Premier Group now branded as Morgan McKinley is a multi-divisional international professional services recruitment business providing a diverse range of services to blue chip clients across multiple industries and locations. Premier Group currently has 21 offices; Responsible for Group IT department inclusive of applications support & development, Infrastructure support, helpdesk operations and website development.Responsible for annual IT budget covering annual costs, telecom costs, salaries and new project initiatives.Manages a team of multi cultural IT professionals based in Hong Kong, Sydney, London, Dublin and Cork.Responsible for developing and implementing IT strategic plans.Bringing new initiatives to the Board for capital approval.Deliver projects on time and on-budget.Overall responsibility for 3 data centres, 5 CRM/ATS solutions, 2 financial solutions, pay & bill and 1 single group Data Warehouse.Oversees network security at a corporate level.

Overall responsibility for management of the IT function. Premier Group at the time was based in Ireland and the UK.Responsible for Infrastructure, Applications development and Helpdesk support.Responsible for implementing the single CRM/ATS solution. Key Achievements:Implemented technical standards in the purchase and implementation of network switches/routers, servers, PCs etc.Put in place the IT Disaster recovery and High Availability plan.Put in place the Oracle database environment replacing SQL Server.Oversaw development of the Premier pay & bill solution incorporating time-sheets, feeds from CRM and interfaces to the financial system. Implemented the companies first data warehouse reporting KPI and financial information. Consolidated the companies Active Directories into a single AD.Oversaw many successful IT office moves ranging from 50 person offices to a 200 person office.

Conduct Business Analysis and choose database and BI tool for projects.Deliver a working reporting solution to the Business Area.Analyse underlying systems from Quality Laboratory Information Systems to manufacturing ERP solutions and identify relevant data.Develop ETL using a combination of data extractor applications and Oracle/SQL store procedures.Design and develop data warehouse solutions across the Business.Managed an Oracle DBAMentored other junior BI developers.Key Achievements:Designed and developed a "Near Real Time" data warehouse solution over Oracle e-business Suite using Quest Shareplex. The solution extracted data and transformed it into a dimensional model providing the Pepsi Shared Services financial team with up to the moment reports.Helped Design a reporting data mart for the Consumer complaints team based out of corporate in the US.Designed a Quality reporting solution for the Finished Beverage Quality team based in the US.Re-developed the concentrate data warehouse moving it from SQL Server to Oracle and from Microstrategy to Oracle OSA and later on to Business Objects XI.Responsible for the management of the Marketing Data Warehouse, which reported marketing information from Walmart, Milward Brown and Nielsen Data sources.Implemented CITRIX for the Shared services remote access.

Responsible for managing, upgrading and implementing databases for Pepsi Concentrate Ireland.Supported the Concentrate data warehouse including developing extracts for Logistics, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Management accounting.Key Achievements:Implemented the Global Winlims databases throughout all concentrate Beverage labs. This involved the implementation of SQL Server in eight different locations and the configuration of laboratory instruments to connect to this database.Supported the installation of Oracle e-Business Suite for Shared services.Designed the high availability infrastructure for Tropicana's Oracle ERP solution.