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Part time contributor writing reviews, previews, event reports, interviews, opinion pieces, news items and retrospectives. Also covering esports with a weekly Rocket League column. Stevivor was awarded "Best Esports Coverage" at the 2018 Esports Pro Awards and is a multi-time finalist at the Australian IT Journalism Awards for "Best Gaming Coverage" and "Best Independent Media" including a Highly Commended in the latter category in 2016.

Senior business analyst building requirements and overseeing the SDLC for a variety of digital projects. Formerly known as Isobar Australia until June 2021.

Contract position for a data migration project, building methodology, process and validation for migration of critical content with high accuracy requirements under strict time frames.

Skills developed in this role include:* Working in an Agile environment (Scrum and Kanban) in Business Analyst and Scrum Master roles.* Working within all stages of the SDLC from concept through requirements, development and testing.* Eliciting requirements through stakeholder and customer engagement, data analysis and research.* Gathering and writing user stories.* Writing business, technical and functional requirements.* Facilitating daily scrums, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning and user story grooming sessions.* Stakeholder communication and relationship management across multiple business units and regions.* Managing delivery timeframes and calculating sprint velocity.* Developing and implementing test plans for UAT.* Writing user documentation, and organising and running user training.Project History and Achievements* Business Analyst/Product Owner for a new editorial system used across Asia Pacific, migrating multiple business units' workflows into a single editorial process by re-engineering content conversion and publication systems. Requirements and user story grooming were praised by developers for their thoroughness and consideration of their needs and limitations.* Business Analyst and Scrum Master for a content and workflow management system that increased the speed, volume and automation of content production. * Business Analyst for a large content migration project, with Pacific the first business unit to migrate to a new global online platform. Responsible for several content streams as well as onboarding fellow BAs in parallel streams.

Skills developed in this role include analysis and understanding of processes and code, developing tools and workflows for content management, adapting knowledge to one off projects and gathering and analysing metrics.*Responsible for maintaining daily updates of court judgments to Pacific online platform.*Developed, maintained and enhanced editorial tools used by a team of 10+ editors in VBA, Perl and Omnimark. *Implemented several new content streams, one off projects to add legacy content, modifications to existing processes to ensure continued support and provided cross team assistance in technical matters.

Skills developed in this role include creating and implementing test plans, supporting less technical minded users with clear explanations and instructions, creating documentation and providing training for new starters.

Skills developed include analysis and presentation of a large variety of data, creation of templates for data collection, working with small teams to plan and execute data surveys.