Martin Sinclair Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Farnham, England, United Kingdom

Farnham

Southampton, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Heathrow, London

Agile business analyst engagement

Bracknell

Woking

Business Analyst role focused on providing general analysis for Racing and Automotive companies; responsible for working with key business stakeholders to understand their requirements and produce Business Requirements Documentation.• Worked to ensure that the required system changes could be made to move from single model to multi-model/multi variant in support of the release of the 650s supercar. Also worked with third party to manage requirements for a new vehicle configurator.• Sole business analyst working within IT for all non-SAP related projects which covered a wide variety of business areas. Role required working with key stakeholders to produce business and functional requirement specifications and supporting development and testing activities.• Large variety of projects covering Financial Reporting and Revenue Recognition, Sharing Confidential Patent Information and Certification and Legislative Compliance through to installation of F1 gearbox testing dyno• E-commerce projects included introducing Gift Messages and Loyalty Rewards on the McLaren merchandising website and also the integration with Amazon and eBay stores to allow product merchandised from a single system called Netsuite.• Production of the PLM Roadmap analysis involved interviews with 30 key business stakeholders to produce a Business Review Document identifying strengths and weaknesses and helping the understand the challenges in supporting the rapid growth of the Automotive in production and complexity.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Business Analyst role focused on the development of the ATG Platform, working as the co-ordinator between business stakeholders and off-shore development teams. The development forms part of the Darwin project to re-develop DIY.COM and provide an integrated multi-channel retailing base. Project was cancelled due to a strategic change shortly after the start of the contract.• Used Agile methodology as part of an iteration stream to manage requirements, including daily stand-ups, breakdown sessions and bi-weekly iterations.• Wrote and managed User Stories and Acceptance Criteria using Rally (Requirements Management Software).• Worked with Testers to create test scenarios using Fitnesse for acceptance testing, re-usable test data and automated testing.

• As-Is process documentation for Surfacing and Glazing Laboratories providing a standardised view to assess process change when delivering a single solution to different supply chain sites.• Analyst on Enterprise Content Management project to centralise document storage across all IT and Commercial project teams. In co-ordination with the PMO to agree standard practice for the production of project documentation and artefacts ensuring that the information is available to those who require it, supporting both the project and the product’s life post implementation.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Main role was to manage the gathering of requirements, working with senior management to support projects from inception to delivery. Responsible for producing documentation according to the stages of the project lifecycle; this would be vary from estimation and analysing business benefits when projects were conceived through to Functional Requirements Specifications and Post Implementation Reviews. Also performed as the Project Manager, when required, to manage cost reporting, project plans and resource allocation.• E-commerce projects included supporting various changes to flybe.com website and co-ordinating changes to operational procedures at airports.• Work included developing process changes affecting airport and airline operations and complex product attributes that needed to be clearly understood by the customer when using the site to purchase, amend and check-in for travel.• Lead Analyst on Finncomm Airlines acquisition, working with business, operational and technical teams from within Flybe, Finnair and Finncomm to ensure that the transition was seamless and did not impact on existing customers and flight operations. This was achieved successfully to tight timescales, during the Finnish main holiday period with changes impacting all three airlines.• Activities in the role included running workshops, site visits, process observation and analysis, product and change demonstrations, product evaluation, impact analysis, wire framing and UI mock-ups, stakeholder engagement and senior management communications.

Taunton, United Kingdom

Lead Business Analyst covering the Finance and Administration systems. A major element of the role was to support a significant program to replace the Finance systems. This involved Implemented new General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable systems using CODA products.• Managed deployment of the various modules working with business users to redevelop existing processes in line with the available functionality.• Analysed functional differences between the web based and client based versions of the applications and applied web content customisations to add bespoke designs to match to the requirements of the Finance users.• Responsible for managing contractor Business Analyst resource, ensuring work was produced to internal standards and specifications.• Provided on-going system support, problem solving and co-ordination between financial teams ensuring that the impact of changes were analysed and understood. Also supported system upgrades, generated companywide communications and managed the Change Control process.• Performed as Project Manager for specific projects and had to co-ordinate an internal development team, provide project plan and regular project status reporting. Reporting had to track project times to agreed baselines and also development costs as these were capitalised.

London, United Kingdom

Performed as a member of the Alternative Shopping Channels team, which was set-up to look at new retail opportunities using technology from websites to digital TV. The major delivery was re-developing the main Debenhams website. This required a complete re-engineering from new integrated software to new hardware hosted in a secure site, working with Conchango; a 3rd party development house. This delivered the first transactional website for Debenhams which linked to retail operations and warehouse stock controls.• Produced Functional Specification Documentation including screen wireframes to demonstrate website functionality and page navigation.• Worked with 3rd party developers to develop website functionality and also participated in several months of on-site testing.• Worked directly with key business users to determine functional requirements at a time when the web development was in early stages and had yet to set generally accepted standards and was using new technology.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

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