Paul Brown

Current

Technical Architect at Oracle

Past

Company Director at ONE BITE
Production Support Business and Technical Analyst at Origin Energy

Education

Queensland University of Technology

Recommendations

4 recommendations

Connections

80 connections

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 focus is to implement clients CC&B, web and integration solutions using my XAI, market message and web services knowledge to leverage the investments in the Oracle Utilities products.

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

Technical Architect

Oracle

(Public Company; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2005 — Present (5 years 7 months)

This role is at Oracle Utility Global Business Unit (UGBU) using the Customer and Care Billing (CC&B) system. I specialise in business and technical issues, including performance tuning, production support, market messaging, XAI and Self Service Applications. My major achievements 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;
5. Provide Web Services and Integration processes, procedures and expertise to leverage customer's investment in CC&B;
6. Building CC&B and SOA virtual machines for testing purposes.

Over the period with Oracle I have provided support for a number of customers including:
Bord Gais (Republic of Ireland);
Energia / Viridian Group plc (Northern Ireland);
NIE Supply (Northern Ireland)
T&D (Northern Ireland)
Eesti Energia (Estonia);
Dutch Tax Office (The Netherlands)
Veolia Water (France)
EDF (France)
Electricity Authority of Cyprus (Cyprus)
Delta (The Netherlands).
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.