Richard Avery

Current

Owner & Web Architect at kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store
Owner at Artrange Data

Past

Hyperion Consultant at Deutsche Bank
Oracle R12 Data Migration Consultant at Motability Operations
Oracle / Hyperion Planning Consultant at Financial Services Authority

Oracle Consultant at Financial Services Authority
Consultant at Warwickshire County Council
Oracle Consultant at Tesco Stores Ltd
Consulant at Nortel
External Systems Consultant at Oracle
Consultant at Price Waterhouse

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Education

The University of Manchester

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Information Technology and Services

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Richard Avery’s Summary

Project manager for a variety of Oracle projects with significant technical content in eBusiness Suite, Business Intelligence, core DBMS and development tools. Teams consisted of internal, external and contract staff and were of various sizes.

Substantial experince of extracting business value from Oracle systems. Business facing architect, technician, and designer capable of implementing elegant solutions to complex commercial problems.

Hands on leader who can get under the hood of large schemas and sytems.

Richard Avery’s Specialties:

Oracle Business Intelligence systems implementation.
Planning, Budgetting and Modelling systems design and implementation.
Oracle Hyperion Essbase & Planning systems design and development.
Large database design, installation and tuning.
eBusiness Suite implementation, customisation.

Richard Avery’s Experience

Owner & Web Architect

kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store

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

August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

Building and managing an osCommerce ecommerce system for www.kidEstore.co.uk educational toy store including front and and back end development, look and feel, payment processing and interfaces to online system such as Google Base, Price Runner, Amazon etc.
Also full web optimisation of site and products to ensure good natural search results on Google et al.
Owner

Artrange Data

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1993 — Present (16 years 3 months)
Hyperion Consultant

Deutsche Bank

(Public Company; DB; Banking industry)

May 2009 — July 2009 (3 months)

Migration of MS SQL Server Analysis Services OLAPreporting environment to Hyperion Essbase 11
Oracle R12 Data Migration Consultant

Motability Operations

(Financial Services industry)

July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)

Planning and execution of data migration tests from legacy applications to Oracle R12 CRM applications using the Trading Community Architecture APIs
Oracle / Hyperion Planning Consultant

Financial Services Authority

(Government Agency; Financial Services industry)

September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)

Looking at a strategic relpacement of Oracle Financial Analyzer with Hyperion Essbase / Hyperion Planning
Oracle Consultant

Financial Services Authority

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )

Implementing changes to Oracle Financial Analyzer modelling systems to support regulatory changes.
Consultant

Warwickshire County Council

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

May 2007 — September 2007 (5 months)

Technical Architect for review of existing HRMS systems infrastructure intended to enhance performance, scalability and resilience of existing systems.
Oracle Consultant

Tesco Stores Ltd

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TSCO; Retail industry)

February 1998 — April 2007 (9 years 3 months)

Oracle Consultant on numerous projects in several countries:
Technical Project management of Y2K Upgrade of Oracle Applciations / E-Business Suite / Oracle Financials running on MVS Mainframe & AIX Unix Servers
Review reporting strategy and upgrade of reporting tools and environments (Including Oracle Discoverer)
Delivered complex OLAP reporting and budgetting system based on Oracle Financial Analyzer (Oracle Express)
Performance enhancement work on large Oracle Financials database
Review of reporting tools for Upgrade to Oracle eBusiness Suite R11i
Upgrade of Oracle Financials Analyzer to R11i
Performance review of 10G OLAP reporting database
Consulant

Nortel

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT.TO; Telecommunications industry)

September 1994 — February 1998 (3 years 6 months)

External Consultant on Oracle Financials Projects
Developed custom extensions to the Oracle Financials system
Worked on major upgrade of Financials to version 10.6
Architect, Designer and Team Leader on several complex interfaces into Oracle Financials
Technical Consultant on implementations in several other countries.
External Systems Consultant

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

July 1994 — September 1994 (3 months)

Upgraded Oracle Applications on Oracle Corps public training delivery systems
Delivered self-maintaining training system for delivery of training to Oracle Customers
Consultant

Price Waterhouse

(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1989 — August 1993 (4 years )

Many development, design and team lead roles in custom Oracle systems and Oracle Financials on many platforms for a number of prestige clients.

Richard Avery’s Education

The University of Manchester

Computation , Information Systems , 1986 — 1989

Managed to complete a pretty business facing computer science course with plenty of technical content.
Had to give up COBOL as I could never spell 'environment division'.

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