PROFILE__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Omolade is a Data Management & Business Intelligence Consultant with Accenture. He has expertise in Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Data Analytics, IT Release/Project Portfolio Planning, and Decision Support. He has been involved in several high-profile projects, including as a key contributor to multi-million dollar ERP software and a large scale web-based enterprise application for IT release planning and project portfolio management. His consulting experience cuts across different sectors of the economy; including Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Human Resources. Omolade has extensive Decision Support/Data Analytics Research experience. He has received several national and international awards for his work (recipient of NSERC-CGSD and iCORE awards). Omolade has given talks at conferences/workshops in Canada, USA and Europe.

EDUCATION_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada                                                                                                                                                                        2004 – 2007 
      Ph.D., Computer Science (CGPA: 4.0/4.0)

University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, KSA                                                                                                                                                   2001 – 2003
      M.Sc., Computer Science (CGPA: 3.94/4.0)

Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria                                                                                                                                                      1992 – 1998
      B.Tech., Mathematics/Computer Science (CGPA: 4.66/5.0)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

        Business Intelligence: Microsoft SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, PPS, ProClarity, Data Mining, MDX; Cognos 8 Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Framework Manager;
        QlikView; SAP Business Objects Universe Designer, Web Intelligence
        Database: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle
        Other Tools: Borland Together, Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Office Suite, Optimization & Decision Support tools (e.g. ILOG CPLEX, , Expert Choice, and ROSE),
        Kimball Methodologies, UML, Sharepoint, Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Agile Project Delivery

WORK EXPERIENCE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

        Accenture, Calgary, Canada                                                                                                                                                Information Management Services
          Data Management & Business Intelligence Consultant                                                                                                                          06/2010 – Present

Expertise include:

• Enterprise Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence strategy and roadmap development

       Online Business Systems, Calgary, Canada                                                                                                                     Corporate Performance Management
          Senior Business Intelligence Consultant                                                                                                                                                 10/2007 – 06/2010

Reporting directly to the Director of Corporate Performance Management, my responsibilities to clients include:

• Facilitating BI requirements gathering and conducting BI current state and readiness assessment

• Instituting performance management initiatives for clients and managing BI project delivery

• Developing roadmap for both short and longer term strategies for delivering data analytics and reporting via Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

• Design and implementation of OLAP cube architectures, dashboards, analytic and production reports

• Designing reporting architectures that enable users to most effectively utilize their information tools

• Developing predictive analytics and forecast models

• Architecting and development of Call Centre performance management application built on top of Genesys Infomart and QlikView in-memory BI technology

• Developing process improvement models and researching vendor packaged applications for clients

• Successfully co-authored several winning Request for Proposal/Pricing (RFP) for projects in Interactive voice response (IVR), Healthcare, and Oil & Gas
  
  Clients and Project Engagements include:
   

   

  • University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine , Winnipeg, MB (Education): Developing BI Analytics and Reporting Solution for monitoring and managing medical students' education
     

  • Automobile Club of Southern California (ACSC), Costa Mesa, CA (Contact Centre): BI Analytics for monitoring the performance of ACSC Call Centres and the Agents and their activities
     

  • Alberta Health Services (AHS), AB, Canada (Healthcare): BI Current State Assessment project. Deliverables include a review report on existing multi-platform BI toolset and architectural roadmap for future BI growth
     

  • Spectra Energy, Calgary, AB (Midstream Gas): Central Business Intelligence Reporting Solution. Part of the deliverables are OLAP cubes, dashboards and cost/production related predictive analytics and forecast models for pipeline operating areas

    
     

  • Gibson Energy ULC, Calgary, Canada (Midstream Oil & Gas): BI Analytics for supporting decisions regarding the optimization of crude oil & condensates movement  between wells and terminals. Deliverables include data mart, cube, and a set of analytical and operational reports
     

  • National Leasing Group (NLG), Calgary, AB (Financial Services): BI Analytics and Reporting for monitoring sales trend and forecasting profitability. Main deliverables include requirements document, logical and physical design, sales data mart, cube, dashboard, a set of analytical & operational reports and profitability forecast modules

    
     

  • Calgary Health Region (CHR), Calgary, AB (Healthcare): BI Analytics for monitoring chronic disease and managing the administration of proper and targeted care to patients. A set of analytical and operational reports constitute the main deliverables
     

  • TransCanada Pipelines Ltd, Calgary, AB (Midstream Gas): Crude Oil Pipeline Management Solution Evaluation

Fraunhofer USA Inc., College Park, USA                                                                               Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland (FC-MD)
      Visiting Researcher                                                                                                                                                                                           07/2006 – 08/2006

• Conducted empirical studies to evaluate a software architecture analysis framework using a NASA Flight Assistance System prototype

• Data analysis to support software development and management decisions

     University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia                                                                                           Dept. of Information & Computer Science
            Research Associate/Lecturer                                                                                                                                                                              01/2001 – 12/2003

• Designed and implemented a software effort prediction tool based on proposed learning algorithms

• Developed a UML based analysis and design models for KFUPM Graduate Admission Office System.

• Designed, taught and graded undergraduate courses in Computer Science & Software Engineering

SystemSpecs Limited, Lagos, Nigeria                                                                                                                                         Software Development Department
      Systems Analyst/Programmer                                                                                                                                                                             05/1999 – 01/2001

• Active member of the team that designed, developed, and maintained HumanManager® – Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. HumanManager® currently runs in over 150 client sites across Africa (see: http://www.systemspecs.com.ng/clients/)

• Created, maintained and modified business requirements document

• Designed and implemented core reporting modules and data encryption for the ERP software

• Performed defects analysis, classification, and correction.

• Met with clients to discuss and negotiate specific customization requirements

• Created test data, test procedures and test scenarios for new/existing features

Cornerstone Insurance Plc, Lagos, Nigeria                                                                                                                                                                 Systems Unit
      Technical Support Specialist                                                                                                                                                                            12/1998 – 04/1999

• Multi-user system administration on UNIX and technical support on insurance applications

DEVELOPMENT COURSES & TRAINING_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Architecting and Implementing Performance Management Solutions with Microsoft PerformancePoint^TM Server 2007: Planning, Monitoring & Analytics

• Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking into Content Instruction - National Centre for Teaching Thinking, USA

• Web Programming and Database Integration using HTML, ASP and JavaScript

• Microsoft SQL Server Administration and Implementation

AWARDS/HONORS_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• 4th Quarter 2007 Employee Contribution Recognition Award, Online Business Systems

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral  (CGS-D) (Value: $70,000)

• Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Supplementary Scholarship for NSERC-CGSD (Value: $20,000)

• Departmental Research Scholarship Awards, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada (Value: $12,000)

• Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) International Student Scholarship (Value: $30,000)

• Graduate Research Award (GRA), Software Engineering Decision Support Lab, University of Calgary (Value: $56,000)

• Faculty of Graduate Studies Scholarship, University of Calgary (Value: $1,000)

• King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Research Scholarship (Value: SR36,000)

• Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies (Value: N135,000)

• University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF) for PhD (Value: $64,000) – award declined

• Best Poster Award, 2005 Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Summit, Banff, Canada

• College Merit Award for the 2002/2003 Academic Year, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

• Overall Best Graduating Student, Mathematics/Computer Science Department, Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Nigeria

• Dean’s Honors List, FUT, Minna (Throughout my undergraduate years)

• Nigerian Association of Mathematics Students (NAMS) Award for best 400L Mathematics/Computer Science student

• Nigerian Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS) Award for best 300L Mathematics/Computer Science student

PUBLICATIONS___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Refereed Journals:

1. Ruhe, G. and Saliu, M. O., “The Art and Science of Software Release Planning,” IEEE Software, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 47-53, Nov/Dec, 2005

2. Saliu, O. and Ruhe, G., “Software Release Planning for Evolving Systems,” Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: a NASA Journal, 1(2), pp. 189-204, Sept. 2005

3. Ahmed, M. A., Saliu, M. O., and Al-Ghamdi, J., “Adaptive Fuzzy Logic-Based Framework for Software Development Effort Prediction,” Information and Software Technology, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 31-48, Jan. 2005. [Ranked in the Top 10 Hottest Articles of Information & Software Technology (2004-2005)]

Book Chapters and Book Review:

1. Saliu, M. O. Release Planning of Software Systems – A Decision Support Approach, VDM Verlag Publishing, Germany, April 2009, ISBN: 978-3639149531

2. Saliu, M. O., Lindvall, M., Ackermann, C., and Ruhe, G. “Evaluating the Modifiability of Software Architectural Designs,” in: Marvin V. Zelkowitz (Eds.), Advances in Computers, Elsevier Inc, 2009.

3. Saliu, M. O., “Understanding Story-Driven Development Processes,” [Review of User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn], IEEE Software, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 103-104, Nov/Dec, 2005.

4. Maurice, S., Ruhe, G., Saliu, O., and Ngo-The, A., “Decision Support for Value-Based Software Release Planning,” in: S. Biffl, A. Aurum, B. Boehm, H. Erdogmus, P. Grünbacher (Eds.), Value-Based Software Engineering, Springer, Sept 2005, ISBN 3-540-25993-7.




5. Saliu, M. O. and Ahmed, M., “Soft Computing Based Effort Prediction Systems - A Survey,” in: E. Damiani, L. C. Jain, and M. Madravio (Eds.), Soft Computing in Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, July 2004, ISBN 3-540-22030-5.

Refereed Conferences & Workshops:

1. Saliu, M. O., and Ruhe G., “Bi-Objective Release Planning for Evolving Software Systems,” 11th European Software Engineering Conference and 15th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2007), Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept. 3-7, 2007.

2. Saliu, M. O., “Software Release Planning via Systematic Impact Analysis,” Doctoral Symposium, 14^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’06), Minneapolis, MN, USA, Sept. 11-15, 2006.

3. Ruhe G. and Saliu, O., “Art and Science of System Release Planning,” Tutorial, 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFESS 2006), Amsterdam, Germany, LNCS 4034, June 12-14, 2006, pp. 458-461.

4. Ngo-The, A. and Saliu, M. O., “Measuring Dependency Constraint Satisfaction in Software Release Planning using Dissimilarity of Fuzzy Graphs,” 4th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI'05), Irvine, California, USA, Aug. 8-10, 2005, pp. 301-307.

5. Ngo-The, A. and Saliu, M. O., “Fuzzy Structural Dependency Constraints in Software Release Planning,” IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2005),  Reno, Nevada, USA, May 22-25, 2005, pp. 442-447.

6. Saliu, O. and Ruhe, G., “Supporting Software Release Planning Decisions for Evolving Systems,” 29th IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29), Greenbelt, MD, USA, April 6-7, 2005.

7. Ruhe, G., Saliu, O., Bhawnani, P., Momoh, J. and Ngo-The, A.,  “Decision Support for Software Release Planning - Methods, Tools, and Practical Experience,” Tutorial, 29th IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29), Greenbelt, MD, USA, April 3 & 8, 2005, pp. 217-250.

8. Saliu, M. O., Ahmed, M. A., and Al-Ghamdi, J. S., “Towards Adaptive Soft Computing Based Software Effort Prediction,” North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference (NAFIPS 2004), IEEE Computers, June 27-30, 2004, Banff, Canada, pp. 16-21.

9. Saliu, M. O. and Shafique, M., “Techniques for Storing XML Data in Relations,” 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003), July 27-30, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 228-233.

10. Al-Ghamdi, J. and Saliu, M. O., “Analysis and Theoretical Validation of Object-Oriented Coupling Metrics,” IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics (AI’03), Feb. 10-13, 2003, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 1145 - 1152.

11. Saliu, M. O. and Salah, K., “Starvation Problem in CPU Scheduling for Multimedia Systems,” 4th Workshop on Information and Computer Science (WICS'2002), March 17 - 18, 2002, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, pp. 489-524.

Technical Reports:

1. Saliu, O., and Ruhe G., “Feature Interdependency in the Solution Domain and its Implications for Release Planning,” Technical Report (TR-066/2007), Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory (SEDS), Jan., 2007, pp. 1-40.

2. Saliu, O., and Ruhe G., “Making Judgment on Modifiability of Evolving Systems Components using Bayesian Networks,” Technical Report (TR-063/2006), Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory (SEDS), Oct., 2006, pp. 1-13.

Research Posters:

Saliu, O., “S-EVOLVE* - A Decision Support Method for Planning Releases of Evolving Software Systems,” Students Poster Competition, 2005 Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE) Summit, Aug. 31 – Sept. 2, 2005, Banff, Canada.

Project & Thesis:

1. Saliu, M. O., “Decision Support for Release Planning of Software Systems ,” PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 2007.

2. Saliu, M. O., “Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Based Framework for Software Development Effort Prediction,” Master's Thesis, Department of Information & Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, April 2003.

3. Saliu, M. O., “Modeling and Simulation of the Concentration of Species in a Bimolecular Chemical Reaction,” Senior project, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, December 1998.

VOLUNTEER SERVICES____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Volunteered at the Graduate Studies Expo 2005, Calgary, Canada

• Volunteered at the Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'04) Conference, Banff, Canada

• Reviewed technical and industrial papers for several conferences in software engineering – IASTED-AI’03, SEKE’04, METRICS’04, METRICS’05, and HICSS-39

• Reviewed technical papers for the Information and Software Technology Journal

• Program Committee Member for the Mini-track on Software Engineering Decision Support, at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS-39), Jan. 4-7, 2006

• Member of the Committee on Research and Applied Projects for the College of Computer Science & Engineering at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, 2003

• Volunteered as Academic Tutor for undergraduate students in the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, FUT, Minna, Nigeria (1994-1998)

LEADERSHIP_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Vice President Operations, Software Engineering Consulting Consortium, University of Calgary (2004-2006)

• Software Director, Nigerian Association of Computer Science Students (1995-1997)

• National Secretary, Ayetoro-Gbede Students’ Union (1998-1999)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION______________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• IEEE Computer Society

HOBBIES/INTERESTS_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Basketball, Soccer, Squash, Traveling, and Meeting People

REFERENCES____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Available upon request