Damien Jones

@damienjones
Manchester UK
he/him

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Python

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Google Cloud

SQL

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Data and Analytics

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A detail-oriented data professional and cloud enthusiast with over 5 years of tech experience and over 15 years of experience in the financial sector. Currently specialising in AWS and SQL Server. AWS and Microsoft Azure certified.

A tenacious, innovative and practical problem solver with a strong & conscientious work ethic and the ability to confidently deliver bespoke solutions that satisfy changing business and customer needs.

A skilled and effective communicator that inspires confidence and creates meaningful dialogues and strong and lasting relationships. Passionate about continuous professional and personal development and learning new skills and technologies.

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Resume

Nov 2010 - Present

Data Engineer, Think Money Group

Portfolio

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New on amazonwebshark: I do a deep dive into some of the amazonwebshark WordPress MySQL database tables following the journey of a recent post. #WordPress #MySQL #amazonwebshark https://amazonwebsh...

New on amazonwebshark: I write a round-up of the community responses to my March 2023 T-SQL Tuesday #160 invitation: Microsoft OpenAI Wishlist. #microsoft #community #sql #tsql2sday #openai #chatgp...

I'm hosting March 2023’s T-SQL Tuesday with an invitation concerning the ongoing Microsoft and OpenAI partnership. https://amazonwebshark.com/t-sql-tuesday-160-microsoft-openai-wishlist/ #tsql2sday...

New on amazonwebshark: I celebrate amazonwebshark’s 1st birthday with an analysis of my site’s MySQL data using DBeaver, Python and Matplotlib. Link in comments #amazonwebshark #data #analytics #my...

Presentations

Presented PowerBite at monthly department meeting. 15 minute presentation containing Data Engineering with Python examples, and Data Analysis with a live Power BI dashboard.

Events Attended

AWS Summit London

Projects

Published EDMTracksLosslessS3Upload-PowerShell on GitHub https://github.com/MrDamienJones/EDMTracksLosslessS3Upload-PowerShell

Launched my tech blog at https://www.amazonwebshark.com/

Certifications

Earned my Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification.

Earned my AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification. https://www.credly.com/badges/07b93d07-d4d6-4452-b1ad-6f15a3841258

Earned my AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification. https://www.credly.com/badges/e10e1d21-15b3-4c5c-b2b7-1a0a7c04a193

Earned my AWS Certified Developer – Associate certification. https://www.credly.com/badges/45f7da29-daf4-43a2-81e6-3d6cc34f2da6

Blog Posts

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NEW ON AMAZONWEBSHARK.COM: In this new post, I talk about my August preparations for the upcoming New Stars Of Data 6 event in October 2023. Link in comments #NewStarsOfData #amazonwebshark #DataWr...

I’m speaking at the next New Stars Of Data event in October! In this new post, I talk about my submission and my July preparations. Thanks to Ben Weissman, William Durkin, Olivier Van Steenlandt, B...

New on #amazonwebshark: I respond to July 2023’s #tsql2sday 164 Invitation and talk about emotive code on the #Amiga. Link below #AMOS #AmigaFormat #VintageComputers #AmigaCommunity #AmigaForever #...

New on amazonwebshark: I create a stress-free AWS invoice PDF administration workflow with Microsoft Power Automate. Link below. #developmentandapplicationintegration #powerautomate #awsinvoice #am...