Matthew Weirath
Business Intelligence Leader
Seattle,WA
Summary
Business Intelligence Leader with over 10 years of analytics experience and 6 years of people management. Track record of quickly ramping up in new areas (Healthcare, Aviation, Insurance, Sales, Technology, and Compliance) and leading teams to rapidly discover and deliver valuable and actionable insights via complex analyses and expert storytelling.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Manager, Business Intelligence and Cloud Ops.
Bluetooth SIG
Kirkland, WA
03.2018 - Current
- Led the Business Intelligence and IT and Cloud Operations teams comprising of 9 direct reports
- Built a centralized BI team from the ground up that created subject matter experts (SMEs) providing valuable data insights to the organization
- Led or personally delivered 100's of queries and reports using SQL, Power BI, and Python helping the business teams engage in strategic data-driven decision making
- Managed multiple data analysis projects with competing priorities and aggressive timelines
- Became a trusted advisor to executive staff on how to use the company's data to tackle complex problems
- Partnered with business teams to create unique KPIs and OKRs focused on key problem and strategic goals
- Developed numerous reports used by all areas of the organization daily and implemented a data warehouse and self-service data model based on Power BI
Sr. Management Consultant
Loft9 Consulting (now Sia Partners)
Kirkland, WA
06.2016 - 03.2018
- Delivered data and analytics projects across the Healthcare and Aviation spaces
- Developed and delivered presentations to executive leadership leveraging data storytelling skills
- Help to shape strategy and roadmaps based on data insights identified through complex analyses
- Built reports and data warehouses for two different clients to automate report generation
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Liberty Mutual
Seattle, WA
03.2015 - 06.2016
- Worked with business and IT partners to develop and deliver various projects to improve customer growth, satisfaction, and profitability on a multi-billion dollar book of business
- Determined the direction of projects by using SAS, Python, Excel, and SQL to analyze large data sets and generate valuable insights
- Trained over a dozen analysts on SQL to speed up their ability to gather and interpret data
- Used Python to collect and report on the status of over 20,000 tests being tracked across multiple Excel workbooks
Multiple Roles
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance
Washington, DC
05.2006 - 02.2015
Software Release Manager
- Managed a team to track and execute software releases for a department of 300+ developers and analysts
- Created dashboards to show the real-time status of all current and upcoming releases
- Worked with VPs, IT management, and key business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver key software initiatives
IT Project Manager
- Worked as Scrum Master for two different software development teams
- Led a $30+ million multi-year project to replace a business critical sales and service system
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Wore many hats supporting various activities such as:
- Monitoring and reporting on SOX Compliance
- Developing technical software requirements
- Process improvement using LEAN SIX SIGMA methods
- Gathering requirements and testing software
- Developing various reports and dashboards
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems Management
University of Maryland University College
Skills
- Managing Teams
- Visualization with Power BI & Tableau
- Developing Visions and Roadmaps
- Data Warehousing
- Data Modeling
- Report Creation
- KPIs and OKRs Generation
- Expert SQL and limited Python and R
- Advanced Excel
- Data Storytelling
- Complex Analysis
- Project Management
Accomplishments
- Built and led a centralized BI practice from the ground up
- Developed reporting that helped detect outliers against millions of homeowners policies, identifying over $9 million of improperly issued policies
- Created complex queries using SQL to check business logic against 10's of millions of records that helped to shape the Deprecation and Withdrawal policy for all Bluetooth specifications
- Led a team of BI Analysts and Engineers to create a centralized Data Warehouse using Synapse Analytics
- Successfully ramped up and quickly delivered reporting and impactful analyses in multiple industries (Insurance, Healthcare, Technology, Aviation) and across various verticals (Compliance, Product, Marketing, Security, Customer Support, and others)
- Developed SQL data models to identify security issues in Bluetooth products that reduced the time necessary to notify member companies from over 90 days to less than 1 week
- Identified KPIs for pilot training and developed a predictive machine learning model to reduce overscheduling of pilot trainees by 80%
- Built ETL pipelines using SQL server to automate data cleaning and preparation and reduce report creation time by over 90%
- Reduced the staffing necessary to create monthly reports from 3 FTEs to less than 1 FTE, in under a month
- Developed training in multiple roles to train others on various topics such as SQL, SAS, Excel, Power BI reporting, Data Literacy, and Data Storytelling
Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Timeline
Sr. Manager, Business Intelligence and Cloud Ops.
Bluetooth SIG
03.2018 - Current
Sr. Management Consultant
Loft9 Consulting (now Sia Partners)
06.2016 - 03.2018
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Liberty Mutual
03.2015 - 06.2016
Multiple Roles
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance
05.2006 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems Management
University of Maryland University College