- Australian Retirement TrustSenior Business Analyst/Scrum Master - Enterprise Change DeliverySeptember 2022 - Today (2 years and 9 months)Sydney, AustraliaI lead and facilitate various enterprise change delivery initiatives across ART’s Investments Division.Major achievements – Scrum Master:• Delivered the first set of centrally governed, reliable, streamlined, cloud-based portfolio datamodelling and analysis capabilities in a complex post-merger environment.Major achievements – Senior Business Analyst:• Facilitated Investments data and technology target operating model design and adoption tomaximise value delivered across the investment decision value chain.• Streamlined engagement planning and knowledge management operations managed throughBackstop Investor Relations Platform, increasing user activity by 27%.• Enhanced legal matter management workflow productivity, security and integration between Xakiaand Microsoft SharePoint resulting in savings of 46% against the project budget.• Designed workflows to automate and improve process governance of asset allocation and investmentstrategy decisions.Key activities:• Acquiring endorsement on product vision and roadmap from senior management to secure funding.• Negotiating stakeholder expectations in line with sprint goals, team capacity and funding constraints.• Coaching and adoption of Scrum values, open communication, and collaborative work practices.• Leading sprint capacity planning, backlog prioritisation, and agile ceremonies.• Streamlining use of Azure DevOps to improve continuous design, delivery and testing of deliverables.• Ensuring availability of Cloud and IT Infrastructure resources to enable delivery of planned effort.• Presenting updates on achievements, challenges and risks to portfolio managers and stakeholders.• Mapping strategic, operational and supporting capabilities across the Investment decision value chain.• Leading working group sessions to elicit and validate information management requirements using Confluence and Jira.• Delivering Backstop solution training and functionality improvements.
- National Heavy Vehicle RegulatorBusiness Analyst - Product DevelopmentOctober 2021 - September 2022 (12 months)Brisbane, AustraliaI managed the business analysis activities of the Regulatory Compliance Mobility Solution (RCMS) team at NHVR.Major achievements:• Situational Alerts – requirements management, data flow design, acceptance criteria development.• Actionstep – requirements management, system workflow design, test case development.• NSW Services Transition Program - target state process and data mapping.• South Australia Department of Infrastructure and Transport Direct Integration – benefits analysis,requirements management and target state concept design.Key responsibilities:• Managing requirements and backlog refinement in Azure DevOps and Confluence with RCMS and Motorola Solutions teams.• Facilitating agile ceremonies, user stories and acceptance criteria formation for each sprint.• Advising other project business analysts on the appropriate analysis approach to maximise stakeholder engagement and preparation of artefacts suited to strategic business outcomes.• Facilitating workshops with the enterprise architect, technical teams, and business SMEs to map processes, and project scope to target operating models.• Managing business impact, time cost and effort estimation for change requests for funding approval.• Conducting product demonstrations for senior management together with the solution architect, the project manager and business SMEs.• Developing system context diagrams, and process maps to elicit, validate and document As-Is and To- Be requirements, data flows and target state concept design.• Defining system workflows and data mapping across APIs, application front-end and back-end databases for solution architects, developers, and testers.• Engaging business SMEs and Motorola Solutions to validate business rules during development and testing, and to acquire feedback on prototypes ahead of product releases.• Coordinating updates to project plans, estimates, and product release roadmaps with the project manager.
- Digital Maverick AUManaging DirectorOctober 2020 - Today (4 years and 8 months)Sydney, AustraliaKey Projects Delivered:• Website design, development, and launch.• Job portal design, development, and launch.• Landing page and email sequence design and launch.• Website support and enhancements.• Social media management.Key Responsibilities:• I consult and manage the delivery of website design and development, and digital marketing projects, across a variety of industries.• Lead web development projects from concept design to project planning, budgeting, delivery, and post-implementation support.• Ensure quality of delivered outcomes follows human-centred design thinking principles aligned to client’s brand messaging and value proposition.• Communicate and manage interactions with clients, and interdisciplinary project teams for progress updates, managing risks, issues, dependencies.• Monitor project progress and tracking deliverables between on-shore and off-shore teams against schedules and costs.• Implementation and setup of workflow collaboration tools and operating procedures processes to foster continuous improvement, shared visibility of project milestones.
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- Advance Certified Scrum Product OwnerScrum Alliance, Inc.2024
- The Open Group Certified: TOGAF® Business Architecture Level 1The Open Group2023
- ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Team FacilitationICAgile2023
- Agile Team FacilitationICAgile2023
- IIBA® MemberInternational Institute of Business Analysis™2023
- The Business Analyst BlueprintBridging the Gap2020
- Certified Scrum Product OwnerScrum Alliance, Inc.2020
- Business Process ModellingIRM Training Pty Ltd2020
- Driving Speed through Agile PlanningUniversity System of Maryland2019
- Applied Scrum for Project ManagementUniversity System of Maryland2019
- Data Science OrientationMicrosoft2017