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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Providing expert data discovery, transformation, and visualisation services for clients in a wide range of industries.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Data Visualisation Consultant specialising in Tableau and PowerBI. Client Engagement, Data Discovery, facilitating business analysis/metrics workshops. Best practice insightful dashboards and reports. Data preparation, querying and wrangling. Training and coaching of client resources; high quality handover and documentation. Enjoyed and excelled at business development responsibilities, with many repeat customers.

Sydney, Australia

Leading the DataSchool in all aspects of the provision of analytics training to DataSchool consultants including responsibility for curriculum development and management.Assist in recruiting quality candidates to the program.Assist in placing consultants and settling them into customer placements.

Sydney, Australia

Working with key business performance units in high profile projects developing strategic KPI, and operational level management Dashboards. Project domains include marketing (brand momentum), Finance Transformation; and Motor repairer partner performance. Worked with Location Engineering team to implement proof of concept geospatial datasources for use by the internal tableau community.Also providing a mentoring and coaching role for the wider data visualisation team and the Business Performance Management teams.

Sydney, Australia

Providing expert BI consulting services, Data Visualisation and Analytics solutions based on Tableau and Alteryx technology to a broad range of enterprises and industries. Specialising in Tableau Dashboard Development and Alteryx Workflows, with tasks including business analysis and requirements documentation, data modelling and prototype data preparation/query design. Secondary tasks include Tableau Server installation and upgrades; plus providing pre-sales services including product and services demonstrations and participating in Proof of Concept exercises.

My primary purpose in this role is to produce high quality Information Dashboards prototypes for business customers using an agile, iterative process.Key activities include: Engage with business to understand information, metrics and KPI needs. Analyse and enquire into existing sources of data. Explore, shape and blend existing and new sources of information. Lead data discovery workshops to gain insights, develop metrics and KPI’s. Development of Interactive Management Dashboards/Visualisations using the Tableau Desktop tool. Documentation to enable self-service ownership or production grade development. I have developed dashboard prototypes in a diverse range of areas of Information Analytics including: Project Pipeline Portfolio; Performance of Projects in Delivery; Organisation Level Financial Performance and Overheads Analysis; ICT and HR Case Management Metrics; Risk and Compliance Training Certification Rates; Environmental Metrics; Client Success Rates; People and Leadership Metrics; Supply Chain Analysis; System Usage and Licencing Utilisation; Change Management Competition Rankings; System Performance Analysis; Error Logs Root Cause Analysis; Customer Satisfaction Surveys; Balanced Scorecards; Retail Centre Performance using Floor Plan Maps; Data Quality; Web Page Visits Analytics; Employee Benefit Program Participation Rates. Work as a part of the BI development teams to convert prototype into robust enterprise data warehoused based datasources.In addition to my primary role, a key passion of mine has been to foster a culture of self-service analytics within the business itself. This involves providing mentoring, support, training; and facilitating a social collaboration platform for a community of business based information analysts. My role has also involved establishment, configuration and handover to support team of the Tableau Server enterprise data publishing platform.

This role covered a phased Roll-out, Management, and embedment of a Global Project Portfolio and Bid Management system. Key responsibilities included Product Governance; Product Road Map; Alignment of Product direction with business strategy; Management of Business Owner relationships; Product Improvement strategy; Quarterly Metrics and KPI Reporting and Recommendations; Management and Reporting of Operating and Project Budgets; Subject Matter expert, documentation and retention of Product Knowledge and Collaboration workspace. As the product matured and embedded, 2011 saw my focus on a key initiative - the design and Implementation of a Management Dashboard Metrics and Reporting solution.

Business Analysis and Project Management of a number of small-medium construction system projects including delivery of a Cost Planning system replacement, Plantyard Inventory Management system, CRM system implementation, and Mobile Device Property Audit system.

Designed and delivered hands-on classroom training programs for Cost Planning process and systems; and construction project collaboration system (ProjectWeb) to hundreds of course participants (internal and external), across Australia, Asia, and the United States. Supported, enhanced and innovated Estimating/cost planning systems, tools and information sources. Subject Matter Expert.

Working in the Design, Project Management and Construction team, I prepared construction cost estimates and bids, and worked with design consultant team to ensure the design developed within budget. I also worked on many large scale development deals where I worked closely with the finance team to develop and input into the financial model. Took a pro-active lead in improving systems, process, tools and benchmarking databases – many of which are still used by the Cost Planning team to this day.

Graduate Diploma, Business Systems

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Quantity Surveying, Distinction