Karen Williams
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Credentials
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BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice
BCS, The Chartered Institute for ITFeb, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner
Scaled Agile, Inc.Mar, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Lean Portfolio Manager
Scaled Agile, Inc.Feb, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile, Inc.Dec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.Oct, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner
Scaled Agile, Inc.Oct, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Certificate in Requirements Engineering
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT -
Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
ISEB
Experience
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Liberis
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Solutions Architect
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Jul 2022 - Present
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Landmark Information Group
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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System Architect
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Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
Working within a SAFE framework, evolving the architecture from current legacy to a cloud based, micro services based architecture.
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Senior Business Analyst
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Dec 2014 - Mar 2021
Working within a cross functional agile team developing micro-services in .net and cloud based technologies with the aim of producing the next generation of landmarks report production system.Strong focus on customer requirements whilst ensuring system maintainability and architectural integrity.Also providing BA and leadership for an Indian based outsource team, working with oracle databases and azure cloud based systems.Implementing and championing a business intelligence driven approach to development and product decisions, predominantly using powerBI.
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Development Manager
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Jun 2007 - Dec 2014
Led a team of diverse skills, including oracle, .net and java, across 3 offices (Exeter, Henley and Sofia).Responsible for a team of up to 20, focused on the key product area of legal and environmental reports as well as the overall report production system.Undertook Business Analysis as part of this role.
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Landmark Information Group
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United Kingdom
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Information Technology & Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Development Team Lead
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2002 - 2007
Leading a team of developers and test analysts, responsible for the content and quality of all of Landmarks environmental reports.This required an understanding of the business needs for each report, as well as the technical implementation.
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Project Coordinator
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1999 - 2004
Co-ordination of all projects across the company to ensure that projects were running to schedule and aware of inter-dependenciesInstigated use of project manager toolingThis role was carried out in addition to the Digital Data Team Lead and subsequently the Configuration Team Lead roles.
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Digital Data Team Lead
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1997 - 2001
Leading a small team of data assistants with responsibility for QA and loading of spatial datasets to landmarks internal systems. This provided an opportunity to improve the loading and processes and introduce robust QA procedures.
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Data Assistant
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1995 - 1997
Starting from a post graduate joiner, this was an entry level role, processing data gathered from various data suppliers (such as local authorities and the EA), ensuring that the data was properly geo-coded and loaded on to landmarks systems. At the time this was a combination of oracle and Genamap GIS.
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Education
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Loughborough University
BSc, Geography -
Colyton Grammar School