Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP

Current

Senior Professional Services Consultant at Davis + Henderson
Vice President Professional Development and Certification Toronto at IIBA Toronto
VP Certification at IIBA

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Past

Contract Senior Business Analyst and Best Practices Lead at Insurance Bureau of Canada
Contract Senior Business Analyst and Requirements Lead at Agricorp
Contract Senior Business Analyst and Project Coordinator at Thomson Carswell

Permanent Business Analyst and Project Coordinator at CSA International
Permanent Business Analyst / Jr. DBA and UNIX Administrator at Requisite Technology

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Education

McMaster University
George Brown College

Recommended

9 people have recommended Perry

Connections

84 connections

Industry

Banking

Websites

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Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Summary

Value Proposition

Integrate 14-years of hands on experience using structured and object oriented analysis techniques and best practices to lead, elicit, analyze, validate and communicate solutions from any industry on any platform that are specific, accountable, measurable and traceable.

Experience and Expertise

Well known within the business analysis industry, Perry is a seasoned professional with hands on experience in all phases of the SDLC and PLC.

With many analysis courses from institutions such as: University of Toronto and McMaster University Perry is considered an academic in Business Analysis

Perry has worked with project durations from three to over 20 months, with budgets from $17k to over $1 million and teams ranging from two to 15 members in areas such as: the public and private sectors, software sales, insurance, finance and legal.

Using many different techniques on several platforms and languages such as: SAP, Mainframe, UNIX, Portals, ORACLE, SQL-Server, Documentum, .NET3X, Java, XML and DTD, Perry has become known for requirements and tactical migrations that are always exceptionally traceable.

Leadership and Best Practices

Working as a PM, Perry has led many business analysis teams and subject matter experts through all phases of the solution development lifecycle.

Perry currently serves as Executive Vice President for the IIBA Toronto/GTA chapter and board member/lecturer for Project Management World; helping prepare the business analysis leaders of tomorrow.

As in instructor and lecturer, Perry has taught at the University of Toronto and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Specialties:

Core Competencies, Methods and Life Cycles

-14-yr Gov, private, insurance, .com
-14-yr JAD, workshops, facilitation
-12-yr process improvement
-12-yr appl. / infrastructure / web
-10-yr structured analysis
-7-yr tactical data migration
-7-yr OOAD/BOOM /UML analysis
-6-yr standard waterfall
-3-yr scrum/agile
-2-yr Rational Unified Process™
-2-yr formal gate (with RUP®)
-1- yr standard iterative
-1-yr RAD prototyping
-1-yr lean, ITIL and CMMI

Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Experience

Senior Professional Services Consultant

Davis + Henderson

(Public Company; dhf.un; Financial Services industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Portfolio: Client portfolio: Fifth-Third Bank (revenue: 2.8MM per year), Capital One (revenue: TBD).

Project Scope: In addition to ongoing relationship management – planning coordinating and supervising all business analysis, design and configuration activities with a team of resources for the strategic partners within his portfolio.

Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and mentor resources
- Document client business processes and requirements for the purposes of designing product configuration
- Provide support for sales and marketing activities
- Provide leadership on requirements best practices

Deliverables:
-Strategic, operational, tactical and functional needs
-Customer gap analysis, business requirements, configuration specifications, process redesign, project plans, status reports.
-Ongoing relationship management, project management, issue and risk management and resolution, Solution assessment / validation
Vice President Professional Development and Certification Toronto

IIBA Toronto

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Responsible for the Chapter's professional development programs designed to increase the competence of the business analysis community, develop workshops and seminars, act in the absence of the President , act as a signing officer for cheques and other documents and participate in appropriate committees within the central organization.
VP Certification

IIBA

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )
Contract Senior Business Analyst and Best Practices Lead

Insurance Bureau of Canada

(Non-Profit; Insurance industry)

September 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 4 months)

Current Project

Information Services Department Service Delivery Model Restructure
Duration - 220 days
Scope - The department’s current state worked off of a resource pool; however the staff mentality was that of a silo environment mired in heroic delivery. My scope was to interview all 87 department staff to assess their skills and analyze overlaps and gaps between other isolated roles to identify redundancy. I developed workshops with senior staff and helped them develop a new service delivery model that integrated the silos into portfolios of ‘like’ services lead by a ‘centre of excellence and accountability’. Our result was to lower the attrition rate from 12% to 4% by elevating many positions, effective succession planning and subsequently making pay grades more competitive.
Contract Senior Business Analyst and Requirements Lead

Agricorp

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)

September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

This is just one example of the projects that I worked on.

Project - Business Improvement Initiative
Duration 240 days
Scope - Agricorp is an agency of the Ontario government responsible for the delivery of a variety of risk management programs for OMAFRA which delivers various agricultural insurance and stabilization programs. The largest and most complex program, the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization program (CAIS), required a complete 3-year, multi-million dollar redesign from the bottom up. My scope was to lead the requirements elicitation, analysis, and planning and communications phases of the project and to deliver a complete business requirements package.
Contract Senior Business Analyst and Project Coordinator

Thomson Carswell

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Publishing industry)

September 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Project - Estates & Trusts Source™ and Litigator™ Product Projects
Durations - 160 days and 240 days
Scope - Thomson Reuters, formally Thomson Carswell, provides online tools for the legal industry. Estates & Trusts Source™ and Litigator™ each are premier products marketed to their respective communities. My scope for each project was to lead the requirements elicitation, analysis, and planning and communications phases of the project and to deliver a complete business requirements package. Planning the data migration phase was also part of my scope for each of the projects. In addition, as an elicitation tool for lawyers, I created an interactive wire-frame prototype for Litigator™.
Permanent Business Analyst and Project Coordinator

CSA International

(Consumer Services industry)

February 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Projects - Concrete Certification Project, Documentum Content Migration Project, Documentum Workflow Design/Implementation Project and Mapping CSR Workflow to SAP CRM Project
Duration - Over course of employment
Scope - The Canadian Standards Association is a not-for-profit membership-based association serving business, industry, government and consumers in Canada and the global marketplace. My scope for each project was to help coordinate the requirements elicitation, analysis, and planning and communications phases of the project and to deliver a complete business requirements package. In addition, I led, planned and managed a team of business workers on the data migration project. In the Concrete Certification Project I also played the role of developer and created a complex MS Access application that provided process improvement.
Permanent Business Analyst / Jr. DBA and UNIX Administrator

Requisite Technology

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 6 months)

Projects - Level-I support as well as Bugs Eye™, eMerge™, Content Workstation Projects
Duration - Over course of employment
Scope - Requisite is no longer in business. See Click Commerce for more information. Gathered user and functional requirements from inside and outside clients, created numerous use case style diagrams and scenarios, gathered metrics, researched, analyzed and documented production errors, liaised with development providing quantified enhancements, provided guidance, support and subject matter expertise to a team of application specialists, widespread trouble-shooting...

Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Education

McMaster University

Certificate , Advance Business Analysis , 2006 — 2008
George Brown College

Graphic Design , Graphic Design and Photography , 1989 — 1992