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Adelaide South Australia Australia

The iSAFE and End to End Case Management Program is a major business transformation initiative for the Department of Correctional Services. It aims to replace a legacy system and also redesign the current DCS case management practices. It includes both the custodial and Community Corrections areas of DCS. Key Responsibilities:• Establish standards and a methodology for the Business Analysis team.• Lead a team of Business Analysts and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).• Produce As-Is process maps for procurement documentation.• Produce As-Is and To-Be process maps in preparation for a Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) implementation.

Adelaide, Australia

The SA Housing Authority provides housing strategy, asset management and service delivery functions for homeless and vulnerable people. The Business System Transformation Program is a major IT initiative to replace up to 38 core legacy applications. A commercial off the shelf product – Northgate Public Services is selected to provide a core housing management system.Key Responsibilities:- Review vendor responses to the Request for Tender documentation.- Develop “To Be” (future) processes for key areas of business transformation in the Asset area using the Sparx Enterprise Architecture tool. Includes defining business requirements and rules, identification of business stakeholders, and key entities and attributes.- Present “To Be” processes produced by Sparx Enterprise Archtiecture to the broader IT team.- Participate in solution design workshops with the vendor.- Develop configuration design specifications for the product.Achievements:- “To Be” processes successfully completed with business acceptance.- Currently developing configuration design specifications for the product.

Role: Senior Business Analyst The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is the national professional body responsible for collecting, managing, analyzing and communicating research and statistics on the Australian vocational education and training sector. The IT project involves a large data warehousing solution, with a custom-built application to manage the data collections.Key Responsibilities:- Run user workshops to elicit business requirements.- Define new standards and template to capture user requirements and system design.- Produce system requirements and design documentation.- Present solution designs to clients and IT project team.Achievements:- All deliverables produced on time and with client acceptance.- First assigned deliverable had a tight deadline and required rapid understanding of both the business and a partially completed system. Deliverable completed on time.

Adelaide, Australia

The Matrix Group is implementing a package to manage bulk commodities for a large Storage and Handling client.Key Responsibilities:- Participate in user workshops to perform a gap analysis between the “BULKmetrics Commodity” (BMC) package and the business requirements for a large grain Storage and Handling client.- Document the gap analysis for project scoping and costing purposes.- Produce System Requirements for modifications using the “Agile” methodology. Present requirements to clients for sign off.- Produce Design documentation for modifications.

Adelaide, Australia

Role: Business Analyst/Project Manager (part-time) 2010 - 2013Key Responsibilities:- Produce business cases for a number of new IT initiatives.- Define Business Requirements for “Grower Statements”. This is a statement sent to every grower in Viterra Australia. Co-ordinate work with other impacting IT projects.- Develop and lead Business Analysis (BA) workshops to adapt a Canadian BA methodology for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) requirements.Role: Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture (EA) Group 2007 - 2008Key Responsibilities:- Develop EA principles and framework.- Assess IT investments against the EA principles.- Co-ordinate and develop business process maps (“As Is”) for the enterprise on an ERP project.- Represent the EA Group on an ERP project.Project: Automation of Movements (AoM) Role: Lead Business Analyst2005 - 2007Key Responsibilities:- Develop a business case to initiate the project.- Lead the business process re-engineering (BPR), analysis and design phases.- Key liaison person between the business and technical team.- Mentor junior Analysts.

Melbourne, Australia

(Maiden name was Debra Sternberg)Career Highlights:- Led a team to complete change and implementation activities for a large retailer implementing an Enterprise Data Warehouse (role: Implementation/Change Manager).- Developed a strategy for the “To Be” Human Resources environment for the Department of Defence (Management Information Domain Integration Plan) (role: Strategy Analyst).- Business Development for a number of government tenders (role: Lead Business Analyst).- Produced a Training Strategy for data warehouse implementations for the Department of Defence (Defence Materiel Organisation Data Warehouse Initiative) (role: Training Analyst).- Defined high-level system requirements for an internal Human Resources Global Coaching project for Asia Pacific (role: Business Analyst).

Melbourne, Australia

(Maiden name was Debra Sternberg)Career Highlights:- Led a team to integrate a (US) Court Case Management package together with a custom Court Orders and Electronic Filing systems into the Victorian Department of Justice, County Court and Magistrates Courts (role: Team Leader). The Court Case Management system was delivered on time and on budget.- Developed a custom Financial Planning system for a large financial company (roles: Team Leader, Business Analyst and Designer).- Developed a custom Property Purchase and Sale system for the Victorian Department of Human Services (role: Project Manager). This system won a Government Technology Productivity Award in 2000.- Developed a custom Legislative Document Management system for the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet (role: Analyst).- Developed a custom School Administration system for an education organisation (roles: Project Manager, Analyst/Programmer).- Evaluated an in-house developed accounting system for Melbourne University. Subsently re-developed parts of this system (role: Analyst/Programmer).- Developed a custom investment system for a large financial company (role: Analyst/Pgrammer).