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Edinburgh, Gb

Melbourne, Australia

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Managing and eliciting requirements for several projects within the Business Everyday Banking domain.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Consulting via DB Results at ANZ.

Consulting via DB Results, currently at ANZ.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Helping a team within the Banker Experience area achieve their goals, improve Agile practices, and release software effectively.

Melbourne, Australia

A Business Analyst/Change Management role within several development teams, which included:- developing an internal product catalogue application- developing an online loan application system- enhancing an internal banker application

Melbourne, Australia

Lead Business Analyst on a project to update the FWO's internal legacy CRM system for case management.Responsible for:- Gathering requirements from business users for several teams and transforming them into user stories- Communicating requirements to development team- Facilitating the estimation component of the Sprint Planning sessions, resulting in a shared understanding of user stories and effective long-term planning- Assisting the teams to follow good Agile practices- Performing Scrum Master activities occasionally such as facilitating discussions and working to remove impediments for development team

Melbourne, Australia

- Gathered requirements in an Agile environment using workshops and other methods from business users, product owners, and sponsors, for the development of a new application platform for sales teams (Web and mobile), aiming to deliver over $50 million in benefits over several years.- Developed high quality user stories for multiple Agile development teams and multiple systems, resulting in the $6 million dollar project receiving continuous funding and business support.- Delivered effective and often interactive wireframes in both Web and mobile-responsive formats, which used existing UX/UI team standards, to business users and developers to clarify requirements, saving weeks of time per feature and avoiding misunderstandings.- Used and assisted team members with Jira to manage product backlog, acceptance criteria, user stories, defects, estimates for work, and releases in a Scrum environment.- Managed a team of business users and software testers to perform an end-to-end test of the application before the first release.

Melbourne, Vic

A member of the delivery team in Telstra Digital, primarily working on projects in the Digital area that impact Telstra's retail stores and call centres.- Gathered and documented requirements for many projects for the Telstra Digital and their Digital Transformation program, including the business unit’s top priority project for 2015.- Developed user stories and wireframes for many Digital projects, which involved the 24x7 iPhone and Android mobile app, MyAccount (web-based customer portal), Telstra company website, and online store.- Successfully facilitated both small and large discovery workshops in Agile teams with various stakeholders to gather and discuss requirements, including product owners, project teams, project sponsor, and business users.- Determined and presented alternative solutions to the business to meet short-term needs with time and cost constraints.- Interacted with offshore IT development and testing teams to ensure requirements and quality were met.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Consultant - Lead Developer and Business Analyst for the Financial Modelling Tool project, which involved:- Analysing user requirements from various teams in locations both local and interstate.- Designing and developing a complex Microsoft Excel-based financial model, which interfaced via inputs and outputs to various systems, and delivered a functional version to the user base.- Analysed and implemented releases using an iterative development approach, with a focus on new products and enhancements to the tool.

Melbourne, Australia

- Consulted for clients in a variety of industries and roles, initially as a software developer, and later moving into business analysis.- Received several Client Recognition awards from demonstration of high quality work and professionalism on behalf of DWS to clients.- Achieved high utilisation (days billed to clients) throughout my tenure.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Consultant - Developed and tested SQL Server Reporting Services reports for the Housing department of DHS, which includes:- Creation of a data model from existing databases.- Development of reports from the data model, based on documented business requirements.- Testing reports and data models to ensure they provided the correct information.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Consultant - Lead Business Analyst in a small team, responsible for:- Gathering requirements for a new system to monitor Victorian water information and details.- Designing initial layouts of a web-based system- Creating and obtaining signoff of the associated requirements document.

Melbourne Area, Australia

Consultant - Part of the Application Support and Development team for metering and billing systems, which involved:- Second-level application support for custom-built metering and billing systems, including Oracle PL/SQL, SQL and Microsoft technologies.- Analysis of new requirements from business users for the systems.- Development and testing of enhancements to these systems, utilising the team's standard implementation process.Support role for metering and revenue systems. Also involved in analysis, development, testing and release of updates and enhancements to these systems from user requests or larger projects.

Tutoring and running practical labs for the Database Management Systems subject in the ICT division of Swinburne University.