Vanessa Evans Email & Phone Number

Redhill, England, United Kingdom

• A broad and varied role encompassing all aspects of student data.
• Responsible for the management of student records, timetable, academic promotion, assessment data and reports within the school’s Management Information System (SIMS/Go4Schools, then Arbor).
• Processing of in year and Year 7 admissions, leavers and free school meal applications.
• Provision of ad-hoc data analysis and reports for middle and senior leaders.
• Completion of school census three times a year.
• Successful completion of ESFA audit.

• Accredited coach at Practitioner level with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
• Coach individuals on a variety of topics, including career development, dealing with change and uncertainty, improving relationships and developing strategies for dealing with behaviour.
• Raise awareness and generate responsibility in the individual, enabling goals to be achieved and performance to be raised, benefitting both the individual and the organisation.

• End to end test management of releases, leading teams undertaking all required testing activities and co-ordinating to a successful conclusion. Line management responsibility for permanent and contract staff, helping.
• Accountable for the end-to-end test management of Visa Europe’s card authorisation service, which maintained it’s 99.999% availability throughout.
• Took over the test management of the business intelligence service, initiating a programme of improvements which led to higher quality deliverables and satisfied stakeholders.
• Led teams delivering the system testing, systems integration testing and business acceptance testing for parallel, complex releases and standalone projects in often challenging circumstances, using skills developed as.
• Built cohesive and successful teams including a mix of permanent and contract resource - both independent contractors and those provided by strategic suppliers, onshore and offshore. Good communication and working as.
• Delivery of departmental strategic initiatives, including Risk Based Testing and a more consistent approach to line management

• Link between business and IT, enabling key business objectives to be achieved through defining the technical requirements to meet the business need and testing them once delivered.
• Responsible for the User Acceptance Testing of new releases of the billing system and its integration with other IT systems.
• Acted as a link between the business and system suppliers, translating business requirements into system requirements.
• Effective communication was essential; being able to explain business requirements to technical staff and technical changes to business colleagues.

Led a team testing an Anti-Money Laundering system, including management of offshore resources

• Led a team undertaking the functional testing of a roaming billing system for the new Mobile market
• Successfully developed and delivered a test strategy using the GSM TAP3 standard and then transitioned testing to an offshore team, maintaining quality
• In addition to test management, also undertook hands on functional & regression testing (Unix scripts / C platform, Rational ClearDDTS defect tracking), building test environments (Rational Clearcase configuration.
• Influenced developers to improve the quality and quantity of unit testing

• Worked as an Analyst/Programmer for 4 years including running the customer help desk, before heading up the test team.
• Undertook a range of programming tasks including developing new functionality and fixing bugs logged via in-house defect tracking system (Progress 4GL)
• Worked directly with customers through site visits and co-ordination of support desk, developing excellent communication and customer service skills to understand customer issues and find a resolution.
• Preparation of release documentation.
• Responsible for testing all functional changes, plus regression testing, including Y2K testing.
• Built an effective test team by training and mentoring new starters who had business but no prior testing experience (Unix / NT, Oracle & Progress).