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Jamal Ouazzani
25 Zachary Dr, Chalfont, PA 18914
Home: 215-822-1156. Email: jamal_ouazzani@yahoo.com
Profile
More than twenty five years of experience working on Information
technology as Application Architect, Data Architect, Database
Administrator Project Manager and Team Management. My experience
ranges from overall system architecture to detailed application design and
data modeling for data warehousing and OLTP applications.
Areas of expertise:
• Team leadership and project management,
• Service oriented architecture,
• Application architecture,
• Data Management,
• Master Data Management (MDM),
• Metadata Management,
• Business Intelligence application from end-to-end implementation,
• Data modeling for OLTP and OLAP (Data Warehouse),
• Data extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) design,
• Data quality and cleansing,
• Oracle Database administration, backup/recovery and performance
tuning,
• Application development using Java and related technologies.
Professional Experiences
2/2007 to 9/2013: PennMutual Life Insurance, Horsham, PA
Position: Senior Data Architect
Tools: Java, GWT, Ibatis, Erwin, Model Mart, Oracle, Sybase, Cassandra,
Informatica, Cognos, MSSQL
• Responsible for enterprise-wide data design, for data modeling and for
database design.
• Performed business requirements analysis, logical and physical data
models design, process/data flow design for the following OLTP
applications:
1. Implementation of new payroll system (ADP) and integration
with several other applications with data moving in and out
every day.
2. Implementation of PUMA application, which manages producer
service offering.
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3. Implementation of annuity order entry engine, which receives
client annuity applications from an automatic feed from broker
dealers then send them to the back-end systems for processing.
4. Implementation of alternative assets management system, which
manages the company fund calls and investments.
• Performed business requirements analysis, logical and dimensional data
model design, process/data flow diagrams design , ETL specs, data
mapping for the following business intelligence applications:
1. Implementation of policy data store hub, which offers
multiple access points using web services for applications
and Cognos ad-hoc reports for end users.
2. Implementation of competitive analysis application used to
compare our product offering with the competition.
3. Implementation of mortality management system, which
allows actuary department to analyze the population
mortality based on historical data coming from 5 legacy
systems.
4. Implementation of producer sales performance application.
5. Implementation of investments profit performance
application.
6. Implementation of budget and forecasting application.
• Designed the system architecture and data model for the party Master
Data Management hub.
• Performed project initiation, design and development of the metadata
repository application from end-to-end.
7/2005 to 2/2007: Tangoe, Orange, CT
Position: Data Architect
Tools: Erwin, Model Mart, Oracle Database, SQL Server 2000 database, Java.
• Responsible for enterprise-wide data design, for data modeling and for
database design.
• Developed standards and guidelines around the design of data
architectures; data models and database design, including organization,
structure and nomenclature of data elements.
• Designed and documented the technical architecture of the Data
Warehouse by working closely with the ETL lead, and other Business
Intelligence Team Members
• Negotiated features and the timeframes associated with delivering them
in order to meet project/business goals.
• Managed the deliverables and integration with the overall project plans.
Coordinating the tasks across database team members and managing
changes during the development cycle.
• Assisted in analyzing and resolving database performance issues.
• Analyzed data quality and recommend corrective action if appropriate.
• Interfaced with both business and systems personnel to ensure effective
and timely delivery of data related deliverables.
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04/2005 to 7/2005: GMAC, Horsham, PA
Position: Data Architect Business Intelligence
Tools: Erwin, Oracle Database, Toad.
• Designed the star schema database to support the data mining application
for GMAC customer loan performance analysis.
03/2005 to 6/2005: Centocor, Conshohocken, PA
Position: Data Warehouse Architect
Tools: Erwin, Oracle Database, Toad.
• Designed and implemented the database and ETL to support a dashboard
application to manage drug discovery project.
11/2003 to 3/2005: Stonepath Group, Philadelphia, PA
Position : Data Architect/DBA
Tools: Erwin, Model Mart, Oracle Database, SQL Server 2000, Discoverer,
Oracle Report, Solaris, Linux, Windows, Cognos and Weblogic
• Designed and implemented new technical architecture to support
Stonepath applications including software and hardware.
• Designed and developed a backup/recovery strategy for Stonepath
databases
• Develped logical and phusical data models for stonepath custom
applications.
• Developed standards for data modeling, database design and
database administration.
• Continisely monitoring and tunning production, development and
test databses.
06/2003 to 10/2003: Bank One, Wilmington, DE
Position: Data Architect
Tools: Erwin, Oracle Database
• Developed the customer retention logical and physical data models
• Developed the customer assistance logical and physical data models
07/2001 to 01/2003: Araccel Corp. Horsham, PA (Software Company)
Position: Senior Data Architect / Database Administrator
Tools: Embarcadero, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle database, SQL
PLUS, PL/SQL, Oracle Webtogo, Apache, Java, Crystal Reports, and Araccel
Software Platform (ASP) applications.
• Developed the database logical and physical data models to include
PFIZER requirements.
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• Designed and implemented Araccel software technical architecture.
• Performed server’s installation and configuration for all technical
components.
• Monitored the server and the database to continuously improve the
performance.
09/2000 to 05/2001: Alliance Consulting Framingham, MA
Position: Project Manager / Data Warehouse
Tools: Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle database.
Transfrom Pharmaceutical (Biotech Company) Project:
• Project manager for the design and development of the data
warehouse. I have defined the project plan, scheduled tasks, and
planned resources, controlled the budget, and participated in the
overall architecture and design. This project was designed to allow
scientists to perform smart decision on how to combine chemical
components in order to get fast and efficient result of their
experiments. The data warehouse was used to store historical result
of chemical experiments. Scientists could analyze or mine on the
data warehouse using specialized tools.
I have participated in the validation and the development of the
logical third normal form data model, the physical data model, the
star schema models, the OLAP application and the design of the ETL
applications.
08/1999 to 09/2000: Oracle Corporation Montreal, Canada
Position: Principal Consultant Business Intelligence
Tools: Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle database,
SQL PLUS, PL/SQL, Oracle warehouse Builder, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle
express, Oracle Sales Analyzer, Unix and Windows NT.
Madacy Entertainment Group Project:
• Architect and project manager for data warehouse. I have defined
the project plan, scheduled tasks, and planned resources, controlled
the budget, and participated in the overall architecture and design.
I have developed the logical third normal form data models, the
physical data model, the star schema models, the OLAP application,
and designed the ETL applications. I have also implemented the first
data mart that includes client and product profitability.
Jewish General Hospital Project:
• Project manger and architect for the implementation of finance data
warehouse. I have defined the project plan, scheduled tasks, and
planned resources, controlled the budget, and participated in the
overall architecture and design.
I have developed the logical third normal form data model, the
physical data model, the star schema models, the OLAP application,
and designed the ETL applications. I have implemented the first data
mart that includes the hospital’s budget and expenses.
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Energy Agency Project:
• Designed and development an OLAP application that allow
managers in the agency to analyze and monitor the utilization of
resources in the overall projects.
Hydro Quebec Project:
• Designed the extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) application
for the data mart that allows managers in the company to analyze
and measure the availability of electrical components.
02/1998 to 06/1999: Phoenix International, Montreal, Canada
Position: Senior Data Architect
Tools: Erwin, Informatica, Power Designer, Visio , Oracle Enterprise
Manager, Oracle database, SQL PLUS, PL/SQL, VB, Cognos Power
Play,Cognos Impromptu , Unix and Windows NT.
• Implemented the data warehouse framework based on Ralph
Kimball’s methodology.
• Built the first data mart that allows the marketing department to
analyze Phoenix clinical studies in relation to finance and
scheduling.
• Implemented the methodology for logical and physical database
design.
• Produced logical and physical data models for Phoenix clinical
application.
• Produced logical data model for Phoenix study management
application.
11/1996 to 02/1998: Canadian National Railways, Montreal, Canada
Position: Data Architect
Tools: Excelerator , Oracle database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, IBM
DB2 and Windows NT.
• Designed the logical and physical data models for the Environmental
Site Index System that manages the evaluation of CN contaminated
properties.
• Elaborated the logical and physical data models for the Geographical
Information System that is used to draw the CN tracks on a
geographic map.
• Built the logical and physical data models for the VIA Pass System,
which manages the passes given to CN employees and their
relatives.
• Designed the logical and physical data models for the Equipment
System that manages the equipment of CN as well as the equipment
of North American transportation companies.
• Participated in the initial stages of the logical data modeling for the
Waybill System.
• Elaborated the logical data model for the Location System, which
manages the railway network belonging to CN and other North
American transportation companies.
6. • Designed the logical data model for the Commodity System, which
manages the products transported by CN and other North American
transportation companies.
1987 to 1996: Information Technology Management Rabat
Position: Application Lead Developer
I have worked as consultant in government agencies and private
companies to design and develop several projects. Listed below are
examples of projects I have participated in:
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• Education department Human resource management system.
• Interior department local community management system.
• Health care department human resources management system.
• Finance department foreign loans management system.
• Finance department property acquisition management system.
Education
• 1986: Bachelor in computer science at University of Haute Bretagne,
Faculty of sciences of Rennes, France - Specialization: Architecture
Design, microprocessors-based design. Achievements: A micro
programmed PROLOG machine (Hardware and Software).
• 1983: General university diploma in Mathematics and Physics at
University of science of Fez, Morocco.
Training
Oracle Warehouse Builder, Data warehouse analysis and design, Data
warehouse methodology and project estimation, develop winning
proposals, DBA course of Oracle database, Project management in
project management institute, Building data warehouse hands-on course,
Cognos tools, Rapid application development methodology, Effective
management & leadership course.
Technical Knowledge
Cassandra, JAVA, GWT, Ibatis, Designer 2000, Erwin, PowerDesigner,
Embarcadero, Oracle DBMS, SQL Server, Informix DBMS, DB2 DBMS,
IDS2, ACCESS, SQL, PL/SQL, Cobol, Pascal, Oracle Discoverer, Oracle
Express, Oracle sales analyzer, Oracle Warehouse Builder, Informatica,
Cognos Impromptu, Cognos, Business Object, UNIX, Linux, Windows
and GCOS.