Entrepreneurial commercially savvy technologist with "Big Picture" hat on. For the last 23 years, I have been responsible at different levels for helping organisations win, by driving the adoption of data architecture & business intelligence. I have done this by raising the profile of BI among directors, developing business and commercial acumens, inspiring and technically directing teams in the delivery of business-critical information systems.
Experiences
Head of Business Intelligence
LMAX Group
Since January 2022
Full-time
LONDON
United Kingdom
Define Group strategy for Data, BI and actionable insight.
Develop a high quality professional BI team capable of providing an innovative and agile BI service (greenfield - from 0 to 2 FTEs currently).
Launch and lead the Analytics competency centre (leading 8 data scientists & data analysts ) - including hands-on development.
Architect and lead the modernisation of the Data Analytics Platform (team of 8 developers and DataOps engineers led in a matrix fashion).
££: automated 5 commission & market data charge calculation processes saving circa 2 FTEs/year and providing revenue simulation capabilities.
Group Head of Business Intelligence
DX Group plc
September 2017
to December 2021
SLOUGH
United Kingdom
Defined Group strategy for Data Governance, BI and actionable insight.
Led and managed BI, Data Engineering and Data Governance teams (x3), balancing strategic against tactical demands (hands-on).
££: designed, developed & rolled out a revenue protection solution (£1million additional revenue in first 15 months).
££: led the development of a driver pay solution fueled by data science.
Strong line management credentials (x9).
Business Intelligence Manager
DX Group plc
May 2013
to August 2017
NORTHAMPTON
United Kingdom
Developed high quality data and BI teams capable of providing a high standard of BI service to the business (from 5 to 8 FTEs).
££: led the delivery of a predictive ETA solution which contributed to the retention of customer accounts totalling circa £80m revenue.
BI Team Leader
Robert Half International
March 2009
to March 2013
BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom
BI Team Leader supervising 4 BI Developers on the development of a multi-tenant EMEA sales datawarehouse & BI solution.
Designed & developed a lead generation tool using web scraping.
££: £120K Gross Margin generated in Year 1 (x4 ROI).
££: reduced back office costs through report automation (£50k/year).
BI Architect & Developer
Robert Half International
January 2006
to February 2009
BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom
Lead Developer in charge of the design & development of a CRM NPS solution for 200+ direct users (Led 3 internal developers).
Senior BI Developer in charge of the EMEA BI & datawarehouse systems (3,000 indirect users, 50 direct users).
Enterprise DataWarehouse Manager
Alstom Transport (HQ)
January 2005
to December 2005
PARIS
France
Responsible for start up & design phases of a global enterprise EDW against 3 different SAP R/3 ERPs (Capex €3m for 5,000 WEBI licenses).
BI Development Lead
Alstom Transport Services
January 2002
to December 2004
BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom
Hands-on project lead responsible for a new datawarehouse against 3 ERPs (including SAP R/3) managing 4 developers (Capex £70K).
ERP Junior Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst
Alstom Transport Services
September 2000
to December 2001
DUBLIN
Ireland
Project & budget responsibility for ERP configuration (Capex £60k over 6 months, 3 business analysts).
Analyst, Tester & Report Developer in SAP R/3 rollout (PM, MM, FI-CO, SD).
Education
MBA European Business
Coventry University, UK
2000
Maîtrise Sciences de Gestion (MSc Finance)
Université de Caen Basse Normandie
September 1998
to December 1999
Baccalauréat (Economics and Maths)
Lycée St Louis, Saumur
September 1995
to June 1996
Skills
Information Technology
Data Engineering (datawarehouses, data lakes)
Advanced
Business Intelligence
Advanced
Relational database design
Advanced
Platform & Data Architecture
Advanced
Data Management (DAMA)
Advanced
Agile BI, Waterfall, Iterative
Advanced
Project Management (Prince2)
Advanced
ERP Implementation
Advanced
Web Development (RAD)
Advanced
Data Engineering
Microsoft SSIS, MDS, DQS
Advanced
Azure Data Factory
Good
DBT, Airflow, Airbyte
Good
Qlik Replicate
Good
Apache Spark & Kafka
Intermediate
Business Intelligence
MS SQL 2019 (SSAS, SSRS)
Advanced
SAP BI 4.1 & Crystal Reports
Advanced
SAP BI Universes, IDT & Webi
Advanced
SAP Lumira, Qlikview
Advanced
PowerBI and Advanced Excel
Advanced
Metabase, AWS Quicksight
Good
Database Management Systems
SQL Server 2000-2019
Advanced
Oracle, MySQL 5.0-8.0, SQLite
Good
Snowflake and Azure SQL
Intermediate
Architecture & Modelling Tools
Oracle SQL Data Modeller
Advanced
Visio
Advanced
Draw.io
Good
Programming or Scripting Languages
SQL (T-SQL, P-SQL)
Advanced
Web Development (RAD, VBA, VB.Net, CSS, Javascript)
Good
Python (in Pycharm & Jupyter)
Good
Powershell, Batch & Bash
Good
Operating Systems & Servers
Windows Servers, MS Azure
Advanced
IIS 5.0-7.5, Apache Tomcat
Good
ERP E/R Data Models
SAP R/3
Advanced
Great Plains/JDE/Salesforce
Good
Industries & Business Acumen
Logistics & Parcel Delivery
Advanced
Recruitment industry
Advanced
Rolling Stock industry
Advanced
Fintech
Intermediate
Languages
French: mother tongue
Expert
English: bilingual
Expert
Interests
Sports
Athletics 800m - international competitions
Sailing
Achievements
Winner at Masters Athletics European Championships in M40 age group (2019)
DX Group plc Innovation Awards winning team for ETA Solution (2015)
1st Prize winner at Robert Half worldwide «Hack Day» with Web BI Mashup (2010)
Alstom High Potential program entry (2002)
Team win at French universities business simulation championships (1999)
Team lead for Angers University at sailing "Course Edhec" - team of 15 (1998)