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Annie Lostlen Resume
- 1. ANNIE LOSTLEN Bellevue, WA 98006 (425) 401-1565 annielostlen@comcast.net SUMMARY Over 18 years experience in Business and Financial Analysis. 7 years of managing the yearly operating budget and quarterly forecasts for $4 billion in sales. Experience manipulating various data sources to support Senior Management decisions utilizing SQL Server 2005 and Business Intelligence tools. Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with outside vendors, peers, field support and senior management. Proven effectiveness in consolidating and translating large amounts of data for senior management. http://www.linkedin.com/in/annielostlen TECHNICAL SKILLS Microsoft Technologies: SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Performance Point Server, Microsoft Visio, MS Office Other: Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion FDM, Hyperion Smartview, Business Objects Designer and Reports, Crystal Reports Databases: MS SQL Server 2005, Essbase 9.0 Software: SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio Query Languages: T-SQL, MDX SetFocus, LLC. Bellevue, WA Aug/09 - Oct/09 Business Intelligence Master’s Program • Implemented a Labor Analysis Business Intelligence solution for a fictitious national construction company. • Existing data from diverse data sources were consolidated into a uniform SQL Server 2005 database. ETL capabilities of SQL Server Integration Services were used to define imports of the data, build scheduling packages, to define integration flow, log data error exceptions and orphaned data and to define Database Maintenance Plans and send emails. • Created a number of cubes, dimensions and business critical KPIs using SQL Server Analysis Services representing aggregations in several different ways - hierarchically and using custom groupings that the company will use to analyze performance. Created several MDX queries according to business requirements. • Developed several detail and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis reports and sub-reports according to business requirements using SQL Server Reporting Services. • Implemented business intelligence dashboards using MOSS 2007 Report Center and Excel Services producing different summary results based on user view and role membership. • Created score cards with executive summary dashboards using MS Office Performance Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that display performance
- 2. monitoring measures forsales, sales trends, and book return rates for a fictitious book publisher deriving data from a SQL Server 2005 OLAP data source and deployed them to SharePoint sites . The dashboards also contain drill-down capabilities to view book sales by book category and customer, through summary reports and sales trend charts. • Created score cards with advanced set of dashboards using MS Office Performance Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that feature executive summary measures for revenue, overhead costs, material purchases, labor and profitability trends for a fictitious construction company extracting data from a SQL Server 2005 OLAP data source and deployed them to SharePoint sites. The dashboards also contain pages to view performance by employee, by region, and by quarter enabling end-users to make filter selections. • Key product areas utilized also include data modeling, SSRS report subscriptions and data driven subscriptions, SSAS analysis services processing tasks, cube processing options and roles PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Univar USA Redmond, WA 9/97 - 1/09 Sr. Strategic Planning Analyst • Implemented budget application with Hyperion System 9 Planning that included development of two databases in Essbase, ETL with Weblink, multiple reports in Hyperion Reports and Smartview, training, and documentation. • Managed annual operating budget process and quarterly forecasts. • Administration of the company profit sharing plan that included target setting, monitoring of funding, and final payout. • Prepared various financial analysis, reports and charts, and provided accounting support. IT Analyst II • Designed and implemented universes, reports and queries in Business Objects. • Monitored extract processes where source data originated in Mainframe, AS400 and Lawson Financials and was integrated into Oracle tables on Unix. Business Analyst • Developed Sales Compensation database in MS Access to calculate quarterly payouts and distribute various reports. • System Application Administrator for Hyperion Enterprise, financial consolidation application used for financial management reporting and transmission of financials to parent in Netherlands. Western Wireless Bellevue, WA 9/96 - 9/97 Business Analyst, Contractor • Subject matter expert for automated commission payment project. Prepared requirements, gap analysis, cost benefit and user documentation. Swedish Health Services Seattle, WA 3/96 - 6/96 Budget Analyst, Contractor
- 3. • Developed MS Access database to handle hospital department statistics used for budgeting and measuring efficiencies. Redesigned monthly report to MS Excel from various other legacy applications. US West Newvector Bellevue, WA 4/88 - 10/95 Business Operations Analyst • Coordinated budget and forecast process for Marketing and Sales to include field sales. Prepared variance analysis of budget/forecasts to actuals. Sales Compensation Program Coordinator • Administered quarterly sales commission payment process. • Key interface for development of Sales Commission payment project. Accountant • Monthly analysis, reconciliation and journal entries of revenue related accounts. EDUCATION California State University, Long Beach, CA Bachelors of Science, Quantitative Methods-Business Computer Methods