Resume

A highly motivated, consultant Business Analyst with a long freelancing history of multiple contract extensions and repeat visits to the same prestigious clients.

Provides a professional link between the Business and the IT development teams to create IT business solutions using core BA techniques, excellent inter-personal, documentation and presentational skills. (Click for examples of MS Word with embedded Visio)

Ambitious, self-starter, can-do attitude, challenge not problem attitude, used to responsibility, working under pressure, tight timescales and achieving milestones. Success and achievements with driving through business changes, due to excellent written and verbal communications, strong people interaction at all levels, attention to detail, flexibility and hard work.

Supplies full Software Development Lifecycle skills (SDLC). Experienced and flexible to work in the following roles: Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Programmer and Tester.

Originating from a strong development and analysis background and retaining all technical and analytical and software / solution design skills, he is also competent in a generic Business facing role to produce business solutions by performing requirements elicitation and engineering, functional and technical design documentation using recognised industry techniques (Stakeholder management, Relationship building, Workshop facilitation, Business / Flow / Data Modelling etc).p>

Working with the NHS regarding key national programmes involving data quality, standards and support for clinical teams across the country. His skill has been based on his ability to lead the analysis of key programmes at the forefront of World Class Commissioning: Diabetes and Mental Health.

Exceptional people, technology and NHS skills and is excellent at translating his outstanding knowledge in IT into the realms of the clinical teams. Can drive a technically orientated programme to support the clinical environments.

PRINCE2 Practitioner certified (PR2/356891), also has experience of working with other structured project methodologies extends to using SSADM, Method1, CMMI,RAD,Agile,RUP and “Know the Ropes”.

A team player and is equally comfortable at leading a team, requires little or no supervision, always willing to impart knowledge.

From 1990 to 2006 was an independent consultant with Walker International Financial Packages. This involved installing, customising and tuning all of the complex financial modules, General Ledger GL, Procurement, Accounts Payable AP (BACS payments), Accounts Receivable AR, Asset Management AM and Inventory Management.

Personal interests in Business Intelligence Reporting, General Ledgers, Sanction Screening, OLAP Cube Sub-Ledgers and is a fully trained Datanomic Partner which provides a powerful data analysis tool to greatly improve the quality and integrity of client’s data.

Achievements include: Designed and wrote a batch system to compute very large OLAP cubes of which the information is used in The Royal Bank of Scotland’s board room. The integration of 40 plus General Ledgers into one when RBS merged with National Westminster and Ulster Bank. Designed and wrote a system to feed financial data into a RBS Management Information MI data warehouse. Documented the business and process flow at the Royal Liver, designed a software solution, and then led a team to build it.

Currently studying “Business object orientated modelling” and “Business and System UML modelling” with an objective of passing the BCS/ISEP Business Analysis Diploma in 2012.

Hobbies include family, home computing, Karate instructor, Aikido student and amateur radio.

Domiciled in Yorkshire and works anywhere in the UK.

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