Experienced Business Analyst with a detailed knowledge of software development having made the transition from Developer to Analyst.
Strong understanding of Scrum techniques, experience of working as a Scrum Master and currently a Certified Scrum Product Owner.
Scrum evangelist driven by providing the correct method of achieving a goal, committed to deliver value to the customer in the available time-scales to the highest standards.
Accomplished using RAD, Waterfall and Agile Methodologies, being involved with workshops, interviews, requirement analysis, product design, user interface and usability studies.
Accustomed to managing small or large teams of developers and / or analysts in a subservient manner with an emphasis on serving the team rather than parading authority.
People person with good soft skills, strong enough to push back to the client and able to steer stakeholders down the most appropriate path.
Senior Business Analyst (CSPO) @ Working within the development department as the Product Owner for the Business Intelligence team and the Mobile team managing the product backlog.
Actively engaging with internal and external customers to understand and clearly document business needs.
Ensuring that business requirements are clearly translated and documented into high quality user stories for the team.
Assisting stakeholder management by managing the expectations and project perceptions of internal and external customers.
Being involved in quality improvements both with the product itself and within the processes and procedures adopted by the department.
Following the company mantra of "standard, repeatable and reliable solutions, with excellent customer experience" From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Business Analyst @ Initially working as part of the standard software development team on the Eagle Field Service project, providing analysis of the current requirements. Hosting workshops to extract the detail behind the requirements and presenting our proposals.
Helped Introduce Scrum to the company, which is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing software projects and application development.
Initially it made sense for me to be the Scrum Master removing impediments and ensuring that Scrum is used as intended.
I then was deployed as a Product Owner on a very large project with extremely tight deadlines and with my own team to manage along with writing user stories, representing the voice of the customer and prioritising the backlog.
The user stories created adhered to the INVEST principle (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable). The stories were centred on how the user would interact with certain aspects of the system with SMART Acceptance Criteria (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound). I also produced wireframes to help with design.
I worked closely with customers to produce detailed UML flow diagrams with swim lanes and use case diagrams to help better understand the business process.
I was also I involved in mapping Exel's internal development, test and release process to better align with Scrum.
Projects: Field Service enhancements for the leading drinks dispense service company in the UK, internal business process mapping. From October 2013 to June 2015 (1 year 9 months) Business Systems Analyst @ Working on the data warehouse delivery for the Army Recruiting Partnering Programme, providing analysis of the contractual and operational reporting in the form of requirements documents.
Visiting the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force to extract the detail behind the requirements using workshops and interviews. Presenting to stakeholders both Army and civilian, to various ranks and roles.
Utilising BEAM✲ which is an agile approach to dimensional modelling, creating data stories with useful examples to extract the detail behind the requirements. Event Analysis and Modelstorming (data modelling + brainstorming) providing useful artefacts such as event matrices and star schemas.
Working with other team members to improve business processes and requirements capture techniques.
Involved in the roll-out of TeamForge to other teams within Capita, actively involved in workshops and training sessions. Supporting the administration of TeamForge on a day to day basis as required.
Projects: Data warehouse delivery for the Army Recruiting Partnering Programme, Internal roll-out of TeamForge. From June 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 5 months) Derby, United KingdomSenior Systems Analyst @ Working as part of the main software development team creating functional specification documents from business requirements, managing small and large projects through the product life cycle, liaising with product stakeholders to ensure any potential problems were identified and eliminated during the design process.
Delegating work to small teams of off-shore developers and systems analysts. I was involved in code creation and code reviews to ensure the quality was maintained.
Mentoring and assisting the development team when they encounter technical difficulties, and working closely with Product Management to ensure new business requirements were addressed appropriately.
The off shore team was cancelled, the UK team was expanded and Scrum was introduced within 7 months of me holding the position of Senior Systems Analyst.
Although my responsibilities changed my title did not. Initially I became the Scrum Master facilitating the team’s needs by removing impediments to allow them to deliver the sprint deliverables.
After 6 months of being the Scrum Master the Product Management team was disbanded, therefore I had to take on Product Owner responsibilities in addition to my existing responsibilities.
Visiting customers, extracting requirements, writing user stories, demoing the output of each sprint to relevant stakeholders and making sure project progress was transparent.
Projects: QSHE Compliance, Dashboards, Financial Control Change Management and Batch Publishing. From May 2010 to June 2012 (2 years 2 months) Systems Analyst @ Working as part of the main software development team creating functional specification documents from business requirements, managing small and large projects through the product life cycle, liaising with product stakeholders to ensure any potential problems were identified and eliminated during the design process.
Delegating work to small teams of off-shore developers. I was involved in code creation and code reviews to ensure the quality was maintained.
Mentoring and assisting the development team when they encounter technical difficulties, and working closely with Product Management to ensure new business requirements were addressed appropriately.
Projects – A Key Performance Indicator module, Business Intelligence Module for NEC processes. From February 2009 to May 2010 (1 year 4 months) Software Developer @ Programming skills used – asp, asp.net, C#, MVC, NHibernate, XML, XSLT, XHTML,HTML, CSS, Ajax, SQL, JQuery, JavaScript, asp, vbscript.
Software Skills used – Microsoft Visual Studio2003-08(with TFS), SQL Server 2000-08 and Microsoft Office.
Projects – The introduction of Time zones to support both .Net and classic asp, User Adoption for illness and holiday cover, Hierarchical data handling using Navigation Trees, Configurable Form creation, removing the reliance of 3rd party controls by developing a new version of the existing photo management system and utilising SQL Report services by implementing formatted reports. From January 2006 to February 2009 (3 years 2 months) Nottingham, United KingdomWeb Developer @ Programming skills used – asp, asp.net, VB.net, C#, XML, XSLT, XHTML, HTML, CSS, Ajax, SQL, JavaScript, asp, vbscript.
Software Skills used – Microsoft Visual Studio, Adobe CS, Absolute FTP, SQL Server 2000, and Microsoft Office.
Projects – The Full Integration of mobile services with flybmi.com and the Implementation of 4 of the foreign language websites. From May 2004 to January 2006 (1 year 9 months) Senior Development Engineer @ Programming skills used – asp, XML, XSLT, XHTML, HTML, CSS, SQL JavaScript, vbscript.
Software Skills used – Dreamweaver 4, SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Office (especially Access).
Projects – The new website rewrite, bespoke software for the directors, maintenance of the existing software. From September 2002 to April 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Hons, Computer Visualisation and Animation, 2.1 @ University of Bedfordshire From 1998 to 2002 Kevin Davis is skilled in: Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Business Analysis, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Agile Project Management, ASP.NET, C#, Visual Studio, JavaScript, Systems Analysis, Microsoft Office, ASP, jQuery