Michael Askew

Background

About Michael Askew

Dedicated business professional and influential leader with strong business and technology management experience. History of increasing responsibility, successful application of technology to solve business problems, and initiation of new concepts to create new business opportunities. Motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal, communication and collaborative leadership skills, equally comfortable in business and technology settings. Proven ability to work with minimal supervision to achieve corporate, departmental and customer goals. Catalyst for driving strategic direction and new product offerings. Innovator, big picture thinker, detailed tactical planner and team player motivated by delivering results and making a difference. Specialties: Creating and conveying a clear vision and common goals for teams to rally behind—using collaborative and influence leadership, personal integrity, credibility, transparent communication and relationship-building across multiple business units, business, development and technology teams to collectively drive successful outcomes. Establishing technology-enabled, data-powered analytical and business intelligence capabilities, including delivery via Software-as-a-Service (SAAS Community Cloud) platforms built on Enterprise Data Warehouse and Big Data environments. Solution Sets, Technologies and Development Methodologies Leveraged: Big Data (Oracle Hadoop), Teradata enterprise data warehouse platform, MIDT booking, shopping and ticketing market data, Tableau (Heat Maps / Data Visualization / New Concept Mock-ups), Cognos, Scrum/Agile, Rally and Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) on the path to the Cloud (AWS, Google).