Alex Greenwood

Profile

I'm a Senior Database Specialist with expertise in Powershell, REST API integration, and Data Engineering. Using these skills, I have led teams in developing large-scale BI systems that are accurate, reliable and a pleasure to use. I work for a highly respected research data & analytics company and understand the value of high-quality data and reporting. I can automate anything with an API - saving time, money and effort.

Experience

YouGov Plc - a global public opinion and data company

London, UK

Business Intelligence Architect

Aug 2012 - Present

  • Business Process Automation Lead Developer
  • Line Management of BI Developers
  • Designed and Built 4TB Data Warehouse with OLAP cube semantic model
  • Feature Engineering for anti-fraud predictive model
  • Dimensional modeling
  • Audit and Finance Reporting
  • Data Engineering
  • REST API Integration
  • Powershell
  • SQL
  • Azure
  • ETL
  • REST
  • OLAP
  • Oauth2
  • PostgreSQL
  • Snowflake

Senior Database Administrator

Aug 2007 - Jul 2012

  • MS SQL Server Administration (Tsql , Linked servers, Agent, Backups, Security)
  • MS SQL Server Builds (2012,2016,2019,2022)
  • Part of team that built and migrated multi rack datacenter from Berlin to London
  • Data Center Storage Management (Pure, Nimble, Dell, NetApp)
  • Data Center Virtualization Management (VMware)
  • Desgined and built Datacenter monitoring solution (check_mk)
  • VM Image Backups (Veeam)
  • Active Directory SysAdmin (on premise to Azure hybrid)
  • Out of hours on call support
  • SQL
  • ETL
  • ODBC
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Storage
  • Redshift

Telme.com/Farebase Ltd

London, UK

Database Administrator

Jan 1999 - Jul 2007

  • Batch file scripting
  • Database performance tuning
  • Writing T-SQL Views and Stored procedures
  • Transaction Fee Reporting (airline booking engine)
  • Exchange Server Admin
  • Hostmaster
  • SQL
  • DNS
  • Ecommerce
  • Excel
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Skills

Languages

  • English
    Native
  • German
    Fluent