Christer Tärning
Born 1965 ~ Married, 2 adult children
cell: +46 (0)727 - 109999
christer.tarning@gmail.com
 

Employments

Analytics Data Architect, Qlik Data Integration (ex Attunity), Stockholm 2020 -
Qlik Data Integration is the market leader in data integration and data management, specialising in data replication, ingestion and streaming between various sources and targets. I'm part of the EMEA CoE (Center of Excellence) as ADA (Analytics Data Architect), a role which supports field sales teams, presents and demonstrates the solutions on fairs and seminars, and provides technical sales liaison with Product Engineering.

Technical experience: Business experience:
Data Integration
Data Management
Architecture
Automation
Databases
Cloud
Hadoop
(general)

Lead Solution Architect, Teradata Sweden AB, Stockholm 2011 - 2020
Teradata sells a database completely focused at data warehouse and business intelligence. Mainly worked with pre-sales as Solution Architect for the largest customer in the region, which includes e.g. overall understanding of business requirements, detailed configuration of hardware, software and services, tailormade presentations and education of Teradata's products, services and solutions, creation of solutions and proposals, negotiations and legal agreements. The account have been breaking sales record each year since 2011. Also worked with other customers, and as consultant in e.g. architecture, project management and business user education, with DevOps and AnalyticOps. Performed internal education of new products. A typical solution consists of an analytical ecosystem with both data warehouse and data lakes, with both cloud services and on-prem systems, with both SQL and Machine Learning, for AI and Automation.

Technical experience: Business experience:
Teradata (everything)
AI / ML / Automation
Cloud (Azure, AWS)
Hadoop (HWX, CLD)
Architecture
Data Governance
Development processes
Educational methods
Presentation methods
Sales methods
Bank (Nordea, Swedbank, SEB)
Insurance (If, Trygg Hansa)
Telecom (Telia, Telenor, Ericsson)

Senior BI-consultant, Itera Consulting Group AB, Stockholm 2007 - 2011
Itera provides consultant services within Business Intelligence, i.e. decision support and data warehousing. My tasks included BI-mentorship, DW-architect, ETL-developer, and technical database support. At Concordia Bus, Danaher Motion, Tidsam, SEB, Nordea and some shorter assignments I've been BI-mentor and performed education of different BI-tools. At Concordia Bus, Danaher Motion, Tidsam, Micronic, Bonniers, 3GIS, SEB and Nordea I've designed data warehouses. At Aberdeen, SEB, Tidsam, Micronic, 3GIS, LF, H&M, and Nordea I've worked as ETL-developer. At STFI, Ragnsells, SEB, and 3GIS I've assisted in database support of existing data warehouses. At Kuoni I assessed their data warehouse solution. I've also performed education for my colleagues in BI-tools, assisted in extending Itera DW Framework, and been speaker at BI-seminar.

Technical experience: Business experience:
SQL(MS)/MDX on PC/SQL2k-2k8
SSIS/SSAS/SSRS on PC/SQL2k5-2k8
DTS/SSAS/SSRS on PC/SQL2k
SQL(Oracle) on PC-Sun/ORA8-9-10-11
Toad/OWB/CVS/ClearCase
Applix/TM1/Cognos Planning
Agresso/Hyperion/Movex/XOR/
Maconomy/iScala/Dynamics etc
Telecom (3GIS, Telenor)
Press distribution (Tidsam)
Bank (SEB, Nordea)
Insurance (Länsförsäkringar)
Retail (H&M, Bonniers)
Charter airlines (Kuoni)
Manufacturing (Danaher Motion, Micronic)
Property Investment (Aberdeen)
Bus (Concordia Bus)
Recycling (Ragnsells)
Project mgmt (STFI)

Senior IT-consultant, Know IT AB, Stockholm 2004 - 2007
Know IT provides consultant services within IT, e.g. for finance markets. I worked as .NET-expert and IT-architekt. Between December 2006 and April 2007 I worked for ACE Interactive as C#-developer with an advanced surveillance system for casinos. The assignment included technical architecturing using a complex communication model. Between January 2005 and December 2006 I worked for Skandiabanken with web development regarding automated car credit decisions. The development had tight deadlines and an extensive security commitment in a modern multi-tier architecture. Before that I worked for the insurance company Zürich, where I was engaged in development of their ERP-system writen in C#. I've also participated in a large development project for the Swedish Army regarding an system for Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EODIS. I've worked with Active Directory for SIS.
Technical experience: Business experience:
C#, C++, SQL (Oracle), HP OpenView on PC/WinXP-2k3
VB.NET, ASP.NET, Java (Eclipse), SQL (MS) on PC/WinXP-2k3
C#, SQL (MS) on PC/WinXP
C#, SQL (MSCE), .NET Compact Framework on PocketPC
LDAP, ADSI.NET, SQL (MS) on PC/WinXP
Casino (Ace Interactive)
Car credits (SkandiaBanken)
Industrial insurance (Fb Zürich)
Explosive ordnance disposal (Försvarsmakten)
Customer relation mgmt (SIS)

Senior developer, Alecta Investment Management AB
(ex SPP Kapitalförvaltning AB), Stockholm
1998 - 2003
Alecta manages occupational pensions. Worked in small development group in the IT-department. Worked with database design, programming, system integration, architecture, project management and IT-support. Continuosly participated in refinement of IT-strategy and development methods. Experience of several programming languages, class libraries and SQL-variations. All integration based on XML, very experienced in different kinds of message mapping using different environments. Good understanding of both RUP and Agile-methods. Built data warehouse from scratch in SQL Server, digged data from TMS2000 on Oracle, created business applications for front-office and middle-office (risk group). Worked with intranet/portal and eCommerce-site, used financial real-time data from Reuters, Tibco, SIX, DataStream etc. Used to documenting everything for both technicians and business users. The last project involved implementation of OLAP-cube based on MS Analysis Services. In general all solutions has been about some kind of decision support.
Technical experience: Business experience:
Tibco/Rv, BizTalk, MQ-Series as middleware/application integration
XML, DHTML, ASP, Java on Internet-intranet
Scripts, SQL (Oracle) on Sun/Solaris
Database design (MS SQL Server), SQL (Oracle, MS) on PC/NT-Win2K
Scripts, VB, Delphi, VB.NET, C# (.NET) on PC/NT-WinXP
Stock analysis
Portfolio management
Result and risk measures

Developer, SIX AB (ex Dextel Findata AB), Stockholm 1995 - 1998
SIX sells financial data via satellite. My tasks included development, support and design of financial realtime applications and their API. Also worked with conversion of large time-series database from an old platform (Prime) to a modern SQL-database (Sybase). In addition to that I was responsible for information classification, authority administration, extensive technical documentation. Much time was also spent on support and advice for external customers and users of our API.
Technical experience: Business experience:
HTML, JavaScript, Java, J++ on Internet-intranet
C and scripts on SUN/Solaris
C++ (MFC), SQL (Sybase) and PowerBuilder on PC/Win95-NT
C on PC/DOS-Win3-Win95
Stock markets, time-series
Index construction
Information classification

Programmer, CRM Treasury Systems AB, Stockholm 1993 - 1995
CRM sells financial systems to finance departments of large export companies. Worked with connections to information feeds and with Windows migration of Oracle Forms. Responsible for creating new module with financial real-time interface and graphical decision support in C++ (MFC). The module was connected both to Oracle and to Telerate, Reuters or Findata. The tasks included everything from specifications, design, programming to installation and training of business users.
Technical experience: Business experience:
C, C++ (MFC) and VBA on PC/Win3-NT
C, SQL (Oracle) and OracleForms on PC/DOS-Win3-NT-Novell
Foreign exchange
International fixed income markets

Finans & Datakonsult, VPD Konsult AB, Stockholm 1989 - 1992
VPD is a small consultant firm with participants of the financial markets as customers. I learned programming in Turbo Pascal and C here. In almost two years i worked for OM (derivatives exchange) developing a system for option portfolio valuation and risk measurements, written in C on VAX/VMS. Also worked with real-time analysis applications, and with administration of securities.
Technical experience: Business experience:
TurboPascal, C and Excel-macros on PC/DOS-Win3
C and SQL (RDB) on VAX/VMS
Option theory, derivatives valuation
Swedish fixed income markets

Bank official, Götabanken i Lund Part time, 1987 - 1988
Bank official, Kristianstads Sparbank Part time, 1986 - 1987
Library assistant, Linnéskolan i Hässleholm Summers, 1982 - 1985

Educations

TCPP (Teradata Certified Professional Program), Teradata 14, Teradata Part time, 2014 - 2015
Certified Financial Analyst, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm Part time, 2001 - 2002
Certified Database & Information architect, Dataföreningen Part time, 1999 - 2000
Degree of Bachelor of Science (BSc) of Business Administration and Economics, focus studies,
(Civilekonom, Ekonomisk Analys), University of Lund
1987 - 1989
Degree of Bachelor of Science (BSc) of Business Administration and Economics, basic studies,
(Civilekonom Basblocket), Högskolan i Kristianstad
1985 - 1987
Conscript, Team leader, (Gruppbefäl), P6/Fo14 Kristianstad 1984 - 1985
Combined Natural Science-Technical gymnasium,
Tekniska Skolan i Hässleholm
1981 - 1984
Other educations and courses:  
Qlik Compose, Teradata Factory, Microgen Aptitude, Platform Configuration Specialist, fsLDM, TCS (The Challenger Sale), Industry Simulation for Financial industries, Selling Business Outcomes, Best Practices for Sizing Intelliflex, RACE Readiness & Sales Training, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Hortonworks, Cloudera, many internal product, service, process, solution, and sales trainings, etc
2010s
Demo2Win, Kimball University DW, SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, PPS, Applix/TM1/Cognos, Unix, CORBA, SOA, COM+, CLR, .NET, C#, Java, Delphi, Data Warehouse-design, Databasdriven publicering, Tibco 3COM/RV/MSW, TMS2000, Bloombergs, Reuters Cobra/Plus/3000/SFC, MS Office/VBA, WAP, XML, UML, RUP, Agile, English, Business English, etc
2000s
Windows, VAX/VMS, Pascal, C, C++, MFC, MS Office/VBA, Btrieve, C-tree, RDB, Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle PL/SQL-optimering, PowerBuilder, Erwin, etc
1990s

Languages

My mother language is Swedish.
Very good common English, business English, and technical English in speech and writing.
Basic knowledge in German.

Commissions

Partner, Real Cars eZine HB, Stockholm 1997 - 2007
Chairman of the board of Brf Trivselhem 102 (tenant association), Stockholm 1995 - 1997
Treasurer of Föräldrakooperativet (children care cooperative) Bullerbybarnen, Stockholm 1994 - 1997
Partner, Ertany Spice Systems HB, Stockholm 1993 -
Responsible for party committee in Cefyrekon (student organisation), Högskolan i Kristianstad   1986 - 1987

References

References, grades and certificates delivered on request.


Swedish CV