Kieran Poynton

Data Nerd and Expert in Data Strategy and Analytics Empowering businesses with Data

My Resume

Work Experience

  • Head of Data
    April 2022 - CurrentHalfords

  • Data and Analytics Product Manager
    Jul 2021 - Ape 2022Halfords

  • Director Enteprise Architecture
    Aug 2019 - Jul 2021adidas

    Focusing on Data architecture, Data and Integration across the adidas landscape.

  • Director Enterprise Reporting BI & UX
    Mar 2019 - Aug 2019adidas

  • Senior Manager Global Business Intelligence
    Feb 2016 - Presentadidas

    Responsible for delivering core strategy Business Analytics solutions and global communications to over 6,000 global users. Leading, coaching and mentoring a BI development and UX team.

  • Senior Manager - Data Management
    Jun 2015 – Feb 2016adidas

    Responsible for delivering, maintaining and ensuring governance to the global consumer data model. Responsible for training users on legal uses of consumer data and providing insights for impacted areas based on GDPR.

  • Lead Data Architect and Data Team Lead
    Nov 2013 - Jun 2015Central England Cooperative

    Responsible for delivering a state-of-the-art data strategy, data warehouse, business intelligence architecture across the company. Responsible for decommissioning five legacy BI and analytics tools reducing costs and complexity.

  • Business Intelligence Architect
    Jun 2012 - Nov 2013Inspired Gaming Group

    Responsible for incubating and scaling a new Business Intelligence tool and platform across the business. Developed and scaled new game analytics algorithms to improve the playability of FOBT (Fixed odds betting terminal) games.

  • Datawarehouse Developer
    Jan 2012 - Jun 2012Compass Group

    Successfully reduced data failure downtime by 90% by altering daily bulk data loads to hourly trickle-feed. Delivered enhanced margin analysis and optimised margin forecasting through complex PL-SQL.

  • ETL Developer
    Jun 2008 - Jan 2012Inspired Gaming Group

    Assisting development of a brand new enterprise data warehouse within a team of data engineers. Responsible for building ETL packages and automated data delivery.

  • Business Intelligence Analyst
    Jun 2004 - Jun 2008Inspired Gaming Group

    Developing client side applications to speed up day-to-day data processing tasks and enabling automation. Responsible for Cognos reporting solutions for B2B customers to ensure financial data load reconciliation

Education

  • 2005 - 2007
    BSc in Computer Science
    2005 - 2007Staffordshire University

  • 2003 - 2005
    HND Software Engineering
    2003 - 2005Burton on Trent Technical College

  • 2001 - 2003
    NDC Software Development
    2001 - 2003Burton on Trent Technical College