Skills
SQL
- SQL Server 2005/2008
- SSIS
- SSRS
- SSAS
- MySQL
- Teradata
- DB2
Web
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript / jQuery
- PHP
- Classic ASP
- ASP.NET
- Ruby on Rails
- ExpressionEngine
Other
- VBA
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- OBIEE
- GIMP
Skills benchmarked against the five stages of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
Experience
Partner
November 2010 - Present
Co-founded Big Cub Design, a web design and branding business. Responsible for managing clients and projects, designing and developing content-managed websites.
Created suite of landmark training and development websites for Asda including Director Learning Academy, Leadership Academy and Colleague Academy.
Business Intelligence Developer
September 2006 - November 2010
Design, development & support of bespoke web applications, intranet sites and desktop reporting systems. Particular focus on developing web-based MI/BI reporting applications.
Agile development of BI & MI over variety of configurations including SQL Server BI, web applications, Excel VBA and Access VBA.
Working with key stakeholders across the business to help identify and prioritise MI/BI opportunities and define KPI's within commercial areas such as finance, supply, logistics & marketing.
Colleague IT training, including material development and training delivery, for both bespoke and off-the-shelf software.
Key achievements:
Conceived, designed & developed revolutionary web-based Supply Chain reporting system to replace and improve upon dozens of heterogeneous legacy reporting applications. Hundreds of thousands of colleague-hours saved annually. Subsequently rolled out at Wal-Mart Canada and plans for US, India, China, Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
ASDA Colleague of the Year 2009.
Report Developer
October 2003 - September 2006
Collation, cleansing and loading large volumes of billing data from disparate heterogeneous sources. Development of tools to enable this process.
Design and development of web-based and desktop reports.
IT support & IT training.
Courses
Education
BSc (Hons) Information Systems (2:1)
September 2000 - June 2003
Modules studied include information systems strategy, knowledge management, human-computer interface, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, networking, IT ethics, e-commerce, project management.
Prestatyn High School
Prestatyn, North Wales
A-Level (Computing A, Maths B, Chemistry C)
GCSE (6 A*, 3 A, 1 B)
September 1992 - June 2000