Experience

Stats NZ

• New Zealand
• Information Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• senior Business Analyst

  • Jun 2003 - Present

  Enjoying working with customs on departure card project.BA on small fast project that put Agricultural survey online in July 2015, using rural community for our first standard survey put online. Development was agile over 5 one week sprints.Senior BA on project integrating disparate output systems to use OECD.Stat. Presented work to OECD conference in Paris in 2013.Worked on using GIS systems to code and output our statistics spatially.Team lead for 2011 Census Business Analysis teamintroduced online 2011 census recruitment system (StaffCV) used to recruit 7,500 field collection staffAdapted SDLC outputs and analysis practices to integrate with agile and ScrumImplemented generic Business process model for Statistics New Zealand which has been adopted by other statistical offices including the OECDTo Be modelling for National Accounts system including workflow and dashboard which has now been implemented in the BeST systemDesigned and documented interfaces for the 2006 Census online questionnaire

• Acting Business Analysis Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

  I am currently working with all the BAs at Statistics New Zealand to build their BA skills and capability as a team, and as individuals. I work with the PMs to identify the right BA for their project, and for how long. We are all now members of the IIBA, and Stats is also a corporate IIBA member.



IBM New Zealand

• Information Developer

  • 1999 - 2003

  ICMS - telco customer management system- Online documentation using Information mapping- Training resources- Functional requirements for MSPPP module ICMS - telco customer management system- Online documentation using Information mapping- Training resources- Functional requirements for MSPPP module



NZQA

• Business Analyst

  • 1994 - 1999

  Data modellingDaily stand ups, before agile came alongused story boarding to develop business requirements at a detailed enough level for developers to build systems Data modellingDaily stand ups, before agile came alongused story boarding to develop business requirements at a detailed enough level for developers to build systems



Wellington Polytechnic

• Lecturer in Business Computing

  • Jan 1987 - Jan 1994

  Taught:- 12 week COBOL block course (over 2 years)- Computer fundamentals for Certificate in Data Processing- various Analysis and Design units, Ethics and Professionalism unit for Advanced Certificate in Business Processing Taught:- 12 week COBOL block course (over 2 years)- Computer fundamentals for Certificate in Data Processing- various Analysis and Design units, Ethics and Professionalism unit for Advanced Certificate in Business Processing



Paxus Computing Limited

• Systems Analyst

  • Nov 1984 - Jan 1987



The National Bank of New Zealand

• Programmer / Analyst

  • Nov 1977 - Nov 1984

  System /34 computer programmerSystems Analyst System /34 computer programmerSystems Analyst