Jake Ashby Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, Sa, Au

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

As the Senior Business Analyst for the City of Adelaide, I am responsible for collaborating with a variety of stakeholders to help deliver solutions that are fit-for-purpose, cost-effective and customer-centric.Apart from project deliverables, I am also responsible for leading and establishing the Business Analysis Centre of Excellence practice. The practice aims to build the internal capability through the standardisation of documentation, building an understanding of the BABOK and developing the skills and tools required to help achieve business and strategic outcomes.

Adelaide

Ashby Capital Pty Ltd is a proprietary trading firm based in Adelaide, South Australia. The firm primarily trades equities on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).As the Director and proprietor of Ashby Capital Pty Ltd, I am solely responsible for market and company research, trade planning, risk management and trade execution.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide, Australia

I am currently employed as a Consultant for Chamonix IT Consulting, specialising in business analysis. As a Consultant my responsibilities are:- Identifying and recommending solutions that will help organisations reach their organisational goals.- Developing and nurturing meaningful relationships to develop an in-depth understanding of the challenges and opportunities that exist within an organisation.- Collaborating with my colleagues to build capability within the team.- Producing technical and non-technical artefacts such as; functional specifications, traceability matrices, process maps, user acceptance plans and change requests.

Adelaide, Australia

I am currently contracted as a Technical Business Analyst on two Internet of Things (IoT) projects at the City of Adelaide Council. The two projects will completely transform how customers interact with the City of Adelaide and will provide new data which will help inform future decision making.The key benefits of the project include:- The introduction of new channels for customers to conduct business with the City of Adelaide Council.- An improved customer experience through self-service capability.- Streamlining current BAU activities which will reduce several hours spent on administration.- The introduction of reporting and dashboards which enable Council to make informed decisions.- Simplification of the technical landscape and removal of several legacy systems.- Automation of several manual accounting and reconciliation processes.As the Technical Business Analyst, I was responsible for:- Coordinating elicitation activities such as workshops, brainstorming, document and interface analysis.- Eliciting functional and non-functional requirements and producing a functional specification.- Documenting as-is and to-be business process maps, interface diagrams and solution matrices.- Managing requirements and the document approval process by organising review sessions and assisting in the sign-off process.- Producing a requirements traceability matrix and assisting in the prioritisation and design of test cases.

Adelaide, Australia

As a Solution Designer / Systems Analyst in the Application Delivery, Compliance team in the Adelaide Delivery Centre, I was a key stakeholder in several compliance initiatives.My core responsibilities included: • Developing end-to-end solutions using Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid development methodologies. • Assisting in the development and elicitation of business requirements for new legislation and programmes. • Producing technical artefacts such as: User Specifications, Functional Specifications, Page Flow Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams, Unified Modelling Language (UML) Diagrams, Business Process Management and Notation (BPMN) diagrams. • Building rapport and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to conduct Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, Workshops, Deep-dives, Showcases and stand-ups. • Using tools such as JIRA, HP Application Lifecycle Manager and Quality Centre to support the ITIL methodology within the Department. • Identify new products, services or training that will support better outcomes for the project and the team. Achievements: • Lead analyst for a large-scale project that empowered vulnerable Australians to access an online application to seek monetary and counselling services.• Integral member in a compliance based application that successfully recovered millions of dollars.• Produced an innovative solution for the CIO wearable challenge and showcased it at the Caroline Chisholm Centre in Canberra.• Nominated for the Australian Computer Society (ACS) ICT Student of the Year award. • Attained certification in ITIL, SAP CRM and Business Systems Analysis.