Zishan Ali

About Zishan Ali

U.S Citizen, Canadian born• Qualified by over 21 years of industry experience including several full life cycle implementations with all aspects of the analytics value chain including Gen AI and product management.• A team player with excellent communication (native English and French), user interaction, interpersonal skills, leadership, and a passion for mentorship & coaching.• Focused on strategic digital transformation initiatives through cloud and on-prem platforms.• Extensive experience in requirement gathering including gap analysis, functional requirement specifications, blueprints, and technical architecture.• Expertise in analysis, design, data modeling, data mesh, complex transformations, load scheduling, performance tuning of data loads, queries, and development of interactive dashboards.• Excellent EQ proficiency through change management, community building and unlocking the full potential of any developer.• Trusted career advisor and life long learner.• Former Chapter Chair of America’s SAP User Group (ASUG) for Central Texas.• Expertise in designing and developing analytical solutions sourced from SAP MM, PP, SD, APO-DP, APO-SNP, FI, COPA and IS-U modules as well as non-SAP sources. • Presented Executive Mobile Dashboards at the SAP for Utilities 2012 conference in Hollywood, Florida• Presented IoT use cases at the Wind Farm Data Management and Analysis Forum 2016 in Hamburg, Germany and at the SAP Innovation Forum 2017 in London, England.• Was heavily involved in pre-sales, marketing, engagement management and intellectual product development.

Experience

1. Senior Manager - Data Engineering

   7-Eleven

   Sep 2024 — Present · Irving, TX, US

   Responsible for leading the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) engineering practice. • Overseeing all data engineering efforts including capacity planning and modeling best practices.• Accountable for the end-to-end success of turnkey initiatives for strategic pricing, promotional sales planning solutions leading to a 2 to 3% in gross profit margins.• Responsible for enterprise data democratization ensuring robust implementation and measurable business impact through tools such as Dataiku, Databricks, Glean, PowerBI, Windsurf and Co-pilot.• Manage data domain expertise and efficiencies company wide including but not limited to store operations, merchandising, marketing, logistics & supply chain, fuels, loyalty, accounting and digital. • Mentoring and coaching managers, staff and senior data engineers. • Working as a liaison between the governance, platform, machine learning and data engineering teams for cutting edge technologies and methodologies adoption.• Ensuring uptime for all data products that have executive visibility of certified key performance indicators using retail data modeling solutions and medallion architecture.• Managing budget planning and forecasting.

Education

• Concordia University

  Bachelor's, Management Information Systems

  2001 — 2004

• CEGEP - John Abbott College

  BCom; D.E.C, Management Information Systems; Commerce

  2001 — 2004

Skills

• Abap
• Sap Businessobjects
• Sap Bw
• Sap Netweaver Business Warehouse (Sap Bw)
• Data Migration
• Business Objects
• Sap Implementation
• Integration
• Sd
• Sap
• Sap Netweaver
• Business Intelligence
• Sap Erp
• Data Warehousing
• Erp
• Dqm
• Sap Bpc
• Sap Bi