Mark Cooper

Background

About Mark Cooper

8 years experience working in IT for Education and Local Government. Experience of full system integration of third party systems including iTrent, RoomService.NET, Business Objects XI and Infoed. Including Business Analysis, requirements gathering, system selection, system setup, data migration / conversion, setup of interfaces with other third party / in-house systems, parallel running, system testing and go live. Ongoing 3rd line support and maintenance. System development experience in SQL, PL/SQL, C#, Java, Visual Basic 6, Crystal Reports 9 developing new web applications and maintaining existing full client applications. Business Objects Developing Business Objects Universes for third party systems, migrating reports from version 6 to XI, Repository and Security setup in Business Objects XI Central Management Console. Developing complex HR / payroll reports. iTrent System development experience includes: setting up payroll and absence modules, developing payroll and absence calculations, batch data migration, setup of workflow processes, setup of costing and costing interface and development of custom iTrent reports. Problem solving issues with Self Service, Manager Self Service, and Recruitment modules. Payroll Experience of providing support to payroll and HR teams in system setup, problem solving, developing Business Objects reports, supporting other Business Objects users. Specialties: Business Objects development: • Universe development • Setup of Repository, security, scheduling • Complex report development • Migration to XI Third party system implementation – specialising in HR/Payroll