Barry Burke Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Nz

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I’m part of the FINEOS team involved in the implementation of the FINEOS software suite at ACC. My role involves working with various business stakeholders across multiple project streams to understand their needs and the desired business outcomes, in order to determine the most appropriate product solution to meet them. I work with various delivery teams to help design and build the product configurations and integrations to achieve the desired requirements and outcomes.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Consulting at FINEOS

County Galway, Ireland

I was product owner for Blue Tree’s web and mobile SaaS platforms used globally in the trucking and transportation industries. Responsible for executing on our portfolio roadmap across multiple internal and external delivery teams. I worked with product management to establish roadmaps & milestones, and communicate on releases. I developed conceptual feature designs to establish the vision and desired UX, along with release plans so that there is a shared understanding of the goal, scope, and schedule with key stakeholders and delivery teams.I also performed the role of scrummaster for our internal delivery teams

Dublin

I was a product owner on various agile teams involved in developing a SaaS offering for IBM's Watson Health Cloud. The product development followed IBM’s Design Thinking methodology and the Scaled Agile Framework. My role involved working with a global and diverse range of stakeholders across multiple disciplines including Product & Account Management, Architecture, Engineering, Design, and QA. I facilitated validating the product’s vision, converting ideas into lightweight specifications, and planning according to milestones. I was responsible for managing requirements, supporting the delivery teams and verifying the end product meet expectations. I frequently stepped into role of Scrum Master and my abilities occasionally extended into testing prior to our monthly releases.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Optimation is one of New Zealand’s leading ICT organisations offering a full range of professional ICT services from strategy through to delivery and support. I joined the consulting practice as a Business Analyst.While at Optimation I had the opportunity to work alongside our Agile and Business Design practice leads to assist in the development of the “Optimation Way”, a framework to show how all of Optimation’s practices work independently and together, which was to be utilised by staff to ensure consistency and quality of service delivery. Tasks included interviewing practices to identify the activities performed, along with the deliverables and artefacts used at each phase of the SDLC, and to develop an initial structure to house them.

Wellington

MSD is New Zealand's largest government department employing more than 10,000 people in 200 locations around the country. MSD provide public services such as:- care and protection of vulnerable children and young people- employment, income support and superannuation services- funding to community service providers- social policy and advice to government- student allowances and loans. At MSD I had the role of Integration Analyst on the “Integration and Data Migration” project on the ministry's Social Housing programme. Here I had the responsibility of eliciting requirements in order to produce service design specifications for Business-to-Business and Application-to-Application systems integration. The role also involved understanding and assessing impacts across other projects within the same programme of work.Activities:- Requirements Elicitation, Analysis & Management- Requirements Workshops- Document Analysis- Facilitation- Interface Analysis- UML Modelling (Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Context Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams)- Scenarios and Use Cases- Structured Walkthroughs- Requirements Traceability- Coordination across the delivery projects in the work programme- QA Review e.g. Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test CasesTools- Sparx Enterprise Architect- JIRA

Wellington

Chorus is New Zealand’s largest telecommunications infrastructure company that maintain and build a network predominantly made up of local telephone exchanges, cabinets and copper and fibre cables.Initially formed in 2008, as a business unit operating as part of New Zealand telecommunications provider Telecom, Chorus became a separate entity in 2011 but continued to be supported by Telecom’s IT and enterprise systems through a shared services agreement. A regulatory requirement mandated Chorus to establish their own IT and enterprise systems capability by a fixed date.I joined the Chorus business analysis team on a yearlong secondment where I was assigned to both the Desktop and Information Management Transition (IMT) projects that were part of the “Fresh Start” programme.Project 1: Information Management TransitionThe project was upgrading the organisations existing enterprise content management system which involved a content demerger and migration from SharePoint 2007 (New Zealand's largest deployment) to SharePoint 2013, along with developing a new information architecture and intranet.Activities:- Requirements workshops- Functional requirements- Non functional requirements- Migration requirements- Acceptance Criteria- Current/Future State Analysis- Impact Analysis- Process Modelling- Technical Writing- Vendor Management- Change Management- Information Management- Information Architecture- Usability TestingProject 2: Desktop RefreshThe project involved the delivery of a Desktop as a service to the 800+ employees across New Zealand. This virtual desktop also incorporated email as a service and messaging as a service. I was tasked to produce the non-functional requirements across these service offerings that were being delivered by external vendors.Activities:- Non functional requirements- Technical Writing- Change Management

Wellington, New Zealand

Compass Health is a Primary Health Organisation that provides a wide range of primary care services through General Practice, and a number of other healthcare providers in the lower north island of New Zealand. I worked in the ICT department that contributed to the efficient and smooth delivery of the organisation’s healthcare services. The main focus of my role is to facilitate the development of software fit for project purposes. My responsibilities include project scoping, service/solution design, process engineering, requirements elicitation and documentation, user acceptance testing, as well as building & maintaining stakeholder relationships. I worked with key internal & external stakeholders to understand project requirements and manage expectations based on budgets, timelines, and resources. I liaised closely with both the business intelligence and software development teams, and external partners, to discuss work stream implications and to establish cost & time estimates.Technologies & Tools: Microsoft Visio 2007, Visual Studio 2010-2012, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Office 2010, MedTech, Balsamiq

Wellington, New Zealand

Compass Health is a Primary Health Organisation that provides a wide range of primary care services through General Practice, and a number of other healthcare providers in the lower north island of New Zealand. I worked in the ICT department that contributed to the efficient and smooth delivery of the organisation’s healthcare services. The main focus of my role was to design, develop new and maintain existing software and databases. I was part of a small development team, which worked closely with project stakeholders gathering requirements and ensuring user acceptance was meet.Activities- Requirement Elicitation- Solution Development- System Configuration and Installation- User Training- Onsite and remote supportDevelopment languages: C#.Net, VB.Net, ADO.Net, LINQ, ASP.Net, JavaScript/JQuery & T-SQL. Technologies & Tools: .Net Frameworks 4.0 - 2.0, Entity Framework, Silverlight, WCF/Web Services, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2005-2008, DotNetNuke, Telerik Components, Active Reports 6.0, SourceGear Vault, MedTech, HealthLink, NUnit, Test Driven.Net, NAnt & CruiseControl.Net.

Dublin, Ireland

Vodafone is Ireland's leading mobile communications operator along with becoming one of the largest providers of fixed line broadband solutions. I joined the Perlico group within Vodafone where I was part of the services development team for the award winning SingleServe CRM system.Development languages: C#.Net, LINQ, T-SQL. Technologies & Tools:Visual Studio 2008 – 2010, Team Foundation Server 2010, .Net Frameworks 3.5 - 2.0, WCF/Web Services, WWF, SQL Server 2008, IIS 7.5, Microsoft Guidance Packages, Power Shell 2.0.

Wellington, New Zealand

Compass Health is a Primary Health Organisation that provides a wide range of primary care services through General Practice, and a number of other healthcare providers in the lower north island of New Zealand. I worked in the ICT department that contributed to the efficient and smooth delivery of the organisation’s healthcare services. The main focus of my role was to design, develop new and maintain a variety of existing software systems and databases. These systems include a variety of online web portals, health service management application (referrals, claims and payments) along with a both desktop and web based utility applications.I was part of a small development team, which worked closely with project stakeholders gathering requirements and ensuring user acceptance was meet. Activities- Requirement Elicitation- Solution Development- System Configuration and Installation- User Training- Onsite and remote supportDevelopment languages: C#.Net, VB.Net, LINQ, VB6, VBA for Microsoft Access & Microsoft Excel, JavaScript & T-SQL. Technologies & Tools: .Net Frameworks 3.5 - 2.0, ADO.Net, SQL Server 2000-2008, UML, Telerik Components, Active Reports 3.0 - 6.0, Janus .Net Components SourceGear Vault 4.0, Macrovision InstallShield 2010, MedTech32, HealthLink, MbUnit, Test Driven.Net, Nant & CruiseControl.Net.

Sydney, Australia

CustomCall was Australia's leading telemarketing providers, with clients including some of the largest blue chip companies nationwide. I joined CustomCall on a 6 month contact and my primary role involved maintaining & supporting their telesales platforms & related reporting applications. I was part of a small team focused on specific key clients within the larger development department. My role involved extending the functionality of existing platforms based on client requirements, developing SQL Scripts, creating DTS packages to perform ETL operations, and communicating with the clients to verify business acceptance of system changes.Development languages: VB.Net, ADO.Net, VB6, VBA for Microsoft Access & Microsoft Excel, T-SQL.Technologies & Tools: SQL Server 2000, ComponentOne Studio, Genesys, Visual SourceSafe 6.0.

Dublin, Ireland

Heavey Mobile, part of the Heavey Group, is a small software house providing both bespoke and off-the-shelf software solutions for handheld mobile devices. Whilst at Heavey Mobile, I was part of a small business team involved in engaging with client to understanding their requirements and then transforming those requirements into quality software solutions. Our solutions were delivered in an iterative manner giving our clients early insight to the end product and enabling them to make adjustments along the way. Many of our solutions involved integration with some third party platforms such as accounting packages and CRM systems.. Activities- Requirement Elicitation- Solution Development- System Configuration and Installation- User Training- Onsite and remote supportDevelopment languages: VB.Net, ADO.Net, ASP.Net, VB6, VBA for Microsoft Access, T-SQL.Technologies & Tools: .Net Framework 1.1, Compact Framework 1.1, ASP.Net Web Services, SQL Server 2000-2005, SQL Reporting Services, IIS 5.0 & 6.0, UML, Visual SourceSafe 6.0, OpenNefCF, Progress, SysPro, Exact Globe 2000/3 and Sage Line 50/200/500

Limerick, Ireland

DOCOsoft is a company which has been providing document management solutions worldwide for over 10 years. I joined DOCOsoft after completing my university studies. My responsibilities within the development team included maintaining the company’s website, intranet and CRM along with software testing.

Luxembourg

State Street Bank is a worldwide financial services provider offering services such as investment management, research and trading, and investment servicing. During my university studies, I joined State Street on an internship and my role was to provide IT support to the 500+ users of the State Street network. During my internship I was involved in 2 large scale projects: 1 - A desktop deployment of Windows 2000, an upgrade from Windows NT2 - An office relocation, merging 3 existing office locations to the newly built State Street building.

Bsc In Computer Systems (2.1 Honors Degree), Software Design & Development, Networks & Telecommunications

Leaving Certificate