Personal Profile
In 2005, Alicia Scott-Garrell started her career as a Technical Support Specialist at Boston University. Within that same year, Alicia's passion for technology and information grew. Alicia has had the opportunity to work in the most advanced tech labs and several Fortune 500, such as The Gillette Company, P&G, Thomson Reuters, Cengage Learning, IBM, Monster Worldwide, Randstad, TMP Worldwide, and Radancy.
Alicia Scott-Garrell is a visionary and results-oriented data strategist.
An accomplished Programmer ,Technical Analyst & Developer for 16 years. Leading both Agile and Waterfall development projects with a proven track record to increase ROIs by 35% YoY.
Using reporting tools and software applications to deliver best-in-practice insightful reports that will expose non-quantifiable measures; allowing organizations and C-suite Executives to make better decisions that will benefit the business or achieve goals set by senior management.
"I am confident in my ability to deliver innovative ideas through predictive analytics using strong business response models, with sharp visualizations that lead to Executive success".
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
At IBM, Alicia Scott-Garrell, will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM works in tandem by with the success of application development to help transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation.
IBM; International Business Machines (2021 - present)
Globally collaborating with IBM and clients. to develop and integrate code into enterprise systems.
Full access to IBM's garage of information technology, tech tools, and technology leaders to develop and maintain reliable, scalable, and efficient TM1 / Planning Analytics solutions by managing all phase of the software development life cycle (SDLC),
While in development, practice requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, integration, training and documentation.
Design the application and development implementation to Financial planning and reporting models in IBM Cognos Planning Analytics (TM1), IBM PAX, TM1 Web, TM1 Webshets.
Coding | writing complex business logic in TM1 Rules and Turbointegrator (TI).
Build comprehensive and executive level reports in Planning Analytics workspace (PAW) - code in MDX queries and structure standard reports using agile business rules and logic.
Demonstrate excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively and interact with business stakeholders.
Participate in technical planning & requirements gathering phases including design, code, test, troubleshoot, and document business applications.
Provide best practices Performance tuning of TM1 / Planning Analytics application.
Working in Agile environment 100% of the time.
Developing applications in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) applications , Planning Analytics Workspace, Planning Analytics for Excel or CAFE, TM1 Websheets, TM1Web 3+ years working with SQL, OLAP and data warehouse technologies, big data technologies such as spark, hadoop, map reduce, hive, airflow, and kubernetes.
TMP Worldwide (2019-2020)
Leading the creative design and data infrastructure to build high-level dashboards, in-depth reports, and APls that deliver data to partners.
Connecting across teams, consisting mostly of product managers, business analysts, sales organization, and 80+ engineers.
Gathering business requirements for report development, and building out those reports, which number in the hundreds today.
Manage multiple priorities across a mix of ad hoc and operational projects.
Use design-centered thinking methods to ensure that we are building tools that are easily to find and easy to use.
Monitor KPls around the usage of the products that we develop.
Develop meaningful metrics that communicate performance results tied to strategic objectives.
Provide quality analysis and reporting to assigned accounts, providing rationale to increase ROI.
Present reports and findings to key client stakeholders.
Be aware of other analytic solutions and/or vendors that clients’ may be utilizing.
Monster Worldwide (2015 - 2019)
Provide the partnership, product, sales enablement, and finance teams with analysis on prospective and existing partnerships/affiliates/vendors/customers – whilst understanding partners’ workflows and providing best practices in implementing Monster’s products/services.
An SME in identifying integration requirements that will provide 30% growth to the company’s KPIs.
Assisted in partner integrations, workflow design and project planning and execution to help drive integration through to completion.
IBM (2007 - 2015)
Directing a small team of System Administrators responsible for all aspects of IT.
Providing support to both internal and external customers. Responsible for FIT Systems data loads downstream during blackouts.
Developing and implementing Cognos tm1 applications for Software Group Finance Team in Windows and AIX environments.
Validated financial data to establish trust in the data in Hyperion Planning and Reporting applications.