Damon Smithies
PowerBI Solutions Developer at BCN Group Ltd- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
MicrosoftJun, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
MicrosoftAug, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Sage Developer Accreditation
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MTA: Software Development Fundamentals - Certified 2016
MicrosoftSep, 2016- Nov, 2024
Experience
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BCN
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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PowerBI Solutions Developer
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Dec 2017 - Present
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drydensfairfax solicitors
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United Kingdom
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Law Practice
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1 - 100 Employee
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Analyst Programmer
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Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
- Designing, specifying and implementing front and back end programmatical solutions to meet specified requirements. Improving the front end user experience, maintaining or refactoring new and old business logic. Designed using the .NET framework in either VB or C# with a SQL backend. These range from full overnight solutions, ad-hoc backend requirements or full data migrations.- Maintenance of development, production and test databases through T-SQL to support ongoing development changes within the business.- Ongoing SQL development of test databases and obfuscation routines to allow for design, testing and post implementation support to be carried out in line with ISO27001 and PCIDSS practices.- Providing analytical SQL based data reports to support new business, pre-development analysis, post implementation and ad-hoc requests.- Full ownership of a SQL based data migration suite to support the ongoing improvements to the business case logic and flow.- Full control over the outsourcing letter suite. This includes T-SQL based development to the existing stored procedures and functions.- Discussing business requirements with users and translating these in to technical requirements for use within the development team.- Delivering quick and efficient solutions whilst adhering to the standards of an expected development lifecycle.- Daily analysis of incidents, remediation of said incidents through preventative fixes to allow the issue to be resolved while the wider route cause is analysed, resolved, tested and released.- Providing in-depth analysis of changes pending, providing estimates of required resource, milestones, products impacted and any pre-requisites to allow these to be scheduled effectively with minimum impact.- Pre-implementation code and deployment script reviews.- Supporting the case management developers.- Attending supplier meetings to discuss ongoing relationships, new business and discussing technical requirements.- Kanban Show less
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Case Management System Developer
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Jan 2012 - Oct 2016
- Developing front end manual and automated solutions to meet the requirements of company stakeholders and external clients. - Discussing business requirements with users and translating these in to technical requirements for use within the development team. This often needs to be translated for use within a System Design specification that will be seen by both technical and non-technical audiences.- Delivering quick and efficient solutions whilst adhering to the standards of an expected development lifecycle, from identifying business requirements through to proposing effort estimates, impact analysis, designing, developing, testing and implementation.- Daily analysis of incidents raised and remediation of said incidents through immediate preventative fixes to allow the issue to resolved while the wider route cause is analysed, resolved, tested and released.- Providing in-depth analysis of changes pending approval, providing a rough estimate of required resource, estimated milestones, products impacted and any pre-requisites to allow these to be scheduled effectively with minimum impact.- Maintenance of development, production and test databases through T-SQL to ensure erroneous data is corrected quickly and required solutions are implemented to support ongoing development changes within the business.- Full control over the outsourcing of internal letters to a third party to ensure that business costs and staff resource is reduced. Providing a high quality lettering product for both our clients and customers. This includes web based development for letter templates and T-SQL based development to the existing stored procedures.- Supporting the in-house Programmers with the in house CM system to enable them to develop external apps to support the running of the business. This usually entails establishing a link between the case manage system and the application as well as providing details regarding the back end database objects that are affected. Show less
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Litigation Assistant
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Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
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Paralegal
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Jan 2009 - Dec 2009
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Filing Clerk
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Aug 2006 - Dec 2008
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Education
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Hanson School