Marital status: Single

Nationality: British

Age: 30

Place of Birth: London

Full clean driving license for 13 years.

Brampton Manor Comprehensive

11 ‘O’ Levels

2 ‘A’ Levels (Economics and History)

Currently studying Open University honors degree in Information Technology

Course based around object orientated technology. (Currently in 3^rd Year)

Courses studied in include C++ design, programming and implementation, object-orientated databases and windows GUI programming.

Oracle DBA 6 and 7.

Unix C programming

SAP R3 Technical core competence

SAP R3 system Management

SAP R3 Oracle database administration

SAP R3 Financial accounting

Crystal Reports advanced

Crystal info administrator

PC engineer.

Operator to shift leader.

Operations supervisor. Including leading a team of six.

Shift leader to Oracle DBA

3 years as oracle DBA to the front office production and development.

Responsible for availability of on-line systems and overnight batch work.

Including software upgrades, program release, backup/restore, disaster recovery, database design, tuning, security and normal day to day DBA monitoring tasks.

Oracle versions : 6.0.32 to 7.0.15

Hardware : Sequent running Dynix ptx.

Other responsibilities: Unix administrator to front office systems. duties included software upgrades, writing unix shell scripts for batch work, user administration, monitoring of hardware performance, handling hardware upgrades and control of back system. Documentation of all operational procedures.

Acted as backup to Operations manager, involving reporting to senior level management, controlling overnight operations staff and dealing with external sources.

Acted as backup to back office DBA involving looking after and MSM mumps system running a Quasar accounting database. This also ran on a sequent running dynix ptx.

Oracle DBA (part of team of 3)

Responsible for availability of data to 4 production hosts running 24 X 5 in London, Zurich, New York and Hong Kong. Data distributed by asynchronous in-house written replication. Production hosts accessed on client server basis using VB applications as well as standard tools.

Also responsible for 3 development and 3 user test databases.

Achievements: Development and implementation of new backup strategy. Implementation of sqlnet 2 , including odbc, in 9 remote sites. Implementation several in-house written applications. Complete re-write of documentation for overnight systems into an operational manual. Assisted in set up of an operational DBA team, of which still original member. Also evalution of montoring tools including patrol, db general and enterprise manager, whic involved using all products and recommending a product.

Assisted in development, testing and instillation of in-house replication and involved in day to day and overnight maintinace of replication. Currently investigating possible upgrade of replication to softeware supplier versions.

Day to day duties include maintenance and monitoring of databases in all sites, program release, working close with development team in new projects, software upgrades, backup/restore, tuning, security and normal day to day DBA monitoring tasks.

Also day to day management of the client software running on Novell network servers, including instillation, upgrades, ODBC and fault finding. As well as maintaining batch scripts and managing data.

The overnight batch scripts are unix based and have to be maintained and updated to allow for uogrades. Security is of high regard in the operation, as is database availability.

Also backup to DBA manager when required.

Oracle versions : 7.1.3 to 7.3.1 and associated tools.

Hardware: DEC Alpha’s running OSF1, sun sparks and novell network servers.

Techincal data architect. A role encompasing Oracle DBA and SAP basis consultant. This job was offered on reccomendation, I did not apply.

TMF-Europe is a new branch of Toyota, set up to deal with motor finance for Europe. We went live in Italy and Norway in quarter 3. 14 further roll outs are due in the next 2 years.

I continued my Oracle DBA experience, now with NT using version 7.3.3. The work also involves administering Designer and developer 2000. The databases are growing rapidly now we are live. I the London database to reach 2 Gb by the end of the 4^th quarter 97. I have put in place replication back to London from all sites.

The aplications running on oracle are leasetek and helpdesk for windows. I have gained much experience in both, as I have installed the oracle end of both, fault fixed and administered.

I now also am the onsite SAP basis admistrator. We are using SAP 3.0F on Oracle NT machines. These are accessed from all sites over the WAN. We also have many interfaces going from remote sites back to London. I have implememnted and documented these.

There is a lot of skills transfer in this role as I am the only oracle resource here. I have to write a lot 'on the fly ' and aid users wherever possible as our team is small.

SAP basis consultant on Oracle/NT platform.

Implementation of SAP to several clients and supporting the clients both on-siteand remotely.

As the first Digital basis consultant, I set up R3 for the new customers digital had won through its 3^rd party supporting arm. This involved using several tachnologies within R3 andliasing with the development, operations and management of the customers as well as giving direction to the equivalent areas within digital. This involved a major amount of knowledge transfer which went very successfully.

My tasks ranged from setting up all areas of SAP, including desktops, security, printing, OSS, database tuning and training to giving presentations and management overviews.

In the last two months before I left, I managed the setting up of the digital basis team as the amount of work grew. In this I liased with agencies, interviewed staff and recommended appointments. I also set up the standards and procedures manual for the team.

I also assisted in setting up the R3area of the Digital disaster recovery team and aided in the transition of DEC to Compaq computers.

I managed several projects, ranging from upgrades and installs to evaluating new business and new business areas for customers.

Sap technologies were from 3.0f to 31h.

SAP basis consultant on MSSQL/NT platform.

Initally brought into the business side of Nat West and was a member of the successful 31h upgrade and live support team.

Then I was moved into another area which is implenting a major project involving SAP. My main tasks were to help formualte the initial structure of he new landscape and help design how it was to be integrated into the current SAP landscape. I was also asked to provide various reports on different section of SAP, for management review.

Later I was moved to the technical area and joined the SAP support team. The major roles are assisting in support and building the knowledge of the permanent members of the SAP team. Also writing a full operations manual.

In the team I have headed projects to upgrade landscapes to 3.1F, MSSQL 7 and 4.5B. All projects were successfully completed on time and within budget. We were the first UK site to receive 4.5B, which we installed, on our testbed, within 4 days of days of reciept to comply with contractual agreements.

I have also installed all the above levels of software, plus 4.0A and 4.5A.

As part of the upgrade project to 4.5B I also coverted out landscape to use STMS.

Good knowledge of data issues in finance houses due to economics background and experience in city companies.

Journey from home to City 30 minutes.

I have a copy of an article I was asked to write for business and technology magazine, expert opinion section.

I help run and work for an IT charity called express link-up. We provide volunteer IT support to children’s long-term illness wards in over 50 hospitals in the UK. I have recently been made a trustee of the charity.

Reading, Economics, Guitar and Sports.

I ran the 1999 London Marathon to raise money for the above charity.