Chris Taylor
Founder Principal Consultant @Jarrin Consultancy
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Founder Principal Consultant @Jarrin Consultancy
GB
Jarrin Consultancy are a world class SQL Server consultancy and database development provider based in the UK. Whether you are on-premise or in the cloud, Performance tuning, clustering, replication, integration services, reporting services, data warehouses, management information, parallelism, flash storage arrays and of course writing loads of T-SQL gets us going. Our database services range from single day training and server health checks to architecting brand new highly available systems as well as the relevant ETL processes required for developing OLAP data warehouses. North, South, East or West, we cover all areas of the UK and have clients across the world. So whether it\'s Leeds, London or Luxembourg, do not hesitate to contact us.To read more about our range of database services and technologies please navigate through our website: Jarrin Consultancy Projects- Very large and complex Data Migration from Cobol flat file system to a highly Normalised SQL Server 2017 environment for a world leading Marine Insurance group- Working with various clients on designing and producing comprehensive POC\'s for High Availability solutions utilising Always On Availability Groups on SQL Server 2016 and 2017- Full life cycle of a large scale Data Warehouse running on SQL Server 2017 using Kimball methodology, Tabular model and Power Bi - Working with our Partner Redgate on analysing and planning a clients Development and CI/CD process improvements- Security improvements for a client\'s world class freight system- Hardware and SQL Server Performance improvements of a newly implemented large scale Microsoft Dynamics environment- Re-architecture and Performance improvements of a global scale Merge Replication solution across a very slow satellite WAN link- Various SQL Server migrations from SQL Server 2005/2008 to SQL Server 2016
EDUCATION
University of Sunderland
MSc, E-Commerce
ABOUT CHRIS TAYLOR
Hybrid Data Platform, Cloud and Reporting/Analytics specialist with 20 years of experience with SQL Server and more recently, the “Data Platform”. Vastly experienced in Cloud (Azure and AWS), Management, Design, Data Modelling, Development, Administration, Enterprise/Modern Data Warehousing and Reporting, within almost all sectors. Highly skilled in the art of performance tuning and is extremely passionate about this area of the Data Platform. Takes great pride in providing 24/7 available, secure, PCI/GDPR compliant and fully optimised database OLTP and OLAP systems both on-Premises and in the Cloud. Strives to improve and automate all processes in place to reduce the workload of not only the hardware but the staff members who work with them. By freeing up a technical team’s time we can continue to improve not just their technical skills, but also their personal and team skills. An active member in the Data Platform community where he speaks Internationally (https://chrisjarrintaylor.co.uk/2020/01/22/speaking/) on a vast array of topics from SQL Server Internals to Azure DevOps and Kubernetes/Docker. Founder of Newcastle’s DPaC (Data Platform and Cloud) and Power BI meetups. Speaker, volunteer and helper with SQLBits which is largest SQL Server conference outside of the PASS Summit. Avid technical blogger and provides third party product reviews mainly for Redgate, SentryOne and ApexSQL as well as a contributor to the PowerShell dbatools collaboration. Computer Literacy Database – Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 – 2022 (All Editions) Microsoft Azure (Data Platform) Power BI Amazon Web Services (Data Platform)SSIS (incl BIML), SSRS, SSAS, SSDT Visual Studio (2005 – 2019)/ VSCode Redgate/SentryOne(SQLSentry)/Idera/Dell(Quest)/ApexSQL Various Source Control incl: Git / TFS / Azure RepoAzure DevOps – all componentsTerraform Python / PySparkXML / JSON Server Technology - Windows Server to 2019 (incl Clustering) PowerShell Docker (Containers) Kubernetes VMWare / vSphere / Hyper-V
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