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Stephen Booth
stephenbooth.uk@gmail.com
+44 7703 565 785
Skype: stephenbooth_uk
46 Gough Road,
Birmingham
B11 2NG
England
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A PRINCE2 (Foundation) and ITIL (Foundation) qualified
Technical Analyst/Architect working in a multidisciplinary, multivendor
environment to deliver transformational IT and business solutions to
reduce overheads, minimize backoffice costs and improve front-line services
to customers.
Formerly an Oracle DBA and UNIX systems administrator,
mostly supporting and providing technical skills input to development
projects, also providing third line support to operational systems when
other support teams were unable to resolve problems. Developed excellent
problem diagnostic and resolution skills in both technical and business
fields, in particular where problems crossed technical or procedural
boundaries.
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Experience
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Various roles including Client Server Analyst, Technical Analyst,
Oracle DBA and Technical Architect
Birmingham City Council (seconded to
Service
Birmingham April 2006)
December 1999 to Present
- Developed project plans, Terms of Reference and other documentation
related to management of local and corporate projects under PRINCE2.
Prepared capital funding bid documents for corporate projects.
- Developed policies, procedures and standards for corporate systems
and infrastructure.
- Managed relationship with suppliers including
setting performance requirements for facilitates management supplier
and assessing of responses to Invitations To Tender. Also took key
role in negotiations around staffing impact of procurement of a strategic
partnership agreement to deliver business transformation goals.
- Identified and investigated Open Source software products to be
used in delivery of national, corporate and local goals (including
Key Performance Indicators) at a significant budgetary saving.
- Installed, configured and supported Oracle databases (versions 7.3.4
to 10g Release 2) on Sun Solaris, Linux and Windows NT/2000. Designed
and specified hardware infrastructure for corporate projects including
public facing document management and publication system (ADMES) and
corporate intranet (Inline).
- Selected and attended appropriate conferences, user group meetings
and trade exhibitions to gather knowledge and gain skills in relevant
areas.
Attended training in :
- Project Management: Project Management (Internal, 4 days),
Microsoft Project 2000 (Informatics, 2 days), Fundamentals of Project
Management (John Rattlidge Associates, 4 days), PRINCE2 Foundation
(ILX, 3 days).
- Oracle: Oracle 8i DBA (Learning Tree, 5 days), Oracle SQL
and PL/SQL (Spring IT Training, 5 days), Oracle Database Architecture
and Administration (Spring IT Training, 5 days), Oracle8i Backup &
Recovery and Server Tuning (Learning Tree, 4 days), Oracle 9i SQL
(Spring IT Training, 5 days), Oracle 9i Fundamentals 1 (Xperise Training,
5 days), Oracle 9i Fundamentals 2 (Xpertise Training, 5 days), Oracle
9i Tuning (Spring IT Training, 5 days).
- UNIX Solaris 8 Systems Administration 1 (Sun, 5 days), Solaris
8 Systems Administration 2 (Sun, 5 days)
- Labour Relations: Employment Relations Act Accreditation
(South Birmingham College, 10 days), Handling Grievance and Disciplinary
Procedures (South Birmingham College, 2 days), Managing the "Performance
and Development Review" process (Capita Learning and Training,
half day)
- Education/Learning: Union Learning Representative (South
Birmingham College, 3 days), Performing Training Needs Analysis (South
Birmingham College, 1 day)
- Java: Introduction to Java (Internal, 5 days).
- Other: Developing Assertive Behaviour (UNISON, 2 days), ITIL
Foundation (ILX, 3 days)
Self Taught/Personal Self Development : Macromedia Dreamweaver 3, Apache
installation, Solaris administration, Project management basics.
Support Specialist
Sema Group
October 1998 to November 1999
- Supported a wide variety of Oracle based
systems running on HPUX.
- Administered Hewlett Packard hardware
and HPUX.
- Developed UNIX shell scripts and SQL
scripts to assist in management and monitoring of Oracle based systems
(including use of Oracle SQL*Loader).
- Developed and maintained documentation
used in training new staff.
- Liaised with customers and suppliers
Attended training in:
- Oracle: Oracle 7 DBA (Learning Tree, 5 days), Oracle 8 Application
Development and Tuning (Learning Tree, 5 days)
- UNIX: Korn Shell scripting (Learning Tree, 4 days), HPUX
and Networking (Hewlett Packard, 5 days)
Self Taught/Personal Self Development : Safe Workstation Practice (RSI
prevention).
1989 to 1999 :
- Technical Analyst (full time). General
desktop, server and network support; Oracle DBA. Fraser Williams Pharma
Systems.
- Student (full time). Programming in C (NVQ level 3). Kalamazoo Computer
Training.
- Student (part time). Further Education
Teacher Training (City and Guilds 730/7 Stage 1). East Birmingham
College.
- Group Leader (part time). Creation and
running of a support group for unemployed and underemployed graduates.
Graduates Around Solihull.
- Care Assistant (Full Time). Caring for
adults with learning difficulties and challenging behaviors. Solihull
Social Services.
- Care Assistant (Part Time). Caring for
adults with learning difficulties and challenging behaviors. Solihull
Healthcare NHS Trust.
- Student (full time). B.Sc. (Hons) Biochemistry
(Joint Honours with Electronic Engineering for 2 years, single Honours
in final year); Subsidiary degrees in Engineering Mathematics, Economics
and Computer Science; Active in Students Union holding several elected
positions; Active fundraiser for RAG project. University of Keele.
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