Senior Applications Analyst
CurrentWorking as part of the System Support team in the Information Technology department at the City of Nanaimo, I directly or collaboratively participate in the following activities:- Determine user needs and make recommendations regarding development, implementation, alterations or refinement of business applications to meet City requirements. - Develop, coordinate and perform work on a variety of projects concurrently. - Develop project specifications, provide accurate project timelines, assess and monitor project tasks and deliverables, provide technical guidance and coordinate work of project staff. Identify solutions to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and address demands and public expectations. - Maintains high level vendor relations.Provide support to clients and system staff by identifying problems with system software components, primarily as they relate to application programming and business application upgrades and enhancements, and secondly to general operational needs. - Refine issue priorities and implement timely solutions to resolve day-to-day operational problems. - Prepare presentation-quality documentation and user instructions for business applications. Write systems policies and procedures for management of corporate data and business applications.- Develop documents and maintain standards for the storage, retrieval and interoperability of data. - Develop training materials and training delivery for established applications and also for new applications as a function of project delivery.