MATT LOMAS

Experience

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  McDonalds Restaurants Ltd UK

  Sept 1997 - Apr 2000

  • Management of team of around 120 staff, including managers, and full and part time crew members• Management and crew appraisals• Recruitment• Financial administration - running profit and loss systems, compiling management information reports, preparing month-end accounts and monthly, weekly and daily business reports• Management and crew training and development• Operational analysis and strategic planning• Marketing and Promotion• Customer care management• Community relation development Show less Secondment role, usually available only to store management level, gained due to strong analysis and innovation skills. Initially a member of a quality team assigned to review and update the breakfast operation. Achievements included the successful development of a national management guide on the breakfast operation of a restaurant. Highly commended training to the north of England operations managers, including senior hierarchy, of the new developments. Specifically detailing operational changes, training materials, and product and equipment issues. The final objective was updating in store equipment documentation. My equipment knowledge developed to a very high level, resulting in the acceptance of a trainer position on an assistant manager equipment training course. I continued to teach the course after I had returned to operations. Show less

  • Northern Regional Training Officer

    Sept 1999 - Apr 2000

  • 1st Assistant Manager

    Sept 1995 - Sept 1999

  • Corporate Training Officer

    Sept 1997 - Mar 1998
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  The University of Salford

  Sept 2000 - Apr 2002

  Assistant Lecturer

  Responsible for conducting tutorial and practical sessions for 1st year students reading the introduction to programming, and visual programming modules. Duties included developing candidate’s problem solving abilities, demonstrating communication at a technical and business level, and provide a critique of methods used to solve exercises covering the entire software development life cycle, general module administration.

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  Pitman Training

  Dec 2000 - Apr 2002

  Training Advisor

  The Pitman position provided a platform to combine previous business and training experience, with newly acquired knowledge and skills gained on the degree course. In order to cater for a wide range of students, advanced training was provided in a number of de-facto software applications. Duties included career and development advice, course induction, training assistance, exam invigilation and marking, course material evaluation and modification, general centre administration.

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  Capgemini

  Jul 2001 - Sept 2001

  Knowledger Worker

  Knowledge Management Technology Team member tasked to assist with the redevelopment of the UK intranet. Specifically the development of two flagship sites to be used as working examples for other business sectors. Rapid development methodologies were employed to produce quick and effective web solutions. I became proficient in the use of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and Java Script; and software development packages such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Allaire Home Suite, and Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. During the placement, my training skills were utilised by the team manager to aid with the development and delivery of a new Knowledge Worker course for trainee consultants. I devised a section highlighting knowledge maps as a means to increase the efficiency of inter and cross-project communication. Excellent placement performance resulted in final year sponsorship, and a job offer upon successful completion of the degree. Show less

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  HCS Systems (University of Salford)

  Sept 2002 - May 2003

  Teaching Company Associate - Software Developer

  A project aimed at developing additional management information system modules to add to the companies existing software suite. The modules will specifically be dealing with EDI transactions, as part of the supply chain process, and the transformation of raw data files into management information. The solution will be developed with a Visual Basic 6.0 front end , and a MySQL 2000 database. My role was that of project manager with overall responsibility for planning, tracking, risk analysis, training and development, and budget control. Additional to professional training and qualifications the post includes the completion of a Master of Philosophy in Management Information Systems. Show less

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  The University of Salford

  Sept 2002 - May 2003

  Lecturer

  In charge of the content and delivery of two courses, an introduction to Visual Basic programming, and Visual Basic database programming. I have fully designed and developed the programs to cater for the wide range of student abilities with tasks progressing from beginner through to advance. Topics covered include integrated development environment, forms, controls, events, selection, repetition, ADO, DAO, data environments, and COM. Candidates tend to be professional individuals seeking to expand their current skill set, or move into the technology field. Show less

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  SAS Institute UK

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Pre-Sales & Implementation Consultant

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  SAS

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Pre-Sales Consultant

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  LCI Consulting Ltd

  Jul 2007 - Sept 2015

  Director

  SAS Solution Architect (TOGAF certified)Specialities include:SAS Platform Administration (SAS certified)SAS Data Integration Developer (SAS certified)Agile Dimensional ModellerDe Bono Blue Hat Facilitator

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  Cooperative Financial Services

  Jul 2007 - Apr 2008

  SAS Data Integration Specialist

  Current contract is developing the Corporate Data Mart for the Co-operative Financial Services organisation based in Manchester, UK.The data mart forms a part of the Basel II compliance programme.

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  Dunnhumby - ReThink International

  May 2008 - Jul 2008

  SAS Data Integration Consultant

  The project at Dunnhumby (DH), the marketing company responsible for the Tesco Club card, was to migrate the main clients legacy data mart and reporting solution into the new universal approach. The contractor was able to successfully build the assigned data flows from source extraction up to, and including the laod layer. In addition, a number of legacy reports were successfully re-developed to run on the new data mart.

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  Barclays

  Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

  SAS Senior Developer

  Driven by an internal audit action, the Business and Service Capacity Management (BSCM) team successfully delivered a project which saw the introduction of a forecasting and graph production system which is surfaced to the business services via a self service web solution. The team was also expanding the number of services that it produces reports for.The contractor successfully: Built a number of new ETL data flows in the capacity management information store;Refined the design, and completed the build & testing of the self service web solution. This included writing some PERL scripts and re-configuring the web server to ensure the organisation had the most efficient system possible. Show less

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  Matalan

  Jan 2009 - Jun 2009

  SAS ADMINISTRATION & IMPLEMENTATION CONSULTANT

  Filling the role of SAS Administrator, and where necessary developer, for the build, test, and implementation of the phase two SAS 9 upgrade project. The installation consisted of 23 serves with groups of 4 or 5 servers for each environment – development, testing, user acceptance testing, production support, and production. All servers were using the Solaris X64 operating system.Tasks successfully completed included promotion process development for DI, BI, SPDS, scheduled jobs, job flows (LSF), and OLAP Cube metadata objects.; Metadata Back-up and Restore process, security planning, operability testing; general environment housekeeping such as log archiving and applying hotfixes (both SAS and SPD Server). Show less

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  HM Revenue & Customs

  Sept 2009 - Nov 2009

  SAS Business Warm Support

  A short contract working on the second project phase of a multi-phase migration programme targeted with building a production system based on a highly successful pilot solution.I was tasked with developing the security plans for the business users in addition to assisting specific business areas migrate Enterprise Guide reporting solutions into a more robust, ETL driven reporting solution.The other main area of focus was that of creating standard working practices for the business users. Show less

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  NHS Counter Fraud & Security Management Service

  Nov 2009 - Aug 2010

  SAS Technical Lead

  Designing an XSD schema to provide data structure rules for XML instance files uploaded by the 403 trust across England into a central Serious Incident Reporting System. Design, build and test the SAS ETL process to load the data from the XML files into the central Oracle database. This followed on from the organisational configuration of the recent 9.2 install. Administration tasks have included using the import user macros in order to add in the initial group of the overall user base of some 4200 users.The role also involves providing consultancy to the BI Reporting team on such things as EG4.2, Stored Processes, custom theme development and deployment, and publish and subscribe channels using the new SAS Content Server. Show less

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  Bradford & Bingley

  Jul 2010 - Nov 2010

  SAS Archive Report Developer

  Working as part of the BI team migrating mainframe reports into IBM Optim & SAS BI Web Reports.

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  Tesco Bank

  Nov 2010 - Apr 2012

  SAS Solution Architect

  Part of the SAS Architecture & Solutions team tasked to design and implements a SAS Analytical Reporting MI environment into Tesco Bank.Additional roles covered include SAS Platform Administrator and Migration Consultant.

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  The Co-operative Financial Services

  Apr 2012 - Oct 2013

  Lead SAS DI Designer and Developer

  Working with the Corporate Credit and Finance & MI Reporting teams in order to design, build, test, and roll-out a corporate modelling data mart and reporting solution.Also providing guidance with the XBRL compliance solutions being developed.

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  Deutsche Bank

  Oct 2013 - Jan 2015

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  • Development Lead

    Oct 2013 - Jan 2015

  • Technical Test Lead

    Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
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  SAS

  Sept 2015 - Jun 2017

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  • Data Management Business Solutions Manager

    Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Senior System Engineer

    Sept 2015 - May 2016
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  WMG, University of Warwick

  Sept 2017 - Oct 2018

  Master of Science in Cyber Security & Management

  The MSc focuses on the strategic deployment and implementation of cyber security within an organisation. Aims include development of strategic thinking and understanding of the threat landscape, how to manage resources, implement solutions, and effectively communicate these to senior decision makers in order to support the strategic growth of a business. Notable modules include -- Technical cyber security : Virtualisation systems security which saw the hardening of Docker images and containers using SE Linux, SecComp, capability whitelisting.- Architectural cyber security : SAND (Security Architecture & Network Defence) including the use of the GNS3 application for network modeling.ECS (Enterprise Cyber Security) design and delivered by IBM covering the cyber security activity in an industrial control system environment.- Policy & management cyber security : IRMG (Information Risk Management & Governance) exploring the full breadth of the risk management approach and practices. Show less

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  Adarma Security

  Oct 2018 - Jun 2020

  Security Engineer

  (Formerly ECS Security)

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  Tide

  Jun 2020 - Jul 2020

  Security Operations

  Helping establish Security Operations for Tide's inaugural Security Team.

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  Dufrain

  Sept 2020 - Jun 2022

  Senior Consultant

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  Bankwest

  Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

  Data Engineer

  SAS Specialist data engineer