A thought leader with extensive business and technical experience with a strong background and practical expertise drawn from within a wide breadth of organizations from startup to Fortune 100. Providing thought leadership and practical strategy for formulating and delivering on client facing projects up to $50MM. Positions held required frequent interaction with executive officers, board members and senior staff both internal and external. Key skills include:
• Transformational Leadership
• Business Analytics
• Strategic Planning
• Roadmap Development
• C-Level Communications
• Enablement
• Process Transformation
Multiple industry experience:
Healthcare - ACO
Healthcare - Analytics
Healthcare - Payor Operations
Healthcare - HIPAA (INFOSEC)
Hedge Funds
Manufacturing & Distribution
Private Equity
Retail and Direct to Consumer
Trading and Markets
Travel & Leisure Services
Consulting Experience:
Management Consulting Firm
Technology Consulting Firm
Post-Merger Integration
Practice Development
Technical Key Skills:
Big Data
Data Integration
Data Architecture
Data Modeling
Data Warehouses
Principal Consultant @ Responsibilities
• CxO consulting and advisory services
• Sales origination and closing
• Big Data Solution architecture
• Big Data Solution architecture
• Operational and advisory consulting in Healthcare (ACO, Payor)
Accomplishments
Led delivery on several integration projects that required a collection of architecture and integration skills, Cloud, Systems, Data.
Closed $10.1MM USD in professional services sales
Designed several Big Data Cloud solutions on AWS and Azure with delivery on Tableau, Qlickview and SSRS.
Key Technologies Used:
Cloud Architecture, Systems Architecture, Data Architecture, Systems Integration, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Azure, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS From December 2013 to Present (2 years 1 month) Management Consultant @ Mangement consulting From August 2013 to November 2013 (4 months) NationwideSr. Principal, Data Integration & Business Intelligence @ As a member of the leadership team at West Monroe Partners, in the Technology Integration Practice, specializing Business Intelligence and Data Integration. I applied my extensive 20+ years of experience focused in delivering strategic advisory services; systems, network and data integration, delivering on high value business driven projects.
These projects typically streamline core business processes, deliver valuable business analytics and vastly improve decision making capabilities.
Specialties: Business Analytics, Business Intelligence Strategy & Implementation, Data Architecture, Data Integration
Participated in multiple Private Equity M&A transaction due diligence engagements contributing data integration, platform and licensing expertise in order to accurately reflect to the client their overall position in the transaction and cost/benefit decisions on approach if closed.
M&A:
Pre-Merger/Acquisition Due Diligence
Post transaction data integration
Industries served:
Healthcare - Payor
Healthcare - Provider System
Retail
Industrial Manufacturing and Distribution
Led a team of 6 on a Data Warehouse conversion from Oracle & DataStage to Microsoft SQL Server and SSIS.
People manager and mentor for line consultants.
Helped drive new consulting revenue by initiating and leading the effort to develop competencies and effective demos for the SQL Server 2012 platform before it was publicly available.
Lead advanced planned sessions for clients and prospective clients as part of the firm's Microsoft V-TSP program.
Initiated and lead the practice's capability development for new technologies, specifically: Cognos, Microstrategy and RoamBI From July 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 1 month) Greater Chicago AreaLead, Data Architecture & Delivery @ • Architected solution to store, aggregate, cube and return actionable business intelligence metrics to public facing ordering applications for use as shopping experience modifiers (product suggestions, dynamic pricing, dynamic promotions). Solution was designed and tested for raw collection volumes up to 20GB per day and aggregated volumes exceeding 8TB
• Devised and implemented architecture vision for a large scale set of online applications, associated back end processors and data warehouses. Each set of web applications support 15,000-20,000 end users and process 80,000 – 120,000 orders per day, 24x7. Aggregate user base exceeds 200,000.
• Engage and lead internal and external stakeholders in requirement definition workgroups
• Provide strategic “change agent” advice for internal and external clients
• Provide mentoring for junior staff
• Established Enterprise Best Practices and Standards for ETL, BI and data related functions
• Developed and implemented a modified agile framework for data and architecture delivery From 2006 to July 2011 (5 years) Contract Consultant @ • Analyze, troubleshoot, and re-engineer SQL Server processes in small to large (300+), 24/7 environments.
• Design, test and tune new SQL databases and stored procedures for datasets ranging from 1-100Gb in size.
• Network design, implementation, tuning and troubleshooting.
• Application and Active Directory design/coding using .NET
• Technologies deployed: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server Cluster, MS SQL Server Standard/Enterprise 2000 (Cluster), Oracle, Visual Basic, Visual Basic Scripting, WMI. Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco VPN, 3COM Routers, 3COM Switches.
• Industries: Financial Services (Trading Technologies), Healthcare, Logistics, Automotive
• Representative Firms:
o Melamed Associates (Leo)
o EuroNext/Liffe
o NYSE
o Townsend Analytics From 2002 to 2006 (4 years) CTO @ Developed, staffed, and brought to operational readiness the business and technical operations for start-up logistics software development company.
• Provided key company wide leadership and to direct reports up to 12 people.
• Initiated vendor selection methodology; lead lease negotiations and procurement activities
• Implemented operational policies and procedures
• Designed, developed and led the deployment of the technical infrastructure to support the internal organization
• Key leadership role in forging a joint operating agreement and partnership with an international distributor From 2000 to 2002 (2 years) Founder/CTO @ Led a team in developing and implementing a scalable, three tier, end to end e-commerce/e-business solution for an internet based, real time, golf tee time reservation network in a startup environment.
• Worked cross-functionally to lead the database design and successful implementation at client sites
• Authored and delivered presentations regarding our technology to outside entities, technical and non-technical From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Managing Consultant @ Provided senior level consulting to key external clients in the areas of data warehousing, systems integration, and networking, almost exclusively within the Managed Healthcare sector.
• Maintained and expanded client relationship, growing revenue opportunities within the account base
• Initiated an aggressive, comprehensive staff recruitment, development and retention program, reducing turnover to a rate of 1 employee per year
• Developed project methodology ensuring consistent and quality service delivery to clients
• Developed and brought operational Network Operations Center over seeing 1000+ connection international WAN. From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) Sr. Technical Consultant @ From August 1996 to April 1997 (9 months) Technical Liasion @ From August 1995 to August 1996 (1 year 1 month) Sr. Services Analyst @ From May 1991 to August 1995 (4 years 4 months)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Finance, General @ Michigan State University - The Eli Broad College of Business From 1986 to 1990 Jeff Block is skilled in: Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, ETL, SSIS, Data Modeling, Microsoft SQL Server, Enterprise Software, SQL, Data Integration, Consulting, SSRS, Database Design, SDLC, Analysis Services, SharePoint