Freelance IT Consultant Folkestone, Kent, UK
BB Computing provides Project Management, application design and development consultancy in Data Warehousing, Data Migration or Legacy Applications, with more than 20 years experience in the IT industry working with a variety of technologies and companies.
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £72.22 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £577.78 per day |
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| Seller ID: | 324491 |
CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
BB Computing provides Project Management, application design and development consultancy in Data Warehousing, Data Migration or Legacy Applications, with more than 20 years experience in the IT industry working with a variety of technologies and companies.
Employment History
(Feb 2007 to Jun 2009)
Data Warehouse Architect
Slough & Putney, London• Extended the existing Data Warehouse ETL facilities by developed a suite of initial load and subsequent new / changed data extract processes from the Oracle Data Warehouse to a pre-defined set of 26 files for transmission to head office. This involved initially extracting and processing approximately 80 million records.
• Developed a suite of AS/400 RPG applications relating to improving the efficiency of daily time consuming tasks within the core application. The existing Data Warehouse ETL processes where then extended to cover these new facilities.
• Designed and developed DataStage ETL processes to extract the Companies data as part of a team set-up to refinance the Companies portfolio as part of a Securitisation project, this was carried out in conjunction with LeasePlan Corporation and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
(Jun 2006 to Jan 2007)
Data Migration Manager
Putney, London• Responsible for the Modelling and Creation of Phase II of the Data Warehouse and the related Data Marts.
• Responsible for the design, creation, implementation and verification of the DataStage ETL processes that loaded the Data Warehouse with a pre-defined set of files from the 26 Countries.
• Responsible for the design, creation, implementation and verification of the DataStage ETL processes that loaded the various Data Marts.
(Aug 2005 to May 2006)
Data Warehouse Architect
Almere, Netherlands• Responsible for the Modelling and Creation of Phase II of the Data Warehouse and the related Data Marts.
• Responsible for the design and implementation and verification of the DataStage ETL processes to load the Data Warehouse and Data Marts.
• Responsible for the QualityStage data investigation jobs for a global project.
(Feb 2005 to Jul 2005)
Data Migration Manager
Fish4 Trading Limited, Hammersmith, London• Management of 3 IT Staff.
• Managed the Data Migration, Gap Analysis and refinement processes.
• Managed the implementation and verification of the Data Warehouse ETL loading processes.
• Business Objects development and Universe Design.
(Feb 2002 to Jan 2005)
Data Warehouse Architect
LeasePlan Corporation N.V. , Almere, Netherlands• Responsible for the Development of a Data Warehouse and the data feeds from 26 countries costing € 5 million, containing over 100 million rows of data.
• Installation of DataStage and Business Objects.
• Modelling of a Risk Management Data Mart which it was estimated would save € 5 million per year.
• Modelling and Creation of the Data Warehouse and subsequent Data Marts.
• Responsible for the design and implementation and verification of the DataStage ETL processes to load the Data Warehouse and Data Marts.
• Management of 3 IT Staff.
• Business Objects development, Universe Design and Broadcast Agent.
(May 2001 to Jan 2002)
Data Migration Team Leader
LeasePlan UK Limited, Putney, London• Management of 4 IT Staff.
• Responsible for the conversion of approximately 120,000 Vehicles and their Customers, Contracts, Service History and Finance Ledger.
• Responsible for the designed and development of the DataStage ETL conversion routines.
• Data reconciliation.
• Post conversion support.
(Jan 2000 to Apr 2001)
Data Migration Manager / Data Warehouse Architect
Tower Publishing Services Limited , Market Harborough• Management of 6 IT Staff.
• Data migration from an AS/400 application to an in-house Informix application.
• Designed enhancements to the Informix application.
• Implementation of a registration card scanning solution.
• Installation of DataStage, Informix Redbrick, Business Objects and Set Analyzer.
• Designed and developed a Data Warehouse costing £1.5m, containing over 100 Million rows of data.
• Rolled out the Data Warehouse application to other Clients.
(Oct 1997 to Dec 1999)
Contract IT Manager
United Business Media, London• Management 6 permanent and contract staff.
• Part of Business Management Team.
• Recruitment.
• Building relationships with suppliers and other 3rd parties.
• Monitoring of staff work loads and development times.
• Development of the Paid Subscription System to allow for multi currencies.
• Productivity enhancements to the document image package.
• Managed the development, testing and implementation of the Y2K proofing of the Business Applications, gaining the approval of both Internal and External Auditors.
(Jul 1991 to Oct 1997)
Project Manager
Inchcape Motors International, Dover• Design and Implementation of a Vehicle Warranty application for Chrysler Jeep UK; Proton Cars UK; Daihatsu UK; Mazda Finland between the Dealership, head office, the Manufacturer and back to the Dealership.
• Designed and Implemented a Bonded Vehicle Stocking and Distribution application that gained HM Customs and Excise approval for the following Customers: - Toyota GB; Daihatsu UK; Chrysler Jeep UK; Volkswagen; Honda; Daewoo; Hyundia; Suzuki; Mazda.
• Managed the design and implementation of a suite of processes to aid Toyota GB in their central stocking process where information was received from the Manufacturer and feed to Toyota GB. This then lead to Vehicle orders and extras being processed through the workshop in the correct time with real time status updates being feed to Toyota GB. The subsequent delivery requests were received and feed to the delivery company with the delivery manifesto being received and processed and feed through to Toyota GB. This process was subsequently rolled out to Honda, Mazda, Suzuki, Hyundai, Chrysler, Daihatsu and Daewoo.
Professional Qualifications
Business Objects Report Analysis (Business Objects) Jul 2000
Formic Form Design (FORMIC) Mar 2000
Set Analyser (TBC) Feb 2000
DataStage (ARDENT) Feb 2000
Obsydian Part 1 (SYNON) Jul 1995
Obsydian Part 2 (SYNON) Aug 1995
Project Management (BSI) Aug 1994
SYNON Report Writer (RW) (SYNON) Apr 1994
SYNON Client Server (CSG) (SYNON) Jul 1993
System Design (BSI) Jun 1993
SYNON Project Management (SYNON) Jan 1989
SYNON Fundamentals (SYNON) Nov 1988
Advance RPG Programming (ATS) Apr 1990
RPG Programming. (ATS) Jun 1987
CL Programming. (ATS) Apr 1987
System Facilities (ATS) Mar 1987
Software (year’s experience):
Business Objects 2
Set Analyser 1.5
DataStage 8
Redbrick 1
Informix 4GL 1
SQL 3
Microsoft Office 7
Aqua Studio .5
Obsydian 2
Oracle 1
QualityStage .3
DB2 9
RPG400 7
Microsoft Windows 9
Scanned Forms Design 1
ERwin 2
MS Access 6
ODBC 6
SQL Server 1
Microsoft Project 3
RPGLE .5
Synon 1 & 2 7
Toad 3
Categories & Freelance Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Database Development & Admin
- Enterprise Systems
- Hardware
- IT Management
- IT Support
- IT Tools/Middleware
- Networks
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Reporting & Analysis
Skills
- Analysis (IT Management - Business Process)
- Application Software Maintenance (IT Support)
- AS/400 (Operating Systems)
- Automation (IT Management - Business Process)
- Basic (Programming)
- Business Objects (Reporting & Analysis)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Change Control (IT Management)
- Change Management (IT Management - Business Process)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Coordination (IT Management - Project)
- Data Conversion/Mapping (Database Development & Admin)
- Data Migration Management (IT Management)
- Data Warehouse (Database Development & Admin)
- Database (Enterprise Systems - Oracle)
- DB2 (Database Development & Admin)
- Design (IT Management - Process)
- ERwin
- Hardware Installation (IT Management)
- i Series (Hardware - IBM)
- IBM (Hardware)
- IBM OS/2 (Operating Systems)
- Implementation (IT Management - Project)
- Improvement (IT Management - Business Process)
- Informix (Database Development & Admin)
- Leadership
- Management (IT Management - Project)
- Mapping (IT Management - Process)
- Microsoft (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- MS Access
- MySQL (Database Development & Admin)
- ODBC
- Oracle (Enterprise Systems)
- People Management (IT Management)
- Process (IT Management)
- Project (IT Management)
- RAD (Application Development)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- Reporting (Reporting & Analysis - Business Objects)
- RPG (Programming)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Solutions Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Structured Design (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Synon (Application Development - RAD)
- System/34 (Operating Systems)
- System/38 (Operating Systems)
- Systems Management (IT Management)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Management (IT Management)
- Unicode (Programming)
- VBA (Programming)
- Visio (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Wireless (Networks)
- Wireless Network (IT Support)

