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Professional Profile
My Linked in Page - http://uk.linkedin.com/in/bosshogg
I'd describe
myself as a "Finance IT Consultant", currently specialising in Enterprise Performance Management related Finance Systems
(e.g. Oracle Hyperion EPM Suite).
Since 2004 I've been predominantly involved with Hyperion
Infrastructure and Systems Integration. This has involved the likes of
Installation, Upgrade or Patching of Planning, HFM, Workspace, FDM, HSF,
HPCM, DRM, EPMA, etc. in addition to getting FDM to extract and load
data into the likes of Essbase (including ASO) and HFM with automated metadata updates. Most of this was with ReportSource who were acquired by Deloitte in 2010. I had been promoted to Senior Manager in charge of EPM Technical Delivery before leaving Deloitte in July 2011 to become Senior Principal Architect for Edgewater Ranzal.
Prior to that I focused on Software Configuration Management (SCM)
and IT Environment Management. This involved tasks as diverse as
creating automated minimum-build scripts and control mechanisms (e.g.
SubVersion+Ant) for the Vodafone.co.uk website, through to managing what
parts of the BA World Cargo centre real-time equipment were controlled
by Dev, Test or Prod Tru64 Unix servers.
Even further back I had a 14 year career at BT that took me from BT
Engineer (apprenticeship) through to systems integration of one of the
first distributed Unix solutions (collecting per-second metering information).
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Personal Profile
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/BossHoggUK
I'm Husband to Gail, and father to Steph, Vicky, Dan, Rebecca & Jessica - Yes you counted right...that's five children!
Gail did (does) all the hard work of course, I just play about with Computers :)
I'm originally from Tynemouth (a posh Geordie!) but we initially set up home in North Walbottle (western edge of Newcastle) before relocating to the East Midlands (due to working in Nottingham).
In 2000 we moved from Grantham to a lovely village half way between Grantham and Newark, just off the A1. Great road links North & South on the A1, and East & West via A52. We also have the choice of Grantham or Newark East Coast Mainline stations (Great service - Kings-X in 1hr 10m!).
I was Director of my own Ltd Co. for 12 years, doing all sorts of IT from managing & supporting the BA World Cargo IT Systems, through to Hyperion System9 upgrade at BT.
I love gadgets (and can even program a video recorder!). My main hobby is reading/watching Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
Favourites include new Battlestar Galactica, 4400, Wheel of Time, Painted Man (Peter Brett)
During my time at BT I led a small team of apprentices team that
won the Marketing Institute award in the 1983 Young Engineer for Great
Britain for my design of an Ultrasonic reversing (beep beep...) alarm
for the back of vehicles. Something that is now common on many vehicles
though we never did go on to patent the idea and hence never made a bean
from it. Such is life.
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Reference - For those too young to remember the Dukes of Hazard and hence who Boss Hogg wasGeneology - My sister put a lot of effort into the family history so my entry can be found here (though at present is not up to date, i.e. does not show Jessica [pictured])
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