Experience

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  TCS / ASDA

  • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Data Engineer / Business Data Analyst

    • Oct 2021 - Jun 2023
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

    Part of the Data Migration team, working on the separation of ASDA IT systems from Walmart and building a new MS Azure Ecosystem data warehouse. Primary role was assisting the business towers with gaining access to the various source systems, extracting the relevant data, loading into Azure Syna...

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  Arcadia

  • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Data Engineer

    • Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

    Part of the Data Warehouse team, providing expertise for the Customer Insight processes.Assisted with the preparation for the pending migration to MS Azure SQL Database.

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  RBS

  • London Area, United Kingdom

  • Senior Data Engineer

    • Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
    • London Area, United Kingdom

    Part of the Data Science (Data Innovation/Data & Analytics) team. I worked on a PoC to extract customer data from various systems for input into a third party vendor package, to assess its effectiveness for data resolution and identification of entity relationships.

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

  • Senior Data Engineer

    • Aug 2014 - Jun 2018
    • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

    Part of the Data Warehouse team, working on various enhancements and ad hoc requests including the separation of TSB data from Lloyds systems, TSB data migration and building a new LBG Business Intelligence system.

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  Barclays

  • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Analyst/Developer

    • Jan 2013 - Aug 2014
    • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

    Cards systems enhancements.Customer Enhancement system.PPI Complaints / Compensation. Install new Collections system.

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  Wipro

  • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

  • Solutions Architect

    • Oct 2011 - Dec 2012
    • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

    Worked for Wipro at Lloyds Banking Group. Building a 360 Single Customer View, following the recent merger with HBOS.

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  • Manchester

  • Senior Data Engineer

    • Aug 2008 - Oct 2011
    • Manchester

    Data warehouse - migration to FSLDM model

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  Satyam Computer services Limited

  • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Sep 2007 - Aug 2008
    • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

    Worked at Barclays Bank, Cheshire, on Data Warehouse team. Played lead role on multiple projects including the acquisition of new data into the Warehouse is via ETL (Ab Initio).

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  Barclays Bank

  • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Apr 2006 - Sep 2007
    • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

    Multiple projects including to design/code/test key and complex parts of the Basel II Exposure-At-Default and Loss-Given-Default calculation process.

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  HBOS

  • Edinburgh/Chester

  • IT Consultant

    • Sep 2005 - Mar 2006
    • Edinburgh/Chester

    Developing new Basel II system - LGD & EAD. Mostly a developer - COBOL/DB2 & Easytrieve

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  Vodafone

  • Theale, England, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Jul 2005 - Aug 2005
    • Theale, England, United Kingdom

    This was a short-term contract to investigate the Vodafone warehouse system, and decide how best to integrate it with a newly-written registrations system. My main deliverables were a Technical Options paper and a Low-Level Design document.

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  Xansa

  • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Apr 2004 - Jun 2005
    • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

    Part of a managed service for the Lloyds Banking Group Data Warehouse. My role included all aspects of the project lifecycle, from feasibility through to post-implementation support.

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Feb 2003 - Apr 2004
    • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

    Data warehouse - various enhancements

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  Barclays

  • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • May 2001 - Dec 2002
    • Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

    Worked for Barclays through LOGICA.Maintaining the Customer Enhancement/Risk team. Online testing often involved using an IMS/TM Communications Manager interface with a branch platform that runs on an AIX box within a UNIX environment. Roles, included programming, analysis/design, unit testing ...

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  CODA FINANCIAL GROUP INC

  • Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Developer

    • Nov 2000 - May 2001
    • Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

    Development and enhancement of financial management solutions using web-architected applications that operate across the Internet or an intranet.I worked on the development of CODA’s e-Billing (invoicing) and e-Finance products, developing a 'workflow' application to interface with CODA p...

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Jan 1999 - Oct 2000
    • Manchester Area, United Kingdom

    Development of a new Operational Customer COBOL CICS DB2 system, following the merger of Lloyds & TSB.

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  AMP

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Production Support Manager, Analyst, Developer

    • Jul 1997 - Dec 1998
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Enhancements to the GIO personal investments and life systems, mostly within the production support team as analyst programmer and later as team leader.

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  AVCO

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • IT Consultant

    • Mar 1996 - Jul 1997
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Enhancements to the CARDPAC and COLLECTIONS system.Enhancements to the AVCO General and Life Insurance applications.

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  Woolworths Australia

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • IT Consultant

    • Nov 1995 - Feb 1996
    • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Creation of an interface between Woolworths' Produce System and a new stock and price information system. The interface was developed using COBOL/CICS/DB2, including CICS communications and conversational-mode programming.

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  NWS Bank / Capital Bank / HBOS

  • Chester, England, United Kingdom

  • IT Consultant

    • Apr 1995 - Nov 1995
    • Chester, England, United Kingdom

    Implementation of a new collections system.

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  Xansa for Whitbread

  • Reading, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Analyst / Programmer & Team Leader

    • Jun 1994 - Apr 1995
    • Reading, England, United Kingdom

    Development of a Stock Control system for Thresher, using TELON.Development of a MIS system for procurement, which required building and maintaining a DB2 database on the mainframe, and using Business Objects as a front-end reporting tool.

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  The Co-operative Bank plc

  • Skelmersdale, England, United Kingdom

  • Senior Analyst / Programmer

    • Nov 1989 - May 1994
    • Skelmersdale, England, United Kingdom

    Worked on a large variety of projects within the bank.Duties undertaken included all aspects of a project life cycle - programming, analysis, design, user liaison, project leadership, system testing, user acceptance testing and implementation.

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  SEMA GROUP UK LTD

  • Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

  • Team Leader / Analyst / Programmer

    • Aug 1984 - Nov 1989
    • Alderley Edge, England, United Kingdom

    Joined as a graduate trainee programmer, working my way up to team leader and systems analyst.Worked on a variety of projects - applications included banking, catering, police, engineering, mail order, car leasing, football league and social security systems.Roles included programming, system tes...