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Consultant — technical expertise and data migration · 2013 – 2015

A data migration project for a public financial institution: take decades of data out of legacy systems and put it into a clean Oracle database, without losing a single row. Half engineer, half translator between the business and the systems.

What I did🔗

Solutions analyst🔗

  • Shell scripts to recover legacy data (MVS, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, XML)
  • Clean, enrich and reshape the data before loading
  • Load it into Oracle (reference data, derivations, banking flows)
  • Reconcile counts between source and target
  • Update secure file transfers (CFT)
  • Batch scripting to format data automatically (WinSCP, Excel)
  • Orchestrate the jobs with Control-M
  • Write and tune SQL queries
  • Package everything in a dedicated SVN repository (KSH, SQL, ENV)
  • Train the team on SVN and continuous delivery habits
  • Build shell functions used across the CDC infrastructure
  • Validate deliverables (technical documents, product)

Business analyst🔗

  • Run workshops with business teams to define migration rules from source analysis
  • Analyse the data to migrate
  • Define the migration sequence and rules
  • Assist the business teams during acceptance testing
  • Define flow matrices and configure the transfer tools
  • Write documentation and communicate in French and English

Tech stack🔗

  • CFT (SOPRA)
  • Unix, KSH, Windows Server 2003, VBS, Citrix, Cisco
  • Oracle, Sybase, MVS, DB2
  • SVN, Quality Center, JIRA, Control-M