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Chris has been working professionally in the computing and information technology industry since 1994, ranging from infrastructure, security, database and application development, and business intelligence and information management. Chris is certified in a range of Cloud and Business Intelligence tools and platforms on the Microsoft platform, is a Certified Scrum Master and has authored white papers on security planning and strategy in the industry and presented on Business Analytics at major conferences in South Africa. Chris has solid experience delivering and architecting information management solutions across a number of industries including Insurance, Not for Profits, Local and Federal Governments, Utilities, Wealth Management, and Retail. Chris’ understanding of reporting and analytics domain in Data Analytics solutions has been proven through his consistent delivery of end-to-end solutions within waterfall and Agile/Scrum environments. Chris is a specialist in Microsoft Azure and Databricks with over 20 years of experience in Data & AI and the ability to drive information management solutions to all levels within an organisationChris has also had exposure in a range of other industry products including IBM Cognos, IBM Data Stage, IBM DB2, IBM Initiate, SAP Business Objects, Oracle and MicroStrategy.Specialising in• BI Project Management / Scrum Master• Team leadership• Business Intelligence Design and Architecture• Full SDLC Agile development and leadership (Requirements Analysis through to Test and Deployment)• Data and information architecture, Data Vault, 3rd normal form, and dimensional data modelling • Full Database skills including SQL, DML, DDL, MDX, DAX and performance tuning• Microsoft BI Suite

Listed skills include Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases, Business Intelligence Tools, and 35 others.