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Specialises in two particular areas: the ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool Datastage; and in the Pick operating system / relational database in similar flavours such as Universe, UniVerse, Reality, D3 and advanced Pick.


 
 

 

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October 2008 to the present - Brakes Group

ETL development work at Brakes Group using DataStage version 8.0 to extract and import IDocs from or into SAP and data from or into other sources into a message broking / ERP system (written in DataStage) . The staging area is based around Oracle 10g tables and DataStage datasets. Partake in exhaustive testing, fixing and UAT. This very complicated solution made full use of v8 functionality in Sequences and Jobs, incorporating SQL and UNIX scripts in a real-time and reactive environment.

March 2008 to July 2008 - CDS Global

ETL Development work using DataStage version 7.5 to create and populate a number of Redbrick data marts from the Informix source systems and / or the Redbrick data warehouses. Incorporated automatic address/PAF functionality using the Cygnus software into the warehouse refresh process.

November 2006 to December 2007 - Nordea in Copenhagen

Development and maintenance work using DataStage version 7.5 to populate a SAP database with data from a large number of the Bank’s databases, complying with the Basel2 EU Directive

November 2005 to October 2006 - IBM (at Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs)
Development work using DataStage version 7.5 to populate an Avian Influenza Oracle data mart from a number of sources, transforming the data through various databases into the output data model format. Includes working with SQL, Oracle stored procedures, Business Objects reporting and UNIX scripting
March 2005 to October 2005 - Rural Payments Agency
Development project to take extracted RPA data from high volume XML files, using the DataStage XML plug-in, validate and transform the data into various streams, and populate the existing UniData file system
July 2004 to February 2005 - Associated Newspapers Limited
Development of a new Unix-based, Oracle Data Warehouse for Associated Newspapers’ Advertising data, which is continuously updated using DataStage version 7 and Oracle stored procedures
May 2004 to July 2004 - DHL in Copenhagen
Work on the final stages of a pilot project building interfaces in DataStage version 7 to load data into SAP financial applications using IDOCS
April 2002 to April 2004 - Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Analysis, definition of mapping and validation rules, and coding using DataStage 6.0 to convert and migrate three of DEFRA's legacy systems' (SQL Server and UniData) data into a new Oracle-based application
May 2001 to March 2002 - LeasePlan UK Limited
Analysis, design and coding using DataStage to convert and migrate Dial UK's RPG application data to the LeasePlan AS400 system
June 2000 to April 2001 - Infercor A/S
Product Development Manager involved with the support and enhancement of the Infer eCRM application
March 2000 to May 2000 - McGraw Hill Limited
Analysis, design and coding of bespoke reports and enhancements to the Publishing application functionality
December 1996 to February 2000 - Trilogy Computers Limited

Helpdesk support analyst providing support of Publishing and Manufacturing applications running on Pick and UniVerse databases on a variety of hardware


August 1998 to July 1999 - Dun & Bradstreet
Development work using IBM's DataStage tool as part of a project to convert German data from a Mainframe to an SQL-compliant database