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Project Manager & BI Developer Consultant
Niall Davidson
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Kinross, United Kingdom
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I have many years of experience as a BI consultant, trainer and Project Manager.
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United Kingdom
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English
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2019 - 2020
freelance
BI Manager & Project Manager
Primark Dublin.
Managing and supporting the day to day finance BI & TM1 function including strategy development, user access, project development, project management, budget controls, third party developer management. Assess the current TM1 landscape within Primark for suitability, performance, stability and in line with best practices. Managing onshore and offshore teams of developers.
Develop and enhance current frameworks and reports to satisfy requirements from the Finance team and broader functions. Enhance current ETL procedures using Data Manager.
Stakeholder management, blueprint design and architectural design and development. Designing the Primark roadmap strategy for data analytics & data warehousing over next 5 years migrating from on premise architecture to cloud based in conjunction with migrating to new data centre. Gather business requirements and translate into technical design.
Manage several projects simultaneously and work with Stakeholders to ensure it runs to time, within budget and meets business requirements. Document as is and to be, processes and data flows, business requirements and manage third party partner performing upgrade. Planning for future scalability in relation to Primarks aggressive expansion plans.
Develop and enhance current frameworks and reports to satisfy requirements from the Finance team and broader functions. Enhance current ETL procedures using Data Manager.
Stakeholder management, blueprint design and architectural design and development. Designing the Primark roadmap strategy for data analytics & data warehousing over next 5 years migrating from on premise architecture to cloud based in conjunction with migrating to new data centre. Gather business requirements and translate into technical design.
Manage several projects simultaneously and work with Stakeholders to ensure it runs to time, within budget and meets business requirements. Document as is and to be, processes and data flows, business requirements and manage third party partner performing upgrade. Planning for future scalability in relation to Primarks aggressive expansion plans.
Offshore, Manager, Processes, Performing, Planning, Scalability, BEE, Development, Strategy development, Developer, It, Design, Analytics, Architecture, Finance, Management, Cloud, ETL, Stakeholder Management, Budget, Project Management
2018 - 2019
freelance
Developer
Smith & Nephew Watford.
Develop a suite of complex multi dimensional reports from TM1 data source. Advise on the development of TM1 cubes, processes and data flows to facilitate the report generation. Gather requirements from the business in relation to the required reports and create a technical specification for developers.
Developer, Development, Processes
2018 - 2018
freelance
Project Manager & Developer
Standard Life Aberdeen.
Working on two main projects including Brexit and a system replacement.
Managing Brexit project which has many facets including regulatory and development scenarios. Cognos & Power BI reports and framework redesign, regression and system testing. Managing team of developers and analysts ensuring timely delivery of milestones and ultimately project "Go Live"
System replacement project involved assessing requirements, working with other teams on build process, testing dashboards and frameworks for performance. Managing UAT testing and delivery of training and documentation.
Managing Brexit project which has many facets including regulatory and development scenarios. Cognos & Power BI reports and framework redesign, regression and system testing. Managing team of developers and analysts ensuring timely delivery of milestones and ultimately project "Go Live"
System replacement project involved assessing requirements, working with other teams on build process, testing dashboards and frameworks for performance. Managing UAT testing and delivery of training and documentation.
Project Manager, Training, Developer, Regulatory, Testing, Development, Redesign, Go, Framework, Manager, Power BI
2018 - 2018
freelance
BI Consultant
IPL Limited.
Assess current reporting, liaising with stakeholders and advise on roadmap moving forward. Currently the business uses Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 but is looking to change to Tableau, QLIK or PowerBI. Creation of Dev and Test environment and continue with BAU.
Creation of reports, dashboards and financial forecasts to satisfy requirements.
Creation of reports, dashboards and financial forecasts to satisfy requirements.
Tableau, Analytics, Test, Analyst, Power BI, Business Intelligence
2015 - 2017
freelance
Project Manager & SME
InCase.
SME & Developer of major project with IKEA to develop Cognos BI E-Learning system to be rolled out worldwide.
Create framework, cubes and reports to be used in e-learning system.
Create framework, cubes and reports to be used in e-learning system.
Project Manager, E-learning, Developer, BEE, Framework, Manager
2017 - 2017
freelance
BA Consultant
Logicalis.
Design Cognos Analytics (V11.0.6) Framework from MSSQL Server data warehouse & 5 MSAS cubes from start to finish. Create 19 standard reports from the Cognos framework. Project finished ahead of schedule and go live happened with no issues.
Design, Data Warehouse, MSSQL, Analytics, Mssql server, Server, Go, Framework
2015 - 2015
freelance
Project Manager & SME
Tele2 (Sweden).
To manage the roll out of reporting system to the Swedish division and subsequently to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia, Netherlands and various other countries. In charge of an offshore team of approximately 25 consultants based in India and 11 onshore based in Stockholm, tasked with migrating from powercubes to dynamic cubes.
Install, test & migrate current version of BI to latest version across multiple platforms in Test and Production environments.
Creation, upgrade and standardisation of all default management reporting and analysis (Finance, Service and Supply Chain)
Handling change requests from business relating to Transformer and TM1 cubes to satisfy new requirements from EMEA division.
Develop reports, dashboards and frameworks to support business requirements and enable the 'Mobile' requirement.
Design and deliver training material for end users.
Install, test & migrate current version of BI to latest version across multiple platforms in Test and Production environments.
Creation, upgrade and standardisation of all default management reporting and analysis (Finance, Service and Supply Chain)
Handling change requests from business relating to Transformer and TM1 cubes to satisfy new requirements from EMEA division.
Develop reports, dashboards and frameworks to support business requirements and enable the 'Mobile' requirement.
Design and deliver training material for end users.
Design, Project Manager, Training, Management, Finance, Service, Test, Offshore, Management Reporting, Support, BEE, Production, Manager, Power BI
2009 - 2015
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Senior Training Specialist
IBM Global Services.
Worked with beta customers for full lifecycle development of frameworks and reporting solutions based on new technologies V8.x - V10.2.2
Part of European onsite SWAT team to fix customers business critical issues.
Design and deliver technical training and all BI and TM1 products globally including 3 week technical bootcamps and selling skills workshops.
Develop and deliver proof of concept/technology for various projects and customers including Starbucks, Greene King, Bernard Matthews, Barclays and Direct Line
Subject matter expert working with Product management team to develop roadmap for new releases of BI and TM1 solutions. Creation of certification exam questions for TM1 & BI products.
Part of European onsite SWAT team to fix customers business critical issues.
Design and deliver technical training and all BI and TM1 products globally including 3 week technical bootcamps and selling skills workshops.
Develop and deliver proof of concept/technology for various projects and customers including Starbucks, Greene King, Bernard Matthews, Barclays and Direct Line
Subject matter expert working with Product management team to develop roadmap for new releases of BI and TM1 solutions. Creation of certification exam questions for TM1 & BI products.
Design, Product Management, Training, Management, Technology, Workshops, Development, BEE
2006 - 2009
job
Senior Consultant/Training Manager
Romulus Enterprises.
As a senior consultant I worked with customers such as Bernard Matthews, Muller Wiseman, Greene King, Vinci & Grants Distillers developing Framework Manager packages and reporting solutions.
Role was also to be Training manager overseeing & delivering all training requirements from customers
Role was also to be Training manager overseeing & delivering all training requirements from customers
Training, Framework, Manager
2005 - 2006
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Data Analyst
Royal Bank of Scotland.
I was employed as an analyst supporting the Business Intelligence group finance functions of the Royal Bank of Scotland. This involves the support and development of Cognos, Business Objects, TM1 and INEA applications. My duties include solving queries, creation of ad hoc reports, analysis of group metrics and production of KPI's and development of the existing frameworks. The OLAP systems also require to be reconciled to the Banks general ledger system each day to ensure accuracy. The training of new users is also required from time to time. I have had a limited amount of exposure to Cognos Powerplay and ReportNet. There are also a number of system integration projects taken on by us involving the merging of data and systems whilst supporting the BAU functions.
Business Intelligence, Training, System Integration, Finance, Integration, Support, Analyst, KPI, Development, Production, OLAP
My education
2001
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2005
Edinburgh University
BSc, Software Development
BSc, Software Development
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