Firstly, thanks for taking the time to look at my resume.
I\'m an IS/IT professional with 10+ years experience surrounding the analysis, design and build of IS projects for companies ranging from small one man bands to large blue-chip organizations.
I have a rare blend of technical & \'soft\' skills, and i\'m a tenacious leader able to lead, motivate and develop teams while liaising with both technical and business users as well as third party vendors and stakeholders.
I adopt a positive attitude to work, with superior written and verbal communications skills, developed over many years of client facing at all levels.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
o Experienced across all stages of the project lifecycle, from requirements gathering & analysis through to coding, testing and sign-off;
o Extensive Financial Services sector exposure, including: electronic payments, MI reporting, data warehousing data analysis.
o Business focused but from a development background, therefore highly proficient in both business & technical areas & translating the requirements from both.
o Familiar with front middle & back office functions of UK corporate & commercial banking, with knowledge & experience of payments gateways, protocols & organisations such as SWIFT, VOCA etc.;
o Proficient in gathering and documenting both functional & non-functional requirements, creating test plans, performing GAP Analysis and supporting testing at all levels, liaising between IT & business to ensure all requirements are understood & delivered;
o Proven track record of ensuring project elements are delivered within time and budgetary constraints;
o Highly proficient in coding (VBA) Ms Office programs such as Ms Access, Word, Excel to expert level.Excellent understanding of the practical and theoretical aspects of database systems and their supporting architecture (such as ERD modeling and normalization).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
IT consultant, business analyst and developer
Various clients. 2004 - Present
Adopted a consultative and collaborative approach as a professional I.T. Consultant in the areas of data, systems and process analysis, design and build.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
[login to view URL]. (Hons) Computing for Business, 2:1 University of Northumbria 2001 - Computer Science degree (with a strong emphasis on database theory and practice) which also combined business analysis and project management skills.
## Area of Expertise
Ms Access design & build (All versions from 97 - 2010)
* Programming
* Design
* Queries
* SQL
* Complete applications
* Reporting
* Security
* Relationship modeling
* Normalization
* VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)
Ms Office automation & interoperability for:
* Ms Access
* Ms Excel
* Ms Outlook
* Ms Project
* Ms Work
* Visio
Large (& small!) Mail Merges:
* Word/Ms Access/Outlook
Application integration
Application development
Application testing
Ms Office programming including use of:
* APIs
* Web services
* ADO
* DAO
* VBA
* VBScript
* COM/ActiveX,
* ODBC
* Visual Basic
* Client-Server
* DLLs
Web scraping/ Data scraping (Automated collection of data from websites)
Business Consulting
Process improvement,
Programming
Requirements documentation
Requirements gathering
Application design
Data modeling
Data analysis,
ER diagrams
Data cleansing & de-duping