Iā€™m Alex Norum,

I'm a Senior Business Analyst, Data Nerd, and Web Development Enthusiast. Living and working in Portland, OR.

Summary

Professionally, I am a Senior Business Analyst with 6 years of experience collaborating with cross-functional teams. I analyze business data, processes, and systems to ensure successful implementation of supply chain projects.

My strengths include automating dataflows, creative solution design, building analytic dashboards, and effectively communicating results.

For hobby, I enjoy building websites and learning about web development!

Skills


Python


SQL


Data Visualization


Javascript


Machine Learning


Git


Testing


HTML


CSS


Boostrap


Sass


React


Vue.js


Flask


Django


Oracle

Work Experience


Oracle Corporation

Senior Data Analyst - Data OS

March 2020 - Current

Senior Data Analyst - Product Analytics

October 2019 - March 2020

Senior Business Process Analyst

March 2015 - October 2019

Collaborate with Product Development, DevOps and business owners to lead and analyze Procurement and Inventory projects. Responsibilities include designing processes, identifying gaps, leading software testing, and implementing solutions utilizing Oracle Applications. Drive continuous analytics to ensure sustaining Procurement and Inventory execution efficiency.

  • Successfully led business requirements gathering, testing, documenting, user training, and software implementation on projects to optimize Oracle Supply Chain. Projects include on-prem to cloud transition, acquisitions, new supplier onboardings, and multiple new organization setups.
  • Spearheaded effort to clean and analyze software bug data to target software fixes and training to prevent repeating issues. This effort led to a reduction of service tickets by 34%.
  • Analyzed and solved over 200 supply chain software bugs varying in complexity. Many required querying and analyzing large amounts of transactional data.

Capacity Planning Manager

June 2014 - March 2015

Monitored, analyzed, and forecasted manufacturing capacity for Worldwide Supply Chain Operations. Responsible for ad-hoc reporting and recommendations to senior level management daily.

  • Developed advanced Microsoft Excel macro which reduced daily manual reporting from 4 hours to 20 minutes. This opened the role up to be more strategic and created the ability to run quick simulations.
  • Created visualizations of key capacity metrics to easily communicate capacity constraints and possible resolutions to management.
  • Managed the development of a manufacturing tool which automated the sorting, filtering, aggregating, and visualizing of data. This tool significantly reduced manual work required for manufacturing to prioritize their queue.

Materials Planner

January 2014 - June 2014

Planned and monitored material infeed for the T5-2 and T5-4 SPARC platform to ensure Clean to Build and on-time work order release.

Production Control Analyst

July 2013 - January 2014

Ensured clean to build and accurate work order release. Resolved any exceptions which occurred during the Manufacturing process.

  • Developed application to manage and metric errors in item attributes. This tool significantly simplified and accelerated fixing work order errors.

Education


University of Oregon

BS Information Systems and Operations Management

June 2013

Minor in Computer Information Technology

June 2013