John Vernale

Fort Mill, SC 29707 - Tel. 860-604-6484 – jvern1983@yahoo.com

SUMMARY
Results oriented professional with extensive experience in delivering software solutions that meet
customer expectations in a challenging business environment. Demonstrated success with data
architecture, data modeling, data analysis, business requirements analysis, quality assurance testing,
and process and system improvements that increase productivity and reduce costs. Effective
communicator with strong liaison skills and proven ability to facilitate discussions with key constituents
across various levels of the organization and geographical locations. Possess in-depth understanding
of system development project lifecycle including all phases of system and software development.
Additional areas of expertise include:

 Over fifteen years of extensive experience in technical leading, designing and development
of multi-terabyte, multi-million dollar Data Warehouse projects through full lifecycle
implementations, as a contract consultant and employee.

 Proven ability in collaborating with both business and IT organizations, at CxO, managerial
and operations levels of the organization.
 Excellent people and communication skills, collaborating with both business and IT
organizations, at CxO, managerial and operations levels of the organization.

 Extensive experience with mentoring and project team leading.

 Worked extensively under Six Sigma and Agile methodologies.

 Extensive hands on experience designing and leading design of enterprise level Dimensional
models, using many of the Kimball design strategies. Leading business customers through
collaborative high level design sessions.

 Expert level skills in Data Warehouse Data Architecture, end-to-end data flow solution
designs, and multi-source integration design.

 Strong experience in ER & Dimensional Data Modeling to deliver Normalized ER &

STAR/SNOWFLAKE schemas using Erwin

 Excellent communication, technical team leadership and problem solving skills with the
ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

 Extensive Data Analysis/Discovery skills used to validate data relationships and user defined
business rules.

 Extensive experience in designing data reference architectures and managing best

practices and standards relating to Data Warehouse data architecture.

 Past Extensive experience in designing ETL reference architectures, developing and

managing best practices and standards relating to the design, development, testing,
automation and implementation of new Data Warehouse load and data mart processes.

 Past expert level experience designing & executing complex ETL activities using
INFORMATICA PowerMart and PowerCenter between Oracle/MS SQL Server, VSAM
(mainframe) files, Flat files & XML files.
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 Past extensive experience in designing, developing and implementing a UNIX Application

Infrastructure area essential to support a reusable and scalable environment for the Data
Warehouse.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
ETL Tools: Informatica PowerMart and PowerCenter

Data Modeling Tools: PowerDesigner, Erwin, Visio

Reporting Tools: Business Objects, BRIO, Reports 2.5

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle Exadata, Oracle 7x/8x/9i/10g/11

Other Tools: Autosys schedulers, SyncSort and Fileport File handler, PVCS,
TOAD, UML, XML, Smalltalk 2.0

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Unix(Tru64, Solaris, HP), DOS, OS/MVS

Industries Served: Insurance, Banking, Utilities, Information Technology, Educational

and Manufacturing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Approved Patent: “System and Method for Processing and Analyzing Dimensional Data”
Lead designer, with two other team members, created a process that received a patent for an alternative
to a type 3 dimension.

Bank ofAmerica Consultant 8/2016 – 3/2018

Senior Data Architect
Project Activities:
 Various projects supporting the Corporate Risk Data Warehouse system.
 Defined new data standards methodology process for the consumption of new data components.
Adoption methodology spanned multiple teams and departments.
 One of a three leader team utilized to defined a new Lean Agile roadmap to be implemented
across the entire forty-member team.
 Designed and supported ongoing warehouse project initiatives to bring new data into the DW.

Responsibilities:
 Lead Project Data Architect – lead data architecture activities for Corporate Risk .
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DUKE ENERGY Consultant 8/2013 – 7/2016

Senior Data Architect
Project Activities:
 Supported various projects within the Gas Operations line of business.
 Designed new application data bases to support replacements of manual and semi-manual gas
application systems.
 Designed a new enterprise Gas Data Mart.

Responsibilities:
 Lead Project Data Architect – leading all data architecture activities for Gas Operations.
 Senior Data Architect – Mentored other data architects.

The HARTFORD Employee 12/2007 – 7/2013

Senior Data Warehouse/Data Architect
Project Activities:
Guidewire (Vendor Application) Claim Center Project.
Project to implement the Guidewire Claim Center vendor application, requiring integration for all
inbound/outbound interfaces, and design of a new enterprise claims Data Warehouse.

Commercial Lines (CLDW) Data Warehouse

The Hartford’s Commercial Lines (CL) systems encompass all lines of commercial insurance
(Workers Comp, General Liability, Commercial Property and Auto, Inland/Ocean Marine), and
supports all facets of automated issuance not limited to, Quoting, Policy issuance, rating, pricing,
booking, etc. Most of the source data needed for a full analytical Enterprise Data Warehouse
(EDW) solution came from either disparate and/or loosely coupled systems, making full integration
a challenging proposition.

Responsibilities:
 Lead Project Data Architect – leading all data architecture activities for a new Enterprise Data
Warehouse, and data integration.
 Lead designer / data architect – led the full dimensional design of a multi-year, multi-terabyte,
multi-million dollar Commercial Lines Dimensional Data Warehouse project to successful
completion.
 Lead Modeler - Responsible for leading the two onshore and three offshore modelers through
the full dimensional model design.
 Business Customer collaboration – Worked directly with the business leads. Led several of
the strategy and design sessions. Provided recommended solution designs.

Outcome/Results:
Enterprise data solution provided 60% savings/effort for consumption by downstream business
projects.
 Creating one conformed and integrated data asset, provided the business customers
with a single version of the truth.

The HARTFORD Employee 10/2003 – 11/2007

Data Warehouse Architect / ETL Architect / Technical Lead / Developer
Project: Claims Data Warehouse (CDW)
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Claims Data Warehouse (CDW) is part of The Hartford’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
CDW is comprised of Atomic data loads and Data Marts for Commercial Auto, Property, and
Medical claims.

Responsibilities:
 Working across several simultaneous Warehouse projects in EDW to provide the following…
o Technical Leadership – Served as ETL Architect / Tech lead for a twenty four person ETL
(Informatica / PLSql / Oracle) development team through the project lifecycles.
o Developed many of the ER ODS/Atomic Modeling and Dimensional modeling schemas.
Assigned and mentored the lead developers through the physical schema build process.
o Technical lead for the ETL design of several Atomic and Data Mart loads, working with the
lead developers to ensure that design standards and best practices were applied at all
application layers.
o Data analysis/discovery validations. Performed extensive post-load validation queries to
ensure valid data relationships and business rules.
o Designed and implemented reusable components for batch process, error logging, quality
control, balancing and auditing.

The HARTFORD Consultant/Employee 11/1999 – 09/2003

Data Warehouse Architect / ETL Architect / Technical Lead / Developer
Project: Personal Lines (PLDW) Data Warehouse

Personal Lines Data Warehouse (PLDW) is part of The Hartford’s Enterprise Data Warehouse
(EDW). PLDW is comprised of Atomic data loads and Data Marts for Personal Auto, Property
Insurance. Marts were designed to provide inforce, book-of-business, and risk evaluations of data
needed for the BI and MIS reporting within The Hartford.

Responsibilities:
 Key contributor of the Personal Lines and Claims DW “Best Practices Group”, including design
and implementing of reusable objects; designing and documenting “Best” DW processes, etc.
 Served as the Technical team lead for several Personal Lines DW projects. Primary
responsibilities included, data modeling, lead designer, and technical management of the
development team through development, testing and implementation.
 Responsible for Technical Training and mentoring of the development staff in Data Warehouse
tools and best practices.

YALE UNIVERSITY Consultant 12/98 - 11/99

Designer/Developer
Project: Project X - Data Warehouse

Yale University’s Data Warehouse project called Project – X. Key contributor of the design,
development and documentation of the entire warehouse, for use in WEB and end customer reporting.
Most of the data was extracted from the Oracle Financials database.