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MARC de L'Etoile PARADIS
Updated as of November 28th, 2009

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Summary

Senior healthcare IT professional with demonstrated experience in Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing management, architecture and deployment; vendor negotiations; and quantitative data analysis/reporting.  Background includes work with academic medical centers, integrated hospital systems, pharmaceutical marketing, disease management, biomedical research, software sales and retail operations.

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Work Experience

2/2007 – Present       Director Strategic Data Services: Massachusetts General Hospital                                                       Boston, MA

§   Program & Project Manager with design, delivery and support responsibility for entire lifecycle of a clinical enterprise data warehouse built to track and improve longitudinal quality & safety outcomes. Current production data warehouse deeply and flexibly integrates terabytes of data from >15 administrative, clinical and operational feeds, meeting SLA and data quality requirements.

§   System Architect of hardware, software & process infrastructure to support hospital-wide data quality, data integration & master data management initiatives; as well as to enable strategic, tactical and operational reporting & analysis at all levels within the hospital.  A novel system architecture was designed, built and productionalized from scratch within 2 years with less than 8 in-house FTE-years.

§   Hiring & Procurement Manager with budget development, resource allocation, vendor management and TCO responsibility.  Grew team from zero to 5 FTEs; disbursed >$1.5M of capital budget, >$1.5M of consulting budget with recurring management of >$1M in operating budget; ran three distinct competitive vendor selection efforts, restructured existing contracts resulting in an average contractual discount of >65% below list pricing.

10/2005 – 2/2007     Founder & CEO: Eupraxis Solutions, LLC.                                                                                                New York, NY

§   Set strategic direction, assembled leadership & legal teams, negotiated offshore services contracts & closed all sales.  Achieved investor breakeven prior to retiring product line and company.

§   Designed and architected product suite, oversaw offshore development, and lead quality assurance efforts.

7/2005 – 2/2007       Independent Data Warehouse Consultant: Golden Touch Imports, Inc.                                            New York, NY

§   Provided Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse lifecycle planning, development and support for $500M+ fashion wholesale company.  Two years later this data warehouse is still an essential component of daily and weekly operations with steadily increasing adoption rates and usage.

§   Architected physical data warehouse & logical business intelligence design as an early implementation of operational data warehousing utilizing trickle-feed, ELT and real-time techniques and technologies.

§   Consulted on initial vendor selection & negotiations, facilitating contractual discounts of >40% below list pricing.

7/2005 – 10/2006     Independent Business Intelligence Contractor: Forest Laboratories, Inc.                                        New York, NY

§   Implemented & tested Business Intelligence solution for pharmaceutical market research department. Built and maintained segmentation, share and performance decks for lexapro, namenda, campral, combunox, aerobid and tiazac used in designing market and go-to-market strategy.

§   Redesigned Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse logical & physical architectures to best practices.  Report performance, system scalability and development cycle-time were significantly improved as a result.

8/2003 – 6/2005       Senior Pre-Sales Consultant : MicroStrategy, Inc.                                                                                        McLean, VA

§   Closed $6.5M of software & services sales across multiple verticals, exceeding quota targets.

§   Supported Account Executives throughout sales cycle including delivery of technical & business demonstrations; responses to RFPs; proof-of-concept implementations, and close customer & prospect relationships.

§   Developed training program for new Account Executives to foster & promote sales best practices.

1/2003 – 7/2003       Senior Business Intelligence Architect & Administrator: Bed, Bath & Beyond, Inc.                                 Union, NJ

§   Designed logical & physical data models for a retail merchandise Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse implementation. One supply chain initiative resulted in more than $3 million of new chargeback revenue per year.

§   Responsible for installation, configuration, & administration of MicroStrategy Business Intelligence platform.

§   Documented functional requirements, report definitions and data structures based on SME interviews.

8/1999 – 12/2002     Senior Production Consultant: MicroStrategy, Inc.                                                                                      McLean, VA

§   Designed logical & physical data models for application, departmental and enterprise-wide Data Warehouses in the retail, financial, government, entertainment, ISP, dot.com, telecommunications and CRM verticals.

§   Provided hardware, software, architecture & project management support based on client needs & best practices.

§   Wrote corporate and client white papers on security, technical architectures & data modeling best practices.

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Education

2001                            M.S., Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                              Cambridge, MA

1992                            B.A., Chemistry, Cornell University                                                                                                                  Ithaca, NY

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Teaching Experience

2002 - 2005                 Instructor: MCAT Verbal Reasoning. The Princeton Review, Inc.                                                            New York, NY

2004                            Developer and instructor: Regional Sales Training. MicroStrategy, Inc.                                                  McLean, VA

2003 - 2004                 Instructor: Introduction to Business Intelligence. MicroStrategy, Inc.                                                     McLean, VA

1998 - 1999                 Supervisor for Undergraduate Research Assistants: Massachusetts Institute of Technology                Cambridge, MA

§   Principal Investigator: Prof. Richard J. Wurtman, MD

1997 - 1998                 Head Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology          Cambridge, MA

§   Instructor: Prof. Steven Pinker, PhD

1996                            Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology                     Cambridge, MA

§   Instructor: Prof. Steven Pinker, PhD

1995 - 1998                 Tutor: Office of Minority Education. Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                          Cambridge, MA

§   Biology, Genetics, Psychology & Neuroscience

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Fellowships and Awards

2000                            4th Quarter Production Consulting Staff MVP Award

MicroStrategy, Inc.                                                                                                                                                McLean, VA

1999                            Customer Support Group Employee of the Week

MicroStrategy, Inc.                                                                                                                                                McLean, VA

1999                            Goodwin Medal for Conspicuously Effective Teaching by a Graduate Student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                                                                                             Cambridge, MA

1999                            Angus N. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching

Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                                         Cambridge, MA

1998 - 1999                 Glenn/AFAR Scholarship Award for Research in the Biology of Aging

American Federation for Aging Research                                                                                                        New York, NY

1995 - 1998                 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award

National Science Foundation                                                                                                                              Arlington, VA

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Current Member Affiliations

2009 - Present            Penn State IST Enterprise Architecture Advisory Group                                                                                                                                          Member, Research Committee                                                                                                                        9/2009 - Present

2009 - Present            The Value Enablement Group, LLC                                                                                                                     

                                    Principal Consultant                                                                                                                                          9/2009 - Present

2009 - Present            Healthcare Financial Management Association                                                                                                                     

                                    Member                                                                                                                                                                7/2009 - Present

2009 - Present            Center for the Advancement of the Enterprise Architecture Profession                                                                            

                                    VP & Director of Communications                                                                                                                5/2009 - Present

2007 - Present            The Data Warehousing Institute

                                    Boston Chapter Secretary                                                                                                                                 5/2009 - Present

                                    Member                                                                                                                                                                5/2007 - Present

1996 - Present            American Association for the Advancement of Science

                                    Member                                                                                                                                                                10/1996 - Present

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Authorship

§         Joint Authorship on 5 Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & 1 Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter.

§         Primary Authorship on 2 Publications, 3 Conference Presentations, & 2 Invited Presentations.

§         Healthcare BI/DWH Blogger for Healthcare Informatics Magazine

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Miscellaneous Skills

§         Expert Architect, Administrator, and Developer for the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform.

§         Experience with  T-SQL and PL-SQL, Visio for Enterprise Architects and Sybase PowerDesigner

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References Available Upon Request

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