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Results-driven IT professional with expertise in utilising strategic and cost effective technology in alignment with corporate goals. Strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, team-building and project management...

Results-driven IT professional with expertise in utilising strategic and cost effective technology in alignment with corporate goals. Strong record of success in creating robust IT architectures and infrastructures. Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues while managing costs and risks. Dynamic management career with strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, team-building and project management skills. Recruit, develop, motivate and retain staff, structuring them in teams that deliver results and savings. • IT Strategy and Execution • Group IT Systems • Team Building & Leadership • Process Improvement • Technology Architecture & Integration • Organisation Staff Development • Member of Oracle DW Global Leaders • Information Architecture • New Product & Technology Launch • Vendor & Contract Negotiations • European IT Delivery • Supply Chain Integration • Oracle Retail implementation leadGroup IT Director @ Leading an IT department of 100 people providing IT Support and Service to Head Office, Distribution Centre and over 1000 stores across ten countries. Educated and worked together with team leads to produce company’s first IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture Board, Operating Model and Innovation team. Facilitated focus on high-priority projects with new governance standards. Developed SOPs around project portfolio to manage request process. Led a BI implementation focussed around Oracle technologies moving the business away from the paper-based mature legacy service IT provides to a dashboard-driven, trend-identifying, predictive, recommendation-based platform. Brought in external resource aligned with collaborative leadership style – enhancing ITIL, Help Desk, Problem Analysis and team competencies, with better change control and resource management practices. Cut IT-spend through virtualisation, enterprise licencing, an internal cloud, prioritising in-house development ahead of COTS and out-sourcing out-of-hours service support for new technologies. Increased responsiveness to issues with revitalised Help Desk operations, using ITIL standards and escalation models; enhanced the ticketing/reporting system and made it the single source of request for all IT services by the business. Programme Director of the company’s Oracle Retail implementation. Changed the structure of the IT department to support a career path model. Created the company’s first Test Lab. From April 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Bury, LancashireHead of Business Intelligence and Application Development @ Oversaw IT functions, with a team of 30, including legacy ERP for WMS, buying & merchandising, loss control and in-store systems, Oracle data warehouse management, technical support, application development, analytics, DR planning, Oracle EBS, payroll & HR and system architecture. Established rapport and credibility with department heads. Effectively introduced and integrated new technologies: Oracle Exadata; Oracle BIEE; Oracle RPAS; Oracle EBS; KCS; Snowdrop; Van Tracking; FastTrack IBTs; Implemented change control and process documentation. Aligned IT team with business units to develop business expertise and improve quality and responsiveness to 400+ users and over 700 stores. Integrated disparate technologies arising from recent company acquisitions Migrated support and monitoring of hosted servers in-house with no impact on availability and cost saving of 20%. Initiated and developed in-house training that enabled timely and cost-effective delivery of end-user training. Provided BI solutions in store and across head office departments. From October 2008 to April 2014 (5 years 7 months) Bury, LancashireDirector @ Delivered consultancy, training and contract work to a number of companies in different industries, including retail, pharmaceutical, local government, utilities and health. Administered a database support service to a pharmaceutical company. Disaster recovered a call centre company after a database crash and no backup strategy Created and implemented an Appointment Booking System for a 3rd party client working on behalf of several utility companies. Provided Oracle technology training to numerous retailers From September 2001 to October 2008 (7 years 2 months) St Helens, United KingdonSenior Consultant @ Managed the Training department. Delivered training to both internal and external professionals. Presented at the UK OUG Developed and delivered courses in Oracle SQL & PL/SQL; Oracle DBA; Oracle Forms & Reports; HTML; JAVA; JavaScript; XML; UNIX; From November 1999 to August 2001 (1 year 10 months) Warrington, United KingdomSoftware Developer/Oracle Lead Lecturer @ Spent three years working as a software developer using COBOL and Oracle SQL and PL/SQL before becoming the Oracle Lead Lecturer and working within the Training Department. Created and implemented a system which scanned barcodes from returned parcels offering a misread rate of less than 1%, saving Littlewoods £1m per year. Developed and implemented a multi-user system which catered for the management of consignment notes From March 1994 to November 1999 (5 years 9 months) Liverpool, United KingdomCOBOL Programmer @ Industrial Placement as part of my degree. Worked as a COBOL programmer. From July 1990 to September 1991 (1 year 3 months) Rotherham, South YorkshireMSc, Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Technology @ University of Liverpool From 1992 to 1993 BSc, Computing Mathematics, 2:1 @ Sheffield Hallam University From 1988 to 1992 Barry Loftus is skilled in: Business Intelligence, Oracle, Retail, PL/SQL, Data Warehousing, SQL, OBIEE, Exadata, Software Development, OLAP, Business Process, Oracle HR, Architectures, Data Modeling, Analytics, Business Analysis, Consulting, Oracle E-Business Suite, Commercials, IT Service Management, Operations Management