Alistair Simmonds Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

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Portland, Oregon, United States

Alistair is an experienced Business/Data Analyst and Project Manager, skilled at building relationships with stakeholders at every level. Alistair has led ambitious software development projects from ideation and business case development through to UAT. With a track record of driving projects with clear focus and well elaborated project plans, Alistair practices leadership by example. Respected by his colleagues and clients for his ability to differentiate signal from noise, he draws on relevant data to inform strategic decision making.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Public Sector Engagement- Program Management / Business Analysis / Technical & Strategic Advisory Services- Lead Program Management efforts such as confirming the scope of a complex IT systems integration and modernization initiative involving multiple government agencies for one of the largest states in the U.S.- Facilitate requirements gathering workshops with IT SMEs and Business Representatives- Development of Functional Specifications- Owned Program Jira board describing the critical path and interrelation of projects- Produced weekly status reports for a broad set of stakeholders including various government agencies and the project sponsor- Produced Market Research and lessons learned documentation from similar initiatives- Maintained a Program RAID log- Managed multiple vendors reporting requirements

Portland, Oregon, United States

Financial Services Client - Project Management / Business Analysis / Data Governance- Project managed the operationalization of a Data Governance organization for a Coloradan Agricultural Bank; including contributions to weekly status reports- Performed Data Profiling and Data Quality analysis including data validation; highlighting opportunities for Data Quality improvements and improvements in migration/ETL procedures - Performed Vendor/Software Selection for preferred software for an Enterprise Data Catalog- Performed Business Process Optimization with an emphasis on Issue Resolution- Informed Change Management efforts by identifying workflow changes, understanding the impacts to specific individuals and targeting training materials on the basis of persona development and interviews- Produced Data Governance Playbook to guide leadership and those responsible for day to day implementation of Data Quality and maintenance proceduresFinTech / IT & Data Services- Enterprise Data Governance Initiative, Project Management and Business Analysis, Process Optimization- Reviewed “as-is” business process maps for the data lifecycle of one of the world’s major payments companies and proposed improvements via “to-be” process maps- Worked with C-level executives to produce enterprise wide communications and spin up an Enterprise organization focused on Data Governance- Project Managed the initiatives deliverables, tracked progress in Jira and reported on timelines to leadership- Supported strategic decision making and prioritization of User Stories

Portland, Oregon, United States

Research, analysis and project management for clients across industries, including:- World leading Market Research and Strategy development for a multi-player VR business- Forensic Accounting for a small business owner in the Bay Area- Documentation QA and Strategy Consulting for LO3 Energy (Brooklyn Microgrid)- Market Research and opportunity scoping for a biofuel company - Due Diligence on a prospective investment for an Angel Investor’s portfolio company

Portland, Oregon, United States

- Developed a business case and gained C-level executive approval for a $250k project to redesign and rebuild a web-portal supporting an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) product line monitoring ~30,000 propane tanks across North America- Led customer insight sessions to validate new features and build evidence for simplifying aspects of the UX- Documented User Stories, grouped into Epics, to be prioritized and workload estimated (using Story Points)- Administered Jira instance enabling collaboration with a distributed team to define a backlog of ~500 tickets- Produced Process Maps with input from key SMEs to inform design and development- Defined success criteria and documented tests for UAT- Produced project roadmap, Gantt chart and maintained critical path while tracking development team’s progress via velocity measures across sprints and achievement of key milestones- Maintained Project Decision Log and Risk Management Strategy in order to build consensus and both anticipate and mitigate risks- Managed field testing, bug tracking and iterative fixes for a hardware calibration iOS app- Negotiated approximately ~$50k in discounts and credits from service providers

- Managed approximately $3million dollars in payables for 3 business lines across disjunct industries- Trained new team members, produced SOPs and orchestrated ETL procedures during an ERP transition- Re-established relationships with dozens of vendors after the asset only purchase of Ample Hills Creamery from bankruptcy in mid-2020 - Reported directly to the CFO of a publicly traded company managing diverse projects from CapEx investments to collecting six figures from delinquent accounts- Operationalized half a dozen Ice Cream stores in New York by coordinating with telecoms companies, health inspectors, security companies, contractors and suppliers - Produced and presented weekly revenue reports to senior management including YoY comparisons, MTD revenue and progress tracking against shipment and revenue goals

Portland, Oregon Area

Smith + Crown is a research and consulting group focused on providing insight, analysis and data across the breadth of technologies, projects, organizations and trends within the blockchain and cryptofinancial industries.

Oxford, United Kingdom

As a Business Analyst/Software Engineer at Elsevier in Oxford, my responsibilities included:• Drawing process maps of complicated systems• Writing High Level Requirements and User Stories• Learning HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Node.js, jade, SQL amongst others• Participating in vendor selection workshops • Supporting the elaboration of a business case• Developing a website to support schedule management for conference attendees

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics & Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Debate Society, VP KCL Green Party Society, Regularly attended events hosted by the King's Think Tank & the KCL.

A Levels: Maths, Further Maths, Physics, A*A*A