As the Principal Architect at a large Canadian bank, he provided expert guidance in the development of a revised target architecture for their existing CRM data warehouse.  The work products included a data warehouse re-engineering / renovation strategy, an application, data and technology architecture roadmap identifying current and future technology and, a programme plan to achieve the desired target state.  As a result, the bank has experienced significant reductions in load times and an improved data architecture facilitating both development and longer term maintenance as well as improved query performance for their OLAP and data mining applications.

In the role of Technical Programme Manager for a large Australian bank, Mr. Light provided advice on the best use of business intelligence technology in support of the bank’s CRM strategy and led the infrastructure planning and implementation activities as part of a $20 million AUD enhancement to an existing customer data warehouse.  The infrastructure enhancements allowed very aggressive nightly load windows for recalculations of Hyperion Essbase cubes in support of approximately 2000 domestic and international users.  This $8.5 million AUD portion of the project was delivered on time and within budget.

As Project Manager at a large U.S. bank, Mr. Light designed, developed, and implemented a data warehouse to analyze and manage the organization’s global computer-communications infrastructure.

During his career in the public sector, Mr. Light managed the successful implementation of some of the earliest client-server, distributed database applications.  He was his department’s client server and data warehouse development expert.