Passionate, driven professional delivering business improvement through relationship focussed IT.
• Passionate about fulfilling business needs -Driven business analyst dedicated to working alongside clients to gather requirements and deliver solutions to help companies get the most out of their IT investments.
• Creative and analytical thinker, taking experience in enterprise architecture, accounting, data analysis, software development, HR, finance, manufacturing and logistics to think outside the box and deliver innovative and effective solutions.
• Excellent communicator - experienced in collaborating with stakeholders from varied backgrounds and all levels of management to promote clear understanding of business processes and adhere to best practices when delivering solutions
Specialties: Requirements analysis, business process improvement, software development (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum), software testing, technical writing, financial reporting, enterprise software, business intelligence, data migration/integration, project management.
Requirements analysis, business process improvement, logistics, manufacturing, MRP/ERP, SAP R/3, SAP Business One, Epicor, SQL (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), Excel/VBA, SSRS, Crystal reports, C#, VB .net, ASP .net (Javascript, jQuery, KnockoutJS, MVC, MVVM),PHP, HTML5, ABAP, C/C++, shell/bash scripting, Windows Server 2003-2012, SharePoint 2007-2013, Nintex Workflow, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio.
Business Analyst @ From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaTechnical Business Analyst @ Positioned as an application specialist and subject matter expert in business process improvement/automation, financial reporting, marketing, logistics and business applications. Responsible for gathering business requirements, delivery and support of all financial reporting, customer facing document management, customer portals and integration of business applications with multiple external partners.
Key Accomplishments:
• Primary contact for financial reporting, all outgoing business documents and business applications - collaborating with the business stakeholders, architect and IT manager to gather requirements and deliver solutions within deadlines and budget while streamlining business processes
• Solely responsible for the customer portal, all business process automation and improvement for the marketing department – enabling real time management of performance, claims and payments as part of customer incentive schemes
• Collaborating with stakeholders in finance, marketing and logistics to analyse all available information, gathering insights for business stakeholders to help deliver solutions and improve business outcomes
• Collaborated with finance, logistics, vendors and other external stakeholders to gather requirements, plan and deliver detailed integration between local systems, vendors and other companies in the global KYOCERA group
• Worked with the IT team and business stakeholders to drive an ERP implementation project – gathering requirements, revising business processes, guiding user testing and delivering applications as part of the consolidation of Australian and New Zealand operations From December 2013 to May 2015 (1 year 6 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaConsultant @ Engaged as a BA/developer and integration specialist to deliver self-service tools, web based/workflow driven solutions and services to support business processes. Working as part of a team and individually to gather requirements, lead testing and deliver products/solutions for a variety of customers in the mining, shared services, retail and media industries
Key Accomplishments:
• Working directly with project managers and customer stakeholders to gather requirements, document use cases/business processes, plan and deliver projects to reduce costs while improving business processes
• Leading development, user acceptance testing and delivery of customer portals, web applications and workflows using ASPX, jQuery, SharePoint and Nintex Workflow to support and optimise business processes
• Positioned as an integration expert, delivering tools to run detailed financial reports and maintain HR, sales, material and financial data in SAP
• Providing end user training, writing project and client documentation for projects and customer solutions
• Using Jira to plan and manage multiple simultaneous projects following the Scrum methodology From January 2012 to December 2013 (2 years) North SydneyAnalyst/Programmer @ Positioned as a primary contact for the delivery of IT projects, financial reporting & technical support for a global market leader in the supply of mining/engineering equipment & consumables. Worked across all departments to deliver & support solutions to improve business processes & streamline operations.
Key Accomplishments:
• Collaborating with business users, IT & vendors to gather requirements, run workshops, conduct user training and provide ongoing support for new software packages (Financials/ERP, Payroll, and Warehouse Management).
• Working with vendors to deliver & customise integration software to maintain inventory data across companies, enabling B2B transactions with customers/external partners
• Financial/sales reporting from multiple ERP systems using SQL, Crystal Reports & Excel/VBA to provide decision support & meet parent company reporting requirements
• Writing project proposals, requirements & other documentation for in-house solutions & products sold. From March 2010 to January 2012 (1 year 11 months) Software Developer @ Gathering the requirements for and delivering a time tracking and Material Requirements Planning system to deploy in two manufacturing locations. This system allows users to generate quotes, schedule jobs, produce job costings/resource estimates and monitor performance using a touchscreen interface on the factory floor. Responsible for all stages of the software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment. From July 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 1 month) Research Assistant @ Gathering, categorising & entering data for a multidimensional data analysis project at the University of Wollongong. From July 2009 to December 2009 (6 months) Tutor @ Teaching SQL, data modelling & software/web development to students at the Wollongong campus.
-ISIT112, Databases (Database design, Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft Access)
-ISIT207, Web Programming (VB.net, ASP.net) From February 2009 to November 2009 (10 months)
B. CompSc, Software Development @ University of Wollongong From 2006 to 2009 Brett Johnston is skilled in: Requirements Analysis, Business Analysis, Project Management, Business Process..., Business Process, Business Intelligence, Software Development, Integration, Software Documentation, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, SDLC, C#, Web Development, ASP.NET, jQuery, MySQL, Scrum, SAP R/3, Data Analysis, PHP, ERP, Data Integration, Software Solution..., ABAP, T-SQL, Data Migration, Crystal Reports, XML, .NET, Agile Methodologies, Epicor, PostgreSQL, SSRS, JavaScript, SharePoint, Databases, Enterprise Software, Testing