LinkedIn: David Wright

Current

Senior Consultant at IAG Consulting
Volunteer at IIBA Body of Knowledge Committee

Past

Business Analyst at John Deere Credit Canada
Principal Architect at DHL Systems
Business Systems Consultant at Manulife Financial

Business Architect at Crown Life Insurance Company
Business Systems Analyst at Crown Life

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Education

University of Toronto

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

David Wright’s Summary

As a Business Systems Analyst and Information Architect, I analyze the business to define requirements, so technology can be used to deliver solutions. My skills and experience have come from a career of over 15 years in requirements analysis, and include:

Business and Systems Requirements Analysis
- Data and Process Modeling
- Business Rules
- Use Case Analysis
- Feasibility Studies & Business Requirements

Behavioral Skills
- Requirements Session Facilitation
- Project Leadership / Task Management
- Presentations / Public Speaking

David Wright’s Specialties:

Requirements Gathering, Cost Benefit Analysis, Feasibility Studies, Business Analysis Techniques: Use Case Modeling, Data Modeling, Information Engineering, Process/Function Modeling

David Wright’s Experience

Senior Consultant

IAG Consulting

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

February 2008 — Present (4 months)

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Volunteer

IIBA Body of Knowledge Committee

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — Present (1 year)
Business Analyst

John Deere Credit Canada

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — February 2008 (5 years 2 months)

Primarily, I work with the business (from VPs down to clerical levels) to define requirements, so technology can be used to deliver solutions. To accomplish, I also initiate and lead projects, and play a subject matter expert role to other project members: managers, developers, testers, trainers, etc.
Principal Architect

DHL Systems

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 5 months)

Key responsibilities included:
- Working in a cross-functional team to tailor Information Architecture and Object Oriented methodologies for use in determining business requirements for DHL Global Shared Services
- Creating use case models to specify business requirements for DHL Global Customer Shared Services
- Playing primary role in External Standards development with RosettaNet for B2B standards
- Performing business requirements analysis and specification for new Shipment Tracking System
Business Systems Consultant

Manulife Financial

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

July 1997 — February 2000 (2 years 8 months)

Key achievements included:
- Planned and directed a systems project to address the Vanishing Premiums issue on a block of insurance policies acquired by Manulife
- Developed long-term plans for eliminating redundant systems through conversions to existing Manulife systems
- Initiated and directed a project to search for and acquire an automated data conversion and interface tool (ETI-EXTRACT)
- On the first conversion project to use ETI-EXTRACT, defined Business Conversion Requirements and used ETI-EXTRACT to implement those requirements
Business Architect

Crown Life Insurance Company

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)

December 1991 — June 1997 (5 years 7 months)

- Business/Information Architect for strategic re-vamping of all systems and processes for Individual Insurance Division of the company, supported by a package information system
- Business Architect for Information Systems Infrastructure projects, primarily support and enhancement of Crown's standard methodology, Information Engineering
Business Systems Analyst

Crown Life

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1979 — 1997 (18 years)