About RDLP Consultants I am pleased to welcome you to my website. I am a very experienced Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) consultant and am able to design and deliver strong solutions to allow business decisions to be made based on accurate facts. I am also a strong leader and able to manage BI/DW developers to deliver projects on time. I have built data warehouses on a variety of leading platforms including SQL*Server and Oracle, and high-speed appliances/solutions such as Netezza and Sybase IQ. This experience has been gained whilst working for Manchester United PLC, Pipex, Anari and Gala Coral as lead consultant on numerous projects. I am able to optimize and tune DW scripts to be able to enhance performance and achieve the best possible response times. I am extremely proficient in Oracle Data Integrator, and have built and delivered many complex ODI projects from writing knowledge modules to implementing interfaces. I have also been placed on several engagements by BusinessObjects themselves as a BusinessObjects expert via Anari's professional services relationship with SAP (owner of BusinessObjects). I am familiar with the BusinessObjects platform technologies, especially in the BI and Information Management areas. I have been involved in projects using Designer, Supervisor, Reporter (Desktop, BOXI, Xcelcius, Crystal and WebIntelligence), BO Server, Performance Management, the Crystal product suite and Data Integrator. I also have a wide experience of other BI-related technologies like Ab Initio, Visual Basic, MapInfo and HTML. I am a passionate and self-motivated individual, and have a determination to achieve and deliver the best. Robert Porter |