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Norwich, Gb

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

BI Development using the Microsoft stack. Power BI, Power Automate, Azure Data Factory, SQL Server Data Warehousing, Dynamics 365 Business Central AL Programming, Power Query, DAX. REST and OData API integrations. Data analysis.Delivered an end-to-end cloud hosted business intelligence platform comprising of a SQL Server data warehouse with Azure Data Factory integrations to D365 Business Central and eCommerce partners as well as a portfolio of Power BI reports and dashboards.

London, England, United Kingdom

Migration and design work on an Azure migration project involving seven key systems. Management of IaaS and PaaS MS SQL as well as Azure data factories.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Completed an Azure HADR cloud migration initiative which included a consolidation effort.

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Maintains oversight of all the data platforms used within Nielsen Brandbank. • Leads a team of BI and database professionals.• Responsible for developing and delivering the IT data strategy.• Undertakes database focused architecture and performance scaling work on key system projects and specifically platforms that underpin the Nielsen Brandbank service delivery.• Large scale Azure Migration Project involving SQL PaaS and Cosmos DB.• Leading a multi-year Enterprise BI Solution implementation.• Assists and advises other developers on key areas of data platform integration such as correctness, performance and scalability.• Researches new data platforms for current and future Nielsen Brandbank projects focusing on Cloud platforms. • Reviews all database schema and code as part of the standard development cycle.• Creates and ensures adherence to processes and policies relating to database platforms.• Works in an JIRA Agile Scrum IT structure.

Norwich, England

• Production DBA for several clients providing 24/7 support on business critical large systems. Clients such as telephone companies and payment processing systems provided large throughput, big data OLTP processing experience. • Proactive monitoring and capacity analysis facilitated low downtime on servers responsible for. • Expert database tuning, performance bottleneck work and system design for performance.• Implemented partitioning and archiving strategy on a 4 million rows per day VLDB.• Worked with client to migrate system to AWS.• Technical lead and mentor for other SQL Server DBAs.• Daily monitoring and quarterly health checks performed for all clients’ servers.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lead production DBA for a leading international assessment company. Responsible for high availability and disaster recovery database infrastructure design and implementation. In addition to typical administration tasks in a 24/7 data centre, recent projects including server consolidation, virtualisation and utility computing design have lowered TCO. Proven ability to apply expert performance tuning skills, trouble shooting and recovery in high stress production down situations. Performed data architect role for in-house databases within department. Managed other DBA’s as project lead on projects such as multi-site clusters and 2012 Always On production roll out. Self-motivated with strong belief in team collaboration and mentoring.

Sacramento, California Area

Sacramento, California Area

Sacramento, California, United States

Continuing Riptide Technologies contract as a contractor.

Sacramento, California, United States