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Sarah Craynon ZUMBRUM

Tampa

Summary

Highly accomplished and end-user-focused enterprise analytics expert and Air Force veteran. Unique skillsets in leading sales engineering teams, directing large projects, building relationships with internal and external customers, interacting with product management, and creating positive end-user experiences. Excellent problem-solving, tool evaluation, and communication skills. Internationally requested speaker on current and emerging analytics technologies. Oracle ACE Director (Alumni) in business intelligence and analytics.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager of Product Management and Strategy, Health Data Intelligence (M3)

ORACLE CORPORATION
06.2023 - Current
  • Lead a team of product managers who define, design, and assist in executing data-driven healthcare AI development tools and infrastructure strategy related to clinical quality measures, healthcare machine learning environments, analytics governance, and clinical financial datasets
  • Principal product manager for a novel SaaS-based data cataloging and governance tool for the health analytics platform
  • Understand and present to customers the business advantages that new OCI-based analytics technologies and tooling can offer to accelerate AI service delivery and improve prediction quality
  • Utilize the cloud delivery model to drive application delivery and deployment
  • Collaborate across several teams for pre-sales work, development, data science, data operations, and clinicians
  • Demonstrate analytics tools to customers and mentor others to give analytics demonstrations
  • Work globally in a geographically dispersed team.
  • Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
  • Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
  • Spearheaded change management efforts for seamless adoption of new systems or processes among employees.

Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering (M3)

ORACLE CORPORATION
01.2022 - 06.2023
  • Led customers through cloud infrastructure, data, analytics (namely Oracle Analytics), and enterprise performance management (Essbase) strategies and implementation
  • Customers ranged from analysts through the CxO level
  • Experience with 300+ public sector and commercial customers assisted from 2016 through 2023
  • Devised organizational strategies around cloud-based tool implementation, whiteboard discussions, discovery, and presentations
  • Built annual strategy plans for the North American cloud engineering team regarding cloud architectures, industry trends, and successful implementation tactics
  • Acted as the de facto expert on building cloud-based system architectures that included SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions for my public sector and commercial organizations based on my consulting experience with these tools
  • Acted as a beta tester for the Oracle analytics, integration, and data warehousing teams regarding future release capabilities
  • Advised on product direction on behalf of customers
  • Advised on upcoming features to benefit the analytics community
  • Led multiple teams across multiple time zones specializing in data warehousing, data lakehouses, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data visualization, semantic data modeling, types of data reporting, and cloud architecture to ensure analytics success
  • Led architect and specialist teams responsible for over $100M in cloud consumption
  • Team members range from 0 to 30+ years of experience.

Data & AI Cloud Solutions Manager (M2)

ORACLE CORPORATION
06.2021 - 01.2022
  • Led a team of 13 geographically diverse analytics specialists responsible for cloud pre-sales activities related to Essbase, Oracle Analytics Cloud, integration tools, and data warehousing.

Principal Analytics Cloud Architect (IC3 to 4)

ORACLE CORPORATION
01.2018 - 06.2021
  • Provided cloud analytics pre-sales expertise for customers in the Mid-Market East team, focused on Essbase, Oracle Analytics, integration, and data warehousing
  • Architected solutions that integrated SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions.

Public Sector Analytics Architect (IC3)

ORACLE CORPORATION
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Provided on-premises and cloud analytics pre-sales expertise for public sector customers (state, local, federal, and department of defense) related to Essbase, Oracle Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Cloud Service, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Big Data Cloud Service, Endeca, and various integration tools.

VARIOUS ENTERPRISE EPM & ANALYTICS POSITIONS

Various
05.2005 - 02.2016
  • Advised Fortune 500 executives through enterprise performance management, financial planning, data management, and analytics strategies and implementation, focusing on Oracle and Hyperion software
  • Led autonomous and team consulting projects for financial, human capital, operations, and marketing analytics utilizing the Hyperion suite of tools
  • Project Manager for EPM and analytics projects for customers between $250k-$1M+
  • Projects lasted three months to multiple years
  • Administered EPM and analytics systems for financial and operations systems.

Education

MBA - Analytics

American Military University
02.2023

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
05.2005

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Sales Engineering
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Predictive Modeling
  • System Analysis & Implementation
  • Data Strategy
  • Analytics Strategy
  • Data Management
  • Technical & Functional Leadership
  • Financial Systems & Reporting Administration
  • Acceptance Testing
  • Software Solution Architecture
  • Whitepaper Authorship
  • Product Management Leadership
  • Change Management

Certification

  • EPM & Analytics: Oracle Essbase 11g, Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service, Oracle Enterprise Analytics, Oracle High Performance Computing and Big Data, Oracle AI Foundations Associate
  • Data Warehousing: Oracle Autonomous Database
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations, Associate, Professional, Operations, and Enterprise Workloads

Awards And Skills

  • Awarded Oracle ACE Director (Alumni) in June 2016 for public education on, blog posts about, and published whitepapers on Oracle’s EPM suite of tools, including Hyperion Planning/Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service, Essbase, and Oracle Business Intelligence.
  • Strong technical and analytical skills in SQL, analytics tools (OBIEE, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Fusion Analytics, Tableau, and multi-dimensional reporting applications), and scripting languages (Python, R, SQL).
  • Strong business acumen backed up by nearly 20 years of projects in finance, accounting, marketing, operations, and human resources.
  • Data modeling experience in data warehouses and semantic layers within analytics tools.
  • Speaking and presentation skills, presenting decks, demonstrating tools, and whiteboarding current and future state desires with functional and technical customers.
  • Leading educational sessions around analytics and line of business concepts to functional and technical students.
  • A long history of mentoring junior technical resources and emerging leaders inside and outside of Oracle.
  • Written communication via whitepaper authorship, technical blog posting, and CxO recommendations for data and analytics strategies.
  • Former member of the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) board of directors and secretary of the ODTUG Hyperion Special Interest Group.
  • Authored multiple published whitepapers in various Oracle user group technical journals.

Timeline

Senior Manager of Product Management and Strategy, Health Data Intelligence (M3)

ORACLE CORPORATION
06.2023 - Current

Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering (M3)

ORACLE CORPORATION
01.2022 - 06.2023

Data & AI Cloud Solutions Manager (M2)

ORACLE CORPORATION
06.2021 - 01.2022

Principal Analytics Cloud Architect (IC3 to 4)

ORACLE CORPORATION
01.2018 - 06.2021

Public Sector Analytics Architect (IC3)

ORACLE CORPORATION
01.2016 - 01.2018

VARIOUS ENTERPRISE EPM & ANALYTICS POSITIONS

Various
05.2005 - 02.2016

MBA - Analytics

American Military University

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Arkansas

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