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Profile

A senior Oracle developer and team leader with over 10 years of Oracle development experience including analysis, design and implementation skills. Certified in several versions of the Oracle development toolset and skilled in a wide range of supporting technologies.

Key Technical Skills

  • Oracle RDBMS 7.3.4 – 9.2.0
  • Forms, Reports, Designer (3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i, 9i)
  • PL/SQL, Java, C
  • GIOS 1.7.0
  • Windows NT and XP, UNIX (HP-UX 11i, Korn Shell scripts)
  • TOAD 8.0, PVCS Version Manager, Test Director 7.6, AppEaze
  • IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, MKS Toolkit

Technical Certifications

  • Oracle Certified Internet Application Developer,
    Oracle Forms Developer Release 6/6i                                                      Dec 2001
  • Oracle9i Forms Developer Certified Professional                                      Jun 2003

Employment History

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IT Specialist                                                                                      Jan 2002 – Dec 2005

  • Technical Oracle consultant on a project to move a large Oracle database from Tunbridge Wells to Guildford, working with a team of network, UNIX and database administrators to find and remove performance bottlenecks. This involved identifying, reviewing and improving problem code and advising the development team on best practice techniques for future projects (6 months).
  • Technical consultant on a corporate project to roll out Windows XP to all desktops in the company including automated deployment of all software installations using Active Directory. Responsibilities included the design of all the divisional Oracle-related packages for users and developers such as Forms runtime environments, Developer Suite and Toad installations (6 months).
  • Technical advisor on a software selection project to shortlist and acquire an appropriate ETL tool to load large volumes of data into an Oracle database on a regular daily or weekly basis (3 months).
  • Technical consultant on a corporate project to start an offshore facility in India. Responsibilities included designing and testing the divisional Oracle-related packages for both business and IT users for use on vmWare virtual desktops based in the UK (3 months).
  • Lead developer on a small proof-of-concept project to design and implement an Oracle interface to a third-party Java application for address validation (Capscan Matchcode). This included a Java wrapper, PL/SQL call specs and installation and configuration of third-party software (3 months).
  • Third-line support for a production Credit Card server (SolveSe) and related Oracle Forms interface. Included dealing with helpdesk calls, liaising with users, identifying and rectifying problems and release management (ongoing).

Senior Analyst Programmer                                                              Oct 1999 – Dec 2001

  • Analysis, design and implementation of a large Direct Debit processing system. Significant effort was required to understand the problem domain, document user requirements and define scope. Included writing technical specifications and team leading a small team of developers (1 year).
  • Designed and built a comprehensive Credit Card processing application. Responsibilities included gathering requirements, writing system and technical specifications, software installation and configuration (6 months).
  • Integrated third-party address validation software into an Oracle Forms application using an ActiveX control in a Windows environment (6 months).
  • Mentored less experienced developers (ongoing).

Analyst Programmer                                                                           Jul 1997 – Sep 1999

  • Third-line support for an Oracle Forms accounting system. Some projects include upgrading Forms from 4.0 to 4.5 and Y2K changes (2 years).

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Analyst Programmer                                                                            Jul 1995 – Jun 1997

  • Analysis, design and build of an Oracle Forms based inventory control system for the engineering department. Using CASE*Designer and Forms (2 years).

Education

  • B.Sc. (Hons) Information Technology (Class 2:1)             Oct 1991 – Jun 1995
    De Montfort University, Leicester
    Including a placement year as an Oracle developer working for Ciba-Geigy Ltd in Basel, Switzerland
  • 3 A-levels (Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics), 7 GCSEs
    Cambridge House Boys’ Grammar School                             Sep 1983 – Jun 1990

 
 
 
 
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