Fortune 100 Retail:
Construction of what is possibly the largest ABC / OLAP implementation on the planet, a 100 + terabyte federated EDW / ABC / OLAP hybrid that provides comprehensive operational P&L information across the entire enterprise and yields substantial expense reduction via improved store staffing, category management, merchandiser benchmarking & incentives, increased selling leverage, and supplier negotiations.
Inventor / Author:
New software IP that reduces ABC allocation data volume as much as 80% while halving allocation processing time, even while improving query performance, thereby significantly reducing client spend on expensive SAN storage systems, via the creative use of OLAP hyper-cubes and MDX to perform deferred, run-time cost allocations rather than RDBMS batch processing.
Fortune 100 Oil & Gas:
Constructed an Enterprise data warehouse supporting roughly 3000 end users responsible for nearly every major business process in the company, and design / construction of various datamarts in support of pricing execution, sales performance, marketing funds, and receivables collection.
Fortune 100 Computers:
Supply Planning system to enable optimum supply chain efficiency for a business with a 6-month product obsolescence cycle, at a time when annual forecasted demanded exceeded fulfillment capacity by 50%, so as to fulfill 95% of orders in 5 days or less.
Thought Leadership
Mr. Foulkrod publishes regularly to DMReview wherein he discusses topics related to the VDDW approach.
Education
Rice University, B.A. English
Technical Proficiency
Mr. Foulkrod is a seasoned integrator with breadth and depth of experience across multiple operating platforms, database vendors and technologies (both relational and OLAP), ERP packages, integration tools, programming languages, and architectures.
Personal
Proudly married to wife Tonya for 11 years with four beautiful daughters, Grace, Ruth, Ella, and Ally Rose
Mr. Foulkrod doesn’t have much time for extracurriculars!
