An Independent Consultant from March 1st 2007

Well, this is something I’ve thought about for a while now and now I can mention officially: from March 1st 2007, I’ll be setting up my own company and working as an Independent Consultant, specializing in Oracle Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing solutions. My objective going forward is to provide expert-level consultancy, training, mentoring and writing on the range of business intelligence & data warehousing technologies within the Oracle world.

It’s with a heavy heart that I leave SolStonePlus; it’s not been an easy decision to make and I’ll leave some good friends and colleagues behind. The opportunities I’ve experienced, with some excellent customers and projects over the years have been fantastic but for me now, I felt it was time to move on and work with some new opportunities. I’m leaving SolStonePlus with the board’s blessing and if you’re an existing customer of mine or the company’s, and you want to work with me in future, just drop them a line and they’ll call me back in on a contract basis to work with you.

For myself though, I’ll be looking to work closely with customers and partners looking to get the most out of Oracle’s ETL (Warehouse Builder, Data Integrator), OLAP, Query tools (Discoverer, Answers, Dashboards) and platforms (BI Standard Edition, BI Enterprise Edition, Database, Application Server) and if you’re interested in working directly with me after March 1st 2007 on a consultancy, development, training or mentoring basis, just send me an email at [email protected]; my rates will be quite reasonable and I’m keen to get moving on some engagements in the first few months.

In the meantime, my thanks to Graham, Keith, Mick and the team at SolStonePlus for letting me put this notice up in advance of me leaving, and I look forward to working with both existing and new customers going in to the future.

If anyone wants any more details or would like to discuss possible engagements post March 1st 2007, just drop me a line at [email protected] or give me a call on +44 7866 568246.