Experience

Capgemini
2021 - Current

Azure Engineer

Currently working as an Azure DevOps engineer on a UK government department project. The role involves building pipelines interacting with ADLS, Synapse and dedicated SQL pools. Some of the more complex tasks have been written as posts on my website.
Goldman Sachs
2010 - 2017

Project Lead in BI & Cloud Architecture

Worked within the global Sales and Trading reporting team, with members across London, New York and Bangalore. Projects focused on data management and implementing an interface structure around QlikView to manage the data sources for each dashboard. Also provided continual assistance to end users in dashboard writing and performance tuning.
Investec
2008 - 2010

BI Architect & Data Warehouse Engineer (contract)

Designed and built a data warehouse, with a nightly extract process from the Calypso trading and Sales Logix CRM systems. The purpose was to provide point in time trade positions, Mark-to-Market client account values and profit and loss to the business.
Barclays Wealth
2007 - 2008

BI Architect (contract)

Worked alongside the data warehouse team, to install a Business Objects environment over a Teradata dataset. Built an aggregate aware Universe and a set of reports for the main wealth management trading desks.
BNP Paribas
2006 - 2007

BI Architect (contract)

Supported an existing Business Objects environment, that required Universe rationalisation, to reduce ongoing support costs. Supported the rewrite of ASP data extract projects to .NET.
Betfair
2005 - 2006

BI Architect

Migrated a corrupt Business Objects environment to the newly released XI version. Rewrote the main universe and replaced the majority of freehand SQL data sources in hundreds of reports, to point to the Universe. This allowed data warehouse changes to be reflected quickly to the business.

Skills

Cloud

Azure DevOps

75%

Azure Synapse/Data Factory

55%

Azure Logic Apps

40%

Azure Networking

60%

Database

SQL Server

80%

Oracle

55%

DB2

65%

Teradata

45%

Dashboard

Power BI

80%

QlikSense/Qlik View

75%

SAP Business Objects

95%

Tableau

30%

Code

PowerShell

80%

Python

45%

C#

65%

SQL

85%

Web Design

WordPress

90%

CSS

40%

JavaScript

35%

C#

65%

Education

Richmond upon Thames College
1989 - 1992

A Level

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
Christ’s School, Richmond upon Thames
1987 - 1989

GCSE

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language, English Literature, Design Technology