Data warehousing and process management consultant
Harrow, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Systems consultant at NPG
- Past
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- MIS Manager at lastminute.com
- Senior Webmaster at BBC
- Head of Network operations at Liquid Audio
- Education
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- University of East Anglia
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Alex Shakespeare’s Summary
Experienced consultant with a proven track record of building reliable and substantial data warehousing and process management solutions. Direct experience with the entire product life cycle, dealing with upper management and providing systems support. Interests include new technology, specifically open source VOIP solutions and interactive web based systems.
Alex Shakespeare’s Specialties:
new technology, data analysis, data mining, dashboards, process management, real-time reporting, asterisk, perl, mysql, sql server, apache, mason, ajax, javascript, dhtml, css, rss, vb.net, voip, linux
Alex Shakespeare’s Experience
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Systems consultant
NPG
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Media Production industry)
October 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Responsible for building systems relating to sales process management. I am directly involved in all stages of the life cycle of these systems, from preliminary analysis through to go-live as well as support.
In 1 year, these systems have handled £100M without any unplanned downtime or calculation errors, and have saved an estimated 4000 manhours in administrative workload. -
MIS Manager
lastminute.com
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
October 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Held responsibility for providing all reporting and data analysis services for
the lastminute.com group.
With a team of 4, successfully implemented data warehouse built from 30 different data sources updated daily - the warehouse was accessed through Business Objects and was able to provide information down to a transaction level.
Also personally built and maintained a real-time data warehouse and custom frontend to enable the business to quickly see real time turnover, broken down by business unit right down to top 10 selling products/routes in each unit. -
Senior Webmaster
BBC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
October 2002 — March 2003 (6 months)
Responsibilities included testing websites for release onto the http://bbc.co.uk and building process management solutions for the webmaster team. Received award for performance and tools built to assist in a major overhaul of the BBC online brand.
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Head of Network operations
Liquid Audio
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2001 — June 2002 (7 months)
Liquid Audio was one of the Internets largest distributors of music. Responsible for a 3.6TB data centre with over 50 servers of varying capacity, which were remotely hosted in the docklands, as well as the internal office network, which consisted of 10 NT workstations and various development servers. Was also involved in consulting work with Liquid Audio’s various subsidiaries in Japan.
Alex Shakespeare’s Education
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University of East Anglia
2:2, Computer Science, 1996 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Treasurer of performing arts society, member of student union board, member of elections committee
Additional Information
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Alex Shakespeare’s Interests:
new technology, data analysis, data mining, dashboards, process management, real-time reporting, asterisk, perl, mysql, sql server, apache, mason, ajax, javascript, rss, vb.net, voip
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