Nelson J Perez (US Citizen)

● Kirkland, WA 98033      resume@nelsonperez.com

 

 

A seasoned technology entrepreneur with 10+ years of experience with a proven record of delivering business intelligence, behavioral targeting and data-driven software solutions across multiple partners within Microsoft Products and Online Services driving from both the business and engineering perspective.

Career Overview:

§  Presently I deliver BICI Consumer Intelligence’s ongoing and custom Targeting creating and driving forward BRD’s and experimentation frameworks to improve content relevance with the analysis of measurements of campaign performance of user-level behavior targeting data while respective user identity and privacy.

§  Delivered Keyword BI solutions with an API that enables partners like MSN V Next to retrieve and surface high profile search data from our 463GB keyword data warehouse for Popular Searches, Related Searches, Top Movers and Topic Pages.

§  Delivered solution that saves $3.7 million dollars annually by optimizing the $24 million/year campaign in online marketing of our 6 million product inventory.

§  Leaded solution using that provides a Business Intelligence scorecard with metrics that empowers the go or no-go on release of a LGE windows mobile phone.

§  Optimized the Dynamics AX localization budget by delivering a BI solution that track and estimates the costs of string changes for translations across 41+ languages.

§  Managed and Architected of the company-wide automation solution integrating TFS into an existing infrastructure, including a custom build system and Star Team external source control manager.

 

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Cum Laude

Certificate of PMP Project Management, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Certificate in Project Management, COMPTIA Project+

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Developing C#.NET Applications

 

SKILLS

Project Mgmt.:  Project Manager Certification, Project+ Certified, Cross team collaboration, SCRUM

BI and Data: Business Intelligence, Behavioral Targeting, Data Warehouse design, SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), ETL, Crystal Reports, Full Text Search, Database Partitioning, LinQ2SQL, T-SQL

Programming:   C#, T-SQL, ASP.NET, LinQ to SQL, WPF, Web Services, BizTalk

Technologies: Cosmos, Hyper-V, VM Ware, Virtualization, Team Foundation Server (TFS)

 

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

v Sr. Program Manager – Behavioral Targeting, Data Analytics, BI

Microsoft (Pentad Solutions consultant), BICI                Bellevue, WA               3/2010-Present

§  Delivered BICI Consumer Intelligence’s ongoing and custom Targeting creating and driving forward BRD’s and experimentation to improve content relevance with the analysis of measurements of campaign performance of user-level behavior targeting data while respective user identity and privacy.

§  Delivered Segmentation and Targeting for Bing, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Social in the Email and Display platforms.

§  Expanded Data Quality Monitoring across the data pipeline to detect and resolve data issues that affect the behavioral targeting and measurements.

§  Defined BRD for system enhancements and drove new targeting BRD requirements across upstream and downstream partners.

§  Operationalized Custom Targeting like Bing Customer Engagement Framework V1 and V2

§  Managed cross-team collaboration with marketing, execution and engineering teams to ensure common understanding of issues and new targeting features.

 

v Software Engineer –Business Intelligence, Mobile

Microsoft (Comsys consultant)-LGE Windows Mobile                Redmond, WA             7/2009-3/2010

§  Leaded and Develop a solution using that provides a business intelligence scorecard with metrics that empowers the go or no-go on release of a LGE windows mobile phone.

Technologies: C#, MS SQL, ASP.NET, Web Service, WPF, Telerik RadControls, Windows Installer, ETL

v Software Engineer – Business Intelligence, Dynamics AX

Microsoft - Dynamics AX (Comsys consultant)    Bellevue, WA               3/2009-6/2009

§  Optimized the Dynamics AX localization budget by delivering a BI solution that track and estimates the costs of string changes for translations across 41+ languages.

§  Created BI reporting solution that track the progress of the Dynamics AX Localization process with a Data warehouse which contained extracted each Hand off and Hang back localization files.

§  Delivered solution that enables Internationalization PM’s research translation budget impact of string changes and user impact by showing screenshots of where was used in Dynamics AX.

§  Technologies: C#, MS SQL, ASP.NET, Web Service, WPF, Telerik RadControls, ETL, Dynamics AX

v Sr. Program Manager – Business Intelligence, Search Engine Marketing

Microsoft (Excell Data consultant)          Redmond, WA                        3/2008-9/2008

§  Delivered features for the Search Engine Marketing optimization, data mining and keyword research capabilities for marketers.

§  Managed two(2) engineering teams: (1) Keyword Intelligence Platform for keyword marketing BI and (2) Live Search cashback Studio for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) optimization.

§  Delivered solution that saves $3.7 million dollars annually by optimizing the $24 million/year campaign in online advertisement of our 6 million product inventory.

§  Delivered an API solution that enables MSN V. Next to surface high profile search data for Popular Searches, Related Searches, Top Movers and Topic Pages.

§  Designed workflow that enables extraction and transformation and categorization keyword data from Live Search web traffic, MSN Toolbar, Omniture to our keyword traffic data warehouse.

Technologies: MS Project, Cosmos, SQL, C#, ASP.NET, TFS, MS SQL 2005, Data warehouse

v Software Engineer – Lead, Project Manager

Action Engine       Bellevue, WA               5/2007- 3/2008

§  Leaded a team of engineers to create the company’s automation platform integrating Team Foundation Server to existing custom build systems and external data source manager.

§  Architected N-tier multisystem architecture using Windows Services, Databases integrating Team Foundation Server.

§  Optimized the budget by 320K/year on tester contracts by streamlining the manual test execution converting manual test case browsing into single click execute and report using the mobile phone device.

§  Develop tools to map multimedia capabilities across multiple mobile phone platforms.

Technologies: C#, XML, XSLT, Visual Studio Add Ins, Web Services, Windows Mobile, SharePoint, Team Foundation Server (TFS), MS SQL, Windows Installer, Windows Services

v BizTalk Software Engineer– BizTalk

Microsoft (Volt consultant)                     Redmond, WA            5/2006- 4/2007

§  Created BizTalk integrations using BizTalk 2006 R2 and Host Integration Server connecting legacy flat file systems and DB2 data system to the Windows Server Platform.

§  Automated BizTalk application creation and deployment to BizTalk Server and Host File connector.

Technologies: C#, XML, BizTalk Server 2006, BizTalk Adapter for Host Systems, AS/400, DB2, Host Files

 

v Software Engineer – Web Developer, SQL, BI, Reporting, BizTalk

Pharmacy Insurance Corporation of America                Catano, PR      11/2005- 5/2006

§  Architected n-tier healthcare prescription solution integrating doctor, insurance and pharmacy provider using ASP.NET, SQL, WinForms and Crystal Report and integrated a J2EE NCPDP SCRIPT message processing engine. Provided safety features for adverse reactions against other drugs, allergies or to medical conditions that would endanger a patient’s health.

§  Develop Business Intelligence module using SQL Reporting Services for the clinical department.

§  Develop Mobile Phone Sales Log software to report field insurance contract sales.

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, Web Services, BizTalk Server, WinForms, XML, MS SQL, NCPDP SCRIPT, JBoss, Reporting Services, JNBridge, Crystal Reports, CSLA, Business Objects

v Precisionsoft® (Consulting Company) 2002-2006

Owned and managed a small consulting company creating partnership with IT Solutions and Project Management companies.

ü  Oversaw pre-sales and sales department lead creation

ü  Oversaw project management of customer engineering projects.

Projects & Deliverables:

Ø Designed and mange Attendance product that tracks attendance using biometric finger print scan technology using a centralized finger scan database.

Ø  Delivered a solution to track Santander Bank owned property inventory using a RFID technology on windows mobile.

Ø Create a senate nomination and election web application system.

Ø Leaded team to develop a Microcontroller prototype greenhouse autonomous device prototype.

v Software Design Engineer in Test - C#, XML, .NET Remoting

Microsoft              Redmond, WA                         05/2004-08/2004

§  Developed a Framework that automates deployment to Microsoft Test Architect transparent improving employee efficiency and ramp up time.

§  Automated 440+ API complex test cases, delivering 26,800 lines of C# code.

Technologies: C#, XML, .NET Remoting, Business Objects, Serialization

 

v Software Design Engineer  – C#, WinForms, TCP/IP

Verizon/PRTC Advance Network Solutions         Puerto Rico      May-August2003

§  Develop application that automatically provisions a Frame Relay Network for the Advance Network Solutions business networks of the entire Puerto Rico area using C#, TCP Sockets, Asynchronous IO and WinForms.

Technologies: C#, WinForms, TCP/IP Sockets, Asynchronous IO, Frame Relay, ATM,

 

v Network Administrator – Active Directory, Exchange Server, Linux, Solaris

University of Puerto Rico/Mayagüez Campus    Puerto Rico                  August 2000-2002

§  Managed specialized computer centers with Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000, Linux & Solaris.

§  Deployment and management of the Active directory, DNS services, Exchange Server among others services.

Technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Linux, Solaris, Active Directory, Exchange Server, DNS