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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Over twenty years consultancy experience working in multi-discipline teams to consistently deliver projects for blue chip clients in Retail/Manufacturing, Finance, Media, Telecommunications, Travel, Energy, Recruitment and Public Sector markets.Providing the following skills in software development projects:-Business Analysis: - requirements engineering, functional specification writing, workshop facilitation, creation of governance models and processes, backlog creation and curation (JIRA, Rally, DevOps),Business Process Mapping - Facilitation and capture of business processesDefining business transformation strategies: - Working with clients to create strategic road-maps and business casesMobile Profiling: - Workshops and interviews to ascertain a client’s current position within a mobile maturity model. Creating business cases for adoption of new mobile technologies and collaborative ways of working Project Management: - using PRINCE2 and Agile management methodologies (SCRUM).Consulting business analyst partner with Concrete Poetry Ltd

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Working on digital strategy and SDLC projects utilising requirements gathering, process engineering and organisational change skills.Built a team of business analysts, through recruitment, leading to a team that reported to me.Highlights: -Creation of a digital strategy encompassing e-commerce, operational efficiencies and knowledge sharing elements. Provisioning a roadmap of tactical projects with technical, procedural and cultural capabilities. Leading to an in depth multi channel ecommerce strategy.Delivery of a global intranet using SharePoint 2013 Online, providing requirements elicitation, backlog creation and management, acceptance criteria formulation, stakeholder analysis. Leading to improved global communications, divisional collaboration through communities, document management and enhanced search capabilities.Provided consultancy around the selection of a CRM vendor, requirements elicitation and management, creation of a RFP document for vendor input, response correlation and analysis, vendor analysis and recommendation delivery.

London, United Kingdom

Conchango was bought by EMC Consulting in early 2009Worked primarily on application development projects (.NET) and organisational change projects. Using requirements engineering skills to capture, develop and deliver projects through Agile methodologies. Liaised with senior product owners to elaborate and support user story creation, working with off shore development teams to deliver innovative applications that provided true business benefit.

Egham

Provide business analysis and strategic information management services for blue chip clients in the Retail, Finance, Media, Energy and Recruitment markets. Specialising in understanding clients requirements and working with development teams to build and deliver collaborative solutions. Worked with both waterfall and agile project methodologies providing requirements in functional requirements documentation and product backlogs to suit the client and methodology for the project.I have a lot of experience in delivering intranets and extranets using Microsoft SharePoint Server technologies, content management systems (CMS), including Interwoven, Tridion, Microsoft Content Management Server and Sitecore. I have also worked on strategic projects related to mobile technology usage, through the use of interviews and workshops to profile different roles within organisations and how they use their current mobile offerings and how this could be improved.I have worked with retail clients in the introduction and use of Microsoft commerce server.

Aylesbury

Worked at Rothman's International IT centre in Aylesbury proving network support services across the global wide area network.Worked on the Y2K program delivering upgraded hardware and operating systems to the Banyan Vines servers across the enterprise. Worked in Cyprus and Jersey providing Y2K upgrades and provisioning IT network services and hardware for a new Rothman's office in Cyprus.Carried out monthly updates of antivirus software to all Banyan Vines servers in the enterprise worldwide.

Sensory Scientist, providing data analysis via Excel and SAS statistical software to conduct analysis of variants on product data. Working with UNIX workstations to carry out computations and deliver reports.Trained in the use of laser diffraction technologies, and sensory evaluation testing methodsCarried out timesheet analysis for researchers and scientists delivering weekly reports to R&D director.Provided desktop support covering Microsoft Office, Beyond Mail and statistical applications.