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Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

• Formed into a team with one other colleague to lead the move towards best practice and globalisation of workflows• Devised and deployed multiple globalised processes including reference data importing, straight through processing, indexing, and more• Implementation of Best Practice Project, defining and streamlining existing processes, standardising workflow structures, defining naming conventions• Built from the ground up a fully customisable approvals (financial invoices) process that could be configured to any customer’s approval requirements• Reported directly to CTO, and liaised with stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

• Analysing and extracting Excel VBA processes from existing payroll system, and replacing with T-SQL / SSIS Packages • Developing SQL SSIS packages and SSRS reports to support the automated processing of scheduled employee payslips. • Developing Excel VBA front end reporting application for Goldvision CRM system, analysing journey / job times and locations

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

• Implementation of bespoke end-to-end document processing system, using SQL / Python / Visual Studio / SQL Studio / Excel• SQL database management including the creation and management of bespoke queries, tables, functions, stored procedures and reports (implemented with SQL Report Builder.)• Daily meetings with client around requirements gathering and query resolution• Devised full Best Practice Project for all aspects of the software configuration process including requirements gathering, analysis, assessment, justification and planning, covering failure resolution, homogenisation, and levels of abstraction

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• VB.NET - SQL / Visual Studio: Creation and implementation of bespoke core process applications including: Plan-B Barcoding System, Employee Time Clock, Inspection, Rework & Test Fault Manager, SMT Production Line Manager, Training and Skills Matrix Manager, Maintenance DB.• VBA - SQL / MS Excel / Access: Creation of bespoke, user filtered reporting applications critical to daily company activities including: Multi-levelled production and BOM reporting, inventory and WIP financial reporting, Engineering Change Control, Critical Shortages, Trail Kitting, Dead Stock, customer and Supplier OTD, Management KPIs.• Project Managed a team of 3 to implement a new full ERP system (Epicor & Navision) to replace the old company databases requiring data cleansing, data migration, hardware integration, process mapping and training roll out.• Responsible for creating and managing SQL Databases and Tables for all bespoke applications, as well as delivering SQL training in-house. • Responsible for liaising with stakeholders of all levels to identify and replace old process and systems with newer, simpler and more effective solutions.• First line of contact for most in house software issues and needs