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Experienced Business and Systems Analyst with experience in the private and public sectors. My key skills are requirements capture, process modelling and design, leading testing, systems design and development. I am used to working as the contact between the business and the technical teams, including working with Indian outsourcing companies. My technical skills include Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Unix, Linux and web development.

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Rate £300-450 per day

experience

 
Job Title Company Name Date From Date To Description
Systems Analyst British Museum May 2007 Jul 2007

Analysis and design of interfaces between existing core systems and new B2C e-Commerce system.
Specifying detailed integration requirements and mapping dependencies between systems and interfaces.
Creating Use Cases for new and existing systems. Using UML to document requirements and functionality.
Design of a middleware solution for systems integration
Interface functional design and specification using XML, SOAP and WSDL.

Business Analyst London South Bank University Mar 2006 Apr 2007

Business analyst on Student Records System.
Implementing modules of third party product.
Business process mapping and process design
User training
Testing and test planning.
Managing project plan

Integration Manager Police Information Technology Organisation Mar 2005 Mar 2006

Providing technical systems advice to police forces including research and pilot projects on technologies.
Contributing to technical standards architecture and reviewing policing systems for compliance to strategy.
Specification and product selection for web based developer collaboration system including vendor meetings and process design for reuse of assets, documenting using UML. Writing Perl and Java code, managing Postgresql database and Apache webserver for prototype.

Business Analyst Thurrock Council Nov 2004 Feb 2005

Review of business processes and compliance with current government legislation. Working Implementing Electronic Government programme including EDRM, eGIF and XML, responsible for progress reporting work on e-enabling services.
Requirements gathering, specification and system and process design.

Business Systems Consultant House of Lords Jul 2003 Nov 2004

Business Analyst on an ERP system evaluation and Hansard publication project. Performed process and functional analysis, solution and process design, data modelling and requirements gathering. Supplier evaluation on ERP system to replace financial and HR systems. Led workshops and conducted interviews with stakeholders at all levels.
Process reviews and improvement of IT procurement and management reporting.
Member of Parliamentary Business Analysts forum contributing to policy and standards. Technologies: System Architect, Zachman Framework, IDEF, UML, Use cases.

Systems Analyst/Developer Amdocs Jan 2001 May 2003

Based at T-Mobile UK client site.
Developer on telecommunications Customer Care and Billing systems. Hands on development through full life cycle including requirements gathering, prototyping and testing.
Working with revenue protection teams on reporting to identify suspicious use patterns from data. Designing and developing data warehouse and reporting systems on large scale databases with Terabytes of data. Led team on reporting performance improvement project.
Technologies used: PL/SQL, Unix, Oracle 8i and 9i, SQL*Loader, Toad, Java, UML

Senior Systems Analyst P&O Nedlloyd Aug 1997 Jan 2001

Frequent offshore travel in this role to outsourcers in India.
Jun 99 - Jan 01 Design Specialist Global e-commerce System
End to end OOD with UML, prototyping, requirements gathering, functional specification and integration with existing systems.
Responding to change requests including impact analysis, managing change timetable and working with production support on implementation.
Managing teams of 5-8 on offshore user acceptance testing including business and IT staff.

Oct 98 - Jun 99 Team leader Corporate Reference Data System
Lead team of up to 10 staff including on shore and off shore contractors through full cycle from specification through implementation to maintenance. Replacement for two corporate systems in Y2K programme. Included Foreign Exchange, pricing and International Standards data.
Data migration planning and agreeing data cleansing approach with business stakeholders. Development of new change control policies and procedures for systems developed using CASE tools.

Aug 97 - Oct 98 Developer Core Systems
Developing corporate systems for Documentation and Revenue using Oracle and Unix, working with Indian outsourcing companies.
Promoted to Senior Systems Analyst in Aug 98.

Technologies: Unix, Oracle 7 and 8i, PL/SQL, Oracle Designer and Developer, HTML, Java, Oracle iAS, UML and RUP, Windows, ClearCase, Rational Rose.

 

education, training and professional qualifications

 
Date From Date To Estab Qualification
Sep 1987 Jul 1990 Oxford Brookes University BA (Honours) Computing and Publishing