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Tom Wilson

All Things Data (and Some AI)!

$1,000/day
Dubai City, AE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Tom

I am a data professional with over 25 years in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Migration, ETL as well as significant experience building Data & Analytics departments from scratch. Last 10 years have also included leadership experience.

More recently, I became a Certified AI Transformation Leader allowing me to leverage my data delivery experience in AI projects.
  • German

    Conversational

  • Russian

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Dubai City (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Confidential
    Chief Data and AI Officer (Fractional)
    October 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)
    • Engaging with several startups to help them to define their vision of AI tools, and help them to formulate a strategy for their MVP and beyond.
    • Hands-on prototyping of GenAI use cases which quickly can provide repeatable, predictable, and accurate results.
    • Ensuring a comprehensive data strategy is defined and executed upon in order to feed AI, including areas of Data Quality, Data Governance, Data Protection and using best practices in Data Warehousing to use summarized data whenever possible.
  • Bank of Montreal
    DIRECTOR DATA AND ANALYTICS
    August 2022 - January 2025 (2 years and 5 months)
    • Audited Project and provided feedback to the CTO and Senior Leadership Team on necessary changes required to address gaps.
    • In the latter part of this project, was reassigned to spearhead the extraction process to ensure the remaining petabyte of data would be efficiently extracted using Python, and AWS technologies preventing a delay in Data Center closure.
    • A founding member of the Data and Analytics team that created the analysis environment within our Line of Business, ensuring a seamless analytics experience.
    • Created a reporting system to track our progress at a granular level pulling together disparate data into a central reporting database and application to ensure alignment across teams around the world, which substantially increased team velocity and reporting accuracy.
    INNOVAPOST
  • Innovapost
    HEAD OF DATA ANALYTICS
    July 2021 - August 2022 (1 year and 1 month)
    • Worked on several high-profile struggling projects within the Business and Data Analytics portfolio, bringing each to successful conclusion. In one instance, I was able to resolve variances found in User Acceptance Testing in two weeks what the team had not been able to resolve in nine months.
    • Acted as a trusted advisor and internal advocate to help refine the business vision to tangible offerings.
    • Worked to secure funding for enterprise projects via participating in RFP creation, project estimation including the creation of a project estimation application to drive consistency in estimates for projects.
    • Helped business teams to define their KPIs, their measurement and ensuring all stakeholders are satisfied with our products, balancing Customer Experience (CX) needs along with Sales, Finance and Operations.

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Education

  • Master of Technology in Information Technology
    Information Technology Institute
    1998
    Applied Information Technology Diploma: Diploma
  • Master of Business Administration
    Southwestern Oklahoma State University
    1996
    Master of Business Administration: Degree

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