1. Sam Douglas
Having excellent communication and presentation skills enables me to liaise
effectively with key stakeholders and technical staff. Results-focused and
consistently striving to deliver innovative solutions to challenging problems.
Experience
Information Consultant
Kiwibank October ’12 - Present
Working within the Analytics & Information division of the bank, providing enterprise
reporting solutions to key stakeholders.
Responsible for delivering Business Intelligence solutions to Kiwibank utilising IBM
Cognos, Business Glossary, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, Microsoft
SharePoint, SAS and Wherescape.
Integration Specialist
Telecom (Spark) April ’11 - October ‘12
Played a key role in consolidating disparate reporting toolsets into one enterprise-ready
Business Objects environment, resulting in a robust and responsive solution.
Trained end users, created development standards, built new universes and reports
and liased with end users to improve the way the business built and consumed
reporting solutions.
Senior BI Developer
Westpac October ’10 - April ‘11
Responsible for administration of the Microstrategy reporting toolset. Provided
support for Linux & Windows Servers, and built effective reporting solutions for the
business. Created Microstrategy dashboards and grid reports and provided support
for bank managers and report developers.
Integration Specialist
Telecom (Spark) July ‘07 - October ‘10
Business Objects deployments, universe administration and report developer
training. Key role in helping build Telecom’s Business Objects capability, performing
server installations, creation of metadata layer, administered end user access and
authentication, built complex customer-facing reports. Traveled around New Zealand
providing training to report developers and consumers.
Support Analyst & Tester
Terralink International July ‘06 - July ‘07
Server and Desktop support for Windows and Linux geospatial mapping servers and
unit testing of Terraview Platinum software.
IT & Network Manager
Morris Communications, Alaska June ‘02 - February ‘05
Administration and support of 100+ Windows, Macintosh & Linux servers and
workstations for a number of businesses throughout Alaska. Provided training for a
wide range of design and publishing software. Troubleshooting of print and pre-press
issues. Management of the new media department budget & staff.
Skillset
Business Objects
IBM Cognos
SharePoint
Excel
PL/SQL & TSQL
Microstrategy
Wherescape
SSIS
SAS
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science & Business
Studies
Stirling University, Scotland 1995-1999
Training
SAS Platform Administrator
Wherescape RED ETL Developer
Stephen Few - Visual BI
Cognos Framework Mgr Bootcamp
Business Objects XI
IBM Datastage DX444AU
Actuate Reporting
Oracle: Programming with PL/SQL
Oracle: Introduction to SQL
Contact
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/samdouglas77
Mobile
(027) 61-000-20
Email
samdouglas77@gmail.com