Paul Brown

Current

Techincal Architect at Bord Gais
Technical Designer at Oracle
Technical Architect at Oracle Utilities

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Past

Technical Designer at Bord Gais Energy
Oracle Technical Deisgner at Energia / Viridian Group Plc
Company Director at ONE BITE

Production Support Business and Technical Analyst at Origin Energy

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Education

Queensland University of Technology

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Industry

Utilities

Websites

My Company

Paul Brown’s Summary

In my career I have had many roles and built many systems from small pc to large mainframe system always with the view of building stable efficient solutions by following and improving established processes and procedures. With my vast experience I enjoy an ability to mix business and technical skills and can operate under great pressure. As the CC&B product gains a greater share of the market and Oracle and other companies introduce SOA and web service oriented products, the need to provide expert advice on integration of these systems will continue to rise. My goal is to conitnue to expand my skills in this are to adivse and implement such solutions using my XAI, market message and web services knowledge.

Experience Summary:
Project Manager in Government Statistical Labour Force projects.
Business Analyst in Utilities, Telecommunications, Government Statistics and Banking
Developer of pc to mainframe application over many years on small to very large projects using cobol, java, xml, xslt, unix, cics, natural, adabas and much more.

Industries:
Banking, Telecommunications, Government Statistics, and Utilities

Paul Brown’s Specialties:

CC&B, cordaptix, XAI, web self service, Market Messages, interfaces, web services, analysis, design, production support, migration, environment management, java, xml, xslt, cobol, cics, natural, adabas

Paul Brown’s Experience

Techincal Architect

Bord Gais

(Utilities industry)

2008 — Present (2 years )
Technical Designer

Oracle

(Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

March 2005 — Present (5 years )

This role is at Oracle Utility Global Business Unit (UGBU) speicliasing in the Customer and Care Billing (CC&B) system. I specialise in business and techincal issues, including performance tuning, production support, market messaging, XAI and Self Service Applications. My major acheivements in this role have been:
1. Design and development and integration of third party web based address systems into CC&B;
2. Design, develop and implement market messaging using the CC&B XAI functionality to process industry market messages
3. Provide pre and post production support for CC&B under great pressure to deliver results for the client.
4. Provide continued expert advice internally and externally on system interfacing to CC&B via http, xml, jms, soap, java, Web Self Service, XAI XML integration, Web Services and Oracle SOA suite
Other applications used include Oracle Application Server, BEA Weblogic and Tomcat.
Technical Architect

Oracle Utilities

(Utilities industry)

2005 — Present (5 years )
Technical Designer

Bord Gais Energy

(Utilities industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )
Oracle Technical Deisgner

Energia / Viridian Group Plc

(Utilities industry)

2005 — 2008 (3 years )
Company Director

ONE BITE

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 2003 — March 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Owner of Telecommunications company providing land line, mobile phone services and internet as a single source provider to both domestic and small business customers.
Production Support Business and Technical Analyst

Origin Energy

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry)

April 2002 — March 2003 (1 year )

Provide expert production support in post implementation of the Customer Care and Billing system, assisting the client move from reactive to proactive management of the technical processes and procedures.

Paul Brown’s Education

Queensland University of Technology

1984 — 1991

Additional Information

Paul Brown’s Websites:

My Company

Paul Brown’s Interests:

Travel, golf and running. In addition I enjoy competing in over aged Touch Rugby tournaments in Ireland and previously in Australia at masters games and National competitions.