Experience

Project Partners

• Australia
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Management and Business Analysis Consultant

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Contracting with Uniting Care Qld (Jan 2023 - Present) - Business Analyst on user account project spanning multiple hospitals and thousands of users. - Stakeholder engagement and management coupled with Active Directory interrogation, data analysis and manipulation. - Powershell scripting adaptation and execution. - Tech resource marshalling and direction. Contracting with Rio Tinto (July 2022 - Dec 2022) - Supporting the establishment of Rio's internal Products & Software Development (P&SD) department. - Developing governance, processes, and reporting for the department. - Capturing relevant funding processes and journals to facilitate project instantiation. - Providing support to the creation and managment of individual software products as needed. Show less



MXstore

• Gold Coast

• Project Manager / Business Analyst

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2022

  - E-commerce data analysis - Project coordination through Asana - Capturing Business Process Flow diagrams utilising BPMN notation. - E-commerce data analysis - Project coordination through Asana - Capturing Business Process Flow diagrams utilising BPMN notation.



Contractor (Own Business) IT

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Part time Student / Freelancer / Stay at Home Father

  • Apr 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Part time student _ Masters in Information Technology through University of New _ Grade Point Average 5.90 out of 7.0 • Freelancer with AirTasker _ Completed several MS Excel and MS Access related tasks. _ Maintained a 5 star review record and 100% completion rate. • Stay at Home Father _ Primary child care responsibility for children, now aged 5 and 9. _ Performed all household management duties, including: meal planning, budgeting, home maintenance. _ Excellent organizational and time management skills. _ Multi-task during almost every activity/task. Show less



Civica

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Dec 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Lead Business Analyst deployed on major transformation project for Higher Educations Statistics Agency, (HESA). • Adhered to Agile project methodology. • Completed BA related project initiation activities including: _ Stakeholder onboarding and solution communication _ Internal wiki development to facilitate additional onboarding. • Responsible for eliciting requirements through: _ Documenting Lo-fi and Hi-fi BPMN diagrams. _ Product backlog generation. _ Drafting Project Deliverable (PD) documents for communication with the client. • Helped to define the solution to be developed was both fit for purpose as well as fitted within pre-defined solution framework. • Fostered a collaborative partnership with the client through a series of exploratory workshops. Show less



Contractor (Own Business) IT

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Part time Student / Freelancer / Stay at Home Father

  • Feb 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Details as per above. • Details as per above.



Business Analysis (BAPL)

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Analyst - contracted to Hastings Deering Pty Ltd

  • Oct 2013 - Feb 2014

  • Conducted interviews to draft Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) diagrams. • Constructed diagrams according to specific rules utilising MS Visio. • Performed formal audit and review of existing archive of over 100 diagrams. • Developed and deployed management pack overseeing the progress on diagram construction and audit. • Conducted interviews to draft Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) diagrams. • Constructed diagrams according to specific rules utilising MS Visio. • Performed formal audit and review of existing archive of over 100 diagrams. • Developed and deployed management pack overseeing the progress on diagram construction and audit.



NAB

• Australia
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst Contractor, Mortgage Services Operations

  • Oct 2012 - Feb 2013

  - Provided hands on support to the user community during the successful implementation phase of the multi-year Mortgage Transformation program. - Took over and re-worked the application approval weekly workstream meeting and project reporting. - Engaged with senior staff, line managers, subject matter experts, L&D and related project colleagues on key issues. - Reviewed and enhanced business process maps, utilising work instructions and role purpose statements. - Introduced technical solutions such as interactive process image maps through sharepoint, along with Jira project tracking and Confluence Wiki documentation. Show less



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Business Analyst

  • Sep 2010 - Feb 2012

  Credit Derivatives IT- Focused around delivering strategic changes to key market & reference data initiatives through the suite of responsible internal applications and external service providers.- Continued to extend detailed product knowledge of the Credit trading business from corporate bonds to Index and single name CDS through to structured exotic instruments.- Applied central standardised methods, processes, and templates with prototyping as appropriate.- Exposure to both waterfall and agile project methodologies.- Produced and reviewed all project related specs, including; business requirements documents, functional specification documents, test documents etc.- Utilised modelling notations such as BPMN, UML, sequence diagrams, etc.- Used repeatable onboarding process and tailored it to internal or external customers as appropriate.- Led a team of 3 business analysts, and tapped into internal and external talent development opportunities for both senior talent as well as summer interns and graduates for my own team as well as other teams in the department.- Worked on integrating complex advances made in modelling interest rate risk into the credit business.- Continued clearing house related efforts initiated in prior London role and extended as it expanded.- Implemented changes to satisfy new legislation around Complex Risk Measure (CRM) & Risk Weighted Assets (RWA).- Applied trading book and other organisational hierarchy reference data knowledge to facilitate cross-stream dependant projects.- Advanced an internal community of practice (CoP) throughout my sphere of influence.- Helped ensure implementation of complex Entitlements service with overlapping hierarchies.- Drafted in to assist on major outages, industry changes, or 'black swan' events as needed. Show less

• Project manager / Business Analyst

  • Jan 2008 - Sep 2010

  Credit derivatives IT- Work closely with front office risk and quant teams around changes affecting risk and pnl.- Co-ordinate prioritisation and release process in conjunction with programme manager and lead developer.- Publicised project plans developed with technical leads to ensure demonstrable progress to management.- Trained up an offshore Quality Assurance (QA) team and incorporated relevant changes to the software development lifecycle.- Routinely ran User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycles for regression or new functional testing. - Ensured solutions developed were self-sustaining by incorporating Support groups from initial design stages.- Heavily involved in clearing house related industry wide changes to the credit market.- Leveraged technology to utilise the diverse international community where many colleagues, stakeholders and service providers were offshore.- Helped develop knowledge sharing through extensive internal wiki's and demonstrations.- Gained further exposure to application infrastructure and IT solutions delivery from inception to completion. Show less

• Project team lead

  • Feb 2007 - Jan 2008

  Global Valuations Group.- Extension of previous role to cope with increased market and regulatory pressure.- Scaled up team to hire & manage 4 others.- Delivered strategic changes to valuation processes in Credit, Equities and Rates product areas.

• Business Analyst

  • Feb 2006 - Feb 2007

  - Both tactical and strategic development targeted for flow and exotic credit derivative businesses.- Business requirements gathering, specification writing and senior management documentation.- Constant contact with IT, involved in Quality Assurance process and managed overall testing cycle.- Assisting in deployment of strategic solution for Rates business price testing in Singapore.

• Projects and price testing.

  • Aug 2005 - Feb 2006

  - Initially seconded for project management and re-engineering role.- Independent bond price testing process redeveloped benefiting credit and interest rate businesses.- Change in team structure prompted change of responsibility into line price testing role for credit business.- Continued support from London on ongoing re-engineering processes.

• Business Analyst

  • Nov 2003 - Aug 2005

  Cross Product Development.- Analysis, testing and implementation of multiple releases of global multi-business PnL/Risk platform.- Communication between business and technology groups facilitating RAD and strategic development.- Detailed; discussion, requirements, testing, implementation and post release documentation.- Further development and streamlining around processes of former role.

• Balance sheet analyst

  • Jun 2001 - Nov 2003

  OTC Derivatives Finance.- Production and maintenance of monthly Global OTC balance sheet. (Approx. 50bn. EUR)- MIS, credit risk and US GAAP submissions produced.- Extensive knowledge gained in Microsoft Access, as well as exposure to Summit & SAP.



TD

• Canada
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investment representative

  • Mar 2000 - Apr 2001

  (Retail stockbroking, subsequently bought out by ComSec.) - Taking and processing of orders placed by clients on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). - VIP & Internet desk representative, for 20,000 online customers as well as internal process changes. (Retail stockbroking, subsequently bought out by ComSec.) - Taking and processing of orders placed by clients on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). - VIP & Internet desk representative, for 20,000 online customers as well as internal process changes.



Asgard Wealth Solutions

• Sydney, Australia

• Funds Analyst, Research

  • Oct 1998 - Mar 2000

  - Processing of research on the managed funds industry. Performance analysis, and historical data cleansing. - Processing of research on the managed funds industry. Performance analysis, and historical data cleansing.