Data Warehouse Architect (LION)
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Data Management Consultant at American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Consultant at Robert Half Technology
- Past
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- Director Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence at Freshdirect
- Principal Systems Engineer at SAIC
- Sr. DBA at Chicos
- DBA Manager at Collegiate Funding Services
- DBA Consultant at Robert Half International
- Developer at Zeera Networks
- Database Developer at Lockheed Martin
- Consultant at teksystems
- Developer at MITRE
- Database Developer at Management Controls, Inc
- Developer at Coastal Corporation
- Professional Services Consultant at Software AG
- Consultant at LA DOR
- Consultant at Sprint
- Consultant at Houston Police Department
- Marine - 4071 at USMC
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Doug Needham’s Summary
I am Data Warehouse professional with expertise in various aspects of database implementations and Data Warehouse deployments. I am able to provide insight to the business on how best to leverage their most valuable resource, Data.
I have designed and implemented multiple Data Warehouse solutions. I am able to leverage my 20 years of experience of Data Management and Data Integration projects to build out world class Data solutions.
Feel free to contact me at: sheridan3003@yahoo.com so that we can discuss how I can assist you and your organization.
Doug Needham’s Specialties:
Migration to requirements based Architected solutions from organically grown architectures.
Data Modelling tools.
Oracle 9i,10g
SQL Server 2000 and 2005
Business Objects 6.5, XI
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS)
Business Objects Data Integrator XI
Informatica PowerCenter
Data Vault certified by Dan Linstedt.
Ralph Kimball's Bus Matrix Methodology
Bill Inmon's DW2.0 Architecture
Dimensional Data Modeling
Star Schema
Data Warehouse Implementation Management
Doug Needham’s Experience
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Data Management Consultant
American Society of Clinical Oncology
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2008 — Present (4 months)
I am a Data Management consultant at the American Society of Clinical Oncology. We are upgrading our legacy systems to allow fo the consolidation and ease of management of our database applications.
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Consultant
Robert Half Technology
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RHI; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (7 months)
I am a database technology consultant working for Robert Half Technologies. I am versed in Oracle and SQL Server as well as Data Warehousing and SQL Application development.
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Director Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Freshdirect
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Food & Beverages industry)
February 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 2 months)
I led our Enterprise Data Warehouse project we are implementing a DW2.0 compliant Data Warehouse using the Data Vault Architecture as our integrated sector. In addition to our internal efforts, I am also coordinating with vendors providing development services for a stand-alone data mart produced externally that integrates into our Unica Affinium application for campaign management.
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Principal Systems Engineer
SAIC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — February 2007 (1 year)
Working on Data Warehouse project for government contract.
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Sr. DBA
Chicos
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; chs; Retail industry)
July 2005 — March 2006 (9 months)
I was a Production DBA supporting our retail systems, and designing future analytics solutions.
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DBA Manager
Collegiate Funding Services
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; cfsi; Financial Services industry)
April 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 3 months)
As a Database administrator manager in a SQL Server 2000 and Oracle environment. I Manage a group of eight people supporting 16 production/development database servers as well as a number of MSDN licensed SQL Server instances installed on local machines of developers and DBA’s. These databases range from Clustered SAN based systems to stand alone servers.
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DBA Consultant
Robert Half International
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — April 2003 (6 months)
I was a consultant located at Collegiate Funding Services.
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Developer
Zeera Networks
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2002 — October 2002 (9 months)
This was a start up company where I was a developer working on the creation of a security appliance.
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Database Developer
Lockheed Martin
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 8 months)
I worked on various projects doing Information Security (INFOSEC), and database development for a logistical system.
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Consultant
teksystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 9 months)
The main project I was on during this time was maintaining a legacy billing system that processed Call Detail Records (CDR) from various switches. I worked on various other projects during this time including the posting for MITRE.
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Developer
MITRE
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1999 — February 2000 (6 months)
As a conultant for teksystems, I worked on a proof of concept at MITRE to show that an embedded application could be ported to run on Linux
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Database Developer
Management Controls, Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Industrial Automation industry)
January 1998 — October 1998 (10 months)
I worked as a database developer for Management Controls initially coming in as a software developer, but quickly began to work more in depth with the database schema, integrity rules within the database and ported the design from SQL Server to Oracle.
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Developer
Coastal Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; epprc; Oil & Energy industry)
October 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 4 months)
I maintained an existing application that uploaded and processed the loading of fuel trucks at various fuel terminals throughout the country. We standardized the application at all sites in order to make the application more stable.
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Professional Services Consultant
Software AG
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1993 — October 1996 (3 years 10 months)
I worked in Reston, VA at Software AG doing Quality Assurance and Testing of Internally developed software.I transferred to the Dallas, TX office of Software AG as a Professional Services Consultant. I traveled throughout the central states as a consultant working on integration projects.
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Consultant
LA DOR
(Legislative Office industry)
May 1996 — July 1996 (3 months)
I was a consultant at the Louisiana Department of Revenue
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Consultant
Sprint
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
November 1995 — April 1996 (6 months)
I was a consultant at Sprint Overland Park for about 6 months during my time with Software AG.
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Consultant
Houston Police Department
(Law Enforcement industry)
January 1995 — November 1995 (11 months)
I was a consultant on-site at the Houston Police Department
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Marine - 4071
USMC
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
April 1988 — January 1993 (4 years 10 months)
I was a Mainframe DBA working with ADABAS technology, CICS, TSO, and Natural
Additional Information
Doug Needham’s Websites:
Doug Needham’s Groups:
SQL Server Worldwide Users Group SSWUG,
My LinkedIn Power Forum,
Northern Virginia Linux Users Group (NOVALUG)
Washington Networking Group
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Data Vault Modeling Practitioners
Doug Needham’s Honors:
Certified DW 2.0 Architect
Certified Data Vault Expert
Certified Master Data Architect (Core Integration)
Oracle Certified Professional 8i,9i
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Microsoft Certified DBA (MCDBA)
Brainbench Certification:
http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/transcript/public/viewtranscript.xml?pid=423718
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