With work experience over 24 years, this person is currently working at 3M Health Care as a Lead Data Engineer. This professional has received certifications in : Mcdba, Ocp, and Dw 2.0. the professional speaks fluently two languages: English and German. This expert is located in Enterprise, Kansas. To contact directly Doug, you can look for their phone number or e-mail address or get further info by requesting access to Doug's further details on SoftwareOfficial.
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Douglas Needham
Last updated May 08, 2024
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Jul 3, 2022
Email
do**@cengage.com, sh**@yahoo.com, do**@gmail.com
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Enterprise, KS
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Lead Data Engineer
I do data modeling, Pentaho Deployment, Performance tuning and on-call support as the need arises. Currently expanding our self service reporting capabilities using Pentaho Business Intelli...
from Dec 2011
Data Management Consultant
Deploying an open source analytical business intelligence system with Pentaho. Creating analytical capabilities to support the analytics group.
Jul 2011 — Dec 2011
Data Management
At Sunrise Senior living I show others how best to apply industry best practices of data management to our projects. There are times when the schedule dictates getting things done faster tha...
Oct 2008 — Aug 2011
Data Management Consultant
As a data management consultant I worked on various projects with Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL based software deployments. Various projects I have worked on focus on improving time to see da...
Apr 2008 — Oct 2008
Director Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Development
As Director Data Warehouse Development at Freshdirect, I was presented with a diverse data environment. There were a number of different control and monitoring systems. Our customers ordered...
Feb 2007 — Mar 2008
Principal Systems Engineer
A number of Biometric Intelligence Resource (BIR) applications have been deployed for the identification of non-allied personel in combat areas. The project I was brought in to help with was...
Mar 2006 — Feb 2007
Senior Database Administrator
As a Senior Database Administrator in a SQL Server 2000, I worked to define an Enterprise Data Architecture that will support our Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Applica...
Jul 2005 — Mar 2006
Manager Database Operations
When I started Collegiate Funding Services they had a very disorganized data environment. New database servers had been bought by different departments for each application that a department...
Nov 2002 — Jun 2005
Data Management Developer
This was a start up company where I was a developer working on the creation of a security appliance. Our embedded security appliance was a customized Red Hat Linux distribution. The device w...
Feb 2002 — Oct 2002
Database Developer
GTN Project (08/01 to 02/02): I worked as a Database administrator for a Sybase and Oracle based project. This was a web application that has to use Sybase’s DCO product to integrate data fr...
Jul 2000 — Feb 2002
Professional Services Consultant
Responsibilities include participating in a project to port part of the dispatch application from Win32 to HP-UX11. This consists of porting Windows DLL's written with MFC to Unix Shared Lib...
Oct 1998 — Jun 2000
Developer
Worked on a team to convert an embedded application from VxWorks to Yellow Dog Linux running on an embedded Radstone PPC1A board. As part of this conversion I Worked on the port of DCE/RPC t...
Sep 1999 — Feb 2000
Database Developer
Responsibilities include developing and maintaining a Visual C++ application that uses embedded SQL with ODBC to communicate to SQL Server 6.5, installation and configuration of the Oracle T...
Jan 1998 — Oct 1998
Developer
Led a team that maintained and supported a pseudo real-time DOS based C application deployed at 20 different field locations. This application communicated with specialized hardware to enabl...
Oct 1996 — Jan 1998
Professional Services Consultant
I worked in Reston, VA at Software AG doing Quality Assurance and Testing of Internally developed software.I transferred to the Dallas, TX office of Software AG as a Professional Services Co...
Jan 1993 — Oct 1996
DBA
I was a Mainframe DBA working with ADABAS technology, CICS, TSO, and Natural. I migrated our ADABAS platforms from a monolithic system to a distributed system. I performed day to day databas...
Apr 1988 — Jan 1993
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