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England, United Kingdom

Amsterdam, NL

London, GB

In charge of the Oracle database architecture for 4 sites from Bournmouth to Glasgow. Tasked with consolidating this to two sites, upgrading the current systems to 12c and managing the design and implementation of a new Data Warehouse for the 7 lines of business for Ageas. Systems include Oracle RAC, Data Guard Architecture including physical and Logical.

Working for Red Stack Tech as part of their Professional Services Consultancy. I work primarily in the Oracle database core and MAA arena. My focus is on RAC and Data Guard.During the past year I have worked on-site for customers in Global Trading, Retail, Holiday and Travel sectors. The diversity of the work has involved migration of 250+ databases to 12c.

Zurich, Zurich, CH

I was involved in Kuoni Business Continuity design and testing primarily from the Oracle Data Guard perspective. I was a part of the Oracle acceptance and performance testing for new projects. Involved in SQL and Database tuning with production databases of multiple terabytes, I was responsible for monitoring of the enterprise alerts within the UK and.

Austin, Texas, US

My area of expertise is the Maximum Availability Architecture. Mainly Training Oracle customers to use RAC and Data Guard. Knowledge of Golden Gate.My role includes tailored events to meet customer requirements.

Austin, Texas, US

Provide instructor lead training courses on-line and in class to corporate and public sector organisations across multiple vertical markets, working across Europe.Specialist technical areas include:Maximum availability architecture; dealing with real application clusters and data guard. Database Backup & recovery Database performance tuning SQL performance.

I in partnership with my wife, purchased a Franchise territory for Stagecoach Schools, teaching Drama, Dance and Singing to children Aged 4 - 16 Yrs. This started as a single school and by the time we sold it, it consisted of three main schools and two early stages, reaching the highest value for any franchise at that time.Start up of territory opening.

London, Greater London, GB

Joined Kingston to undertake a 2-year MSc in Information Technology and (completed in 1 year)Completed 11 week thesis on design and implementation of a Workflow Tracking System for Wiggins Teape Ltd for which I was awarded a distinctionModular programme includingProgramming, design, database design, modular design

Supervision of freight loading for aircraft (mainly night duties)Management of 15 staffCo-ordinate collections of imports (included bonded warehouse)Customer service and liaisonCo-ordination of delivery of exports

Building “learning” swimming for schools (70%), commercial swimming pools (30%)End to end service of swimming pool provisionDesign & construction from small pools to complete leisure complex.Plant management - filtration & heating managementWater quality management.Account managementSales & negotiationIntroduced IT systems

Heat treatment of metals to the engineering industry mostly the injection moulding and the car industry with some government work and motor racing.Responsible for the day-to-day running of this small firm with 10 employees. Oversee the workshop, to handle customer queries and prioritisation of workloadCustomer base of over 500Introduced computer based.

Msc, Information Technology

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