Alexander Burch

Alexander Burch

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  • About me

    SQL Data Engineer

  • Education

    • University of Southampton

      2008 - 2011
      BSc (Hons) Information Technology in Organisations

      Activities and Societies: Cinema aficionado, archery. The course was designed to prepare the student for a career as a flexible IT professional. It included discussion, analysis, and reflection on technical practice, and used a variety of teaching methods, including team-building and management-related activities.

  • Experience

    • JP Morgan Chase

      Jul 2010 - Sept 2010
      Technology Intern

      Project managed fellow interns, to redesign and standardise an internal document repository webspace. This included gathering and managing changes in requirements from key stakeholders, meeting with the project team to address any issues and agree deadlines, and presenting the final result to executive directors and business technologists. Created Excel formulas and macros for project managers. This reduced the amount of time needed to manually sift through large scale spreadsheets.

    • Intouch Business LLP

      Sept 2011 - Aug 2014
      .NET / C# / SQL Developer

      .NET / C# / SQL developer, who worked on web hosted management systems.Designed, implemented and tested enhancements to several products, within a relatively small company. My objective was to create tidy, logical, robust and attractive user experiences.Highlights were:- Being a joint primary developer on a successful bespoke financial management tool. Created the look and feel of the application, as well as implementing a significant proportion of the final build- Designing and implementing a CRM module- Designing and implementing a user configurable roles and permissions module- Implementing an ad rotation module inside a bespoke eProcurement system- Implementing a complex auditing module- Implementing SEO, including Google Analytics- Researching, implementing, and administering an internal company forum, and wiki- Providing first line support- Being involved in the full system lifecycle Show less

    • Lloyds Banking Group

      Aug 2014 - now
      SQL Data Engineer

      SQL data engineer (additional .NET and C# experience), who works on risk applications. Role includes:- Taking full ownership of Kanban driven tasks from start to finish (requirements elicitation, solution design, SQL development, GIT source control, test, and support)- Stakeholder management, including communicating with senior grade colleagues- Conforming to processes and governance- Providing subject matter expertise for supported applications - Technical analysis and documentation- Developing to a high standard- Unit testing, and working alongside dedicated test teams to resolve issues- 2nd line technical supportSome career highlights at Lloyds include: - Single responsibility for the SQL processing logic of two of our most complex and time critical systems. I ensure they interface with our ETL framework, and are maintained and improved without introducing errors. Over my stewardship, both these applications have never missed a day of processing.- Creating a business case to travel to our offshore helpdesk and testing teams. This was to coach the team with full application overviews, answer specific questions, and improve documentation and processes. The empowerment of the helpdesk team created a measurable increase in support tickets that were fully handled offshore, without requiring further onshore escalation.- Presenting a successful future-focussed technical demo to a member of the board of directors, along with their direct team. - After taking development ownership of a tool which processes circa 40k rows of data per day, I created a robust QC framework to provide insight into processing quantities and timeframes. This data was then fed into Tableau and Power BI, providing accessible high level insight into processing trends. These trends can then be used to make important and timely control decisions with confidence.- The complete front end rework of a key application, applying "Bootstrap" to ensure a modern, responsive UI design. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ)

      Association for Project Management
      Jul 2017
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Decorating

      Issued by Sussex MS Centre on Jun 2019
      Sussex MS CentreAssociated with Alexander Burch
    • Groundskeeping

      Issued by Sussex MS Centre on Jun 2018
      Sussex MS CentreAssociated with Alexander Burch
    • Groundskeeping

      Issued by St. Barnabas Hospice on Jun 2017
      St. Barnabas HospiceAssociated with Alexander Burch
    • Groundskeeping

      Issued by Westdene Primary School on May 2016
      Westdene Primary SchoolAssociated with Alexander Burch
    • Warehouse Furniture Organisation / Groundskeeping

      Issued by The Martlets Hospice on Jul 2015
      The Martlets HospiceAssociated with Alexander Burch
    • Groundskeeping

      Issued by The Martlets Hospice on Sept 2014
      The Martlets HospiceAssociated with Alexander Burch