Alan Brown

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Chief Technology Officer at Aptitude Global @ Aptitude Global
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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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I'm an innovation-focused CTO with extensive experience in all things data. I recognise Data as a companies most valuable asset and promote a combination of automation and solid data management principles to achieve scale and efficiency without sacrificing quality. I have a special interest in solving efficiency and accuracy problems in the Financial Crime and Fraud Detection domains and could talk endlessly about the virtues of graph technology!

Alan Brown's Current Company Details
Aptitude Global

Aptitude Global

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Chief Technology Officer at Aptitude Global
Alan Brown Work Experience Details
  • Aptitude Global
    Chief Technology Officer
    Aptitude Global Apr 2022 - Present
    London, Gb
  • Aptitude Global
    Principal Architect
    Aptitude Global Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
    London, Gb
  • Royal Bank Of Scotland
    Head Of Data Management
    Royal Bank Of Scotland Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
    Managed various project and platform teams delivering and supporting Data Management and Governance capabilities including Data Integration, Profiling, Lineage, Archiving, Masking, Mastering and Quality. Was technology owner for Informatica, Neo4j, MongoDB and laterly Quantexa throughout this role.Delivered an enterprise scale Data Governance platform utilising graph technology, graph visualisation and an AI backed metadata discovery capability.
  • Royal Bank Of Scotland
    Project Development Manager
    Royal Bank Of Scotland Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
    Had responsibility for delivery of a large regulatory project for Ulster Bank. Was responsible for the overall Architecture and design and delivery of the sourcing, integration, operational and reporting platforms. These utilised Informatica Powercenter, Oracle, Java Spring Microservices and a JavaScript front end.
  • Datawave, An Hcl Company
    Principle Architect
    Datawave, An Hcl Company Mar 2016 - Feb 2021
    Using Software, Automation and Agile practices to deliver first class data integration solutions.
  • Di Solutions Ltd
    Director
    Di Solutions Ltd Sep 2010 - Feb 2016
    Previous Clients included JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, BSkyB and RBS.
  • Sky
    Etl Consultant
    Sky Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
    Undertook a contract with the Enterprise Data Management team to migrate their Data Warehouse population from using Informatica to Netezza and Ab Initio.Required Skills:* Informatica 7.1.2, 8.6.0* Netezza* Unix Shell
  • Hsbc Securities
    Data Modeller
    Hsbc Securities Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
    Contracted by HSBC Securities Services as a Data Modeller working primarily on a large scale project to extend the UK Custody Data Warehouse. Responsibilities included:* Design of the integrated data model changes (using SAP PowerDesigner) (3NF/Dimensional/LDM/PDM).* Writing technical design documentation.* Requirements analysis.* Scrum.* Sprint Planning.* Unix/SQL/PLSQL scripting.* Java.
  • Sky
    Project Lead/Data Modeller
    Sky Sep 2012 - Jun 2013
    Middlesex, England, Gb
    Worked as as a Project Lead for Agile Solutions at BSkyB in Livingston to re-design a Customer Data Warehouse. Responsible for the design of the new dimensional data warehouse and managing a blended team of developers, testers and analysts. The goal was to deliver an end-to-end ELT solution to populate large volumes of CRM and telephony data into a target Netezza warehouse to support both ad-hoc and scheduled reporting.
  • Jpmorgan Chase
    Etl Consultant
    Jpmorgan Chase Sep 2010 - Sep 2012
    Worked as an ETL consultant for the Reference Data Team and was responsible for Informatica PowerCenter design and development of solutions to provide strategic feeds of common reference data for internal clients. Responsible for the design of a new ETL architecture and migrating the existing codeset from Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1 to 9.1.Also delivered PowerCenter training courses within the bank and developed code for a front end GWT Web Application utilising Java, Spring and Hibernate. Required
  • Agile Solutions Ltd
    Senior Consultant
    Agile Solutions Ltd Sep 2009 - Sep 2010
    Employed as a Consultant with Agile Solutions. Worked with many clients including Business Stream (Scottish Water) and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Consultancy work included a large Informatica project utilisng Scrum within RBS to replace a legacy general ledger system with an Oracle GL. Developed a host of complex mappings drawing data from the mainframe system, implementing an array of accounting processes and loading the data into an operational data store and seperate reporting schema. This project utilised continuous integration testing, test driven development and automated deployments in true agile fashion. Also responsible for a large offshore team of developers and built the online data maintenance system using ASP.Net and C#. Additional work on this project included business analysis and data modelling Skills:1. Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1,9.2. Unix3. ASP/C#.Net (v 3.5).4. Oracle 11g.
  • Logica
    Change Manager
    Logica Aug 2007 - Sep 2009
    Roles within Logica included: Change Manager, Technical Lead and Applications Developer. Spent most of his time at Logica utilising his Data Warehousing skills with Informatica in the Utilities sector for ScottishPower and had been involved heavily designing and developing end-to-end data quality solutions.On a daily basis required technical knowledge of Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle, ASP.Net, C# and Unix.
  • Nmahp
    Architect
    Nmahp Jun 2005 - Jun 2007
    Undertook a contract to provide a contact and resource management system for a large research organisation in the public sector. Solution invovled design of a new data model and a workflow management and reporting tool.Also provided consultancy and support until March 2010.Technologies: MySQL, Java.
  • Panasonic Usa.
    Phd Research Student
    Panasonic Usa. Sep 2004 - Feb 2007
    Was sponsored by the Panasonic Digital Networking Laboratory in Princeton, NJ to complete a PhD at Stirling University. Was responsible for conducting research into Efficient Service Discovery using P2P networks . Worked in a globally deployed team in the USA, UK, Russia and the Ukraine and whilst working with Panasonic published 12 peer-reviewed publications. Also worked in the PDNL laboratory in Princeton on a 3 month Internship.Technologies: Java, OSGi, P2P Simulation (SSFNet, Overlayweaver, Open DHT, PlanetLab).

Alan Brown Skills

Data Warehousing Etl Data Modeling Agile Methodologies Informatica Business Intelligence Unix Database Design Pl/sql Shell Scripting Unix Shell Scripting Java Hibernate Sql Dimensional Modeling Informatica Administration Relational Databases Big Data C# .net Spring Oracle Rac Html Gwt Etl Tools Information Architecture Architecture P2p Network Simulation Research Design Agile Testing Data Driven Testing Automated Software Testing Powercenter Inmon Kimball Methodology Xml Netezza Hadoop Distributed Systems

Alan Brown Education Details

  • University Of Stirling
    University Of Stirling
    Computing
  • University Of Stirling
    University Of Stirling
    Software Engineering

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Alan Brown has skills like Data Warehousing, Etl, Data Modeling, Agile Methodologies, Informatica, Business Intelligence, Unix, Database Design, Pl/sql, Shell Scripting, Unix Shell Scripting, Java.

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