Karen Rooney is an experienced technical business analyst with a background in Finance and IT industries. With 6 years of experience in the IT sector and 8 years in Finance, she is a versatile professional with a thorough understanding of project management, solution delivery, and product design. Karen is well-versed in agile tools such as sprint planning, stand-ups, writing backlogs and user stories, with a background in Waterfall methodology and familiar with approaches such as Lean, XP, and V-model. She has considerable experience in the financial industry, including banking change management, regulatory reporting, and Fin-Tech start-ups.

Karen has a vast range of IT business analysis techniques and expertise in requirements elicitation and management, business process analysis and modelling, functional specifications, and business requirements documentation, and mapping of business processes and data architecture using Visio with BPMN and UML notation. She has worked with key stakeholders from senior management to end-users across global locations. Karen's previous roles include full-stack web developer and product manager, providing her with comprehensive experience in the full software development lifecycle from requirements and planning through to post-implementation.