Richard Wood

Strategy Analyst at IDEAology Consulting
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Greater Melbourne Area, AU

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Michael Heley

I had the privilege of working with Richard during the Discovery phase of our Delivery framework at Deakin. His exceptional coaching and experience were critical to our project's success, navigating us smoothly through each phase - Planning, Preparation, Elicitation/Validation, and Governance. Through all phases, Richard's invaluable contributions, clear communication, and coaching make him an outstanding professional to work with. His ability to streamline complex processes while ensuring everyone on the team feels heard and valued is truly commendable. I can confidently recommend Richard for any project discovery and management roles, as his expertise will undoubtedly be a great asset.

Robert Honybun

Richard is one of the very best business analysts and business consultants that I have ever had the pleasure to work with. He has a wonderful quiet authority, calmness and patience in his work that builds trust and engagement. This is a very rare combination with Richard's focus, communication skills and sharp intelligence to cut through to the key issues that need to be addressed by a project, and to clarify, define and frame those issues in ways that makes them addressable in effective ways by business and technology stakeholders. Richard's enthusiasm for helping other business analysts improve this BA skills, and to build a stronger and more resilient professional sense of themselves as BAs and of their potential, is just awesome, and had a huge positive impact on our BAs during his time at Mercer. He is an outstanding coach and mentor, and a thoroughly decent and fun person to work with.

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Credentials

  • ICAgile Certified Professional - Delivery at Scale
    ICAgile
    Mar, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • ICAgile Certified Professional - Enterprise Product Ownership
    ICAgile
    Mar, 2021
    - Oct, 2024
  • SAFe® Agilist (SA)
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Feb, 2017
    - Oct, 2024
  • ICAgile Certified Professional
    ICAgile
    Sep, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • SAFe® Practitioner (SP)
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Jul, 2015
    - Oct, 2024
  • Certified Professional (CP)/IP3P
    ACS (Australian Computer Society)
    May, 2014
    - Oct, 2024
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional™
    IIBA
    Apr, 2011
    - Oct, 2024
  • IIBA® Member
    IIBA
    Jul, 2021
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Australia
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Strategy Analyst
      • Jun 2023 - Present

      Responsibilities: • Lead the planning & execution of various program-level Discovery\Inception activities to inform divisional investment\business cases. • Employ advanced business analysis techniques & skills to formulate approach; engage & manage stakeholder groups; & facilitate fit-for-purpose elicitation events to gather, analyse & synthesise relevant data & information to inform commercially-minded business investment decision making. Responsibilities: • Lead the planning & execution of various program-level Discovery\Inception activities to inform divisional investment\business cases. • Employ advanced business analysis techniques & skills to formulate approach; engage & manage stakeholder groups; & facilitate fit-for-purpose elicitation events to gather, analyse & synthesise relevant data & information to inform commercially-minded business investment decision making.

    • Australia
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Agile Transformation Coach & Discovery Lead - Deakin University
      • Apr 2022 - Jun 2023

      Responsibilities:• Coach members of the Digital Services Division in the adoption and operation of Agile-at-scale Delivery; including underlying principles, set up, mind-set, practices, ceremonies, cadences, skills, techniques, tooling and governance framework - covering the full range of levels from Portfolio down to individual Agile Delivery teams• Lead the planning & execution of various program-level Discovery\Inception activities to inform divisional investment\business cases within the Educational sector. • Employ advanced business analysis techniques & skills to formulate approach; engage & manage stakeholder groups; & facilitate fit-for-purpose elicitation events to gather, analyse & synthesise relevant data & information to inform commercially-minded business investment decision making. Show less

    • Discovery Lead - Mercer
      • Apr 2021 - Apr 2022

      Responsibilities:• Lead the planning & execution of various program-level Discovery\Inception activities to inform divisional investment\business cases within the Superannuation industry. • Employ advanced business analysis techniques & skills to formulate approach; engage & manage stakeholder groups; & facilitate fit-for-purpose elicitation events to gather, analyse & synthesise relevant data & information to inform commercially-minded business investment decision making.

    • Australia
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Agile Portfolio Director (Tribe Performance Lead), Enterprise Big Data Platform
      • Nov 2018 - Apr 2021

      Scale of portfolio: – Team of 120+ people divided into 11 persistent Agile squads (spread across Australia, India & China) delivering in an Agile-at-scale manner against a portfolio of demand covering the Big Data sourcing, transformation & consumption needs of ANZ Bank’s Retail, Commercial & Institutional divisions; including requests related to legislative & operational reporting, customer remediation, data analysis, fraud detection & marketing analytics– Annual budget: AU$5M+– 11 direct reportsKey Responsibilities: • Develop Technology Area team culture, facilitate team empowerment through an intent-based leadership approach• Manage a team of Product Owners on their development & performance• Prioritise & refine a portfolio of work that the Enterprise Big Data Technology Area delivers and, working with the Product Owner Team, decompose work down into meaningful squad missions & objectives. • Manage incoming demand; facilitate estimation; build & maintain stakeholder relationships; facilitate ongoing portfolio planning & operational ceremonies; manage escalations, dependencies, risks & issues; resolve blockers; provide ongoing financial management of portfolio, incl. team structure design; measure, monitor, improve & optimise Technology Area performance • Identify the need for, schedule & plan strategy sessions; influence portfolio & divisional strategy; Quarterly Business Review planning sessions Achievements: • Restructured the Technology Area squad teams to respond to COVID-19 budget cuts - Outcome: No job losses for permanent employees, maintained delivery capacity to key stakeholder groups & ensured no increase in operational risk or Intellectual Property loss• Introduced methods, techniques & operating practices into the Technology Area that improved team culture & connectedness, uplifted capability & efficiency of estimation & portfolio prioritisation, accelerated traction on major Big Data platform architectural initiatives Show less

    • Enterprise Business Analyst
      • Jul 2014 - Nov 2018

      Responsibilities:• Lead the planning & execution of various program-level Discovery\Inception activities to inform divisional investment\business cases. • Employ advanced business analysis techniques & skills to formulate approach; engage & manage stakeholder groups; & facilitate fit-for-purpose elicitation events to gather, analyse & synthesise relevant data & information to inform commercially-minded business investment decision making. • Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the ANZ BA Community. Achievements:• ANZ Technology BA Practice Award 2016 for outperformance – led a team to plan & execute on a discovery initiative to formulate new logical architecture for ANZ’s Enterprise Payments Platform – 2 X 3-day requirements & solution concept design workshops covering 30+ stakeholders including executive sponsor, divisional subject matter experts, enterprise architects, solution designers, testing leads & operational staff across Australia & New Zealand• ANZ Technology BA Practice Award 2015 for outperformance & ANZ Retail Lending Operations Excellence Award 2015 – led a team to plan & execute on a discovery initiative to inform a new solution for banking teams in support of improved & streamlined manual\exception-based credit assessment for home loan lending – 5-day requirements & solution concept design work shop covering 20+ stakeholders including executive sponsor, divisional subject matter experts, enterprise architects, solution designers, testing leads & operational staff• Initiated, coordinated & delivered multiple BA Certification study group programs across Melbourne & Sydney BA communities over multiple years to support BA Practice meeting its capability uplift, accelerated delivery, staff engagement objectivesProgramme Outcomes: – $150k+ cost avoidance saving in equivalent external training costs– 85+ BAs (across various ANZ BA Practices) completed the study groups– 25+ BAs gained internationally recognised BA certification Show less

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Business Analysis Practice Manager
      • Aug 2011 - Jul 2014

      Responsible for leadership & development of BA Practice in New Zealand for GE Capital GE Capital is the financial services division of General Electric. It currently provides commercial lending and leasing, as well as a range of financial services for commercial aviation, energy, and support for GE's industrial business units Key Responsibilities: • Practice and People Leadership – Resource Planning and demand management for Business Analysis capability demand across change portfolio of GE Capital New Zealand – Managing people resources; recruitment, project allocation, performance review, Business Analysis capability and consistency uplift and succession planning – Coach and manage 15 direct reports including performance development planning, career planning and appraisals. Achievements: • GE Capital Project Management Office Quarterly Award – June 2013 and GE Capital Managing Director’s Award – April 2013, for: – Aligning the GE Capital New Zealand Business Analysis capability to international business analysis standards - the IIBA® Business Analysis Body of Knowledge™ (BABOK®) – Instituted & delivered a focused BA Certification study group tutorial program designed to support BAs who are intensively preparing for the CBAP® or CCBA® exam – Supported over 80% of the GE Capital New Zealand BA team to successfully earn the internationally recognised IIBA® certifications in 2012\2013 – unprecedented in New Zealand – Business Analysis delivery capability uplift outcome experienced by the business: Select projects experiencing:  70% faster delivery  50% fewer change controls  30% lower business analyst resource cost to project • Selected as one of 7 representatives (out of 700 employees) to serve on GE Capital Innovation Council for the purpose of teaching the process of, and embedding the broader culture of, innovation within the organisation Show less

    • New Zealand
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Business Analyst
      • Mar 2010 - Aug 2011

      Senior team member on a national Asset Finance Platform Replacement project concerned with the configuration and integration of a new ‘off the shelf’ asset finance platform offering end-to-end processing for specialized lending products. Senior team member on a national Asset Finance Platform Replacement project concerned with the configuration and integration of a new ‘off the shelf’ asset finance platform offering end-to-end processing for specialized lending products.

    • Contract Business Analyst
      • Nov 2009 - Feb 2010

      Model business processes and associated data to translate requests for business capacity into requirements for the design, development and implementation of new or enhanced business processes and business applications. Model business processes and associated data to translate requests for business capacity into requirements for the design, development and implementation of new or enhanced business processes and business applications.

    • Netherlands
    • Investment Banking
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Manager, IT Advisory Services
      • Mar 2008 - Nov 2009

      1. Engagement performance • Portfolio management, planning, budgeting, staff allocation 2. Business Development • Build new business, create proposals, attend networking functions 3. Practice management • Staff production planning, business strategy development, perform first interviews • Mentor and coach team to develop and enhance technical and business skills • Identify and implement process improvements • Performance review and career path planning for members of staff 4. Technical competence • Financial model reviews for various New Zealand household brands in the finance sector • Service line leadership responsibility, writing thought leadership articles 5. Financial performance • Responsibility for financial results, utilisation of team members, raising fees/write offs and provisions Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lead Business Analyst\Senior Consultant
      • Jan 2002 - Feb 2008

      Led a team of business analysts in order to create, facilitate and manage the process of development, implementation and monitoring of business information systems for clients primarily within the financial services and credit granting industry. Project experience: • Elicited, specified, built, tested and deployed rule-based decision support engines to support, and partially automate, the process of making commercial and consumer lending and pricing decisions; including solutions for: First National Bank of South Africa, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Wesbank, SA Home Loans and TransUnion Credit Bureau • Elicited, specified, built, tested and deployed rule-based decision support engines to support fraud prevention; including solutions for: TransUnion Credit Bureau Fraud Prevention, the South African Insurance Association (SAIA) and the Indonesian Government Tax Administration, Direktorat Jenderal Pajak (with assistance from AUSAid) Show less

Education

  • University of Auckland
    Certificate of Proficiency, Statistics
    2008 - 2008
  • University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
    Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Informatics (with Distinction), Analysis & design of business information systems
    2001 - 2002
  • University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
    Bachelor of Commerce (Informatics), Analysis & design of business information systems
    1998 - 2000

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