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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Head of Engineering and Software Development.- Design and develop cutting edge products and features for the global market.- Spearhead the Product Development Portfolio of the business. - Software and Hardware product delivery.

Melbourne, Australia

- Managing the in-house software development team and its functions.- Task prioritisation of the software development team as well as the wider operations team (where required) during the day to day business management.- Ensure software and hardware projects are delivered on time and on budget.- Product owner of the software and hardware development road map.- Resource allocation to ensure that all business operations are prioritised and executed smoothly based on client and business requirements.- Identify and address problems and opportunities for the business.- Build long term relationships with clients. Heathrow Airport, Melbourne Airport, Bunnings, Perth Airport, Northern Territory Government, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services are some of the most iconic clients that I have had the privilege of working over the last few years.- Working with Senior Management to achieve strategic objectives/goals as well as day to day business operations.- Function as the Senior Agile Business Analyst within the organisation for requirements management and documentation.- Function as the Solutions Architect of the company to formulate software, hardware, and process solutions to client business problems through industry expertise, team effort, and collaboration.- Conflict resolution between internal and external clients.- Provide daily, weekly and monthly reports as required for senior management.- Deliver training to internal and external clients.- Manage large scale projects when required.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

- Requirements elicitation to understand business needs.- Provide solutions to complex issues raised by customers. Solutions provided vary from software enhancements, business process optimisations, hardware solutions, and IT infrastructure upgrades.- Design software solutions to best achieve stakeholder needs while streamlining all custom software developments with the organisational product development road map.- Consult customers on understanding their business needs, potential solution options, expected Return of Investment (ROI), and risk identification and mitigation throughout the project lifetime.- Compile document artifacts such as functional specifications, technical specifications, release notes, user manuals, and quick reference guides (cheat sheets).- Create business cases for internal and external clients to get project approval and sponsorship to introduce change to organisations. - Provide software training to internal and external users.- User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production Verification Testing (PVT) to ensure that new software is built for customer requirements and industry standards.- Review test cases and scripts to better direct the quality assurance team in testing system functionality.- Perform data querying and analysis using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (MSSMS) for reporting and issue analysis.- Function as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on software solutions, Business Processes, and Sensor Dynamics products.- Involvement in agile methodology best practices.- Extensive experience on Atlassian products such as Jira, Jira HelpDesk, and Confluence including administration expertise.- 3rd level technical and business support for the Service Desk Team.- Extensive involvement in sales-related activities such as estimates, RFQs, RFPs, tenders, sales presentations, demos, etc.

Melbourne, Australia

- Functional and Non- Functional Requirements analysis on OSCA retail and manufacturing software platform migration- Spearheading the re-launch of the OSCA retail website and associated business strategy formulation, requirements elicitation and requirements tracking- Owning Business documentation such as Business Requirements Specifications, Traceability Matrices, User/ Quick Reference guides, project timelines, and Q&As.- Managing internal stakeholders, third party technology vendors and retail/ manufacturing clients- Operating systems platform migration

Malabe, Sri Lanka

I have been the primary Business Analyst for the MillenniumIT LSEG Client Support Group at certain time periods handling clients, managing trading system/domain issues and assisting in implementing trading system solutions for the following venues :- London Stock Exchange- Oslo Bors Stock Exchange (The Norwegian Stock Exchange)- Borsa Italiana (Italian Stock Exchange)- EuroTLX- Turquoise MTFRoles and Responsibilities :* Handling client trading system and domain queries while providing root cause analysis on Millennium Exchange system issues.* Coordinating with LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) clients to identify and elicit business requirements through in-depth analysis and liaising with internal system development teams to assess the ways in which the requirements can be best achieved and providing alternative solutions where required. * Business Requirements documentation to capture client requirements and achieving key stakeholder sign-off to commence implementation.* Benchmarking and analysis on the current Millennium Exchange systems to propose new functionality and updating current artifacts to remove knowledge gaps and documentation ambiguity.* Review of test cases and scenarios proposed by the internal Quality Assurance team to ensure that the client requirements are tested in-depth. Thus leading to a better quality software end product.* BA testing on newly developed functionality and enhancements to ensure that all client requirements as per the signed-off business requirements specifications has been met.* Collaboration with the project management team and LSEG clients to set project deadlines and delivery schedules. * Working as an agile business analyst in the internal agile based development team.Being part of the London Stock Exchange Group with MillenniumIT gives me a great platform to imprint my career with a great deal of knowledge on Capital Markets and Exchanges all across the globe.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Having worked as a Business Consultant at Virtusa Pvt Ltd gave me the best foundation for my career on Business Analysis and Strategic thinking.Some of the Job Responsibilities carried out:* Handling direct clients & client’s business users for possible system enhancements, root cause analysis for system issues, Triage decision making on releases.* Benchmarking of industry competitors for more accurate requirements elicitation.* Business Analysis documentation and Artifacts handling including FRD, MDD, RTM, Q&A, BA estimations, etc.* Facilitating Requirements clarification sessions and training demos on new value added service designed and implemented.The Project based service augmented work environment at Virtusa gave me the privilege to work with some of the most reputed brand names in both Global and Local markets : • Markel Global Insurance• International Aero Engines (United Technology Corp.)• Sri Lankan Airlines• Citi Group • Peoples Bank

Bandar Utama, Malaysia

Main role task was to build an Online Learning portal(CMS) to aid the training programs and upgrading the company existing website for better performance and fucntionalities.Was involved as a Facilitator for the Training and Consultancy service sessions conducted by the Company to the clients.

Selangor, Malaysia

worked as a Free Lance software developer for this company. worked on PHP and Yahoo YUI componants.

Bachelor Of Science In Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Second Upper (2.1)

Activities and Societies: Students Council - Technical Member

Ncc International Diploma In Computer Studies, Computer Science And Information Technology

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