Jenny Saunders
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Abby Harris
I engaged Jenny to run a series of soft-skills workshops for an internal group within Kiwi Wealth made up of our younger employees, or those earlier on in their careers. The workshops were fantastic! Jenny was able to deliver the content in a relatable way, engaging everyone despite varying job descriptions and experience. Jenny also ensured the content was fit for purpose for us and delved into areas of particular interest to the group, rather than delivering a cut and paste training module. Would highly recommend Jenny as a trainer/educator!
Victoria Sefton
I met Jenny through one of her client engagements. Right from when she started talking, I knew that she was a kindred spirit of business analysis. It felt like Jenny was a stranger with a familiar face, which is credit to her formidable people skills, extensive professional knowledge and genuine helpful nature. I quickly came to trust and value Jenny's thoughts on the world and have aspired to grow and develop to her level of competency ever since. She is a credit to any organisation fortunate enough to have her time and should the time come where the ether brings our paths together again, I will feel lucky indeed to work with her once more.
Abby Harris
I engaged Jenny to run a series of soft-skills workshops for an internal group within Kiwi Wealth made up of our younger employees, or those earlier on in their careers. The workshops were fantastic! Jenny was able to deliver the content in a relatable way, engaging everyone despite varying job descriptions and experience. Jenny also ensured the content was fit for purpose for us and delved into areas of particular interest to the group, rather than delivering a cut and paste training module. Would highly recommend Jenny as a trainer/educator!
Victoria Sefton
I met Jenny through one of her client engagements. Right from when she started talking, I knew that she was a kindred spirit of business analysis. It felt like Jenny was a stranger with a familiar face, which is credit to her formidable people skills, extensive professional knowledge and genuine helpful nature. I quickly came to trust and value Jenny's thoughts on the world and have aspired to grow and develop to her level of competency ever since. She is a credit to any organisation fortunate enough to have her time and should the time come where the ether brings our paths together again, I will feel lucky indeed to work with her once more.
Abby Harris
I engaged Jenny to run a series of soft-skills workshops for an internal group within Kiwi Wealth made up of our younger employees, or those earlier on in their careers. The workshops were fantastic! Jenny was able to deliver the content in a relatable way, engaging everyone despite varying job descriptions and experience. Jenny also ensured the content was fit for purpose for us and delved into areas of particular interest to the group, rather than delivering a cut and paste training module. Would highly recommend Jenny as a trainer/educator!
Victoria Sefton
I met Jenny through one of her client engagements. Right from when she started talking, I knew that she was a kindred spirit of business analysis. It felt like Jenny was a stranger with a familiar face, which is credit to her formidable people skills, extensive professional knowledge and genuine helpful nature. I quickly came to trust and value Jenny's thoughts on the world and have aspired to grow and develop to her level of competency ever since. She is a credit to any organisation fortunate enough to have her time and should the time come where the ether brings our paths together again, I will feel lucky indeed to work with her once more.
Abby Harris
I engaged Jenny to run a series of soft-skills workshops for an internal group within Kiwi Wealth made up of our younger employees, or those earlier on in their careers. The workshops were fantastic! Jenny was able to deliver the content in a relatable way, engaging everyone despite varying job descriptions and experience. Jenny also ensured the content was fit for purpose for us and delved into areas of particular interest to the group, rather than delivering a cut and paste training module. Would highly recommend Jenny as a trainer/educator!
Victoria Sefton
I met Jenny through one of her client engagements. Right from when she started talking, I knew that she was a kindred spirit of business analysis. It felt like Jenny was a stranger with a familiar face, which is credit to her formidable people skills, extensive professional knowledge and genuine helpful nature. I quickly came to trust and value Jenny's thoughts on the world and have aspired to grow and develop to her level of competency ever since. She is a credit to any organisation fortunate enough to have her time and should the time come where the ether brings our paths together again, I will feel lucky indeed to work with her once more.
Credentials
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CBAP (Certifiied Business Analyst Professional)
IIBAJan, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
ICAgile Authorised Instructor (Agile Product Ownership)
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ICP-BVA (ICAgile Business Value Analyst)
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Training from the BACK of the Room Workshop - TBR-VE: Certificate of completion
Avanscoperta
Experience
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SoftEd
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New Zealand
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Knowledge Engineer
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Feb 2022 - Present
Working with our customers in the business analysis, design and agile space in order to develop and increase their capability so that they can deliver amazing outcomes for their organisations and themselves. My goal is ensure that every participant understands how to apply the theory; without the understanding of the theory and the practical application the learning doesn't deliver the value that it should. Working with our customers in the business analysis, design and agile space in order to develop and increase their capability so that they can deliver amazing outcomes for their organisations and themselves. My goal is ensure that every participant understands how to apply the theory; without the understanding of the theory and the practical application the learning doesn't deliver the value that it should.
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Kiwi Wealth
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New Zealand
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Investment Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Young Wealth career development
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Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
I have the great privilege of working with a group of employees at Kiwi Wealth called "Young Wealth". We have created a set of foundational (soft) skills workshops, with the goals of developing awareness and capability within the following areas: - Communication "How to be a great communicator"- Stakeholder Management "The who, why, what and how of stakeholders"- Emotional Intelligence "Understanding what it means and how to develop your EI) The 1st workshop ran in September and it was interactive, fun and valuable. I'm really looking forward to the next one on 13th October.
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Cucumber
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New Zealand
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Strategy Consultant
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May 2021 - Jan 2022
I am very excited to be working with the Cucumber team on some new initiatives that will make a difference to New Zealand.I've just finished a piece of work with Western Bay of Plenty District Council. Together, we created a Project lifecycle and the associated recommendations required to achieve the the future state. Supporting and enabling the the council's projects to deliver great outcomes in an efficient, effective and engaging way. It was an absolute pleasure working with the team, great collaboration, teamwork and respect for each other and our specialisms.
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FarmIQ Systems Ltd
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New Zealand
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Farming
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
A challenging and rewarding 17 months, leading the product development teams at FarmIQ towards becoming a world class product development capability. Our drivers are to deliver the right products, the right way and in a timely manner; constantly thinking about business viability, technical feasibility and user desirability.During my time as CTO we had a significant number of wins as detailed below:Success lift and shift of our SaaS product from a private hosting company to AWS, which increased the performance x10, reliability/ availability x5 and decreased the cost.Design and implementation of a Product Development LifecycleDesign and implementation of a Portfolio governance process and the associated decision framework Implementation of Communities of Practice across all disciplines with a focus on agilityMany other development principles and practices were implemented by the teams, leading to increased code quality and transparency.
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Assurity Consulting
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New Zealand
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Principal Consultant - Service Development Manager
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May 2016 - Sep 2019
Assurity is a well established name in the testing/ quality space. I joined in order to establish and grow Assurity's market presence, specifically in the Business analysis/ User research consultant space in Wellington. My main accountabilities were building a great team and increasing brand awareness of our capability and service offering.Working with our great recruiters we successfully grew the team to 8 people with a diversity of nationalities and skill set. As a team we designed and developed a suite of frameworks and products that enabled us to deliver real value to our clients in an efficient, effective and productive manner.
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IIBA
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Canada
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Non-profit Organizations
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100 - 200 Employee
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VP Professional Development & Certification
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Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
I've just joined the NZ board of the IIBA and I'm practising what I preach/ teach and am creating a high level plan on how to show the value of professional development and certification for - Individuals- Organisations- Other communitiesWatch this space ..... I've just joined the NZ board of the IIBA and I'm practising what I preach/ teach and am creating a high level plan on how to show the value of professional development and certification for - Individuals- Organisations- Other communitiesWatch this space .....
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SoftEd
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New Zealand
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Analysis & Design Practice Lead/ Trainer
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Apr 2013 - Apr 2016
Software Education is a specialist provider of training, consulting and mentoring services across the whole solution development lifecycle. We provide the skills, capabilities and real life experiences that you need to help you to successfully deliver solutions that add value to your organisations.I am responsible for the strategic direction of the Analysis & Design suite of courses, including:- Thought leadership - Course design (classroom & e-learning)- Course delivery - Course customisation for in-house clients- Supervision & mentoring of trainers within the A & D practice areaI specialise in the following domains:Business Analysis (junior, intermediate and advanced)Business Process Management & modellingBusiness Architectureand the agile domain.
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Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC)
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New Zealand
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Farming
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Manager
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Aug 2007 - 2013
I was responsible for providing overall leadership and direction to the Software Development Group within LIC.- Recruitment and personal development - Developing an efficient, effective and responsive development and product support capability. - Financial management and operational performance- Strategic planning Committed to leading the Software Development Group to achieving the objectives in the Technology Strategic Plan and to drive the technical implementation of the business strategy with respect to bespoke development in the most effective way possible.
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Business Analyst
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Dec 2005 - Jul 2007
Tasks under taken whilst performing this role:Enterprise analysis and Business case creationrequirements package (based on Use Cases and additionally artefacts) Process modelling (process improvement & process re-engineering)Logical database design
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Logica
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Canada
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant
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Jul 1987 - Feb 2005
Joined after graduating in 1987, roles have includedAnalyst Programmer,Team leaderBusiness AnalystBusiness Process Expert Release ManagerService Delivery ManagerConsultantCompanies (contracted to) have includedNational Westminster BankBank of EnglandLloyds TSB Ford Motor CompanyMetropolitan PoliceDixons Retail OutletFor specific details please request a copy of my CV Joined after graduating in 1987, roles have includedAnalyst Programmer,Team leaderBusiness AnalystBusiness Process Expert Release ManagerService Delivery ManagerConsultantCompanies (contracted to) have includedNational Westminster BankBank of EnglandLloyds TSB Ford Motor CompanyMetropolitan PoliceDixons Retail OutletFor specific details please request a copy of my CV
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Education
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1984 - 1987
King's College London, U. of London
BSc hons, Physics & Computing -
1978 - 1982
Maidstone Girls Grammar
O and A levels, A levels - mathematcis, Physics and Economics
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