Paul Bell Email & Phone Number

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsible for implementing, upgrading and extending Medisoft's SQL Server based applications, on client infrastructure or in the cloud.Customers include NHS trusts, private healthcare providers and international clients.

Halifax, United Kingdom

Fixed term contract to support the move of a legacy system application and infrastructure to the main corporate datacentre. Subsequent application simplification and modernisation allowing on-going use while reducing licence, support and maintenance costs.Contract extended after I proposed and then implemented a SQL Server Reporting Services solution which allowed a complex legacy system to be decommissioned while preserving a read only view of the data for audit / compliance purposes.Project involved• data migration from Oracle to SQL Server• consolidation of multiple SQL Servers • design and build of SSRS reports and supporting stored procedures

𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: • Database, server and network support to a software development team• Build, run and maintain virtual development / test / build environments• Responsibility for build, release and configuration management.• Provide 3rd line support to the clients, (mainly focused on SQL Server especially around performance management)𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀: • Legacy system upgrade, move applications from AIX platform to Linux, update application & databases ( AIX 5 -> Oracle Linux 7, MySQL 3.2.1 -> 5.7, Oracle 9.0.2 -> 11.2.0 )• Legacy system upgrade, update an application suite ( W2003 / MS-SQL 2000 -> W2012 / MS-SQL 2014 )• Data migration, move an insurance policy administration system (circa 250,000 live policies) from an in-house to a hosted solution ( MS-SQL -> Oracle )𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀: • 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 ( most familiar with SQL Server but have worked with Oracle / MySQL / Sybase & SQLite )o MS SQL Server 7 -> 2014 (SSRS & SSIS / Red Gate Toolset - SQL Backup etc.)o Oracle 8i,9i,11go MySQL 3.2 - > 5.7• 𝘖/𝘚 - 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 / 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 / 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 o MS Windows Server 2000 through 2012o UNIXo AIXo Linux (RHEL & Oracle)• 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 ( ran development / build / test environments - Windows & Linux servers )o VMware ESXi5 & 6• 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 ( can get by in many scripting languages )o VBScripto PowerShell• 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 o Create & Maintain software installation packages• 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 - ( taken various courses, performed PoC work in AWS - no production experience )o AWSo Oracle Cloud• 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 / 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 o Familiar with UML & OO designo ITIL - studying to take Foundations Certificateo Six Sigma / Lean• 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 ( build / maintain / patch )o Dell / IBM / HP servers

Halifax, United Kingdom

Halifax, United Kingdom