Career Overview

An experienced Business Analyst / Project Manager with a proven track record of success across a diverse range of market sectors. Providing high-level strategic planning to facilitate crucial development projects on a variety of platforms and environments to consistently improved business-critical systems performance. A strong pro-active leader, providing coaching, training & mentoring to teams of up to 12 IT professionals working together to achieve individual targets & project objectives. Experienced in determining requirements to present cost effective solutions, budget control, user requirements gathering, producing system documentation, preparing project scope, programming specifications, end to end testing cycle, unit testing, end user testing, regression and volume testing, web development.

Career Highlights

  • Defined core change management & release management policies & procedures, advising on tools and scoping project to develop the required tools for Telent
  • Produced function design and project managed the implementation of the tools from start to managing the testing procedure, resulting in a flexible audit solution
  • Changed Telent’s product development strategy using Intranet and core database application, resulting in a saving of £100k per annum on the delivery process
  • Worked with Equifax on behalf of Marks & Spencer to redefine rules governing data cleansing, ensuring all problems were resolved by Equifax
  • Represented RBS Insurance of Change Management Boards

Previous Employers

Employer:
telent Ltd
Role
Business Systems Analyst
Location:
Docklands, Camberley
Dates
From August 2005 to end October 2008
Reason For Leaving
Redundancy
Employer
RBS Insurance
Role
Contract Analyst Programmer
Location
Croydon, Surrey
Dates
December 2003 to July 2005
ReTraining Course
CIW Certified Internet Webmaster
Qualification
Internet Fundamentals CIW Exam 1D0-510
Site Design CIW Exam 1D0-420
E-Commerce Design CIW Exam 1D0-425
Applications Developer
CIW JavaScript Fundamentals CIW Exam 1D0-435
CIW Perl Fundamentals CIW Exam 1D0-437
Date
2003
Provider
UK IT Training
Employer
Royal Bank of Scotland
Role
Contract Direct Banking Support Team Leader
Location
Edinburgh
Dates
May 2001 to October 2001
Employer
Marks and Spencer PLC
Role
Direct Banking Support Team Leader (Contractor)
Analyst Programmer (Contractor)
Location
Stockley Park, Heathrow
Central London
Dates
April 1997 to April 2001
Employer
Sony BPE
Role
Analyst Programmer - COBOL, DL1 (Contract)
Location
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Dates
February 1997 to April 1997
Employer
Wessex Water / Sony BPE
Role
Analyst Programmer - IDEAL Datacom (Contract)
Location
Bristol
Dates
May 1996 to January 1997
Employer
NIG Skandia Insurance
Role
Analyst Programmer - COBOL, IDEAL Datacom (permanent)
Location
London, City
Dates
January 1995 to March 1996
Employer
Dixons
Role
Analyst Programmer on stores and distribution systems, COBOL, IDEAL
Location
Ealing
Hemel Hempstead
Dates
February 1990 to January 1995 (Redundant)
Employer
EDS Corporation
Role
Systems Engineer
Location
Central London
Dates
September 1988 to December 1994