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Royal Leamington Spa, Gb

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

• DataIQ Award Nomination - Most Effective Stakeholder Engagement• Leading Data Product Management transformation• Growing Data Product Management across Digital Customer and Commercial (28 New Data Products and 11 significant increments managed in first 12 months)• Championing self service domain lead /data mesh process and policies to empower data domain teams• Establishing successful Early Careers program for Enterprise Data (Apprentices/Graduate programs)

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Senior Business Partner for Alexa Personality, Alexa Voice Service & Solution Providers • Owner of Alexa International Customer Loyalty and Retention Metrics. • xBR Business Review Project. Delivered consolidation of vast catalogue of manual and semi automated Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly business review reporting into new redshift data model and Tableau reporting suite. • Implemented Agile and Data Management methodologies

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire, Gb

• Building team from single analyst to dynamic team of Data Analysts, Engineers and Scientists• Supporting marketing campaign management with reports and analysis across campaign design, customer segmentation, propositions development, customer retention, and customer journey/customer experience optimisation• Implemented Scrum to improve effectiveness and drive innovation alongside BAU function• Migrated manually curated customer data mart onto Azure data platform, fully automating data engineering flows and remodelling for optimised analytics and reporting.• Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Dynamics

Houghton Regis, Dunstable, Gb

• BI / Data Strategy for Azure Data Platform• Cutting edge real-time API message ingestion. Azure Stream Analytics• Azure Data Warehouse, DataBricks, Azure SQL Server, Storage• Adobe Campaign Integration

Swindon, Wiltshire, Gb

- Data and BI strategy. Cloud first roadmap from legacy on premise to cloud data framework- Design and implementation of QlikSense analytics platform- Deliver Quality reporting pilot application on new platforms

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

- Setting Business Intelligence strategy for Global Sales. Includes Sales, Planning, Manufacturing and Distribution- Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure and Data architecture. - Managing a team of onshore and offshore Business Analysts, ETL and Report Developers and Testers to deliver BI Projects Including: Oracle to Google Cloud platform migration, Executive Alerts dashboard, Demand Planning analysis, Delivery to Promise dashboard, Sales Planning Reporting, Xcelsius to Tableau conversion -Implemented Near Real-time (CDC) source system feeds. Oracle CDC, SAP Data Services, Google APIs, Cloud SQL to Big Query- Complete redesign of Data Model. Source ODS (Cloud SQL) and BI (Big query) Models -- Implementation of Data Quality and Reference Data Management processes- Replaced manual SLDC processes with Jira and ITSM processes with Remedy- GPDR Lead for department, ensuring full compliance, appropriate data sequestration and access control- SAP Business Objects and Tableau reporting suite and dashboards- Rapidminer models implemented to create sophisticated predictive sales analysis.

London, Greater London, Gb

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

· SAP BI Platform Manager & BI Strategy lead· SAP BI Platform engineering and management, 5 environments, 36 servers, 144 cores· Technical roadmap and strategy for SAP BI products· Managed major BI consolidation project. Standalone BI environments to global platform. €1.1m Saving· Environment upgrades -XIr3 to BI4. BI4 to BI4.1 in progress· SAP HANA, Infrastructure strategy, Global platform setup, Datamart consolidation strategy· Implemented Data Services global platform, sizing, specification, delivery, productionisation· Information Steward, Data Insight and Profiling. Delivering metadata to Data Owners/Power users.· Implemented BI as a service model, on-boarding, CoE, charging model, lifecycle management, support· Implemented and managed offshore Level 1 Support Team· Vendor Management, Licensing, Support, Product roadmap. Member of SAP BI Advisory Council (SAC)· S-Ox, ITAE, MAS Compliancy· Grew Analytics offering from only Webi to Webi, Rich Client, Crystal, Dashboards, Mobile, Explorer· Grew global environment usage from 6,000 to 14,000+ users· People management, coaching, development strategy and reviews

New York, Ny, Us

Consulted to Barclays Capital to deliver:XIr3.1 integration with SAP BWHR Dashboards with XcelsiusHR Reporting suite delivered in Web IntelligenceSecurity ModelXcelsius and Web Intelligence Training, London and New York

Göteborg, Se

Technical Responsible for Business Objects Platform worldwide.4000+ UsersBusiness Objects XIr2, XIr3, Infoview, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, Xcelsius, Performance Manager

London, Gb

Business Objects Developer / Xcelsius SpecialistXcelsius Proof of concept for forecasting systemDatamart design for reporting projectUniverse designWeb Intelligence report design

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, Gb

Business Objects Consultant.Fleet Management Client - • Business Objects XIr2 Implementation and Report Development• Clustered BOXI environment• 70 reports in Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence.• Scheduling tool to distribute email and paper reports to customers designed, implemented and documented.• Full specification, handover and Support Documentation.• User Training.Xcelsius Sales Dashboard Development• Business Objects Web Services Implementation to support QAAWS, and Crystal Xcelsius.• User Training for Business Objects QAAWS• Detailed requirement, design and implementation of 2 interactive customer performance Xcelsius Dashboards, and interactive quoting tool.• Full specification, handover, support and training documentation.Financial Services ClientXcelsius Call Centre Statistics Dashboard• QAAWS Implementation to support and Crystal Xcelsius.• Full specification, handover, support and training documentation.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Business Objects 5.1.8 to Business Objects XIr2 Enterprise Migration •Project Management (PMI Methodology) and Finance Management of migration project. •Enterprise system architecture design to provide scalable, full failover, XI implementation. •Full audit of over 300 Business Objects/Web Intelligence usersCAESAR– Migration of obsolete Land Rover data warehouse from outsourced Teradata system to new in-house Oracle 9i environment. •Detailed analysis of the business rules for all the 9 source systems with the business owners. •Reporting layer Database design •Production of all metadata documentation •Design and implementation of Business Objects reporting suite to meet all current user requirements •Provision of training for all usersKitting – Business analysis and reporting application design, real time parts delivery system.D42 Reporting – Managing the interface contract with a new distribution system.

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Gb

• Responsibility for producing all Sun Microsystem's sales information for the Midlands Sales area.• Extensive research on all Sun Microsystems products, from workstations to server farms.• Assess the customers' requirements, design an appropriate system.• Produced pitch for renewal of all Severn Trent's Sun infrastructure and a successful bid for a large new Sun installation for Astra Zeneca.

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Gb

Sales Support – Managing several large commercial accounts IT sales.• Customer facing, developing and managing relationships internal and external.• Extensive product and services knowledge, assessed regularly.• Regular presentations to customers and management team, a confident communicator.• Developed Expert Microsoft Office knowledge, including VBA and MS Project.

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Gb

Project Assistant – Vast computer system roll out for Severn Trent Water, first line experience of a huge IT project.• All project processes/documentation followed Prince 2 methodology.• Maintaining inventory database. Lotus notes, MS Access and SQL.• Ensuring relevant information and documentation available to strict deadlines.• Scheduling of key events, and personnel.• Adhoc automation and information management tasks for the Project Managers.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Internship Program 2001 – Large Corporate Sales Account Manager (Trainee)Responsible for managing corporate accounts.• Intern Award for Innovation, for developing a purchase order tracking system in Visual Basic for Applications.• Interpersonal skills imperative to the role.• Intensely time management based, demanding environment, with weekly sales targets to be met.

Middlesex, Gb

Industrial Placement Scheme - Information Management Finance• Management of an Activity Based Costing system, Oracle database reporting.• Production of in-depth reports and analysis, for senior management utilising Business Objects and Hyperion Essbase.• Conducting monthly forecast meeting with the business unit managers.• Rolling forecast producing forecast updates and account anomalies.