Ben Latham

Experience

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  Inland Revenue

  Jun 1998 - Jul 1999

  Trainee Operational Research Analyst

  Responsibilities:Converting Excel 4 Macros into Visual BasicAnalysis of internal questionnaires.The maintenance of the Access timesheet system and production of management reportsTechnologies used:Excel, Access, VBA

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  MyOpenApps.com

  Sept 2000 - Jan 2001

  Web Developer

  Responsibilities:Development of web applications and features of the company Intranet.Technologies Used:HTML, PHP, MySQL, Linux

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  Hallam University

  Sept 2001 - Jan 2002

  Part Time Lecturer

  Responsibilities:Teaching of a module called "IT & Quantitative Methods"Preparation and delivery of the tutorialsMarking of assignments and examsThis was essentially a combination of computing and statistics and involved a lot of Excel work.

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  Royal Mail

  Sept 2001 - Dec 2003

  HR Support Team Member

  Responsibilities:General user support to the users of the HR/Payroll system.Provision of regular and ad hoc management reports.Technologies UsedExcel, Access, VBA, VBScript

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  South Yorkshire Police

  May 2004 - Oct 2005

  Technical Officer

  Reponsibilities:Development and management the Force's Word templates.Development of web based Lotus Notes databases.Technologies Used:Word / VBA, Lotus Notes.

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  Bright Finance Ltd

  Oct 2005 - Mar 2008

  Senior Management Information Analyst

  Responsibilities:Delivery of ad hoc and regular management information to all areas of the business. Supervision of MI Team members. Technologies used:SSRS 2000, DTS, T-SQL, Excel, VBA

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  VF Corporation

  Apr 2008 - Jan 2010

  Data Warehouse Consultant

  Responsibilities:Development of management reports for the retail and wholesale sides of the European operation.Development of architecture for push reporting.Training permanent staff in SSRS / MDX.Technologies Used:SSRS 2005, T-SQL, MDX, SSAS 2005, C#

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  West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

  Feb 2010 - Apr 2010

  Data Warehouse Consultant

  Responsibilities:Enhancements and tuning of a recently developed BI solution.SSRS training to permanent staff.Technologies Used:SSIS 2008, SSAS 2008, SSRS 2008, MDX, T-SQL.

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  TelerealTrillium

  May 2010 - Aug 2011

  Business Intelligence Developer

  Responsibilities:Development and support of data marts / cubes and reports.Technologies Used:SSIS 2008, SSAS 2008, SSRS 2008, MDX, T-SQL.

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  Moore Stephens

  Aug 2011 - Aug 2016

  BI Developer

  Providing business intelligence consultancy service to the insurance industry using full Microsoft BI stack. Full project life cycling using Agile methodology for clients such as QBE, Brit, Arch and Liberty.Technical Lead for some of the projects.Integrating Lloyds syndicate and company data.Exposure to Tableau, Qlikview and Power BI in proof of concepts.Technologies Used:SSIS 2012, SSAS 2012, SSRS 2012, MDX, TFS, T-SQL, Tableau.

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  Liberty Specialty Markets

  Mar 2017 - Feb 2020

  Data Warehouse Architect
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  Phinsys Limited

  Apr 2020 - now

  Business Intelligence Consultant