Marvin Speer
High Ridge
Summary
Results-driven Business Analytics Manager at Cigna Healthcare with expertise in data analytics and business intelligence. Spearheaded custom dashboard creation and large-scale implementations, enhancing performance and decision-making. Proficient in SAS programming and known for excellent communication skills, successfully managing multiple projects to achieve strategic business objectives.
Reliable Analytics Manager known for helping clients translate business and financial goals into actionable data management plans. Bridges gaps between technical and non-technical personnel. Provider of holistic, beneficial analytics oversight for clients of all sizes in all areas of interest.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analytics Manager
Cigna Healthcare
11.2017 - 03.2025
- Created custom dashboards and interfaces designed specifically to suit customer needs and priorities for optimal performance.
- Managed large-scale implementations on platforms such as SSMS and SAS.
- Ran statistical analyses within software to process large datasets.
- Organized several simultaneous ongoing projects, delegating personnel and resources to optimally meet overarching business goals and minimize redundancies.
- Integrated third-party analytics solutions into ongoing projects.
Plan Implementation Specialist
Cigna Healthcare
11.2011 - 11.2017
- Installed and configured operating systems and applications.
- Generated reports to track performance and analyze trends.
- Responded to customer inquiries and provided technical assistance over phone and in person.
- Tested new software and hardware prior to deployment.
- Lead and participate in auditing, corrections, implementation or termination of large contact and data management projects.
- Develop Microsoft Access Databases to track an provide updates to impacted areas of provider files.
Senior Corporate Accountant
Maritz, Inc.
11.1999 - 11.2011
- Used advanced software to prepare documents, reports, and presentations.
- Cooperated with senior leaders to create operating budgets and initiate financial planning.
- Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues.
- Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.
- Provided journal entries and performed accounting on accrual basis.
- Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.
- Served as a major contributer to the Finance team during the upgrade to Oracle 11i General Ledger from Masterpiece.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Lindenwood University
Saint Charles, MO06-1989
Skills
- Data security
- Business intelligence
- Machine learning
- Data warehousing
- SAS programming
- Python programming
- SQL programming
- Data analytics
- Data architecture
- Data programming
- Excellent communication
Accomplishments
- Developed over 50 automated programs by using Visual Studio, SSMS, and SAS to help team with business needs to complete data analysis.
- Used Microsoft Access to develop remediation databases to help streamline and automate manual processes and procedures.
- Collaborated with team of 5 in the development of SAS Projects for equivalency.
- Supervised team of 8 staff members.
- Nominated to Customer-Centricity Team to act as technical support for leadership team.
Cigna Champion Award (seventeen-time winner)
Provided accurate and timely data when requested by internal clients using MS Access to pull provider data. Designed and built process steps needed to fulfill requests of business team. Use of ODBC connections to all our source systems, such as Oracle and DB2 into MS Access to build the queries and vba to streamline the processing team significantly.
Timeline
Business Analytics Manager
Cigna Healthcare
11.2017 - 03.2025
Plan Implementation Specialist
Cigna Healthcare
11.2011 - 11.2017
Senior Corporate Accountant
Maritz, Inc.
11.1999 - 11.2011
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Lindenwood University
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