Resolution Life

Following a successful three months in Edinburgh, I had almost a month off, gardening and chasing agencies for work in the North West of England. Eventually, at the end of July, I landed one, in Liverpool, for a company called Resolution Life. This involved starting to develop a new data warehouse for the company's actuarial department. They wanted to be able to generate actuarial reporting using a standard source of data for all of the multiple customer facing systems they had somehow acquired.

This work involved documenting their source systems so that we could decide what data we should be capturing for the new warehouse.

During the autumn, though, they decided that the Liverpool office would close and that the work I was doing should be transferred down to their Midlands base just south of Birmingham. I re-located down there during November 2006. This involved a weekly commute from Chester fighting the Birmingham crawl on the southbound M6 every Monday morning - It took almost as long to get to Wythall Green from J12 of the M6 as it took to get from Chester to J12, even though the distance was only about a third.

I then spent the next seven months helping the documentation of the warehouse systems, without getting my hands dirty on the new SAS tools (grhhh). I actually helped Phil (who I met at Standard Life) get a similar role at Resolution. He stayed on after I finished (in June 2007) eventually finishing up in June 2008.