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University of the Witwatersrand

Business Analyst / Solution Architect at Leverage Technologies

Warrington, United Kingdom

Business Analyst / Solution Architect responsible for implementing Sage ERP X3 (v11, v12) for Leverage clients in Australia, with particular focus on systems integration and interfacing.Responsible for project scoping, detailed requirements gathering, running workshops, solution design, customer and internal documentation, specification of bespoke enhancements, Sage X3 customisation, software development (using Kanban with JIRA), testing, training, data migration, go-live cutover and support.Developed detailed designs for PCI DSS compliant order payment and refunds integrated with Sage X3 and digital retail systems, including one-off payment-card transactions, Paypal payments and recurring payments using stored tokens implementing the ANZ Securepay and Braintree payment gateway APIs (Node JS).Designed and developed the interfaces between Sage X3 and Manhattan Scale WMS (SQL interface), including hand-over and confirmation of customer deliveries, purchases expected to receive with confirmation, stock adjustments and product master records.Designed, enhanced and optimised Sage X3 web services used by bespoke IOS Sales App and Powerfront Inside eCommerce for creating and maintaining orders, customers, event appointments, product wish lists, and providing the product catalogue, stock availability and order history for sales consultants.Designed and implemented Sage-schema SQL views used by Qlik BI reporting apps and web services to calculate commission payments and rewards based on a genealogy hierarchy rules.Responsible for applying configuration to Sage X3 modules including Finance (general ledger, accounts payable / receivable, banking, fixed assets, reporting), Inventory, Purchasing, Sales and Distribution (order processing, pricing and discounts acknowledgements, delivery, invoicing, returns, marketing).

Leverage Technologies

Business Analyst / Solution Architect

Project Manager / Business Analyst responsible for replacing the firm’s financial accounting, payroll, job quotation & tracking systems with Sage ERP X3 and replacing their MPLS Network.Involved at the initial procurement stage of product and supplier selection, comparison of proposals and solutions, costing and recommendation to board, review and signoff of contracts.Responsible for PID, schedule, RAID, status reporting, financial tracking & supplier invoice approval, management of suppliers and team, signoff of requirements and change requests, testing, training and phased cutover to live activities.In the initial phases, facilitated the detailed requirements capture workshops with solution providers and company SMEs leading to solution documentation, configured system demonstration and stage signoff.With solution providers coordinated the preparation and testing of the data centre hosting environment, network connectivity, ERP application installation, provision of backup & disaster recovery services.Managed the phased go-live preparations including testing, data migration, definition of sales products, creation of user profiles, development of document templates and user manuals.Responsible for implementation, delivered in phases to 30 sites and circa 350 users encompassing directors, branch managers, sales & production staff. Rollout of nominal and purchase ledger to central finance moving through groups of branches replacing multiple legacy sales ledgers.During implementation, responsible for cutover planning, delivering pre go-live presentations, providing user training with the project team and data migration of ledger balances, customer, pricelist, open items, supplier, employee and fixed assets.Responsible for delivering change including management of supplier change requests and introduction of business processes for customer & supplier onboarding, maintenance of products, standard costs, interbranch jobs and purchase approvals.

Hobs Group

Project Manager / Business Analyst (Contract)

Project Manager employed in the firm’s Legal Industry Insurance Business Transformation programme responsible for the development of a new & bespoke Matter & Claims Case Management system and Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence reporting service.Creation of transformation roadmap defining phases and scope of delivery to the organisation leading to application delivery following a Waterfall approach, converting to Agile following the initial live delivery.Responsible for overseeing spend of budget spread across Hardware & Software infrastructure, Professional services and bought-in assistance.Management of team of 15 comprising Business Analysts, Developers and Testers including Supplier Consultants and Contractors.Close involvement in all phases of development including input & review user requirements captured in use cases & user stories; collaboration with Suppliers & internal stakeholders in design & development; and directing project testing, UAT & training.New Case Management system characterised by significant bespoke development using K2 Blackpearl workflow, Case Framework and .Net WCF Web Services integrating with HP / Autonomy Worksite DMS, Aderant Expert Finance & Billing and Legacy CMS systems. Included data migration & synchronisation activities.New Business Intelligence service characterised by Legacy CMS system data analysis and Internal & Client MI Report analysis. BI Solution delivered using Microsoft SSIS to feed the SQL Datawarehouse and the Tabular DAX BI Model created using SSAS. Reporting through PowerPivot via Excel Spreadsheets and Sharepoint 2013.Responsible for release of deployments into Production using Development, Continuous Integration environments through the internal change & release management process.Transition from project to the introduction of new services, with provision of service documentation, operations support matrix & support scenarios and change control process.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Project Manager (Contract)

Project Manager employed to assist Dell’s Legal Industry client in the Service Improvement of their Matter Case Management system within an ITIL aligned IT department.Established the scope and objectives of the transition required with service design colleagues including the service availability, performance, business continuity and overall service goals using their service warranty scorecard.Developed the documentation describing the ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ architecture including inventory of main infrastructure components and interface descriptions, identification of root cause performance bottlenecks through understanding the application architecture and compilation of performance benchmarks.Facilitation of Dell Secureworks PCI DSS Audit, analysis of findings and selection of best value recommendations for implementation.Collaborated with the Service Design, Operations, Development teams and software suppliers to develop the costed improvement options & implementation plans which covered infrastructure migration and upgrade, application software upgrade, database & file replication, refresh of development & testing environments, improved service monitoring and live operation support.Ran the approved service transition plans which included management of internal & supplier resources, communications to stakeholders, development of the testing approach, phase change & live cutover plans, back-out contingency plans, acceptance tests and post implementation feedback & lessons learnt.Worked within their newly established PMO function, presenting highlight reports, management & communication of RAID logs and providing input into the development of templates for the Project Plan document, MS Project schedule, Budget tracking spreadsheets and Projects summary dashboard.

Dell

Project Manager for planning the test phases in the migration of applications to new target platforms, collaborating with the end-client and test team to define the approach, define the work breakdown structure and develop estimates to input into the Statements of Work. Aligned the test phase progress reporting into a consolidated testing dashboard and produced the overarching summary plan and documentation of the cross-supplier dependencies.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Project Manager / Business Analyst in the systems integration team for the delivery of functionality to allow migration of corporate customers from another bank to the client’s UK corporate platform. Functionality included management of payment decision-making for direct debits, faster payments, cheques and standing orders; multicurrency cash pooling for customers to hold available funds in pounds, dollars and euro whilst transacting in other currencies.Project Manager in a migration team for the transfer of 31 million retail accounts into live target banking systems through a series of practice events leading to the single migration event. Involved in the development of the test materials to support validation of the critical business processes at migration cutover. This included identification and specification of all source test accounts, their attributes and transactions applied to them, development of the test script baseline and detailed execution plan. Validated and tracked progress across the banking & savings work-streams for each practice event reporting progress to banking & savings executives.Project Manager / Business Analyst involved in the development and delivery of benefit handling applications for a Government agency. Developed and presented proposals to the client with high-level estimates and plans for the automation of client business processes such as benefit claim handling and debt collection. Assisted in forming the technical solutions in collaboration with solution architects using on Business Process Management (BPM) technology, Siebel Public Sector CRM and SOA services.Technical Project Manager for the enhancement of a Government internet application providing citizens with online pension forecasts. Responsible for acquiring detailed business requirements and production on the delivery plan. Managed the design, build, test and environment teams. Worked closely with the client management team, third party and government organisations.

Accenture

Project Manager

Team leader for the analysis, design and development of intranet and extranet applications to allow interaction between Government organisations including Health and Safety, Local Authorities, Planning, Environment and Agriculture. Technology solutions provided using <a href="http://ASP.net">ASP.net</a> and C# web services, configuring Microsoft SharePoint, ISA Server, Index Server and Active Directory.Member of the agency extranet user group to assess improvements and steer the development of their services.Team leader on the design and development of interfaces between applications for a Government agency and their Peoplesoft CRM system using Visual <a href="http://Basic.net">Basic.net</a> web services, <a href="http://ASP.net">ASP.net</a>, XML, T-SQL, Data Transformation Services and Active Directory.Team Leader for the redevelopment of scientific applications for a Government agency migrating from legacy Visual Basic applications to Visual <a href="http://Basic.net">Basic.net</a> windows forms applications.Team leader on the design and development of an e-Commerce website for the sale of government literature over the internet using Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 with ASP and Visual Basic.Team leader on the design and development of a financial client loans system and government vehicle licensing system using Microsoft DNA architecture with ASP, Visual Basic, COM+, SQL Server, T-SQL, VBScript, XML and XSLT.Team leader on the development of various Government client systems including grants award management, pollution control and courts administration using Oracle Database 8i, Designer 2000, Developer 2000 and PL/SQL.

Steve Williams

Steve Williams