Joao G Silva Email & Phone Number

Portugal

Experienced Business Analyst delivering SaaS Retail Consulting and Analytics ServicesSupporting Traffic, Loss Prevention, Inventory IntelligenceLead SME for TrueVUE Cloud SaaS Solution

São João Da Madeira, Aveiro, Portugal

Senior Business Analyst delivering RFID Inventory Intelligence solutions for the Fashion Retail Market

Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Lead BA in the Oracle Retail Finance Release, delivering a custom-built OReIM solution to the Business.- Responsible for Business Engagement, Facilitation and Review of Requirements, Designs, Change Requests, Test Results and Training materials.Lead BA in a multi-year, multi-release Agile project, deploying a bespoke IT solution to the Buying Community- Responsible for Requirements Capture, Functional Design, Product Backlog Review and Maintenance, Testing, End User Training and Level 2 Support- Planning and managing day-to-day activities of the BA team- Acting as a Deputy Product OwnerOff-project activities- Volunteer on the Workforce groups for the standardization of BA Plan and Agile methodology documentation

Watford, United Kingdom

Main BA in a multi-year, multi-release Agile project, deploying a bespoke IT solution to the Buying Community- Responsible for Requirements Capture, Functional Design, Product Backlog Review and Maintenance, Testing, End User Training and Hypercare Level 2 SupportOff-project activities- Club officer in the Toastmasters Corporate Club acting as a Treasurer - responsible for yearly budget tracking, payments and member enrolment- Active participation and progress made against the Speech and Leadership courses

United Kin

Providing onsite BA consultancy services to Morrisons, during Oracle Retail implementation across multiple releases.

Porto Area, Portugal

• After a successful internship, promoted to a full-time Systems Analyst, providing Oracle retail consultancy for an Italian client (retailer DeSPAR) both onsite and offshore, to support development of custom solutions to their existing Oracle Retail solution• Supported different projects, such as one with the DataWarehouse team, using my analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to support their development• From a technical point of view I worked mainly with the following development/productivity tools: PL/SQL Developer, Oracle Forms, Pro*C, Crontab, HP-UX shell, CVS Version Management, MS Office and Visio, Oracle 10g and RMS 8.0;• From a functional point of view, I worked with processes regarding merchandising - purchase orders and inventories.

Porto Area, Portugal

• As part of my academic plan, I developed my final university report during the internship at Wipro Retail, which consisted on the development of a custom Oracle Retail batch process to execute fiscal calculations related with the devaluation of stocks for Financial Reporting (IFRS) purposes. The optimization of the process allowed them to run in a few hours a time-consuming process that would usually take some days by manual methods (usually involving spreadsheets). • Also supported other ongoing projects involving the design, development and testing of Oracle Retail Forms, Database Objects and Batch Processes;

Bradford, United Kingdom

Supporting the multi-year Oracle Retail v13 implementation across multiple releases and various business areas such as: - Reviewing, Supporting development and Testing RMS Foundation Data supporting the Buying and Merchandising Teams - Driving an efficient delivery of the Data Migration and Rationalization processes between Legacy Mainframe Systems and Oracle Retail - Lead BA on the RMS Finance release, responsible for Business engagement, Design and Business Process Reviews with the Finance team focusing on Stock Ledger and Supplier Deals

5-Year Degree, Systems Engineering And Computer Science – Systems Branch

Activities and Societies: JOIN2005 and JOIN2006 (IT conferences with international speakers) at Universidade do Minho; TeIA2006 (Debate.

High School, General Studies