Chris Taylor

IT professional with broad ranging experience covering data engineering, business analysis, database querying and reporting, data migration, data visualisation, programming, testing, support and website administration. Capable of quickly adapting to changing environments and new responsibilities, using initiative to find solutions. Flexible committed detail-oriented individual with excellent team working, troubleshooting and communication skills.

• Effective conduit between key stakeholders to establish business needs and deliver technology solutions. 
• Excellent client-facing skills having worked alongside staff from several blue-chip organisations. 
• Analytical approach through understanding complex issues, defining business requirements and documentation of processes and systems. Maintained and updated user guides on document mgmt. system. 
• Strong time and organisational management skills. 
• Data engineering – identifying, collecting, collating, cleaning and validating data. ETL using Informatica PowerCenter, IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Azure Synapse Pipelines. 
• Ensured data integrity and compliance by driving robust data quality and governance initiatives across several projects. 
• Worked across full software lifecycle: requirements gathering, functional specification, development, user acceptance testing and support. Knowledge of various languages, technologies, and databases. 
• Database querying, plus authoring of Python, PL/SQL, ABAP and T-SQL code, using a variety of tools. 
• Development of reporting structures using tools such as BEx Query Designer, Business Objects, Oracle Apex, MicroStrategy, SAS and Power BI. 
• Proficient in SAP CRM and ISU – data and tables, ABAP code and functionality. 

MSc with Distinction in Information Technology (Software and Systems Strand), University of Glasgow