Brendan Tierney Dip. AppSc., BSc.(Hons), MSc., Dip. ProjMan.

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Summary:

Brendan has over 10 experience in the IT industry and specialises in the design of large scale business intelligence, data warehousing and data mining applications. Brendan’s experience spans the public and private sector and has worked with clients at all levels of the organisation. Brendan brings extensive experience in defining requirements definitions, technical and database architectures. These skills, including an impressive academic background, brings key skills which allows him to work closely with organisations at all levels in developing business intelligence solutions

Brendan holds a Diploma in Applied Science from the Dublin Institute of Technology, a BSc. Degree from the University of Dublin, a MSc. in Computer Application in Dublin City University and a Diploma in Applied Project Management from University College Cork.

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Experience: Norkom Technology Ltd.

(April 1998 - November 2001)

In April 1998, Brendan joined Norkom Technologies as a Business Intelligence Consultant bringing his technology skills to support the data warehousing and customer service lines.

Key projects included:
bulletProject manager of the development of a Customer Churn System for a leading mobile phone operator. The Customer Churn System allows the amalgamation of customer details into a central repository. These customer details are then integrated by a number of tools, including SLP Infoware to identify customers who are potential churners. The system interfaces with a number of customer care, customer management and billing applications. These interfaces allows the customer care department run targeted marketing campaigns. The outputs of these campaigns are fed back into the Customer Churn System. These outputs are added to the Customer Model thus building up a more detailed and accurate model for modelling churn. I was responsible for the complete design and project management of this 3 man year project, which was delivered on-time and within budget. This involved working with the client to defined the business requirements and the overall design of the application. The project involved a team of up to 6 developers working on database development, web application development, documentation, testing and training. As part of my project management duties I was responsible for all client reporting, project planning, project budgets, budget tracking and project resourcing.
bulletProject lead on a project to develop an automated management and director reporting database for a leading telecommunications company. This involved working with the senior management team to discuss their reporting requirement. I was then responsible for the full design and management of the development of the automated reporting database. The technologies included Oracle 8i, Active Server Pages for developing user interfaces screens and Norkom’s Alchemist for the delivery of the reports. The automated reporting database required the defining of a number of KPI’s and the automated population of these KPI’s.
bulletProject Lead on a project to develop an Information Architecture/data warehouse for a leading direct insurance company in Belgium. The aim of the project is to develop a data warehouse which will be used to merge data supplied by a number of data brokers with the existing prospects list, provide customer segmentation of current customer base, apply customer segmentation analysis to external data to facilitate efficient direct marketing camgains. I was responsible for project initiation, project planning, defining resourcing requirement, project budgeting, client reporting, definition of technical architecure, requirement definition and the analysis phase of the project.
bulletTechnical Project Lead on a project to develop a customer scoring and scorecard application for a leading mobile phone operator. The aim of this application was to provide the mobile phone operator with a mechanism to define their own scorecard which they could fine tune the selection criteria to reduce the number of bad accounts getting access to the network whilst increasing the number of good applications being accepted. I was responsible for defining the technical infrastructure and working with the client to ensure that the required infrastructure was put in place.
bulletProject Lead responsible for the migration of the Finance and Sales & Marketing datamarts for a leading mobile phone operator. The mobile phone operator decided to replace their customer billing and call processing application (ISIS) with a new application called Amdocs. I was responsible for project planning, identification of resourse requirement, client reporting, investigation and specification of modifications and managing the development team. I was also responsilbe for managing the implementation and post implementation problem resolution.
bulletProject Manager responsible for enhancements and identification of enhancements to the Finance and Sales & marketing datamarts for a leading mobile phone operator. Following the completion of the Sales & Marketing datamart I was given addditional responsibility for the Finance datamart. My responsibilities included client reporting, identification of resourcing requirements, project Budgets, identification of enhancements and management of the implementation of the enhancements.
bulletProject Manager for the design and implementation of a Sales & Marketing datamart for a leading mobile phone operator. I was responsible for the management of the analysis, design, implementation and post-implementation support of the datamart. This involved producing the requirements definition, defining the scope of the datamart, the data model, database sizing, interfaces, etc. I was also responsible for defining the resourcing requirements, project budgets, staff management, project delivery and client reporting.

Deloitte & Touche Management Consultants

(February 1996 – April 1998)

Key projects included:
bulletTeam leader on the development and implementation of a system for the Company Registration Office. The new system will provide Oracle database applications with GUI-based client front ends for both local and remote users, and a new Workflow and Imaging system to automate document flow. The new application will support the receiving, scanning and registration of documents and assisting with the enforcement of legislation. The development environment includes Oracle 7 database, Oracle Developer/2000, Visual Basic and FileNet.
bulletPart of team responsible for the for system functional proving of the Play at Home Instant Game for Camelot UK. This involved the development of high level test scripts and integration testing of all lottery applications.
bulletTeam leader on the development and implementation of a system to administer and process redundancy and insolvency payments for the Department of Enterprise and Employment. The system was designed following the use of workflow analysis to streamline the administration process. The system was developed using Oracle’s Developer 2000 products and Oracle 7 database.
bulletProject manger for the implementation of Windows 95 to over 500 people in 3 offices for Deloitte & Touche.
bulletAssisted in the preparation of a common specification of a payroll and personnel system for seven Health Boards. This encompassed the Recruitment, Personnel, Payroll and Supperannuation roles, as well as Attendance Monitoring and Control functions. Structured analysis and system specification techniques were applied to both the requirement documents, as well as the results of the fact-finding exercises.

Oracle Corporation Ireland

(July 1993 – January 1996)

Key projects included:

bulletFor a major financial institution developed a home loan and commercial mortgage application. The new application was designed to replace the companies existing Wang and AS/400 applications. As a senior analyst/programmer I was responsible for development using Oracle Forms 4.5, Oracle Reports 2.5, SQL*Forms 3.0, SQL*Menu, PL/SQL and Oracle 7 database. Other tasks included providing training on the Oracle products, providing technical assistance and assisting with database administration on the development and production Oracle 7 databases.
bulletAssisted a manufacturing company with the implementation of the Oracle Financial and Manufacturing Applications. I was responsible for the development of customer specific reports and modifications to existing reports using Oracle Reports 2.0 and Oracle 7.
bulletFor a Health Board built a Client Index System which is a central patient data repository. This was developed in Oracle 7, Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5, SQL*Loader, SQL*Plus and PL/SQL 2.0. I was also responsible for database administration on the development Oracle 7 database.
bulletAssisted with the development and provided user training for a Travel Information Management System. This was developed in Oracle 7, Oracle Forms 4.5 and Oracle Reports 2.5.
bulletDesigned and built a New Claims and Reinsurance Reporting System for an Insurance company using Oracle 7, Oracle Forms 4.5 and Oracle Reports 2.5.
bulletLoan Maturity Analysis System conversion from COBOL to Oracle 7 and PL/SQL. I also assisted with the development of an enquiry and reporting system using Oracle Forms 4.5 and Reports 2.5.
bulletAssisted a manufacturing company in the development and modification of reports to interface with the Oracle Manufacturing System using Oracle Reports 2.5.
bulletAssisted for six months in the development, testing and user training of major enhancements to the An Post PostDraft payments system. This is a major payment and reconciliation systems which provides electronic payments and accounting for unemployment benefit. The PostDraft Payment System was developed in Oracle 7, Forms 3.0, PL/SQL, COBOL and SQL*ReportWriter.
bulletDeveloped a Savings Product Receipting System for An Post. This Oracle 6, Forms 3, PL/SQL, SQL*ReportWriter system captures and audits receipts received for An Post Savings and Investment Products. I was also responsible for the database administration of the development and production databases.
bulletDeveloped a Customer Complaints System for An Post. This Oracle 6, Forms 3, PL/SQL, SQL*ReportWriter system records and monitors complaints made by customers. I was responsible for the development, testing, user training and for the database administration of the development and production databases.
 


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