Erik Likness
Data Engineering & Analytics | Digital Transformation | Data-driven Decision Making | Cloud Architecture | Business Intelligence | Machine Learning & AI
- Role
- Vice President Information Technology at The Aspen Group
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Erik Likness
20 years of management experience building and leading data engineering, business intelligence, analytics, and data science for organizations. A self-motivated result-oriented leader with demonstrated success as a collaborator with a proven ability to build cross- functional relationships. Provider of critical thinking and problem-solving skills influencing initiatives generating multi-million-dollar impacts.
Experience
Vice President Information Technology
Dec 2020 — Present · Denver, CO, US
Thought Partner. End-to-end owner of data strategy and digital products. Leader, collaborator, and executor of technical roadmap promoted by the ELT as the company’s competitive advantage.• Industry-leading customer experience reviews earned from technical integrations and measures across all touchpoint platforms, iteratively advancing crucial satisfaction drivers in digital products with an efficient 26% increase in digital engagement. Enterprise Architect. Conductor of modernization, cloud migration, and digital transformation delivered a more agile, scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient organization. Colorado CIO of the Year was awarded to the team for documented business impact. • Unified and aligned development, a fully integrated platform for data, engineering, analytics, and vendor partners, has improved time-to-value by 12%, fueling 3 consecutive years of 20% year-over-year revenue growth. Engineering Excellence. Applying leading software development practices for rapid, high-quality deployment. The implemented toolbelt removed 80% of the time spent on model documentation, pipeline repairs, and data discovery.• AI automation validates data quality and scales resources up/down for reliable digital product interactions on a cost-efficient platform that is 100% available, accessible, and fault-tolerant. • Vendor management, successfully leveraging multiple partner teams, leading continuous integration and deployment best practices, accelerating digital product time to market by 22%.
Education
University of Nebraska at Omaha
MPA
1996 — 1998
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bachelor's degree
1992 — 1996
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