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Ruislip, North London

Continuing with all my previous Business Analysis responsibilities, I also now manage a team within the department. Involves the monitoring and reviewing of work, mentoring and training where necessary plus other HR responsibilities of a direct line report.

Wembley, London

Working as part of the business analyst team at SintecMedia (formally Pilat Media) to help faciliate the integration of two of SintecMedia's market leading broadcast management software systems, (OnAir and IBMS), into their clients business processes.

Tower Bridge, London

Business Analyst / Consultant looking to drive the efficient use of technology within the company internally and in the client account management.

Liverpool Street, London

Having started as software developer at the outset of Code, I have since been, amongst other things, senior software developer, team leader, project manager, development director / business analyst. My last role was as a client consultant, helping my clients develop, enhance and maintain their technology led marketing systems.Working within the media/marketing industry being the client liaison/business analyst I help support the client and facilitate the enhancement or new production of their marketing S/W systems.Overview of Experience:- An IT development professional with more than 16 years software development experience gained during a career where achievements have been recognised through continual promotion, culminating in the role of Senior Business Analyst / Client Consultant whilst also in recent past having managed the development department.:- Led face to face meetings with clients to gather requirements, created business and functional level documentation (user journeys, use cases, wireframes, workflow diagrams etc) and briefed these into the development teams, running regular review sessions to ensure functionality being delivered matched requirement.:- A proven ability to communicate effectively between senior stakeholders and multi disciplinary IT teams, including offshore (Ukraine, Australia, US), using Iterative and Waterfall methodologies. :- Experience of successfully delivering enterprise solutions with a focus on quality, and innovation. A well rounded, delivery focused, functional IT professional that can interact with fellow practitioners (BA, PM, Developers and QA) and clients at all levels, understanding the key client business processes and the part that IT can have in delivering real results:- Guided the Project Management team when designing deliverable milestones of work into Sprints and realistically achievable goals. This enabled incremental development of the systems able to be tracked more closely.

Part of the development team creating the Chrysler and Mercedes Benz local dealer marketing systems incorporating online creation of marketing press advertising and automatic trafficking of the ads to the publications.Part of the development team creating an online bespoke advertising creation system for Royal Mail customers. This allowed users to create direct mail solutions, menus, letters, press advertisements based on a set of approved templates.Development lead on an online, internal course booking system for the legal industry.

Team leader and senior developer on the Bestseller system – a stock control, ordering and reporting system for the book and publishing trade. Project manager and team lead on various internet and e-commerce systems including Bookpages.co.uk, the precursor to Amazon.co.uk, Viglen.co.uk, LastMinute.com and Froglet.co.uk.

2:1 Bachelor Of Science, Electronic, Computer And Systems Eng

9 O'Levels And 3 A'Levels, Maths & Mechanics, Physics & Computer Studies

Activities and Societies: School Head Prefect, Captain of the School 1st XI Rugby Team, Camping and Walking Society