Shamit Sikotra

About Shamit Sikotra

Expert Business Intelligence (BI) team resource with a 24-year track record of delivering successful BI initiatives and fulfilling various clients vision of BI\'s place and process improvements to their organizations- Mr. Sikotra has provided commercial and federal clients with new insight into their organizations and markets for highly improved and informed decision making- Extensive experience using and improving the BI infrastructure to align with client’s corporate strategy using SAP Business Objects, AWS and other automated reporting tools to extract, integrate and organize data from data warehouses, and to streamline, automate, and modernize business processes- A dynamic analytical personality with drive to continuously improve client’s analytics capabilities, data warehouses, data marts, database integration and query performance. Mr. Sikotra employs a \"MacGyver\"-style approach to solving problems by maximizing use of existing software and infrastructure, which is rarely used to its fullest potential, thus providing results quicker and avoiding costly software replacement efforts- Superb communications skills: oral, written, negotiations, and customer service. Mr. Sikotra has worked closely with executives and users as well as hands-on coding, programming, data modelling, UI design experience and acted as a bridge builder between end users on the business side and technical team members- Mr. Sikotra holds Master’s degree in Economics/Business Administration with emphasis on Management Information System (MIS), Business Process Improvement (BPI), Logistics and Operations Management and recently obtained the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect (Associate) certification. He spends his leisure hours with family and friends. He is an avid amateur car mechanic, photographer, real estate investor and continues to help and support friends and local community.

Experience

1. Data-driven Business Process Improvement Specialist

   Zenius Corporation

   Sep 2016 — Present · U.S. Department of Education - Herndon, VA, US

   Senior developer and data specialist for EDFacts Submission System (ESS) and EDPass managing operations and development of cloud-based (AWS) state data submission system- Technical advisor to the Data Management (DM) group on data extractions, reporting and product development-[20••••21] Lead business analyst of EDFacts Submission System (ESS) and EDFacts Reporting System (ERS) managing ESS and ERS release cycles, requirements, communication with client, developers and testers

Education

• Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

  Master of Science in Economics & Business Administration, (MBA equivalent)

  1994 — 1999

Skills

• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehousing
• Reporting
• Databases
• Federal Agencies
• Ad Hoc Reporting
• Data Management
• Analytics
• Solution Architecture
• Oracle
• Data Mining
• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• Software Development
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Data Modeling
• Operations Management
• Process Optimization
• Etl
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Objects