Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP

Current

• Vice President Professional Development and Certification Toronto at IIBA Toronto
• VP Certification at IIBA

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

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Summary

Value Proposition

Integrate more than 10-years of experience using architecture driven initiatives and best practices to lead, plan, elicit, model, structure, validate and communicate requirements from any industry that are specific, visible, accountable, measurable and traceable.

Areas of Expertise

Business case /vision analysis, Business process re-engineering, Requirements management, Prototyping and story boards, Detailed Stakeholder analysis, Detailed quality of service, Business entity driven, Solution assessment / validation, Data migration & entity class maps, Project & iteration management, Strategic mapping scope mgmt , Elicitation by requirement type, Detailed business rules analysis, Effective requirements packaging, Use case for centre of analysis, Central source insistent.

Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Specialties:

Core Competencies

- Strategic enterprise analysis
- Proven facilitation techniques
- Guide users to their own solution
- Effective leader and negotiator
- Traceability focused
- Successful mentor and teacher
- Creative elicitation techniques
- Advanced object oriented analysis
- Diagnostic modeling expertise
-Valued presentation skills
- Zachman™ taxonomy proficiency
- Large scale business transformation

Perry McLeod, CBAP, PMP’s Experience

• Vice President Professional Development and Certification Toronto

  IIBA Toronto

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

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 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

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