Robert Isaacson

• Led Tableau global platform upgrade from on-premise to Microsoft azure provide cloud. Key milestones included deployment sizing, deployment architecture, and engineering for high availability and disaster recovery
• Analytics lead responsible for technical solution delivery as part of an enterprise-wide greenfield implementation of SAP S4 Hana
• Delivered set of foundational data access views for any analytic solution builds as well as facilitated self-service data exploration
• Established formal analytic self-service governance framework for business owned content sharing across the organization
• Led impact assessment of 1500 production Tableau dashboards by analyzing data source connection metadata extracted from the Tableau repository
• Created decision tree resulting in refactor, retain, retire or rebuild recommendations on a given dashboard based on design and data complexity.
• Led team of resources in delivery of Tableau internal consulting expertise to analytic teams during the analytic modernization development phase

• Developed suite of Tableau analytic dashboards as part of a major upgrade of third party analytic procurement spend analysis software solution
• Created Tableau Dashboards to deliver procurement spend and supplier analytics, what-if analysis in calculating cost avoidance, spend forecasting analytics, maverick spend analysis, and what-if analysis of weighting factors in supplier rating scores
• Set analytic strategy to deliver analytic insights around real-time marketplace inventory and sales data as well as future demand forecasting
• Responsibilities included gathering business requirements, development, testing, and implementation of all Tableau analytic dashboards to deliver on proposed strategy
• Designed and developed ETL workflows moving both proprietary and third party data into a cloud Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse instance
• Delivered Tableau dashboards for sales and inventory real-time analysis as well as demand forecasting dashboard blending third-party social media trending and live streaming service data to better predict ticket on-sale demand

Business Intelligence and Analytics Program Owner

• Created analytic strategy by partnering with business stakeholders to define required analytical capabilities to deliver on business priorities resulting in formation of an analytics business center of excellence
• Built global analytics program utilizing core Tableau and SAP enterprise vendor products.
• Program management from initial pilot to global scale of 150 business applications yielding 25k users.
• Program responsibilities including budgeting, communication planning, solution architecture, capacity planning, program strategy, platform roadmap, and both vendor and stakeholder management
• Supervised and mentored high performing, diverse global team
• Initiated internal advisory service offering analytic design and implementation experience to facilitate project execution and positively affect outcomes
• Successfully managed two global platform upgrades. Key milestones included platform engineering; Infrastructure provisioning; software deployment and build-out of parallel infrastructure; project communication of 150 application migrations Owned analytics governance process for product standards as well as review and recommendation on any exception requests

Analytics Domain Technical Owner - Tableau Architect

• Acting as internal Tableau subject matter expert, 5+ years of experience designing and deploying Tableau solutions.
• Designed and developed Tableau advanced visualizations, scorecards, and dashboards to meet complex requirements such as performance, data blending, and row-level security
• Implemented advanced Tableau design features such as level of detail calculations, groups, hierarchies, sets, data filters, parameters, calculated fields utilizing join and blended data sets
• Documented support standards for deployment of Tableau content and administration of user and application security groups
• Delivered standard documentation for Tableau server installation, deployment, cluster configuration, and product settings to meet architectural governance requirements for high availability, disaster recovery, and application security
• Designed and developed a Tableau dashboard application, deployed to Tableau server, delivering IT management with internal costs and usage metrics of adopted platforms
• Responsible for third-level production support of Tableau regional platform Designed and supported database objects such as tables, views, stored procedures, triggers, etc.

Business Intelligence Domain Owner - SAP Business Objects Architect

• Extensive experience across Business Objects 5.X, 6.X, XIR2, 3.1, 4.2 desktop tools (Desktop Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, OLAP Analysis, Dashboard Manager, Universe Designer, Information Design Tool, etc.) and enterprise server product suite (CMC, Lifecycle Management Console, Import Wizard, Migration Wizard, etc.)
• Experienced with installation and configuration of BOE 3.1, 4.2 on both Linux and Windows server platforms
• Responsible for BOE cluster server configuration and product settings to meet architectural governance requirements for high availability, disaster recovery, and application security
• Created custom software components (e.g. command-line scheduling interface) utilizing both Java and .NET BOE SDK's
• Documented complete library of design standards and best-practice guidelines for desktop tools
• Experienced in design of universes implementing features such as aggregate awareness, dimensional hierarchies, complex row-level and object security, query limits, derived and alias table creation, default object formats, etc.
• Designed and delivered end-to-end project solutions across all Business Intelligence capabilities (operational reporting, ad-hoc query, interactive analysis, hierarchy navigation, summary-to-detail report navigation, dashboards, scorecards, advanced visualizations, etc.)
• Responsible for third-level production support of BOE global platform