Richard Kenyon

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Senior Java Developer / Informatica MDM Consultant. @ NatWest Group
edinburgh, edinburgh, united kingdom
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Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Richard Kenyon

30+ years working in a wide range of industry sectors on multiple platforms. Currently working in a Professional Services role specialising in Informatica MDM, Master Data Management (MDM), other Informatica IDQ, Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Software Architecture & Design

Richard Kenyon's Current Company Details
NatWest Group

Natwest Group

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Senior Java Developer / Informatica MDM Consultant.
edinburgh, edinburgh, united kingdom
Website:
natwestgroup.com
Employees:
20624
Richard Kenyon Work Experience Details
  • Natwest Group
    Technical Lead
    Natwest Group Sep 2020 - Present
    Manchester, England, United Kingdom
    Initially a 3 month contract to evaluate the current NWG Party Master Infomatica MDM system. It was performing poorly and had numerous design issues. Over the last 3 years I have helped to get the system performing as expected. This involved :-• Redesigning the existing match rules and batches. Reduced the daily batch from 4-5 hours to less than 1 hour• Redeveloped the existing SOAP based Webservices to RESTful API services using Spring Boot, Hibernate and calls to MDM BES services• Implementing Apigee gateway and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and working with consumers to onboard• Onboarding new batch and realtime consumers
  • Evaxyx Uk Ltd
    Principal Consultant / Informatica Mdm Consultant / Senior Java Developer
    Evaxyx Uk Ltd Nov 2006 - Jun 2020
    Worked in a Professional Services role specialising in Informatica MDM, other Informatica products, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, ETL, Java Webservices.This generally involved working with clients on the initial design, architecture, installation and development of systems. After this, knowledge transfer and training are given to the system integrator for business as usual activities.As well as design and architecture, I was also involved in installing Informatica MDM / ActiveVOS / IDQ on JBoss / Weblogic / Websphere in both clustered and non-clustered environments. I also spent a lot of time coordinating with Informatica Support to identify and rectify issues with the MDM software.As well as the Informatica MDM, I also worked as a Java Developer, with a lot of experience of Spring / Spring Boot. This Java experience was further utilised in developing extensions and custom interfaces for Informatica MDM.See below for full details of the roles I've been involved in.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Healthcare Company
    Evaxyx Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
    Basel, Basel-Town, Switzerland
    • Implementing a short Customer 360 POC to cleanse, load and match data from 8 source systems.• Profiling the source data with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ).• Customisation and deployment of Informatica MDM / Customer 360.• Transforming the data from the source systems to MDM using IDQ.• Liaising with business product owners to map data from source systems and create match rules.• Performing match tuning and producing match results.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A European Bank
    Evaxyx Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
    Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
    • Implementing and extending the Reference Data Manager (RDM) Accelerator on Informatica MDM.• Liaising with the Product Owners on the customisation of the RDM system.• Liaising with other teams on the ETL aspects of RDM.• Developing customisations in Java.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Healthcare Company
    Evaxyx Feb 2016 - Aug 2018
    Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
    • Advising the client and their delivery partners on Informatica MDM best practices.• Liaising with the technical leads on the design of the various MDM domains (Customer, Product and Finance/Organisation/Reference Data) from a technical perspective.• Liaising with the business product owners on the design of the MDM domains from a functionality perspective.• Validating the functional and technical designs of each domain.• Designing the architecture for the Informatica MDM implementation.• Installing, configuring and testing the Informatica MDM software in a clustered environment on all the environments.• Leading the project to upgrade from MDM 9.7.1 to MDM 10.• Demonstrating the current and upcoming functionality to the technical and business teams.• Working with the delivery partners on technical issues, and helping them with some of the custom extensions (mainly Java based)
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Metals Exchange Company
    Evaxyx Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Performing a detailed ‘healthcheck’ of the design and implementation of their Informatica MDM system.• Investigate issues with the current design, and recommend solutions.• Investigate technical issues and correct prior to go-live.• Generally ready the implementation for deployment into production.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Large Retailer
    Evaxyx Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
    Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
    • Designing and building an MDM Customer Register to store customer information, along with agreements and communication preferences of customers. These customers and agreements were loaded from a range of the retailer’s companies.• Designed and built custom MDM SOAP services using Java. This allowed a custom built web based system to query and update the MDM hub.• Designed and built the extract process that send details of customer updates to other systems.• Training the off-shore team • Producing a full range of training material and design documentation
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Large System Integrator
    Evaxyx Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
    Riga, Latvia
    • Designing and building an Informatica MDM hub to store details of the SI products, and the hierarchies between the products.• Designing and building the IDD application to allow users to create products and manipulate the product hierarchy.• Integrated the IDD application with ActiveVOS workflow engine.• Designed and implemented the complex ActiveVOS workflows.• Training the off-shore team who would be responsible for the ongoing support and development.• Produced the design and technical documentation.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Automotive Company
    Evaxyx Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
    Paris, Ile-De-France, France
    • Designing and building an Informatica MDM hub to store details of around 35 million customers (people and companies), 70 million vehicles, and the relationships between the customers and vehicles.• Profiling the source data using IDQ.• Designed and built custom MDM SOAP webservices using Java. This allowed an SFDC system to query the MDM hub for existing customer information.• Designed and built an IDD Data Steward application.• Designed and built the extract process that send details of customer updates to other systems.• Designing and developing IDQ mappings from the source systems to Informatica MDM.• Produced the design documentation.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Large Retailer
    Evaxyx Jan 2014 - Jun 2014
    Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
    • Designing and building an Informatica MDM Customer Register to store customer information, along with agreements and communication preferences of customers. These customers and agreements were loaded from a range of the retailer’s companies.• Designed and built custom MDM SOAP services using Java. This allowed a custom built web based system to query and update the MDM hub.• Designed and built the extract process that send details of customer updates to other systems.• Training the off-shore team • Producing a full range of training material and design documentation
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Uk Government Department
    Evaxyx May 2011 - Dec 2013
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Designing and building an Informatica MDM hub to store details of around 80 million people, along with case working details. • Involved in the design of a custom data steward interface, developed in Oracle ADF and Oracle Fusion.• Advised on best practices for Informatica MDM implementation.• Produced MDM design documentation• Acted as product specialist and integration expert as required• Involved in the development of custom MDM services.• Oversaw the successful implementation of the system, along with the complex initial load of data into the hub.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Us Waste Management Company
    Evaxyx Oct 2010 - May 2011
    Houston, Texas, United States
    • Designing and implementing the Customer and Enterprise Service Catalog MDM systems• General maintenance/enhancements to the existing Informatica MDM hub.• Developed composite Webservices (J2EE) to allow integration with both the Customer and Enterprise Service Catalog systems• Designed and implemented a Java based framework for use within the Webservices area• Implemented Informatica Data Director (IDD) on both Customer and Enterprise Service Catalog systems• Advised on best practices for Informatica implementation• Documented knowledge transfer to the client on implementation methodologies and best practices• Acted as product specialist and integration expert as required
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Us Confectionary Company
    Evaxyx Jul 2009 - Sep 2010
    New Jersey, United States
    • Designing and implementing the Apex (Achieving Planning Excellence) Master Data Management system• Design, installation and configuration of the Informatica MDM software• Extensive design and build of Hierarchies within the Informatica MDM hub using Hierarchy Manager• Implemented Informatica Data Director (IDD) for data management and hierarchies• Advised on best practices for Informatica implementation• Documented knowledge transfer to the client on implementation methodologies and best practices• Acted as product specialist and integration expert as required
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Truck Company
    Evaxyx Mar 2009 - Dec 2009
    Portland, Oregon, United States
    • Designing and implementing the Informatica MDM system. This system was a central repository for Customer, Vendor and Product information• Initial requirements gathering and presentation of the requirements to the stakeholders for sign off• Design, installation and configuration of the Informatica Hub software• Design and build of extract functionality to provide regular updates to SAP system. This was developed using Java• Designed and implemented a Java based framework for use within the Webservices area• Advised on best practices for Informatica MDM implementation• Documented knowledge transfer to the Project and Testing teams on Informatica MDM implementation methodologies and best practices• Acted as product specialist and integration expert as required
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Investment Bank
    Evaxyx Aug 2008 - Nov 2008
    Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse
    • Designing and implementing the Golden Copy Securities system. This system would be a central repository for the ‘best version of the truth’ for Securities information, regardless of where they originated• Requirements gathering, design, build through to end of term of engagement• Advised on best practices for Informatica MDM implementation• Provided expert solution, architectural guidance and created initial drafts of deliverables• Acted as a mentor to Implementation Team and Business Users• Responsible for the successful implementation of all defined deliverables• Documented knowledge transfer to the Project and Testing teams on Informatica MDM implementation methodologies and best practices• Acted as product specialist and integration expert as required
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Healthcare Company
    Evaxyx Mar 2008 - Jul 2008
    Bengaluru, Karnataka
    • Designing and implementing the Relationship Marketing Hub system. This was a replacement system for the existing customer information held within Master Transaction Database System (MTDB). Raw customer information was received from around 60 vendors. This data was cleansed, loaded and merged where appropriate. Value added data items were also received from Acxiom and RTM.• Responsible for advising and training the SI staff on Informatica MDM.• Design, installation and configuration of the Informatica Hub software• Advised the build team on the use of the Informatica MDM Console to build the Hub.• Designed the Match/Merge Rules based on the customer requirements.• Responsible for the testing and tuning of the Initial Data Load using a full dataset of 10 million customers.• Responsible for the tuning of the Match Rules on the full dataset of 10 million customers.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Investment Bank
    Evaxyx Sep 2007 - Feb 2008
    New York, United States
    • Designing and implementing the Global Markets Initiative Informatica MDM system. This was a Customer hub of individuals and organizations.• Design and implementation of the core Informatica Hub objects.• Designed and developed Java Webservices that exposed the Informatica Hub API (SIF) to the main orchestration of the Global Markets Initiative system.• Liaised with technical team to design a solution that was scalable and performed to specification.
  • Evaxyx
    Principal Consultant At A Global Investment Bank
    Evaxyx Mar 2007 - Jun 2007
    New Jersey, United States
    • Designing and implementing the Single Client Profile Informatica MDM system. This was a Customer hub of individuals and organizations.• Design and implementation of the core Informatica Hub objects.• Designed and developed Java Webservices that exposed the Informatica Hub API (SIF) to the main orchestration of the Single Client Profile system (developed in .NET) via a SOAP interface.• Liaised with technical team to design a solution that was scalable and performed to specification.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Information Specialist
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Apr 2003 - Nov 2006
    St. Helens, England, United Kingdom
    Worked as a technical lead on the Offender Assessment System (OASys) for HM Prison Service. This was a wide ranging role that has involved architectural design, software design and software development. The main system is based on J2EE, BEA Weblogic and SQL Server 2000. The system required interfaces to various other systems including the UK Police Force and HM Probation Service. These interfaces used various protocols including JMS and SOAP.
  • Eds
    Contractor
    Eds May 2002 - Apr 2003
    Lytham St. Anne’S, England, United Kingdom
    Contracted to the DWP in the UK for EDS. Helped design and implement an integration system that used J2EE, BEA Weblogic and DB2. This system allowed the current DWP Integration Backbone systems to integrate with other systems via an HTTP/SOAP interface.
  • Eds
    Contractor
    Eds Nov 2001 - May 2002
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    Contracted to the UAE Govenerment in Dubai to give specialist advise on an iPlanet Application Server based J2EE system that was not performing optimally. I was involved in rectifying the system problems, as well as further development of the system. I was then responsible for the initial design of a Citizen Identity system for the Royal Omani Police base in Oman. I produced a UML model and a prototype using Oracle Application Server and Oracle.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Contractor
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Feb 2001 - Nov 2001
    Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, Germany
    Contracted to Citibank with EDS in Frankfurt, Germany. I designed and developed a Warrants Trading system for Citibank, again using J2EE, BEA Weblogic and Oracle.
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Contractor
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jul 1999 - Feb 2001
    Lytham St. Anne’S, England, United Kingdom
    Modernising the existing Income Support system to add a Java / Swing based front end.Developing JEE application to persist data to an Oracle database via EJB.

Richard Kenyon Skills

Software Design Java Enterprise Edition Enterprise Software Oracle Soap Microsoft Sql Server Data Governance Enterprise Architecture Pl/sql Architectures Db2 Business Intelligence Java Etl Uml Data Quality Solution Architecture Software Development Jms Master Data Management Weblogic Integration Informatica Data Integration Soa Architecture J2ee Siperian Informatica Mdm

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