Fru LouisSolutions Architect & Practice Lead

My name is Fru Louis. I help companies make sense of data; be it moving data, storing data, or analyzing the data. I have been battle tested, withmany years of experience of both consulting and working fulltime with corporations both large and small; including several fortune 500 companies inall the different core industries: Retail, Banking, Health Services, Food & Hospitality. With great exposure to all the SDLC phases, I have worked ondelivering projects through the Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Architecture/Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance phases.All my previous experiences along with continuous learning have helped me develop technical strategies to guide successful delivery of solutionsincluding:: - ETL Integration - Complex databases, Data Marts and Data Warehouses - Reporting solutions - Systems and Integration Architecture Asfor Architecture, I have had some academic exposure to formal Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks like TOGAF 9.1, Zachman, DoDaf, FEA, ITIL,Gartner e.t.c. I am hoping to leverage these competencies some day. With humility, I am first to admit that I don't know everything 'yet'! So, I makeefforts to stay active in the EA\BI\SQL\NoSQL\Hadoop\ThinkIT community and regularly participate in local user groups/code camps in the MNarea and beyond. In addition to my love for soccer, biking and anything outdoors, I enjoy reading about new technologies, writing about them andsharing/evangelizing my thoughts through my blogs, tweets and speaking engagements. Check out my slide share URL for more articles and tips. ->http://www.slideshare.net/louis7893 I manage several other blogs on BI, Big Data, Solutions/Enterprise Architecture, Best Practices, e.t.c Feel freeto connect with me or drop a line for any questions. I would be more than happy to help.

EXPERIENCE

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Mathematics Tutor AssistantSaint John's University

ETL/ELT Integrations DeveloperFamous Dave's of America

Applications Developer ConsultantWells Fargo co

Business Automation Developer/Programmer/AnalystHealthPartners

Research/Office AssistantSaint John's University

Software Quality AnalystRegis Corporation

Sr. BI Software EngineerBluestem Brands, Inc.

EDUCATION

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Bachelors of ScienceSaint John's University

Current StudentPenn State University

SKILLS

5 4 2 1 1

Business Intelligence

Data Warehousing

Hadoop&BigData Analytics

Enterprise Architecture

Team Leadership

beginner intermediate advanced expert

#no. of years

INTERESTS

BusinessIntelligence

BusinessAutomation

CompetitiveIntelligence

BusinessAnalytics

CustomerAnalytics

DataEngineering

MY STATS

8 Years of workexperience

500+ LinkedInConnections

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MY LINKS

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“ Hiring Fru was one of the best decisions I made as a manager at HealthPartners. While his technical capabilities areextraordinary Fru distinguishes himself from other technologists with his professionalism, strategic thinking, characterand accountability. Simply put, we trusted Fru. As a team we knew that Fru would assume responsibility for the workassigned to him and that it would be executed with efficiency and thoughtful consideration for both the technicalsolution and the respective business context. I enthusiastically recommend Fru; anyone would be fortunate to havehim as a teammate. ”

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