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Alison has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years, her background is primarily based in development and implementation throughout a wide range of industries. She is strongly committed to providing the customer with the best technical solution to fit the required functionality with the flexibility to cater for additional functionality at a later date.Experienced in both the development and maintenance areas of both public and private sectors, covering bid management, pre-sales, workshop facitilitation, requirements gathering, project management, documentation, architecture, development, implementation and support.Having worked in Consultancy for over 16 years, Alison was had experience of many different industries, manufacturing, retail, automotive, oil, telecommunications to name a few. Outward going personality, able to communicate easily with people at all levels from shopfloor to board level. Strong inter-personal skills evolved from coaching and managing both operational and programming staff. From the diverse application background, innovative ideas are put forward in solving current and future problems both technical and business. I am tenacious and inquisitive and put forward ideas and suggestions to both improve applications and businesses based on my experience and knowledge.Skilled in the use of both PC and mainframe applications. Main skills lie in the ability to quickly learn and understand user's applications, business, requirements, tools or technologies and how these could be combined to be best effectSpecialties: application design, architecture, business analysis, business intelligence, business objects, cognos ,data warehousing, database administration, etl, hyperion, Power BI, Sql Server, leadership, microsoft tools, mis, odb, oracle tools, proposal writing, quality control, rad, requirements, sales support, systems integration, technical support,
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Alison Clowes Work Experience Details
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Business AnalystTpximpact | B Corp™Wylam, Gb
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Technical Business AnalystManpowergroup May 2024 - PresentRemoteEngaged to help in a middle office Transformation Project -
Member Board Of TrusteesTransplant Patients Trust Of Great Britain Feb 2024 - PresentJoined the board of trustees for the Transplant Patients Trust, providing nationwide support for patients and their families undergoing organtransplantation. -
Freelance Business Intelligence ProfessionalIntelligenceya Limited Sep 2020 - PresentEngland, United KingdomBI contractor, reviewing Cognos report, Power BI reports and the data warehouse.Also analysing and designing new data marts to support reporting requirements.
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Business Intelligence DeveloperTees, Esk And Wear Valleys Nhs Foundation Trust (Tewv) Mar 2023 - Sep 2023England, United KingdomI have been supplementing the team with my cognos knowledge, building reports, altering the frameworks, trouble shooting and mentoring the team.I have also been involved in migration planning for a move to a new incident management system -
Technical Business AnalystDorset Healthcare University Nhs Foundation Trust Feb 2022 - Mar 2023RemoteHelping realise and deliver reporting on Nursing and Quality Care Standards. Discussing requirements with stakeholders, designing data models, managing developers using TFS and GIT, liasing with other departments as to how data can be extracted and transferred -
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst (Ftc)Southern Housing Group Mar 2021 - Mar 2022RemoteProviding support to the data team, this covers ticket resolution, requirements gathering, report development. Currently working on the backend extraction of data for disposal of properties, using SQL to extract from customer dynamics, Orchard housing system, Keystone.Cognos administration and report and business analysis in preparation for migration to Power BI -
Bi DeveloperGrainger Plc Sep 2016 - Sep 2020Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomResponsible for all data warehouse development and design, and front end reporting for the Business. Solely undertook the migration and redesign of reports from cognos to Power BI, including warehouse changes, dataset and report building, gateway and administration and all training and implementation to the whole business in 6 months. -
Cognos DeveloperGrainger Plc Jul 2013 - Sep 2016Cognos developer with responsibilities for requirements gathering, architecture,procurementOn starting at Grainger, a complete re-organisation of the underlying databases was undertaking involving merging 9 property databases into 2, which ultimately fed into the data warehouse. Following this Alison spent considerable time leading and redesigning the data warehouse to ensure that it was normalised, no data was duplicated, data was loaded incrementally and there were reconciliation and checks put in place to ensure the integrity and completeness of the data with in the warehouse.Further development has been done to provide KPI dashboards and data quality dashboards using Transformer along with rebranding of the Cognos front end and an upgrade to Cognos 10.The solution Grainger now has is a robust application to manage and maintain their BI reporting environment, with email alerts throughout the overnight load process, along with bursting and trigger based reporting.All these tasks have been undertaken and managed by Alison with minimal support from an external consultant.
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Senior Support AnalystCorus Jul 2007 - Jul 2013Responsible for maintaining and upgrading all Business Intelligences systems both the back end ETL and front end report tools -
Senior Technical Support AnalystManagement Solution Partners Jan 2006 - Jul 2007Oracle toolset* Visual Basic* Cognos* SQL* Hyperion Consultant working for Corus Steel within their IT dept, supporting the eBI systems, this covers upgrades and development work, primarily in the database architecture, ETL and semantic layer, to support the reporting and delivery teams.Responsible for providing a quality service to Corus, keeping key business applications running. Controlling the deployment and management of changes to the applications and the deployment of new applications.Lately, time has been spent developing tools for the support team, which will allow them to monitor and manage faults proactively and identify areas where improvements can be made with code changes/tuning or task reordering. In addition I have designed and developed applications to monitor the performance of the applications, covering such areas as Data Integrity, Report Delivery On Time monitoring. These have all been developed using the tools we already had for User Commnity reporting and delivery, such as Oracle Warehouse Builder, OEM, Hyperion, Cognos and HTMLDB.Time is also spent improving data quality of underlying databases interfacing into the data warehouse and helping the businesses identify areas for improvement and how to effectively use the data warehouse and reporting tools to optimise delivery and performance
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Support ManagerManagement Solution Partners Nov 2000 - Jul 2007
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Data Warehouse ArchitectManagement Solution Partners Nov 2003 - Dec 2005Oracle, Oracle Warehouse Builder* Visual Basic* Cognos* SQL; Working for Management Solution Partners (MSP), on a data warehouse and business intelligence contract for Corus, I have heavily involved in the dimensional modelling and design of the datawarehouse to support MIS reporting throughout Corus.Using Oracle Warehouse Builder and Workflow, together with Cognos Reportnet, reporting packages have been built to provide the management staff with information covering the whole order lifecycle, from Quote to Customer Return. A large oracle database has been developed using Oracle Warehouse Builder to support the loading and transformation of data into the warehouse, work was offshored to Sri Lanka and had to be managed closely to maintain quality of delivery. I have been involved in the design/development and implementation phases and overseeing of offshore work. Following this enhancements and support on an ongoing basis, as well as investigating the development of an MIS Scorecard.
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Technical ArchitectCaci Jan 2002 - Oct 2003Oracle* Visual Basic* Business Objects* SQLResponsible for the overall technical design of a CACI hosted extranet reporting warehouse for the Motorcycle Industry Association (MICA). This involved providing an innovative solution to distribute performance reports to multiple organisations involved in the manufacturer and retailing of motorcycles throughout the United Kingdom. Building on the ETL components developed for other CACI projects the solution is compact and secure ensuring that data is anonymised and protected using SSL technology.Reports are delivered through BusinessObjects as PDF files. -
Application Design ArchitectCaci Aug 2001 - Jan 2002Oracle* Visual Basic* Business Objects* HTML / ASP A further area of reporting was requested by Peugeot to pull together Key Performance information for each of the dealers and report through a web front end.Responsibilities included, project management, requirement definition, business analysis, User Acceptance testing support, customer management.
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Application Development ConsultantCaci Sep 2000 - Mar 2001Oracle* Visual Basic* Business Objects* HTML / ASPFollowing on from the original datawarehouse build, additional data was requested to be stored in the datawarehouse. In addition the reports produced in the initial phase were to be deployed through a browser interface.Responsibilities included universe build, report dvelopment, BusinessObjects Webintelligence implementation and customisation, development of web pages to provide sales report deployment via pdf
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Business/Systems AnalystCaci Oct 1998 - Nov 2000Responsible for the design, development and management of software which compared BT supplied numbering and network information with the information held about BT on the Cable & Wireless numbering database.Responsible for the design, development and management of software used to produce text files containing information about the Cable & Wireless network and number ranges for supply to other telecommunications operators as required by OFTEL -
Business Objects Consultant / Systems AnalystCaci Mar 2000 - Sep 2000Oracle* Visual Basic* Business Objects* SQLServerResponsible for the development of various Business Objects Universes in relating to Telecommunications, namely Revenue analysis, Order Management and Service performance.Components were written in Visual Basic to integrate Business Objects functionality with email and report distribution Responsible for the system and integrity analysis of sales and contact management database developed in SQLServer, the result of which were recommendations to improve performance and data quality. Also responsible for the development of a Business Objects universe used to access the data in the Sales and Contact Management database and the production of a set of standard reports.
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Business Objects ConsultantCaci Mar 1999 - Mar 2000Oracle* Visual Basic* Business ObjectsResponsible for the provision of all the dealer and regional reports for Peugeot Cars UK, for a data warehouse developed by CACI. The content of the reports stretched Business Objects to it's limits and included the integration to the CACI GIS Mapping product InSite, using Visual Basic for Applications.The development of the reports was using a RAD methodology and production of prototypes to clarify the design and structure of the reports.Responsible for developing a data maintenance tool in Visual Basic and an application that would allow the GIS mapping product InSite to be populated from the data warehouse.
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Principal ConsultantCaci 1980 - 2000
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Technical Team LeaderAt&T Istel May 1991 - Oct 1998Design, management and delivery of training for a bespoke lubricants scheduling system for Mobil, in the United Kingdom, France and Australia.Design and management of an addition to the lubricants scheduling system to allow the entry of actual production.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Dec 1997 - Sep 1998eMail* eCommerce* LAN / WAN Technology Providing pre-sales consultancy for a eCommerce service provided by AT&T on behalf of Lloyds of London and the LondonLink association. This includes WAN design and configuration, remote access, Internet browsing and web hosting.This also included the initial business case development for the taking on of the service by AT&T from NCR.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Jan 1996 - Jun 1998LAN / WAN Technology* Systems Integration* Project Managment* MS Project The complete management of customer X.25 network requests from initial install to decommission including forecasting and billing.Providing technical support and day to day project management skills within a large-scale LAN/WAN network integration project. This project allows Volvo Car dealerships to use a single PC to access all support systems across multiple hardware platforms using TCP/IP over CISCO routers and ISDN. The customer developed applications were based on AS/400 and AIX platforms with an Oracle database behind.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Jul 1995 - Jun 1996Visual Basic v4* Client Access* ODBC* Crystal Reports* HDK Help Authoring Package Providing business analyst skills for National Car Auctions, to allow them to receive car collection notifications via eMail, this involved the use of a Visual Basic front end backing onto an AS/400 system accessing the information via ODBC across the Client/Access interface.Providing business analyst and development skills for National Car Auctions, in order to design and build a contact management and diary system that will integrate into their current auction house system based on as/400, which holds the customer information.Providing business analyst and development skills to enable auction vehicles held on the NCA sites to be logged as leaving site. This was based on a bar-coded pass whose data was uploaded into the AS/400 auction system and used to update the vehicle in the database to offsite.Restructuring the National Car Auctions Project Management documentation to support the AT&T Quality Management System so that the audit by DNV was successful.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Mar 1994 - Jan 1996DB2/2* SQL* OnTalk Design, development and implementation of a SCADA system using the ONSPEC package for the Smethwick brewery at Bass. The ONSPEC package is based on OnTalk which is a flavour of the Object Orientated Language Smalltalk.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Oct 1993 - Mar 1994Brock* Oracle* Sapiens Ideo* SPL*Plus* PL/SQL Design and development of a customer front office system for Energis, during their startup, this involved the integration of a RAD front end to an ORACLE database.Provision of analysis skill to help in the choice of telemarketing package within the Energis organisation.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Jan 1992 - Oct 1993AIM Design, development and implementation of a SCADA system using the AIM package for Golden Wonder.
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Technical Business AnalystAt&T Istel Jun 1991 - Jan 1992
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Technical Business AnalystCap Gemini Jun 1998 - Sep 1998Pre-Sales Support * LAN / WAN Technology* Web ApplicationsProviding pre-sales support to sales teams, this included cost and revenue breakdowns, the production of client proposals and presentation to customers. -
Systems ManagerRoyal Marsden Hospital Jun 1997 - Sep 1998VMS* RMS* DCL This position involved, managing the DEC computers for the Medical Physicals department, covering such tasks as Operating System upgrades, defragmentation, support of users, both within the hospital and the MSc/Phd students that also used the computers for their research.I also ran a series of lunchtime lectures covering the technical aspects of programming and the operating system for the less skill students and members of the Medical Physics department.
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Analyst ProgrammerAvery Dennison Apr 1990 - May 1991Powerhouse* VMS rdb* AIM Temporary programmer working as part of a team developing a time and materials management system for a greenfield site in Luxembourg, working in conjunction with AT&T Istel.Spent 4 months in Luxembourg implementing and providing initial system support and training in French -
Business AnalystIci Films Oct 1989 - Mar 1990Associated Deliverables * Ingres Defining the requirements and producing a Functional Specification for a system to automatically produce associated deliverables. Associated deliverables are information or products that are required by the customer that are not the main deliverable.The associated deliverables system was taken up in part and used by ICI Films in Dumfries and Holland.
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Business Analyst / DeveloperIci Films Oct 1989 - Mar 1990Complaint Management * ADABAS* Natural Auditing and reviewing the automatic complaints system being used by the sales desk. Revising the system as necessary to improve the handling and monitoring of complaints.The complaints system was automated to generate reports on daily basis identifying complaints received since the last report and also on a weekly basis to cross reference the number of complaints and quantity of film and type of complaint against the type of film. Thus identifying areas needing quality improvement.
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Bi ConsultantTata Steel Processing And Distribution Ltd. 1978 - 1980 -
Bi ConsultantTata Steel Processing And Distribution Ltd. 1978 - 1980
Alison Clowes Skills
Business Intelligence
Requirements Analysis
Etl
Cognos
Business Objects
Mis
Business Analysis
Integration
Architecture
Application Development
Data Warehousing
Sales Support
Application Design
Sql
Pl/sql
Oracle Sql
Oracle
Microsoft Sql Server
Requirements Gathering
Itil
Software Development
Performance Tuning
Databases
Report Writing
Data Analysis
Alison Clowes Education Details
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Mathematics And Physics
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Alison Clowes attended Newcastle University.
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