Experience
Capgemini
2021 - CurrentAzure 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 - 2017Project 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 - 2010BI 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 - 2008BI 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 - 2007BI 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 - 2006BI 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 - 1992A Level
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry
Christ’s School, Richmond upon Thames
1987 - 1989GCSE
Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English Language, English
Literature, Design Technology