Business Intelligence and Analytics
Seth Siharath
EssilorLuxottica
Grand Prairie,TX
27
years of professional experience
Business intelligence and analytics leader with deep experience in enterprise data operations, ETL/ELT development, data governance, and reporting modernization. Leads teams in complex environments, improves platform stability, and manages large budgets while supporting reliable service delivery and cross-functional decision-making.
Work History
Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics
12 Years 4 Months- Direct the strategic vision, lifecycle engineering, and daily operations of an enterprise-grade 60+ TB data production environment. Provide administrative, technical, and operational leadership to high-performing teams of 6 to 10 engineers, analysts, and database administrators. Accountable for an annual operating budget of over $1 million across cloud infrastructure, product support, application licenses, and subscriptions
- Commercial analytics expansion: Engineered consolidated analytical frameworks by integrating frame and lens transactional datasets and instituting unified global customer identifiers to enhance support for marketing, sales operations, and FP&A
- Platform simplification: Executed strategic decommissioning of legacy QlikSense environments, consolidating reporting capabilities into Oracle BI and SAP Business Objects; developed migration roadmap based on business criticality, achieving cost reductions in licensing and maintenance within the first year with minimal impact on business continuity
- Operational Excellence: Modernized support tiers, optimized BI and MDM platform performance and stabilization, and sustained responsive service line support with a daily average of fewer than 25 open incidents and requests
- Cost containment: Executed a comprehensive enterprise data archiving strategy for cold data assets, optimizing system performance through aggressive tuning, scaling, and database storage cost reduction
Decisional Application Support Manager
3 Years 5 Months- Coordinated decisional support across business partners, application management, data architecture, infrastructure, and QA to enhance collaboration and alignment
- Managed change controls and developed KPIs for issue resolution and system performance to secure business acceptance and improve operational effectiveness
- Implemented process controls: coding standards, incident management, RCA, resolution tracking, escalations, and cross-functional coordination
- Reviewed technical and functional fixes, incidents, and production changes to ensure team readiness and supportability for enhancements
- Led data warehouse support team, upskilling staff for readiness across Tibco MDM, Essbase, MSAS, BusinessObjects, OBIEE, ODI, Informatica, Genio
- Managed staffing and resource acquisition to ensure consistent application and data support coverage
- Facilitated cross-functional meetings to improve support operations, system upgrades, evaluations, and process feasibility
- Communicated support initiatives, production changes, and status updates to IT and business leaders
Technical Lead/Systems Analyst
10 Years 10 Months- Managed OBIEE implementation and end-to-end projects, ensuring alignment of plans, budgets, WBS, and risk mitigation with business objectives.
- Designed and built scalable DWS and comprehensive data models for sales, marketing, finance, and lab.
- Led DW architecture and operations across multiple roles, improving scalability and data integration.
- Developed ETL/ELT processes, source-to-target mappings, and multidimensional cubes (SQL Server, Essbase).
- Coordinated cross-functional teams and served as SME during business case development and design reviews, facilitating stakeholder engagement and project clarity.
- Enhanced data quality and performance by decommissioning legacy databases and mentoring team members on best practices.
Education
Master of Business Administration
Bachelors of Art - Economics / English minor
Skills
Business intelligence tools (including Oracle BI
SAP Hana/Business Objects
Power BI
QlikSense
and Tableau)
Proficiency in advanced SQL techniques
ETL/ELT pipeline development
Data architecture design
Master data management (leveraging Tibco MDM application)
Data governance practices
Data lifecycle management
Analytics integration
Data-driven forecasting
Supply chain analytics
Customer analytics strategies
Strategic data leadership
Architectural framework modernization
Oracle Cloud expertise
Cloud vendor management
Budget management
Accomplishments
- Enhanced Cost Efficiency: Reduced data storage costs by 30% within one year with reduced data redundancy, storage compression, and execution of archival strategy.
- Accelerated Decision Making: Implemented BI strategies increasing decision-making speed by 30% with centralized data repository, improved data quality, and faster data refresh.
- Streamlined Reporting Systems: Consolidated reporting systems saving $400K annually.
- Improved Incident Resolution: Led team achieving 95% incident resolution rate on a monthly basis.
Timeline
Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics
EssilorLuxottica
05.2014 - 09.2026Read More
Decisional Application Support Manager
Essilor Labs of America
11.2010 - 04.2014Read More
Technical Lead/Systems Analyst
Essilor Labs of America
01.2000 - 11.2010Read More
University of Dallas
Master of Business Administration
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University of Texas at Arlington
Bachelors of Art from Economics / English minor
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