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WERNER MAASS

Portsmouth,NH

Summary

· Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, combined with my experience in navigating the intricacies of Banking and Finance, uniquely qualifying a Data Infrastructure professional.

· Demonstrated success working with senior leadership and executives to develop data and analytic solution roadmaps and provide recommendations that drive business strategy and achieve high impact results.

· Strong negotiation skills and able to effectively take the conceptual to the pragmatic, addressing business and technical obstacles as they emerge.

· Engage with stakeholders to establish validation strategies and automate the validation process, enhancing security data security and compliance.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Thomson Reuters
Toronto, CA
03.2024 - Current
  • Conducted Brownfield Migration integrating Data Analytics department with Commercial Engineering CPQ systems optimizing Releases and decreasing rework by 30%.
  • Initiated and established Data Quality KPI and Dashboard for Enterprise
  • Conducted Data Profiling effort for Lead to Cash for Enterprise Data warehouse residing on Snowflake

Mitsubishi Union Financial Group/ US Bank
New Jersey, US
06.2020 - Current
  • Initiated and established Enterprise Data Platform production support team
  • Established and provided level one and two support for Enterprise Data Platform: AWS EC2, Lambda, Redshift, Glue and Glacier and achieved a steady state with 100 % compliance to SLAs, resulting in lower operating costs and increased agility
  • Managed metadata management to support Basel Committee on banking supervision’s the Regulatory and Non regulatory reports for the Federal Reserve
  • Managed Production Support team providing Incident, Change, and Problem Management
  • Coordinating all aspects of Release management for the delivery of financial metrics to Compliance, Consumer Credit, Wholesale Credit risk stripes.

Tmobile
Seattle, US
09.2019 - 06.2020
  • Established governance structure and NorthStar vision for Quality Assurance accelerators
  • Coordinating all aspects of Delivery for 4 Product Lines, Supply Chain Execution, Logistics, Device life Cycle Maintenance and SAP FICA
  • Scrum Master for Realtime streaming Project leveraging Apache Kafka with SAP Data integration utilizing Cucumber, Selenium, an AVRO
  • Designed and architected Service Virtualization architecture for Disco Quality organization.

American Express
AZ, US
10.2018 - 12.2019
  • Managed DataOps team of 15 consultants for a full Test assessment of Analytics group
  • Leveraging Informatica Data Management components
  • Facilitated, through IBM Scaled Agile assessments, a Test Data Management as a service solution for Regulatory Reporting and Analytics, the health check identified key business entities requiring data quality remediation
  • Audited current Data governance and sourcing for OFSA business and federal reporting reducing time to delivery.

Ahold Delhaize
MA, US
01.2019 - 09.2019
  • Project managed all aspects of the Hannaford Online program integrating Oracle EBS with Google analytics, and ansible automation for the Delhaize CI/CD
  • Increased Revenue by 15% Buy online features
  • Initiated and Staffed quality assurance team on a Successfactors integration program with Workday for union and non-union based wages
  • Coordinating all aspects of the Hannaford Online program from infrastructure through to the business, including approximately 9 different work-streams.

Brighthouse Financial
NC, US
01.2017 - 10.2018
  • Established and managed Data Engineering Office including staffing, processes and procedures and reporting providing services for the MetLife to Brighthouse migration
  • Collaborated with various SI vendors and the Information security organization to create policies, strategies and schemes for their test and data governance organization and developed the test and data stewards within their lines of business
  • Architected services virtualization across business units as within the SAP Hana architecture
  • Harmonized SAP master data and building data models (in HANA or other relational databases) leveraging SAP MDG tools (Master Data Domains, and Information Steward)
  • Developed and sourced for SAP HANA modelling [Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) jobs in BODS for transferring data from SAP and non-SAP systems
  • Coordinated with cross-functional work-stream leads, System integrators, external suppliers, and functional business leaders to drive solution design, deployment and overall governance of the enterprise data
  • Developed a 5-year application roadmap for the SaaS SAP architecture and initiating organizational data service.

Citrix
FL, US
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Managed and Staffed Testing center of Excellence, fully accountable for the result of the project, the driver that holds the project together successfully managed Biztalk project for BTS organization to zero defect leakage and 2day MTTR
  • Implemented SAP TDMS solution for data availability and integrated the solution with SOL MAN
  • Reducing quality assurance costs by 25%
  • Communicated to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues
  • Proactively followed and negotiated escalations and conflicting contractual obligations maintaining the managed services and BTS product schedules
  • Routinely engaged in building consensus, developing contingency planning and providing recommended quality assurance innovations (i.e
  • CTD, Document Analytics, and Defect Analysis).

Safeway
CA, US
06.2015 - 10.2016
  • Solutioned Data Acquisition and TDM as a service plan for largest grocery merger: 2400 stores, 27 distribution facilities, and 20 manufacturing plants
  • Coordinated the implementation data-dependent strategic business initiatives by creating Test Data as a Service
  • Managed and evaluated and prioritized acquisition and integration of large external data sets, in collaboration with subject matter experts within the IBM TDM solution.

Covance
IN, US
08.2014 - 12.2015
  • Developed new business with a $1.3M contract renewal for the Production Support contract of their current LIMS (laboratory information management systems)
  • Interacted and Collaborated with Clinical Data Managers to understand the data models that affect the testing environments and pre-production environments and SLA's.

Program managed overall delivery of Claims Services Organization

Express Scripts - East Inc.
NJ, US
08.2011 - 07.2014
  • Program managed overall delivery of Claims Services Organization for Express Scripts of 125 consultants
  • Managed and Staffed 60 Express scripts and Vendor QA Project and Program Leads
  • Lead the Eligibility Capability and Claims Transaction Processor capability with 30 projects per month and the delivery of the release to express scripts
  • On average maintain a MTTR of 4% and a defect density well below the industry standard of 40%
  • Responsible for Release Cycle and Claims Services Capabilities
  • Led Enterprise Release team and managed the monthly cycle for ESI successfully completing the Express Script Medco merger.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY
03-1994

Skills

  • Strategic Planning and Leadership
  • Hybrid Cloud Platform
  • Data Fabric Design and Development
  • Data Mesh Architectural Design
  • Change Management
  • Data pipelines
  • Data Governance
  • Data Orchestration
  • IBM Watsonx for Data
  • AWS Redshift, Aurora, Glue, Postgres
  • Azure Databricks, Data Factory
  • Snowflake Data Pipelines
  • SAP HANA, BODS, MDG, TDMS
  • SAP SD Salesforce, SuccessFactors
  • Kubernete with Helm, Docker
  • Delphix Virtualization
  • Apache Spark, Atlas, Tensorflow, Kafka
  • Tableau, Qlik, Splunk
  • Python, Linux, Perl
  • Informatica TDM
  • Jenkins, Jira, Trello
  • PowerBi, Alteryx

Certification

  • AWS Cloud practitioner
  • IBM Cloud Advocate

Executive Highlights

Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, combined with my experience in navigating the intricacies of Banking and Finance, uniquely qualifying a Data Infrastructure professional. Demonstrated success working with senior leadership and executives to develop data and analytic solution roadmaps and provide recommendations that drive business strategy and achieve high impact results. Strong negotiation skills and able to effectively take the conceptual to the pragmatic, addressing business and technical obstacles as they emerge. Develops annual plans to support data and analytics work, lead the management and coordination of internal professional development opportunities. A passionate leader am striving to be an integral part in evolving the organization’s understanding of data and governance by educating stakeholders on current data innovations. Engage with stakeholders to establish validation strategies and automate the validation process, enhancing security data security and compliance.

Timeline

Thomson Reuters
03.2024 - Current

Mitsubishi Union Financial Group/ US Bank
06.2020 - Current

Tmobile
09.2019 - 06.2020

Ahold Delhaize
01.2019 - 09.2019

American Express
10.2018 - 12.2019

Brighthouse Financial
01.2017 - 10.2018

Citrix
01.2016 - 01.2017

Safeway
06.2015 - 10.2016

Covance
08.2014 - 12.2015

Program managed overall delivery of Claims Services Organization

Express Scripts - East Inc.
08.2011 - 07.2014

Master of Science - Information Technology

Marist College

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