Rob Wolfe
Profile
Experienced in building solutions for Enterprise Data and Application initiatives and skilled in recruiting and leading teams for Master Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Data Engineering, and Enterprise Architecture. I retired too early and now seek a technical or organizational challenge. I specialize in the player/coach leadership model and am open to leadership or IC roles.
Selected Experience
Pender County School Board
Burgaw, NC
Substitute Teacher
Jan 2024 - Present
- Short and long term substitute teacher for elementary, middle, and high school
- Teaching
Retired
Castle Hayne, NC
Retired
Jan 2023 - Present
- Retired too early. Looking for a new challenge.
X by 2, LLC
Farmington Hills, MI
Enterprise Data Architect, Project Manager
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
- Successful hands-on leadership of overall architecture and execution from start to delivery and beyond of a project to add data lake capabilities to existing data warehousing infrastructure
- Successful hands-on leadership of implementation teams for various M&A related data projects, all of which went to production
- Member of Core management team for 150+ person project
- Primary Client - P&C Insurance Carrier
- AWS (EC2, S3)
- Client Management
- Cloudera Data Platform
- Collibra
- Confluence
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- DB2
- DuckCreek Policy Admin
- ER/Studio
- Excel
- Guidewire ClaimCenter
- Hive
- Java
- Jira
- Kafka
- MS Project
- People Management
- PowerBI
- PowerPoint
- Project Management
- Python
- Spark
- SQL Server
- SSIS
- SSRS
- Visio
- Wherescape
FCCI
Sarasota, FL
Enterprise Information Architect
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
- Created current and future state data architectures for a billion-dollar insurance company
- Developed IT Strategy aligning technology with business objectives
- Led the development and socialization of a Data Governance program
- Managed IT Shared Services (HR, Finance, IT, Legal, Analytics) demand and capacity management
- Alfabet
- AWS (EC2, S3)
- Confluence
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Enterprise Architecture
- ER/Studio
- Excel
- Jira
- MongoDB
- MS Project
- Oracle
- Peoplesoft
- PowerPoint
- Project Management
- SQL Server
- Talend
- Visio
- WebMethods
ALFA Insurance
Montgomery, AL
Enterprise Architect
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
- Chair of IT Architectural Review Board
- Successful rollout of Application Portfolio Management initiative
- Successful rollout of Customer Information Architecture initiative consisting of Customer 360 view, Data Quality Improvement initiatives, and associated data access capabilities
- Member of corporate Data Governance Board
- Architectural oversight for a successful full suite GuideWire – implementation from inception to delivery
- Acquired TOGAF certification in Enterprise Architecture
- Domain Architect for Enterprise Information Management
- Domain Architect for all Data & Analytics initiatives
- AWS (EC2, S3)
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Enterprise Architecture
- ER/Studio
- Excel
- Guidewire Insurance Suite
- MS Project
- Oracle
- PowerPoint
- Project Management
- SQL Server
- SSIS
- SSRS
- Teradata
- TOGAF
- Visio
NY State Office of Mental Health
Albany, NY
Enterprise Data Architect
Jan 2012 - Apr 2015
- Oversaw Analytical architecture modernization which saved over $250,000 in annual license fees with increased capability and no incremental up-front cost
- Oversaw implementation of Analytical infrastructure modernization project which ended $1,000,000 under budget
- Designed and delivered systems to support a joint venture with the federal government is bringing in over $1,000,000 per quarter in new state revenue
- Managed ETL development team when manager resigned during a high-profile project
- Leadership of reporting, analytical, and data architecture for all BI/DW efforts from inception to delivery
- Member of Architectural Review Board
- Designed and led development of Patient Care Historical Data Store incorporating 30 years data from 3 EHR systems for 3000 bed hospital system from inception to delivery
- Analytics
- AWS (EC2, S3)
- Data Architecture
- Data Governance
- Data Management Leadership
- ER/Studio
- Excel
- Java
- MS Project
- OBIEE
- Oracle
- Oracle E-Suite
- People Management
- PowerPoint
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Python
- SAS
- SQL Server
- Visio
Cummins
Columbus, IN
Chief BI Architect
June 2011 - Dec 2011
- Oversaw an effort to implement Worldwide enterprise reporting infrastructure which was stood up in 6 months after having been stalled for over a year
- Negotiated workable SLA with global vendor for support of enterprise reporting platform
- Developed multi-year roadmap to migrate 20,000+ reports from over 100 applications to new reporting platform
- Led 5 person architecture team responsible for supporting all facets of enterprise reporting and analytics
- Analytics
- Data Architecture
- ER/Studio
- Excel
- MS Project
- OBIEE
- Oracle
- People Management
- PowerPoint
- Program Management
- Python
- SQL Server
- Visio
Valassis
Windsor, CT
Reporting & Dashboarding Manager
Jan 2007 - Jul 2010
- Grew Reporting & Analytics team at a $3 Billion direct marketing company from 2 to 12 members over 3 years
- Cost analysis that prevented incorrect expectation of $5,000,000 annual saving from contract language change
- Responsible from Data Architecture from inception to delivery and beyond
- Established KPIs for Sales & Manufacturing segments
- Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- ER/Studio
- Excel
- Java
- MS Project
- OBIEE
- Oracle
- People Management
- Peoplesoft
- PowerPoint
- Project Management
- Python
- SQL Server
- Visio
Oracle Canada
Mississauga, ON
Sr Principal Consultant - BI
Feb 2006 – Dec 2006
- Led several small customer engagements for Enterprise Reporting & Analytics
- Delivered long term Reporting & Analytics strategy roadmap for large ERP implementation
- Client Management
- Data Stategy
- Excel
- MS Project
- OBIEE
- Oracle
- PowerPoint
- Visio
DMR Consulting
Dartmouth, NS
Technology Architect
Apr 1996 – Jan 2002
- Mentoring of technical and non-technical clients in the appropriate use of data tools
- Project management for various large data projects, including one of the first TB-scale data integration projects in the country
- Design of TB-scale integration platform for Canada's equivalent of Social Security Administration
- Analytics
- C
- Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- DB2
- DBA
- Oracle
- Project Management
- SQL Server
Nutat Technologies
Ottawa, ON
Software Development Manager
Apr 1994 – Apr 1995
- Led efforts to respond to client RFQs and RFIs
- Led the 5 member team responsible for developing commercial software for the auto parts industry - a $5MM/yr product
- C
- Delivery Management
- FoxPro
- Oracle
- People Management
- Project Management
- SQL Server
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, ON
Financial Reporting Programmer/Analyst
May 1988 – Apr 1994
- Developed data integration pipelines and library catalog system.
- C
- Data Architecture
- Data Modeling
- FoxPro
- Oracle
Education
B Comp Sci
Acadia University
May 1988
Master of Arts, Teaching -- Middle School Mathematics
Western Governor's University
January 2026

- +1 334 531 9957
- hire.me@rob-wolfe.com
- Castle Hayne, North Carolina
Skills & Tools
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Business Skills
- Data Management Leadership
- Data Governance
- Mentoring
- People Management
- Program Management
- Project Management
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Technical Skills
- API Design
- Data Analytics
- Data Architecture & Modeling
- Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF Certified)
- ERP Data Integration
- Master Data Management
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Project Management
- Confluence
- Excel
- Jira
- MS Project
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Data Management
- DB2
- Hadoop
- Hive
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
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ETL/ELT Tools
- Informatica
- ODI
- Talend Open Studio
- Wherescape
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Reporting & Dashboarding Tools
- OBIEE
- Power BI
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Data Modeling
- ER/Studio
- Erwin
- SQL Developer
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Programming
- C
- Java
- JavaScript
- PL/SQL
- Python
- SQL
- T-SQL
Verticals
- Government
- Healthcare
- Insurance (P&C)
Languages
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EnglishNative
Certifications
- TOGAF (2017)
- ITIL Foundations (2001)
Citizenship
- Canada
- United States
Interests
- Electronics
- Entrepreneurship
- Experimental Music