Richard Ridge Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Uganda

ASEI is a non-profit organization fully focused on increasing capacity for innovation in Africa through youth and community STEM projects which involves providing and assisting communities adapt to a new pedagogical approach to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in Uganda. The approach ensures that students and youth are involved in project-based learning in STEM fields while also cultivating skills such as collaboration, problem identification and solving… Show more ASEI is a non-profit organization fully focused on increasing capacity for innovation in Africa through youth and community STEM projects which involves providing and assisting communities adapt to a new pedagogical approach to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in Uganda. The approach ensures that students and youth are involved in project-based learning in STEM fields while also cultivating skills such as collaboration, problem identification and solving, critical thinking which make them globally responsible citizens.Set out to inspire innovation in Africa through STEM, ASEI’s innovation makerspace provides an opportunity through space, equipment, human capital, access to research and academia to the community, industry, public sector and development partners to innovate new or even adopt existing technologies/models that respond to key issues in the agriculture value chain, renewable energy, tourism, water and environment which are key sectors in socioeconomic and environmental transformation of Uganda and the entirety of Africa. Show less

Sydney, Australia

Senior consultant specialising in Office 365 / Azure advanced features and security configuration including data leakage policies, rights management, conditional access policies, cloud app security and Intune for PC and mobile device management. Business development and building out key strategic customer and vendor relationships to grow business profitability year on year.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Managed the interactions between the TAL data/ BI team and the database operations team. Senior member of the database team, assisting project deliver new MDM / datamart capabilities within TAL as well as improving current data load processing. Developed the POWERBI framework within TAL and worked with the business teams to deliver a secure yet flexible and responsive platform for their reporting and self service BI requirements. Managing the TAL tableau environment, leading and delivering… Show more Managed the interactions between the TAL data/ BI team and the database operations team. Senior member of the database team, assisting project deliver new MDM / datamart capabilities within TAL as well as improving current data load processing. Developed the POWERBI framework within TAL and worked with the business teams to deliver a secure yet flexible and responsive platform for their reporting and self service BI requirements. Managing the TAL tableau environment, leading and delivering the upgraded Tableau environment, improving the current environment to meet business requirements. Database team lead for implementation and operation of TAL's BI database layer including MDS,MDM, PowerBI, Tableau, SSIS and SQL Server. Show less

Sydney, Australia

Database SME for TAL projects and responsible for the database lead in the TAL BI and analytics environment. Establishing framework, standards for the Power BI and Tableau environments within TAL and ensuring that these platforms met business requirements and also complied with internal and external security requirements.

Sydney, Australia

Database resource for several major transformation projects assisting to design, build and upgrade database environments within TAL

North Sydney

Added Unix and Storage platform responsibilities and resources to the existing team of database administrators. Monitoring platform redesign and infrastructure administration was also added for team responsibilities.

North Sydney

Reporting into head of First Data’s global database group, responsible for regional database operations and strategy as well as developing and implementing global database standards. Leading the regional database team which outperformed all other global database groups and other infrastructure groups delivering a S1/S2 free environment for over 3 years. The team was responsible for all transactional database platforms as well as the data warehouse and BI / analytics environments. Major database… Show more Reporting into head of First Data’s global database group, responsible for regional database operations and strategy as well as developing and implementing global database standards. Leading the regional database team which outperformed all other global database groups and other infrastructure groups delivering a S1/S2 free environment for over 3 years. The team was responsible for all transactional database platforms as well as the data warehouse and BI / analytics environments. Major database platforms regionally were SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 (LUW). Team was made up of 10-12 staff based in 4 countries globally. Show less

North Sydney

Primary responsibility was to complete major project to consolidate First Data’s client reporting and settlement platform using DB2, Ab Initio and Hyperion SQR. Managed a multifunctional 20-30 member team made up of internal, outsourced and offshore staff. Team members were made up of development resources and also ANZ database resources. Stabilized the regional reporting platform and delivered new internal projects including profitability Data Warehouse systems, Sharepoint and internal online… Show more Primary responsibility was to complete major project to consolidate First Data’s client reporting and settlement platform using DB2, Ab Initio and Hyperion SQR. Managed a multifunctional 20-30 member team made up of internal, outsourced and offshore staff. Team members were made up of development resources and also ANZ database resources. Stabilized the regional reporting platform and delivered new internal projects including profitability Data Warehouse systems, Sharepoint and internal online reporting requirements. System redesign and process improvement to deliver large cost savings and application performance improvements. Show less

North Sydney

Initial task was to stabilise and consolidate the SQL Server environment to a highly available clustered environment. This delivered much improved database application performance, reliability and large cost savings. Created and administered the company Oracle database environments and mentored junior staff to support these database environments.

Team leader of the production operations database team responsible for managing Telstra's internal and external database systems running on SQL Server, Oracle and DB2

Graduate Diploma In Information Management, Data Modeling/Warehousing And Database Administration

Bachelor Of Arts, Geography