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March 18, 2015

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NAME: MR ADRIAN HAYMAN BSc MBCS

LOCATION WEST SUSSEX

CONTACT HOME: 012**-******

MOBILE 079**-***-***

E-MAIL acor4s@r.postjobfree.com

POSITIONS SOUGHT: BUSINESS OBJECTS DESIGNER/DEVELOPER

For the past 17 years I have been working as a Business Objects developer/designer

specialising in the Insurance and Reinsurance sectors.

My expertise includes data modelling and data Warehousing and production of logical and

physical models for Management Information Systems.

The Blue chip companies I’ve worked for includes UBS Bank, Prudential, Royal and Sun

Alliance, Catlin and Computer Sciences.

EDUCATION

Bsc Mathematics Manchester University

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS

I am a full member of the British Computer Society.

I hold full certification in SSADM V4 - both Analysis and Design.

CAREER HISTORY

June 2014 – August 2014 Newton Investment Management - London

Business Objects Developer

Environment: SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence 4.1 Java / .Net, Oracle 7, SQL

Server 2008

Performing Business Objects design and development on new Charles River Front Office

trading system for this leading Investment Management company - BNY Mellon Group.

Nov 2013 – Feb 2014 UBS – Zurich

In preparation for the migration from Business Objects XI R3 to Business Objects XI R4, I

was tasked with converting all standard Business Objects reports from Desktop Intelligence to

Web Intelligence / Rich Client. This was upwards of 200 financial reports.

The project was based at UBS in Zurich Switzerland.

August 2004 – April 2013 (contract role) Prudential Head Office - London

Senior Business Objects Developer SAP Business Objects XI R2, XI R3 SQL Server

2005/2008 Web Intelligence (Webi) / Desktop Intelligence (Deski)

CA Service Desk Reporting

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On another Prudential project I worked as a support analyst in their support centre

where in addition to my support activities I produced reports to monitor the IT support

performance of their call centres recorded in CA Service Desk. This was to produce

KPIs for Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, Change Management, Problem

Resolution and Issue Management using ITIL.

Asset Exposures Risk System – Solvency II

Design and development of a Business Objects information system in Web Intelligence and

Desktop Intelligence to monitor asset values by credit rating and geographic location for Risk

analysis.

This included Database design. Universe design and development based on star schemas.

Business Objects reporting to support the monitoring of the risk of assets held, such as

Bonds, Mortgages etc . Reporting included Top thirty Counterparty analysis, and analysis by

Counterparty credit ratings (supplied through Bloomberg interface). Also dashboard

development using Qlikview.

Group Finance Management Information System

Team leader responsibility on this project. Design and development of a comprehensive

Management Information System for Prudential Group Finance using Deski reports which

were subsequently converted to Webi reports. This included data modelling and design of the

System, table design and development, and construction of a Star Schema model in the

Business Objects Universe. The model catered for All historic data including multiple

versions of each data set and User selection of a specific set of versions when they ran

reports.

I was responsible for the development of several suites of Business Objects reports which

were delivered in a phased implementation, including:

iMonthly Financial Summaries for the Board.

iiQuarterly Financial Summaries for release to the Stock Exchange.

iiiInterim and Full Year Results Packs for the Board.

I worked as a member of a team that provided a complete end to end solution including

uploading of files into MS Sharepoint and automated database update. User access was

through Sharepoint with automated links to BO Infoview and seamless integration to MS

Powerpoint.

A specific feature of the SAP Business Objects reporting, which I pioneered, included a

strategy for a consistent approach to rounding, such that all figures, totals and subtotals across

the full spectrum of monthly, quarterly and annual reports etc,, at different levels of detail,

always gave consistent figures.

April 2002 - July 2004 Catlin Group – Lloyd Underwriters - London Underwriting

Centre Business Objects Designer/Developer Business Objects V5.1.6, SQL Server 2000

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One of my major responsibilities was the development of the Business Objects Universe to

provide the necessary reporting capabilities from the corporate data warehouse which was

populated from Catlin’s operational insurance system (The Frame). Catlin operate in both the

Lloyds Insurance market and the London Market.

The Universe structures to support these included both Inwards and Outwards business.

I analysed reporting requirements and developed reporting solutions in Deski for all areas of

the business, including Actuaries, Finance, Claims, Credit Control, Reinsurance,

Underwriting

And Management . This included support of Catlin’s Bermuda operation and other offices.

April 2000 - April 2002 Computer Sciences - London and Oslo

Business Objects Consultant Business Objects V5, Oracle 7.3 /8, SQL Server 7/2000

SICSNT

My main responsibility was the development of Business Objects Universes to provide the

necessary reporting capability to support two Oracle Based Reinsurance Packages. These

were SICSNT Property and Casualty, and SICSNT Life.

The Universe structures to support these were very complex and included the modelling of

Assumed Business, Protection Assignments, Protection Programs, Cessions, Retro Cessions,

Outward Cedent Contracts, Placements etc. and the pairing of inwards and outwards ledger

entries. At a technical level this included using all features of BO Designer including Aliases,

Self Joins, Outer Joins, Prompts, Contexts, Short Cut Joins etc.

There was also the development of a number of standard reinsurance reports including

triangulations.

Duties also included the roll out of the universes to coincide with the release of the

application software. This included converting the Oracle Universes to SQL Server and DB2

platforms and upgrading from SQL Server 7 to 2000.

I developed a 3-Day Business Objects course and delivered it to one of CSC’s clients in

Rotterdam.

July 1999 - March 2000 RSLCOM – Telecoms Company- London

MI Specialist Business Objects V4/V5, Sybase 11.5, Web Intelligence 2.5

In this rapidly expanding Telecoms Company, I developed a suite of Web Intelligence reports

to monitor traffic flows throughout 13 European countries and scheduled them to run

overnight using BCA. These reports provided the means to analyse traffic by route, telecoms

vendor and destination.

On a separate project, I designed and implemented a set of Star schemas to provide data marts

to support each of the 13 countries specific and common reporting needs, including Customer

Traffic monitoring, Inter admin costs and Gross Margins. I gathered the reporting

requirements of each country and developed a set of standard BO reports to satisfy these

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requirements.

Other activities included consolidation of a number of Universes, and supporting/training BO

Users in 13 countries. Also administration of User accounts/passwords, access rights, table

mapping etc. Also upgrading from Business Objects 4 to 5.

I developed a Business Objects training course and delivered it to RSLCOMs other offices

throughout Europe.

Feb 1996 - June 1999 Royal & Sun Alliance - London

Business Objects Consultant Business Objects V4, Sybase 11.5, Gentia, SICS Insurance

Package

User interviews and analysis of MIS requirements. Initially this covered Professional

Indemnity insurance but was extended in due course to include all London brokered

commercial lines. I carried out Data Modelling and design of the MIS Data Warehouse using

formal Entity Modelling techniques recorded on Systems Engineer. Liaison with DBA during

physical implementation on HP9000 Unix Sybase 11.5 platform.

Design of interface from SICS insurance package to the Data Warehouse. Design of interface

from Data Warehouse to Gentia multidimensional OLAP MIS system.

Design and build of Business Objects Universe including Classes, Objects, Joins and Aliases

using BO version 4.1.5 . Extensive use of SQL including Characteristic Functions.

Development of in excess of two hundred BO Insurance Queries such as Triangulations,

Summary Tabulations, Large Losses programme claims and catastrophes, Current and Run-

off account movements, written and earned premiums and loss ratios, Reinsurance

calculations etc. to support a BO User base of one hundred users.

As well as extensive use of the BO Design and reporting modules I was also responsible for

the administration of BO User Ids/Passwords and User Groups.

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