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The document provides a summary of Dan Pierce's professional experience and qualifications. It outlines his extensive background in business intelligence development, data analysis, and management. Key skills include proficiency with SQL Server, ASP.NET, and tools like Tableau and PowerBI. He has experience leading BI teams and developing executive dashboards and reporting solutions.

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Project Manager Profile

The document provides a summary of Dan Pierce's professional experience and qualifications. It outlines his extensive background in business intelligence development, data analysis, and management. Key skills include proficiency with SQL Server, ASP.NET, and tools like Tableau and PowerBI. He has experience leading BI teams and developing executive dashboards and reporting solutions.

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Dan Pierce

206.349.0060
[email protected]

Profile  Technology professional with extensive experience in BI development and analysis.


 Passionate problem-solver
 Proficient in SQL Server including complex query writing, and development of stored
procedures, views and functions.
 Experienced in ASP.Net with C# code-behind development.
 Management experience leading a team of BI Engineers in data mart development,
enhancement and maintenance, and reporting solution development and evolution.
 Self-motivated individual with excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively
with both business and technical team members.
 Enthusiastic learner of new technologies/platforms and passionate solution provider.

Education
B.A., University of Washington, Business Administration

Certificate, UW Extension, Business Intelligence: Building the Data Warehouse, 2009

Certificate, UW Extension, Advanced Web Application Development, 2010

Software Experience
 Relational database technologies and tools: MS SQL Server – including SSMS, SSIS, SSAS
and SSRS; Amazon Redshift, SQLWorkbenchJ
 Web programming technologies: ASP.NET, JavaScript, Silverlight, C#, VB, IIS, HTML,
CSS
 BI Platforms/Tools including Tableau, PowerBI, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Essbase
and SSRS
 Big data technologies: Splunk
 Other applications: Sharepoint, Confluence, JIRA, BMC Remedy, Planview PPM, Taleo
TMS, Visual Studio, MS Sales, MS Dynamics CRM
 MS Office Suite – including full VBA scripting in Access and Excel
Employment Manager, Technology Metrics Office, Nordstrom, Seattle November 2014 –
 Supporting a small BI team that is tasked with analyzing how the Present
Technology division is performing in helping Nordstrom reach its
business goals. Data used in analyses may come from any number of
internal systems, but are primarily sourced from:
- Planview Enterprise - Portfolio and Project Management System
- Atlassian Jira - work collaboration tool
- BMC Remedy - Incident/Ticket management system
 Developing executive level dashboards utilizing a number of reporting
platforms, including:
- SSRS
- Tableau
- Power BI
 Additionally, the team enables self-service access to data at all levels of
the organization through data warehousing of source system data
utilizing the MSBI stack.(SSMS, SSIS, SSRS)
 To facilitate easy access to reporting built on various BI platforms
(SSRS, Tableau, Splunk, etc), the team also built and maintains a
custom intranet portal with embedded reports hosted on various
servers/platforms within the company. Technologies utilized include:
IIS, ASP.NET, C#, Javascript, Tableau API
BI Developer, Nordstrom, Seattle November 2013 –
 Manage catalog of reporting solutions out of BMC Remedy and JIRA November 2014
to provide organization with operational productivity metrics around
development activities and incidents/outages for systems supported by
the IT division at Nordstrom.

Consultant, Independent Consulting Engagement, Seattle August 2013 –


 On contract with Nth Degree CPAs as a Consultant, modifying existing October 2013
database application to add functional enhancements including:
improved time-entry system, billing generation, workload tracking,
integrated contact/client management, system administration, and
adding integrated reporting. Tools used are MS Access with extensive
VBA coding.

Consultant, Independent Consulting Engagement, Seattle February 2013 –


 On contract with JRS Biodiversity Foundation as a Consultant, built a August 2013
database application for managing grants including payment and report
forecasting and workflow management, utilizing MS Access and MS
Excel with integrated data connection (for reporting).
 Also built a database application for managing unsolicited grant
inquiries, including workflow tracking, and integrated reporting.
 Provide ongoing support as needed.

Consultant, Slalom Consulting, Seattle June 2011 –


 On assignment with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as September 2013
Reporting Program Partner, responsible for requirements gathering,
development and deployment of ad hoc reporting solutions for cross-
foundation internal customers, utilizing a number of tools including:
MS Excel, MS Access, SharePoint, SQL Server, VBA, Power Pivot,
and Tableau.
 In lead role on project team, architected and participated in the
development and deployment of a foundation-wide contract
forecasting/prospecting application to gather and manage future
contract spend data for consolidated internal reporting, utilizing SQL
Server with MS Access (using extensive VBA) distributed front-end
interfaces. This included development of SQL stored procedures and
view definitions for use in the application.
 As a member of a project team, participated in design, development and
deployment of an application for early investment ideation utilizing
SharePoint with InfoPath forms, SQL Server and MS Excel and
Tableau for reporting.

Consultant, Resources Global Professionals, Seattle September 2008 –


 On assignment with Microsoft Corp as Developer/Financial Analyst, June 2011
responsible for migration of data management platform from Excel to
SQL Server, streamlining/automating standard periodic reporting, and
new report creation for the Global Foundation Services Finance
department. Included ground-up design of database architecture and
development of all artifacts including stored procedures.
 On assignment with Intellectual Ventures as Application Developer,
responsible for building out internal annual compensation review
system for Compensation department.
 On assignment with Microsoft Corp. as Capacity Analyst/Technical
Project Manager/Developer, responsible for partner capacity modeling
tool development and maintenance in support of partner ecosystem
analysis for Worldwide Partner Group. This included ground-up
development of database architecture, heavy stored procedure
development and view definitions, and development of all reporting in
SSRS.
 Creation of new modeling applications and enhancements to existing
applications, both Excel-based and SQL Server-based including
building and maintaining ASP.NET web front end.
 Project included primary responsibility for all phases of the project
lifecycle: requirements gathering/analysis,
design/architecture/modeling, development, deployment, and ongoing
training/user support.
Senior Business Systems Analyst, Starbucks Coffee Company, Seattle November 2006-
September 2008
 Supported global end users of Taleo applicant tracking system (ATS)
with live training and documented training materials.
 Migrated reporting from Oracle and Access databases to Business
Objects/Web Intelligence for more accurate and timely reporting.
Resulted in 70% reduction in time spent creating reports.
 As sole administrator for Business Objects reporting solution, gathered
requirements, designed, developed and led training on reporting from
Taleo TMS.
 Led projects and participated in teams to refine staffing/recruitment
processes and make improvements to the Taleo Talent Management
System.
 Responsible for maintenance of system integrity and integrations with
outside systems including SAP using Taleo Connect Client (TCC) ETL
tool.
 Rolled out Taleo ATS to new international markets (UK and
Netherlands).
 Worked with HRMS data provided from enterprise data warehouse
(EDW) through MicroStrategy user interface.
 *Further employment history available upon request*

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