John T. Yurkin is an experienced IT professional with over 16 years of experience in business intelligence. He is seeking a position in business intelligence or project management. He has a proven track record of successful achievements in applications development, systems engineering, analytics, and project management. His technical skills include Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle BI, and data visualization tools. He has worked on business intelligence projects for various companies, leading teams to deliver analytics solutions that support areas like sales, finance, and manufacturing.

1. JOHN T. YURKIN
50 County Road
Cresskill, NJ 07626
201-218-7277 (Cell) jty@yurkin.com
Accomplished, self motivated IT professional with exceptional work history in Business Intelligence and Project
Management looking for a position in the Business Intelligence or Change/Project Management area.
Qualifications
 Impressive history of successfulachievements in multiple areas of the IT field with the last 16 years focused on the business
intelligence discipline.
 Practices continual personal improvement via participation in webinars, Web-based training and off-site educational
opportunities.
 Areas of practical experience include applications development, systems engineering, systems analysis, systems architecture,
project management and the full range of the business intelligent development cycle.
 Works successfully in both an individual and team-orientated environment.
 Excellent communication skills.
 Well traveled globally and able to appreciate and navigate diversity in the business environment.
 Well versed in MS Windows, MS Office suite,Business Objects, BRIO, OBIEE, ODI, SQL Server 2000 / 2005 as well as
many other older technologies based on server, midrange and mainframe platforms.
Professional Experience
Takasago International – Rockleigh, NJ April 2013 – February 2016
Business Intelligence Specialist
 Responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of the company’s BI solution to the end users.
o Needs analysis.
o Des ign and specifications.
o Management of consultants doing the ETL development.
o Dashboard and analysis development on the front end.
o Co-ordination of user testing and acceptance.
o Change control / movement to production.
 Technologies used included Oracle OBIEE, Oracle ODI, Oracle Weblogic.
 Areas supported were sales analysis, order intake, budget performance, manufacturing monitoring, order demand
and finance.
 Duties included…
o Determining new user requirements and documenting such for consideration for development.
 Recommending best practices and solution architecture to support these requirements.
 Follow up throughout the development process to verify delivery quality.
o Development of reports for end users using the OBIEE Answers interface.
o Development of multi-functional dashboards for various business areas
o Acting as an internal consultant to bring BI into various business areas and educate on its value.
o Monitoring the performance of the OBIEE environment.
 Identifying reports and processes affecting the environment’s overall performance.
 Working with consultants and network staff on ODI performance issues and infrastructure
considerations.
 Analyzing various business areas to see where BI can be a significant impact on the daily
business.
o Managing all us er security and permissions activities via Weblogic.
o All Catalog management.
 Position reported directly to the Director of Business Systems Development in the Americas.

2. NICE Systems, Paramus, NJ April 2011 – February 2013
Business Intelligence Analyst
 Responsible for the day to day operations of the Business Intelligence needs of the entire Americas region of this
multinational company.
 Technologies used included Oracle OBIEE, Business Objects, Concur,
 Areas supported were revenue, booking, general finance, CRM, sales forecast and analysis.
 Duties included…
o Determining new user requirements and documenting such for consideration for development.
o Development of reports for end users using the OBIEE Answers interface.
o Supporting users in their own efforts to develop reports.
o User education on reporting tools available to them and best practices for utilizing them.
o Monitoring / Managing BI based problem tickets world -wide and assigning to appropriate resources for
resolution.
o Monitoring the performance of the OBIEE environment .
 Identifying reports and processes affecting the environment’s overall performance.
 Coaching users to help make their reports more efficient.
 Analyzing / managing over 400 scheduled reports (iBots) so they run as efficiently as possible
on a global scale. (Load Balancing)
o Supporting Business Objects users with report creation and execution is sues. Escalating issues as
needed.
o Implementation and support of Concur Expense and Travel system’s reporting layer .
 Position reported directly to the Director of MIS in the Americas with a matrix line to the Global Manager of
Business Intelligence in Israel.
SANDVIK, Fair Lawn, NJ Jan 2000 – Dec 2009
Business Intelligence Specialist /Project Manager
 Worked as the Project Manager and Lead Technical Advisor in the development, international deployment and
subsequent support of a major global data warehouse application.
 Responsibilities included the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of the data warehouse
application for providing sales and inventory statistics.
o Responsible for the complete architecture of the BI solution.
 Evaluation and selection of tools to be used.
 Evaluate and select hardware and platforms needed to support the solution.
 Extensive meetings with the business areas (world-wide) to define the overall scope, identify
issues, define requirements and help business stakeholders think through the process.
o Development of standards to be used in the development and maintenance phases
o Development of application management and support processes.
o Monitoring quality to insure best practices are utilized.
o Implemented in over 20 markets globally.
o Heavy interface with end users and development resources world -wide.
 Architecture activities involved all layers of the SQL Server BI Stack.
o ETL Processes
o Reporting
o Multidimensional Data Mining solutions (OLAP, etc)
 Identifying source data to satisfy and support business requirements
o Differentiating between operation al and informational source data
o Structure measure and dimension data classifications to support proper multidimensional data mining.

3.  Provided training on various BI components and tools to users throughout the world.
 Served on the regional Change Management team for NAFTA.
 Worked with a number of business units to help develop processes and procedures relating to the IT area’s
involvement.
 Spent 3 years as part of the Global IT team acting as internal consultants for various projects throughout the world.
 Responsible for the management and oversee of the BI infrastructure for the NAFTA region.
 Solution built utilizing the SQL Server / BussinessObjects / BRIO / Q-Liner toolsets.
Additional Experience
WolffPack, Inc - Rochester, NY
Technical Consultant / Corporate Technical Manager July 1993 – Jan 2000
Berlex Laboratories - Wayne, NJ
Systems Analyst / Systems Engineer July 1990 – June 1993
Fairleigh Dickinson University – Teaneck, NJ
Systems Designer / Project Leader March 1987 – July1990
Various Other Positions in the Information Technology Industry 1980 – 1987
Technical Proficiencies
 Hardware
IBM 9221, 4341, 4361, 370/158, VAX, AS/400, IBM iSeries, Network Servers, Personal Computers, Bayworks
Routers, Digi Modem Servers
 Operating Environments
DOS/VSE, VSE/ESA, COBOL, BMS, VM/CMS, VM/ESA, MVS, VTAM, ICCF, VOLLIE, LIBRARIAN,
DYNAM-T, DYNAM-D, PC-DOS, WINDOWS, WINDOWS SERVER, LINUX, Apache Web Server, IIS Web
Server, Q-Liner, TCP/IP
 Programming Languages
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, Brio, Business Objects, OLAP, Hyperion, DB2 UDB, DB2 Warehouse
Manager, QMF/SQL with DB2, Concur Reporting Tools (Cognos Based).
NATURAL/ADABAS, JCL, CL, RPG, FOCUS, ROSCOE, TSO, ISPF, Predict, COBOL, BASIC, IBM
ASSEMBLER, VAX EDIT, PANVALET
 PC Software
Microsoft Office, LOTUS Notes, FrontPage, Various Other Programs and Utilities.
Education / Certifications
Various seminars and training classes 1980 - Present
 IBM Data Warehousing Classes
 Networking
 AMA training seminars
 ITIL Certification – IT Service Management Certified (2007)
 Data Warehouse Certification – DW2.0 Certified (2007)

4.  Sandvik Project Management Training
 Sandvik Leadership Training Program
 Various data warehousing seminars v ia The Data Warehouse Institute.
EDP Programming Certification (Associate Equivalent) 1979 - 1980
Electronic Computer Programming Institute – Paterson, NJ
Computer Science Major 1978 - 1979
Montclair State University – Montclair, NJ