Greg Maddison Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Successfully delivered multiple multi-million pound projects for HP primarily involving complex enterprise class computer systems hosted in one or more data centres. Experience and technologies include:- Creation of interfaces with banks from client enterprise systems and implementation of associated back-end solution to support them.- Delivering major.

• Responsibilities included:
• Creating Implementation schedules for creation of Performance Test, Operational Acceptance test and Production environments.
• Creation of Project Implementation Strategy and Plan documentation.
• Creation of Regression Plan and Schedule
• Assisting the project manager through the test life cycle and managing defect resolution/retest.
• Managing the implementation activities of all environments and assuring they are fit for purpose.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities included:
• Liaising with business clients (CSA) to produce requirements and design solutions that match their business needs.
• Producing and maintaining functional and technical design specifications.
• Analysing reported live and testing defects and drawing up appropriate solutions & data cleanses as required.
• Reviewing testing scripts and providing advice where required to ensure testing is as efficient and effective as possible.
• Reviewing internal code specifications created by the development department to ensure the code will deliver the required functionality effectively and with minimal processing overhead.

London

• Senstone PLC was a new company based in London dealing with providing legal, accountancy and mortgage services to council house tenants throughout the UK to enable them to buy their homes from their local Councils.
• Perform Process and Data Modeling of the existing business.
• Gather and document business requirements for data storage and report writing.
• Produce a functional specification including Use-Cases for proposed system.
• Produce a Re-engineered Business Process flow diagram.
• Produce a logical/physical design for a new database schema.

London, United Kingdom

• Kprime Ltd provides global on-line graduate recruitment services to blue chip clients. I left Kprime due to adverse market conditions forcing staff cutbacks. It was a senior level role in which I reported directly to.
• Drawing up, documenting and disseminating corporate policy in accordance with BS 7799 standards.
• Analysing existing business processes and recommending process improvements to the CEO.
• Ensuring technical infrastructure meets the requirements of the business.
• Gathering user requirements and defining reports for international Deutsche Bank HR departments.
• Ensuring fault free operation of internal and external IT systems to provide uninterrupted service provision to clients.

Greater New York City Area

• Working within a consultancy role for Bear Stearns at their New York Headquarters, I was given free reign to work with the Bear Stearns Equity IT department to identify problem areas and provide support and assistance.
• Creating formal documentation relating to the software under development in the form of functional and technical specifications.
• Creating documented testing method and organising the team into discrete testing teams with responsibility for testing functional areas.
• Creating internal QA procedure whereby faults could be logged and graded by priority for fixes.
• Performing User Acceptance Testing with Research Analysts and documenting user feedback.
• Creating Process and Data models of existing Bear Stearns Equity departments as part of a planned enterprise wide CRM implementation.

London, United Kingdom

• Momentus was an IT consultancy, which provided both strategic consultancy and I.T. development to a wide range of companies across different market sectors. I have full project lifecycle experience from initial.
• Head of e-Technology Services (eTS) which is the IT department within Momentus.
• Consultancy role to clients advising them on available technologies and the associated benefits of different technical architectures in relation to identified business goals.
• Senior Business Analyst (ascertaining clients business and functional requirements)
• Technical Analyst in charge of development of project technical specifications (Visio 4)
• Project Manager for development projects. This requires being a main point of contact with the client, creation of a project plan, allocating resources and organising the workload of the project team. (MS Project)

• This business analyst position utilised and developed my client facing, analysis and technical skillsets in a varied and challenging role.
• Business Architect responsible for interviewing medium to senior level management and subsequent creation of business process and logical/physical data flow diagrams of the UK finance department across several.
• Data structure designer/developer (Oracle Designer 2000, Oracle 7.3, PLSQL) for creation of a meta-data repository to hold the data gathered from the interviews held with management.
• Site project analyst Team Leader
• Departmental intranet designer/developer (HTML, Frontpage 98, Javascript, Paintshop Pro 5.0, MSOffice97)

• Responsibilities included:
• Sole Analyst for Operational Accounting. This role required analysis of suspected faults within the system reported via several layers of helpdesk and application expert support personnel. As the ‘last line of defense’.
• Sole Analyst for the Debt Management System. Same role as above.
• Sole Designer for Operational Accounting. This required solutions to known problems to be created and detailed functional specifications to document the solutions to be drawn up. Alternatively, when a new release of.
• Sole Designer for the Debt Management System. Same role as above.

Master Of Science, Computing

Project Dissertation: “The integration of Object-Oriented analysis and design techniques within SSADM version 4.”

Ba (Hons), English Literature