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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
MACHELLE KESSLERBusiness Intelligence Professional