Jim S.

Senior Data Warehouse Architect

About

Data Analytics from Discovery to Decision What is the Value of Perfect Information? Jim Street is a Big Data pioneer with three circumspect decades in relational database technology. His projects range from a groundbreaking, performance-tuning software startup to executive-facing analytics utilising foundational Data Warehouse techniques. Several successful exits include leading-edge design at AT&T Wireless, technical leadership at Sprint Telecom, data-fabric integrations at BNSF Railways & at Delta Airlines, scientific discovery in pathogen genetics and health insurance streamlining at Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Colorado & across Texas, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Illinois for the largest subscriber-owned Blue plan in America. As a Principal Technologist curating elegant essential intelligence across business and science sectors since 1988, Jim established early thought leadership in technology-driven, rational metrics. The pursuit of perfect information to grow company value and to shape client- and vendor-side frameworks for our current analytics-focused economy is his quest. Integral knowledge is transferred via the modalities of formal classroom presentation, one-to-one mentoring and evangelizing ‘Best-in-Class’ techniques across all levels of the client organization. Having modeled data coast-to-coast across North America with an enterprise-focused architecture on large scale DB2 and Teradata installations in Telecom, Healthcare, Transportation and Life Sciences, Jim is adept with black swans, through transformations and within business inflectives, including pre- and post-merger integrations where creativity and speed are tantamount to success.

Country

United States

City

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Data Integrity, Variance Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, Critical Thinking, Analytics, Database Design, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Mainframe, Data Architecture, Data Governance, z/OS, Databases, Data Modeling, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Job Control Language (JCL), db4, Financial Analysis

Experience

Senior Data Warehouse Architect

GeneWurx

2000-1 - Present · 26 yrs 9 mos

Dallas, TX

- Qualify pathogen physics & network biologics with “First Principles” metrics - Investigate novel zoonotic pathogen genetics driving emergent human disease - Architect proprietary techniques to implement genetic revision prediction - - - Software algorithms - - - Content databases

Senior Data Warehouse Architect

Office Depot

2003-9 - 2003-12 · 4 mos

Delray Beach, Florida, United States

Business and Data Modeling Post-merger with Viking Office Direct Europe Teradata EDW Business and erwin Data Modeling, KPI Discovery, Visualization - Coordinated Executive Information System integration - Augmented Business and erwin Data Models with "Key Performance Indicators" - Conducted rapid-turnaround design sessions at executive and staff levels - Mentored IT staff on modeling interview & facilitation techniques

Teradata Data Modeling Advisor, KPI Discovery

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas

2003-6 - 2003-9 · 4 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Dallas and Chicago BCBS of Texas & Illinois (covering Texas, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Illinois) Largest subscriber-owned Blue plan in America Selected for Special Projects direct-report by Joint CFO / Chief Actuary Ken Avner - Conducted discovery at board and staff levels for “Key Metrics” - Revised Data Model for Enterprise Data Warehouse / Tactical EIS - Coached IT team on release presentation to business users - Trained executives / staff on interview & facilitation techniques

Management Consultant to Energy Consortium and Legislative Session for Deregulation, Vendor Liason

TXU Energy

2000-1 - 2001-6 · 1 yr 6 mos

Austin, Texas, United States

Dallas and Austin via London management consulting firm FI Group, then Xansa Post-merger with UK deregulation energy concerns Selected for direct-report by Bradley C. Jones - Past Interim CEO of Texas ERCOT - Past CEO of the New York ISO - Facilitated ERCOT Protocols implementing Texas Senate Bill 7 - Defended Settlement / Congestion Protocols against Enron amendments - Documented ERCOT Business Model for electricity deregulation - Advised ERCOT on integrity of vendor proposals and contracts

Teradata Data Warehouse Architect: Logistics and Yield Management, KPI Discovery

NCR Teradata for Airline Consortium

1999-3 - 1999-9 · 7 mos

Dallas, Texas, United States

- Advised on Executive Dashboard "Key Measures" - Prepared Logical Data Model encompassing airline operations - Acted as airline industry Subject Matter Expert and facilitator in JAD sessions

Teradata Data Warehouse Architect & Performance Consultant, Vendor Liaison, KPI Discovery

Delta Air Lines

1998-4 - 1998-12 · 9 mos

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Under the leadership of CIO Charlie Feld Profiled in Harvard Business Review, February 2004 Project recognized by Computerworld Smithsonian Award - Conducted Enterprise Data Warehouse review - - - Methodology - - - Performance - Coordinated Brio EIS Access Model for “Key Performance Measures” - Acted as technical liaison to NCR Teradata - Organized technical personnel around standardized roles & responsibilities - Optimized Daily Reservation System data flow (Billion+ Rows) - - - Designed and implemented novel transformation technique - - - Built initial and ongoing population process - Developed training materials and addenda to standard NCR courseware - Assisted with Metadata strategy and Data Sourcing Methodology - Mentored DW staff on Teradata System, Utility and SQL Performance

Data Warehouse Architect and Teradata Technical Lead, Vendor Liaison, Study Author & Editor

AT&T

1997-11 - 1998-1 · 3 mos

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Boca Raton, Dallas, Manhattan & Morristown via NCR Teradata contract Post-merger with Craig McCaw’s Cellular One Project managed by Mark V. Hurd - Guided "Enterprise Metrics" EIS Solutions Study as Content Editor - - - Centralisation Strategy - - - Implementation Architecture - Led discovery teams on 3 of 6 Solutions Study content sections - Authored portions of the Data Assessment and Technology Assessment - Analyzed EDW Hardware Performance and Capacity - Authored Education Assessment, including Roles and Responsibilities

Data Warehouse Architect & Performance Consultant, Vendor Liaison

First American National Bank

1997-10 - 1997-10 · 1 mo

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

via NCR Teradata contract - Evaluated DW Global Architecture and recommended inflection points - Performed Capacity Analysis for the Teradata 5100M environment - Advised on Data Warehouse tools discussions and evaluations

DB2 and Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse Architect, Performance and Tuning

BNSF Railway

1995-5 - 1997-9 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Pre- & Post-merger BN+SF Under the leadership of CIO Charlie Feld Profiled in Harvard Business Review, February 2004 BNSF Railways is now wholly owned by Warren Buffett - Coordinated a firm, Enterprise-wide DW Definition and Architecture - Architected merger metrics implementation - - - Integrated Executive Information System - - - - - Operations Logistics - - - - - Personnel - - - - - Costing - - - Designed drill-thru "Key Performance" metrics - Analyzed ongoing DB2 and Teradata Performance and Capacity - Applied Performance and Tuning standards on access processes - Performed logical & physical database design for DB2 & Teradata DW - Mentored team on Parallel Database Design / Population techniques

DB2 DBA, Information Engineering Facility TI Administrator, Software Purchasing, Vendor Liaison

Accenture

1994-11 - 1995-4 · 6 mos

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Santa Fe, Nashville, Dallas & Austin via Andersen Consulting for States of New Mexico, Tennessee & Texas IEF System Administrator / DB2 Database Administrator - Evaluated & negotiated the purchase of mainframe software – 76% discount - Designed and built cross-platform OS/2 and MVS software aids to the IEF - Performed Texas Instruments IEF Technical Design - Architected and built IEF add-on system software for Multi-Model Transport Protocol utilizing REXX for OS/2 and classic Cowlishaw MVS REXX - Trained Andersen and client staff on IEF, DB2 & Platinum performance - Provided DB2 DBA & IEF CE support and tuning for 2.1 million object model