Robert Hamers Email & Phone Number

Currently employed at Swiss Re, but very much open for new terrific opportunities that takes advantage of my 18 years of experience in Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse design & development, data analysis, develop team lead and coordination skills, and 28 years in database development. How can I help solve your information problems?This position should be full-time (no contract positions!), not a consultant position, and only be located in Manhattan, the Bronx, Long Island City, Westchester, Fairfield county CT or northern New Jersey. Please don't contact me for positions that are not located there, since I will not consider moving for any reason, and also not for contract positions. Please do not waste my time and yours.If you have an interesting job, please contact me by email only. Thanks!Specialties: Data warehousing, ETL, large database & reporting systems, dimensional and relational data modeling, cellphone technology (GSM/TDMA), cellphone billing systems, asset management IT at large financial institutions (Equity & Fixed Income).Databases & ETL: Oracle, SQLServer, Teradata, Sybase, Ab Initio, Informatica PowerCenter, Markit EDM, Tableau.Trading Systems: BlackRock Aladdin, eFront.Experience with Agile development. Experience as developer, technical project leader, application owner, IT team lead, Agile Product Owner and Scrum Master.

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  Senior Information Engineer

  Swiss Re

  Mar 2008 - Present - Greater New York City Area

  Current position: Senior Information Engineer, responsible for managing eFront, a trading and management system for alternative investments, and getting data from eFront and other systems in the online reporting tool Foundry from Palantir, working Agile and being the Scrum Master. Before that I was Oracle Developer for the Analytics data mart processing system. I was responsible for onboarding eFront and integrating this into our IT landscape (especially Markit EDM), and helping with onboarding Markit EDM at Swiss Re, all working Agile.When the landscape was consolidated into fewer systems I was the Product Owner of the ODS decommissioning team, using the Agile method to migrate all ODS functionality into Markit EDM.Tasks & achievements:• Developed a new interface to external vendor BlackRock to get risk and analytics data on fixed income positions• Then became change & release manager for the new interface system between BlackRocks trading system Aladdin and Swiss Re back office systems• Also did the full data migration from Swiss Re to BlackRock trading systems• Became IT owner of the successor system ODS• Then assisted in onboarding the new central data application Markit Enterprise Data Management (EDM) (from IHS Markit) while making sure ODS kept running.• Then got trained in Agile work method, and be the Product Owner of a squad to migrate all ODS functionality to Markit EDM.• Worked to integrate a new trading system for Alternative Investments into the data model in Markit EDM.• Worked on a datamart system processing and combining Analytics data using a large Oracle database.• Now I combine data for loading into the online reporting tool Foundry from Palantir and managing eFront. Scrum master of the squad. • Tools used: Oracle 10g to 12c & PL/SQL, PowerCenter 8.6.1 to 10.1.1, Markit EDM 18.2, UC4 batch management system (Automic), Unix, Wiki/Confluence, JIRA, ServiceNow , BlackRock Aladdin data, eFront data, Foundry (Palantir), Tableau.