Freelance - Senior Analyst / Product owner at Pearson International
London,
United Kingdom

April 2012-Present

• Working with on and off shore teams across multiple time zones using the agile framework to implement a Higher Education, International learning management system. Providing a digital learning platform, for the authoring and publishing of online course materials & assessment tools in local languages. Allowing countries within Europe, Latin, America, Africa, Middle East & Asia to create a localised learning experience. • Future product roadmap definition & product backlog management. Working closely with stakeholders & Project Sponsors to translate business requirements into user stories. • Prioritisation of the backlog to ensure minimal viable product is delivered within each key project phase. Leading requirements gathering and sprint planning sessions • Facilitate the collaboration between on and offshore development teams, QA and the business. • Update steering committee executive sponsors on project progress • Budget management, reduced project costs to ensure project remained within budget. • Work closely with the QA team to triage system bugs and feed this into the backlog grooming process • Lead user acceptance testing /business product review, to promote early product inspection & adaption • Managed 3rd Party integrations with other Pearson platforms to support the product bundles

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Business Analyst / Project Manager at eFinancial Careers
London,
United Kingdom

February 2007-August 2013

Core Responsibilities: • Working closely with business stakeholders globally, in order to gather business requirements for new product offerings. Managing project delivery from analysis through to implementation. • Producing comprehensive Business requirement specifications project plans, managing project development teams. Carry out UAT and post implementation reviews. • Provide status updates to project sponsors & stakeholders. Highlight & mitigate project issues and or risks, deliver training and related documentation.

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Client Delivery Director at Code Worldwide (Part of Omnicom Group)
London,
United Kingdom

August 2009-March 2012

• Responsible for the operations management & programme management of the UK client delivery team; overseeing the implementation of software solutions for the UK Client base. Clients include; P.W.C, General Motors, PHD Media group, Peugeot, Nissan, London 2012, Boots and Coca Cola and TBWA and DAS Global.

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Business Analyst / Project Manager at Total Jobs Group
London,
United Kingdom

April 2006-May 2007

• Working in a newly created Business Analyst Team, the role focussed on gathering and documenting business requirements from business sponsors at all levels. Develop business cases for project board prioritisation. • Translate business needs into business requirements specifications working closely with the technology and user experience teams to gain estimates and input on solutions.

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Business Analyst at Michael Page International
London,
United Kingdom

May 2003-April 2006

• Working within the Business Solutions team across the full project Life cycle delivering Business Cases, detailed Business Requirements Specifications, and Functional specification documents. • Organising and overseeing Functional and user acceptance testing, and conducting post implementation review. Working on multiple projects, taking on a project management role to facilitate end-to-end delivery. • Representing the UK system users at international update meetings as a member of the Core Business team. Frequent travel to regional offices to run requirements gathering sessions and training.

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