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JJOONNAATTHHAANN MMIICCHHAAEELL AADDAAMMSS
SSEENNIIOORR CCOONNSSUULLTTAANNTT// IINNFFOORRMMAATTIIOONN MMAANNAAGGEEMMEENNTT
PPRROOFFEESSSSIIOONNAALL
BA (Hons)
9/66 Castlereagh St. PENRITH NSW 2750
0434 429 368 (mob) ~ 02 4704 8658 (hm)
SUMMARY
An experienced and dependable Senior Consultant and Information Management (IM) professional with more than 30 years of experience in Information Management and IT related activities including:
Business Analysis (with all of data, systems, process and object-oriented analysis)
Data Quality based on data profiling and data cleansing based on profiling findings
Enterprise Information and Data Architecture, Information Systems Planning, Data Strategy and Information Governance
Data Modelling (including Enterprise, Conceptual, Logical, Physical and Dimensional)
Solution Design / Technical Leading / Solution Architecture / Data integration
Data Warehousing and Data Marts
Business Intelligence
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and UML Modelling
Testing
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System Implementation
Consultancy
Leadership and Management
Training and Presenting
Pre-Sales.
Strong track record in support of the business throughout the whole system development life-cycle (SDLC), in many RDBMS environments, including Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata, and in both permanent and contracting roles. Significant business knowledge of many industries and business areas including banking & finance, health, telecommunications, marketing, government, and compliance. Demonstrated ability to deliver quality deliverables. An effective communicator with an energetic approach to IT, business and management. This is combined with an exceptional level of technical knowledge, a willingness and ability to assimilate information quickly and transfer knowledge to others, and exceptional consulting and research skills. I can ferret out information and collate it into usable forms. Extensive knowledge of much software including many Informatica, many BI tools such as Tableau and Cognos, ERwin, ER/ Studio, Enterprise Architect, Teradata SQL Assistant, Oracle SQL Developer, the IBM InfoSphere suite, the Microsoft Office suite and the Datalynx data analysis, profiling and cleansing products Data Xplorer and Data Xchange. Member of Worldwide Branding and qualified for inclusion in the 2015-2016 edition of the “Worldwide Who’s Who Registry of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs”.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Datalynx Pty Ltd, Sydney April 2015 – present
Senior Consultant Responsibilities include:
Provide Information Management consultancy related services to clients, in particular related
to Data Quality, data architecture and data analysis Contribute to pre-sales activities and internal documentation as required (e.g., RFP
responses, meetings with prospective clients, development of User Guides and Installation Guides for Datalynx’s Data Xplorer (profiling) and Data Xchange (cleansing) software.
Major project for a government department in the health industry: Data architecture and data mart design for a new Data Mart to be added to the screening
data mart which was now the foundation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse.
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RXP Services Ltd, Sydney July 2014 – April 2015
Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence & Information Management Responsibilities included:
Provide Business Intelligence and Information Management consultancy services to clients Contribute to pre-sales activities as required (e.g., RFP responses, meetings) Installation of software on the RXP Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment Development of logical / physical data model for RXP internal data warehouse. Major projects: Led the data architecture and high level solution design for a BI and reporting solution,
including design of a new data mart, and associated ETL, for a compliance organisation. The solution also required the automated integration between SAS, Informatica, the data warehouse and the existing metadata management and business glossary to synchronize metadata, and provide the ability to add additional terms and calculations to ensure that the structure of data aligned with the business terminology
Contributed to the finalisation of the data mart and the development of the ETL processes for the same organisation using Informatica. This was an agile project
Developed a data architecture for the Tableau BI environment for a leading logistics company.
Datalynx Pty Ltd, Sydney Feb 2014 – July 2014
Senior Consultant Responsibilities included: Provide business analysis and Information Management / Data Quality consultancy services
to clients
Provide data warehousing and data mart solution design services to clients, e.g. data modelling
Using Data Xplorer and Data Xchange software as required to contribute to Data Quality. Major projects were for a government department in the health industry:
Business requirements, data architecture and data mart design for a Screening Data Mart Business requirements for a registry system Business requirements for an electronic messaging system.
Westpac Group, Sydney June 2009 – January 2014
Senior Data Modeller then Solutions Designer then Technical Lead
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Responsibilities included: Provide expert technical expertise to both business and IT, covering all aspects of data
warehouse applications including design, development, maintenance, support, selection, and testing, in 2 Teradata (St George Bank Group Data Warehouse and new Enterprise Data Warehouse) and 1 Oracle (Westpac Group Data Warehouse) warehouses. The source systems for these warehouses cover many environments
Provide high level technical solution definition and design with the goal of providing reliable, stable and operationally sound applications that meet business requirements
Provide direction and oversight for the consistent use and application of tools, standards, methods and processes to ensure that quality applications are developed with consistent maintainable code which supports risk and compliance management
Develop and maintain quality checklists for data warehousing for the entire SDLC
Deliver cost estimates for the design and develop phase in partnership with the architect, business analysts, project management, subject matter experts and solution providers for projects to provide accurate and timely cost estimates
First point of contact and status reporter for the data warehousing design team for Information Systems engagements for a year for Data Warehouse projects for Westpac GDW and St George Bank GDW
Collaborate with business analysts, technical analysts and business stakeholders in gathering scope, detailed data requirements and business rules. Regularly use SQL queries to gain insights
Document the scope and detailed data requirements for projects in the form of Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Models (using ERwin)
Design Physical Data Models that meet functional, non-functional and operational needs for data warehouses and data marts.
Design data solutions for projects including the required ETL processes and data validation (using Informatica)
Analyse, assess, and document data transformations from their source and to all applications that consume the data
Conduct or participate in information gathering workshops, interviews, and design sessions necessary to capture business needs relating to the data solutions
Provide impact analysis assessments for data components
Establish methods and procedures for tracking data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement
Support Information Management processes and procedures (especially for Metadata, reference data and data quality). Also responsible for resolving enterprise reference data issues. Use Informatica for data profiling as required
Metadata Analyst for a metadata tool selection project and worked on metadata related standards and procedures
Review enhancements to and maintain enterprise data models including reference models
Document and communicate data standards to ensure conformance to enterprise direction, and ensure design consistency across implementations
Quality assure data models, e.g. the logical and physical models for Westpac’s Primary HR application, PeopleXpress.
Major projects included:
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Developed the Conceptual and Logical Data Model for a large Enterprise Analytics project
Led Data Quality management initiative and worked on metadata and reference data as part of the IM Strategic Investment Priority (SIP). Helped develop an Enterprise Information Management strategy and operating model
Performed conceptual, logical and physical data modelling on the Enterprise Credit Risk – Data Management & Reporting (ECR-DMR) project
Solution Design for a Credit Risk compliance data warehousing project in Oracle (star schema) for Westpac GDW
Impact analysis, solution design and Interface Specification for a change of valuation management system feeding into the St George GDW
Solution Design and Interface Specification for a Business Lending Risk Grading compliance data warehousing project (for Westpac and St George Group Data Warehouses). The source systems were in SQL Server
Data design for an updated feed from BT wealth management Composer system to Westpac GDW.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney Mar 2009 – June 2009
Service Designer
Responsibilities included:
Use of IBM's Information Framework (IFW) for development of Service Definitions for Enterprise Application Integration work. Focus on Customer services
Maintain accurate documentation for the defined Services, including XML request and response messages and the IFW Business Object Model (BOM) and Interface Design Model (IDM)
Responsibility for maintenance of Reference Data used in the services Definition and delivery of the services supporting project timetables Enhance the quality assurance aspects of the process, including management of the impact
of changes to released Service Definitions
Project: Core Banking Modernisation (CBM) programme, Customer and Service & Maintenance services.
Pickles Auctions Pty Ltd, Sydney Sep 2008 – Mar 2009
Senior Business Analyst Responsibilities included:
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Documenting and analysing IT and Business stakeholders’ systems and business requirements, including Business Intelligence (BI) requirements. Used the LEAN methodology for process analysis.
Assisting with the improvement and re-engineering of current business processes through: the creation of new applications, the use of BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation) process analysis and object-oriented analysis and design
Assisting with testing, data conversion and database design. Projects included: Various related to Pickles’ core vehicle auctioning system.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney June 2007 – Aug 2008
Data Design Specialist Responsibilities included:
Undertaking data design for solutions, including the identification of opportunities for re-use across multiple programs and initiatives, and from previous data designs and reference models
Identification and mitigation of any data design issues, or risks
Providing technical consulting and advice during the Analysis and Design phases of projects, so that the data designs being deployed are aligned to information architecture and standards
Promoting information architecture principles, patterns, standards and guidelines across projects and programmes
Providing feedback on effectiveness of the target information architecture
Advising on approach to data design and recommending alternative approaches where required
Understanding target architecture and contributing to the transition from current to target state
Documenting the Bank’s approach to Data Quality, incorporating data profiling, Data Quality analysis and data cleansing
Conducting Data Quality analysis through profiling using IBM InfoSphere tools and SQL queries
Working with the bank’s Group Data Warehouse and Hyperion Business Intelligence tool. Project: Core Banking Modernisation (CBM) programme. Primarily worked on the Data Management component of CBM. This included liaison with business stakeholders, finalising Logical Data Models, developing source to target data mappings, and data conversion related activities, such as successful system testing of the Launch 1 data conversion. The CBM programme was based on the SAP banking solution and many enhancements to it.
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Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney Feb 2007 – May 2007
Solution Designer Responsibilities included:
Design and governance of the standards and conventions for all aspects of EIG (Enterprise Information Gateway program) data. This was a Batch Integration solution for the data warehousing environment. Focused on Investment/ Funds management
Design of physical data management processes
Data modeling and associated metadata (e.g. business definitions)
Engagement of the stakeholders to gain a solid understanding of the business needs and requirements
Implementation of data solutions that meet the business requirements
End-to-end solution design with a focus on data.
Major project: EIG.
Satyam Computer Services, Sydney Aug 2006 – Feb 2007
Consultant (Senior Data Modeller / Senior Data Analyst) Responsibilities included:
Development of logical and physical data models, and source to target data mappings for an integrated Data Warehouse for a large Telecommunications company
Leadership of a team of data modellers for the above programme
Scoping and business analysis for a programme incorporating a Customer Data Store (Data Warehouse), Marketing Data Mart and Campaign management system for a large Insurance company. This included evaluation of alternative products for the Campaign management system and making a recommendation on which to proceed with which was accepted
Development of logical data models for a Data Warehouse for the above insurance program. Also Business Analyst work on the requirements for a Marketing software tool and evaluation of products.
Projects:
Reitz (Telco)
CDS (Insurance).
Baycorp Advantage (Veda Advantage), Sydney July 2003 – Aug 2006
Data Modeller Responsibilities included:
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Development of conceptual, logical and physical data models for various projects for the Australian and New Zealand credit bureaux. These projects concerned both internal bureau operation and data from third party suppliers. (The database environments were SQL Server and DB2. XML was also used for two primary channels.)
Member of the Data Architecture team producing data models at architectural level of current and target systems. Worked on producing an Enterprise Data Architecture and on a metadata management proposal
Development and maintenance of a large Data Dictionary for the Australian credit bureau.
City of Sydney Council, Sydney Sep 2002 – June 2003
Performance & Compliance Analyst, Asset Management & Compliance division
Responsibilities included:
Building, administering and enhancing a data warehouse of complaints and associated information for performance reporting
Administering (including user creation and management) and enhancing the Customer Request System and other Lotus Notes enforcement related databases which fed to the data warehouse
Introducing and maintaining a Prosecutions database (MS Access)
Performing data and statistical analysis, report development and spreadsheet & database manipulation (MS Excel and MS Access)
A focus of this work was on identifying “problem premises” by importing data from various sources into MS Access.
In addition, involved in analysis for conversion of compliance related data from other Councils due to boundary changes. Analysed and specified an ongoing technical and procedural framework for data extraction from Lotus Notes and reporting.
IBM Global Services Australia, Sydney Oct 2001-July 2002
Senior Business Analyst/Data Modeller Asia Pacific Marketing & Sales Management project (MSM).
Responsibilities included:
Business analysis of marketing and sales requirements
Data analysis/ mapping/ modelling and spreadsheet manipulation
Enabled detailed understanding of their Analytics Database (ADB) SAS data sets by developing a data model and mapping; and making accepted recommendations for improved interfaces (e.g. to the financial data warehouse) and reporting. MSM was an AS/400 DB2 based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Liaised extensively with users from IBM Asia Pacific. Participant in migration of this data to a Siebel (now Oracle) environment.
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IBM Global Services Australia, Sydney Aug-Oct 2001
Data Architect, Optus Business Management Services (BMS) Deployment project Developed the data architecture for and performed data analysis and design for the deployment of this time and cost recording system to the IBM Optus account.
IBM Global Services Australia, Sydney Aug 1999-Aug 2001
Senior Business Analyst, Optus Account Performed business analysis, business process mapping, process analysis and deployment, web development and testing, including development of wireframes. Developed a Web based Management System using Microsoft FrontPage and HTML. Involved in resolving Intellectual Property issues.
IBM New Zealand Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand Oct 1997-July 1999
Senior Business Analyst, Voyager project Very large object-oriented telecommunications UML/ C++/ J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) project. Mainly involved in O-O analysis and design, Logical Data Model development and testing for the Product & Request sub-project. Documented many use cases.
Prior Roles: Oct 1994 – Sep 1997, Senior Business Analyst, Telecom New Zealand Ltd, Wellington then
Christchurch, New Zealand
Nov 1992 – Oct 1994, Senior Systems Analyst/ Designer then Solution Architect, Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett Packard), Christchurch
Nov 1992, Implementation Support & Training Consultant, Lincoln Medical Centre, New Zealand
Oct 1992, Moderator of Quality, Department of science & Computing, Christchurch Polytechnic
Jun 1992 – Sep 1992, Data Administrator, Canterbury Area Health Board, Christchurch. (Position made redundant when Area Health Boards were abolished.)
May 1988 – Jun 1992, Consultant, Information Systems, Arthur Young (then Ernst & Young), Wellington
Jan 1988 – May 1988, Business Consultant, Databank Systems Ltd (now EDS), Wellington
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Mar 1985- Jan 1988, Business Analyst, Databank Systems Ltd (now EDS), Wellington.
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Received Satyam Certificate of Appreciation for “exemplary commitment, invaluable contribution and playing a pioneering role in projects for the [large telecommunications company] account”
Received a management award for modelling the Logical Data Model for Baycorp Advantage (now Veda Advantage) for Releases 1 and 3 of the Bureau Transformation (BT) programme and for contribution to the data architecture for the remainder of the BT programme
Received three Management awards for object-oriented analysis and design work, Logical Data Model work and testing on IBM New Zealand’s “Voyager” project. This project concerned customer care and billing for telecommunications companies
Led the data architecture and solution design for a BI and reporting solution, including design of a new data mart, and associated ETL for a compliance organisation while at RXP Services
Led Data Quality management initiative at Westpac
Business requirements analysis for a Screening Data Mart, a registry system and an
electronic messaging system for a government department in the Health sector
Developed Information Strategy Plans for the Malaysian Ministry of Trade and Industry
SITTDEC (South Investment, Trade and Technology Data Exchange Centre) project, and for
a large automotive and large telecommunications company
Helped develop an Enterprise Information Management strategy and operating model for
Westpac
Developed the Conceptual and Logical Data Model for a large Enterprise Analytics project for
Westpac
Implemented a compliance reporting data warehouse and BI / reporting using it for a Council Design for a Screening Data Mart for a government department in the Health sector Led a team of data modellers at Satyam which successfully produced all the logical and
physical data models required for a large integrated Data Warehouse for a large
Telecommunications company Developed conceptual, logical and physical data models for the Enterprise Credit Risk – Data
Management & Reporting (ECR-DMR) project at Westpac. Documented data dictionary
including data stewardship for data elements Led the data analysis effort for Customer and Marketing related systems for Satyam’s project
for a large health insurance company.
EDUCATION
BA (Hons) University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Majoring in History, with supporting units in Economics (2 years), Mathematics, and Political
Studies Dux of King’s High School Dunedin
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Courses attended include:
Several Data Modelling related courses (Entity Relationship Diagramming, Service Modelling, Dimensional Modelling, Normalisation)
Architectural Thinking (IBM)
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
CMM (Capability Maturity Model)
Leading and Managing High Performing Teams
Consulting Skills (5 days)
Project Management Fundamentals (IBM).
OTHER INTERESTS
Chess, singing, history, spectator sport and reading.
CITIZENSHIP/ RESIDENCY / AVAILABILITY /REFEREES New Zealand citizen and Permanent Resident of Australia. I am available to start a new role immediately. Referees are available on request.
Jonathan Adams
