08.2012 - 05.2014
Revenue Cycle Analyst
MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL
06.2012 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Sonoma State University
08.2006 - 05.2008
Manager of Business Intelligence
FRIEDMAN'S HOME IMPROVEMENT
6 2021 - Current