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Derby, United Kingdom

Andrew took on a short contract with HP working on site at Rolls Royce in Derby to turn round a team of BA's who had been struggling to meet the high standards required by the customer in this highly regulated and audited environment. He interfaced with Project Managers, Engineers, Tech Architects, QA and the customers own BA team to put in place robust.

Andrew was asked by Coral to take over responsibility for Coral’s Trading Platform (ATS provided by Amelco).In order to address underlying issues around quality of service and delivery he undertook a review of all processes around product delivery and support thereof. Taking prompt practical steps to remove barriers, improving processes and introducing an.

Andrew was invited to take up a role with the new business managing the development of their Interactive Sportsbook offering (through OpenBet, Playtech and other suppliers). Andrew liaised with business stakeholders (including trading, operations and marketing) to build and manage the Sportsbook Delivery Roadmap. He was responsible for working with.

In 2011 Gala Coral Group instigated the Springboard Programme, a 14 month project with circa 120 dedicated staff to re-launch the online business of Gala Bingo, Gala Casino and Coral on new technology platforms, with an entirely new management team and in a new jurisdiction, Gibraltar. Andrew was asked to move away from his BAU responsibilities and take on.

Woking, United Kingdom

Andrew was brought into Gala Coral’s Group IT Programme to build discipline and process into the Business Analysis and Project Management areas as well as delivering Business Requirements for a range of projects.Mentoring existing staff and growing the team Andrew successfully developed a strong BA/PM capability providing process and tools that facilitated.

Watford, United Kingdom

Andrew led the team of BAs and was responsible for requirements stream through entire project life cycle of several large e-Commerce / CMS / Gaming projects for the National Lottery. Responsibilities included:o Development of Project Justification Documents and Business Cases;o Project Planning;o Management and work allocation for team of up to 8 BA’s;o.

London, United Kingdom

Andrew worked as the Senior Business Analyst on the Compliance and Risk Programme. His work here has encompassed: o Eliciting, documenting and managing Business Requirements for large projects (focused on Compliance / Risk processes and data);o Business Process Re-engineering (developing As-Is and To-Be models);o Risk Programme definition work; o.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Andrew was brought in to Digital Union, who produce a B2B global e-Procurement Software Suite, to set up and run a Business Analysis department. Managing a small team he successfully introduced a Use Case driven and OOAD approach (where appropriate utilising RUP and UML techniques utilising Rational Rose/XDE). He has worked with global clients (Tesco.

While with LogicaCMG Andrew worked in the Central Government Sector on several large e-Government projects for the RadioCommunications Agency (now part of OfCom) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).As the lead Business Analyst on a large technically complex e-Government project Andrew was responsible gathering the business requirements.

Andrew was employed to manage and grow the production department of this e-Business Solutions provider whilst improving the company’s capabilities and procedures. He successfully grew the team from 4 to 17 people and moved there capabilities from simple web sites to integrated e-commerce and Business to Business extranet solutions. As well as management of.

London, United Kingdom

As a Technical Director and founding member of 4MAT, an internet agency specialising in solutions for the recruitment industry, Andrew was responsible for the Production Team, Delivery Targets and Technical/IT Strategy and as a member of the Board was also involved in defining Company Strategy.Throughout his time at 4MAT Andrew engaged in many activities.

Stafford

Andrew started his career as a Software Engineer with GEC Alsthom. Andrew took part in GEC’s graduate development program learning management, communications and presentation skills.He was sponsored by GEC through university and spent his ‘year out’ working with them before going to college in Durham.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc - Hons Dunelm), Natural Sciences (Computing / Maths)

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