
Consultant Business Process Analyst
London, United Kingdom

Consultant Business Process Analyst
London, United Kingdom
Senior consultant within finance, government and technology-led organisations. Extensive strategic planning experience with a view to planning and direction of cost effective solutions to business issues. An expert in analysis, design and implementation for business process optimisation in consumer and business-to-business markets. Extensive organisational, financial, staff management and business automation-design skills.
Key Skills
• Business Modeling ( Data, Functions, Processes, etc.)
• Business Systems Analyst combining skills in requirements elicitation, analysis of requirements and skills in making recommendations for improvement; including database schema design and business information flow modelling.
• Strong bias towards evolutionary development methods, making use of functional prototype models.
• Effective, articulate leader and manager.
• Strong, congruent communicator.
• Trained Facilitator.
• Exceptional ability to convey technical detail to non-technical personnel.
• Wide background and knowledge of new media, design patterns, service oriented design, database design
• Solid staff management, development and recruitment experience.
• Innovative and creative thinker.
• Pragmatic in approach to implementing business process improvement solutions.
• Abreast of current and emerging technologies.
• Strong business systems analysis and design/Business Architecture skills including business process re-engineering and change management.
Business Process Improvement,
Content Management Systems ( CMS ),
Data Modeling.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Research industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Business systems analysis, process design, technical architecture, and web solutions development.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; REL; Events Services industry)
June 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 11 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2007 (8 years)
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Libraries industry)
January 2005 — March 2007 (2 years 3 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
Following strategy work done on ENCORE for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, my role here was that of Technical and Functional Architect, identifying optimal business processes, with particular focus upon market selection and implementation of a new, highly scalable XHTML + CSS based Content Management System (my final recommendation was eZ Publish) integrated with a Customer Relationship Management system (RightNow CRM), Clustered Oracle, Google Search Appliance for The Energy Saving Trust site, http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/ezinfo/about . Reuses legacy ColdFusion components via a PABX/Smart Proxy arrangement to wash output prior to presentation by eZ Publish. Coded in partnership with Xrow.de (great work Soeren!) with front-end design work by Paul Love ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/paullove ). Nominated for various technology awards. UPDATE: This site is Winner of Site-of-the-Year at eZ Awards 2009.
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
September 2004 — May 2005 (9 months)
Business Process Consultant/Technical Systems Architect
The mandate of this ODPM funded project is to design and implement a tool-kit facilitating e-enabling of Community Voluntary Organisations across the country.
Business case development.
Define and implement the product selection and procurement process.
Facilitation of stake-holder workshops.
Technical lead in the architectural design of the system including the TCL-based CMS OpenACS, search & navigation, user interface design, information architecture, implementation of agreed taxonomies, templates design, web-service specifications, etc.
Supervisory role for the usability testing cycles.
The system was initially used in London, Essex and Aylesbury, with wider use anticipated over the next two years. Two other systems, using eZ Publish and Typo 3, targeted at related groups such as Parish Councils, have since been developed, based upon my design of the above solution.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1993 — 1999 (6 years)
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Banking industry)
1993 — 1999 (6 years)
Head of internal "Quick-Strike" software development team.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; EVRX; Information Services industry)
1987 — 1993 (6 years)
Business Systems Analyst & Progrommer mainly for systems developed using FOCUS 4GL or Superbase Desktop Database systems.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1988 — 1991 (3 years)