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Damian Rodgers

Damian Rodgers

Worksop,United Kingdom

Summary

I am a highly effective & motivated Business/Systems Analyst and Data Analyst. I have over 20 years' experience working as a Business/Systems and Data Analyst, 10 years working in Senior leading Analyst roles. Successfully worked and delivered on large Programmes of work across many Industry Sectors including Energy/Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Banking, Retail, Ecommerce, Manufacturing, and the Public Sector.

Skills

  • The professional ability to thrive where quality output is valued with the necessary motivation to succeed in a fast-moving environment
  • Adept at influencing clients and building productive working partnerships
  • Strong inter-personal and communicational skills Proven ability to convey complex issues to non-technical colleagues
  • Natural flair and ability to perform both formal and informal presentations to all levels of management and staff in the pursuit of acceptance both of the project conclusions and the implementation of recommendations
  • Thorough understanding of development methodologies and database design
  • Excellent appreciation of the full development lifecycle including Business Modelling and Requirements Elicitation

Overview

20
20

Years working as a Business/Systems and Data Analyst

10
10

Years working in Senior, mentoring roles

Work history

Business Data Analyst

Specsavers Opticians
11.2022 - Current
  • Analyst within Specsavers Global Supply Chain conducting analysis and data modelling for a Global Supplier Spend initiative
  • Project role and scope included requirements gathering for all data feeds and required reporting across defined regions and products
  • Analysis and documentation of supply chain process, systems, and data to include as-is and to-be processes across all regions and products as dictated by the project
  • Data mapping, data flow diagrams and gap analysis to be completed to a point where development can commence
  • I documented requirements, context and process flow diagrams in Miro, Confluence and Draw
  • Analysis tasks and user stories added to the Jira backlog for development team to complete in fortnightly sprints
  • Design and implementation of data layer to enable self-serve by business users
  • Data mapping from self-serve layer to PowerBI dashboard working with visualisation analyst
  • Working closely with other business analysts, SME's, solution architects, and Data Modeller to support Common Data Model development Specsavers Global Supply Chain.

Technical Business Analyst

SES Water
12.2020 - 11.2022
  • I was the Lead Business/Systems/Data Analyst for the Retail and Business Divisions on the CRM Modernisation Programme
  • The programmes scope and objective were to replace legacy Retail/Business CRM solutions with Salesforce and modernise through moving applications and operating models to Azure
  • I was responsible for leading requirements workshops, engaging with key stakeholders and business leads and delivering Business Requirements to support development and configuration of Salesforce
  • My role involved me working closely with Salesforce Solution Architects to aid in translating requirements into technical specifications and test leads/analysts during User Acceptance testing to resolve queries from the business during the test phases
  • I successfully designed and delivered integration with several 3rd Partys including Capita, Paypoint, RBS/Natwest, Post Office, Experian, BACS, Sage and Industry Participants.

Senior Technical Business Analyst

Walgreens Boots Alliance
11.2019 - 12.2020
  • Year 2 months)
  • WBA in Partnership with Microsoft has embarked on a journey to modernise its existing on-premises applications globally with the primary objective of moving all applications into Microsoft Azure
  • I was the Lead Technical Business Analyst within the Leap Programme; our scope was to deliver application modernization and migrate Enterprise applications into Azure
  • We successfully delivered 40 application migrations into Azure, while ensuring Business and Operational service was not impacted
  • I defined the approach & framework to assess applications, scope and timescales, contributing to the programme planning activities and estimation
  • As the Lead Analyst I was accountable for a Team of Analysts responsible for the assessment of applications and key deliverables including Application Assessments, Requirements Analysis and Elicitation, Migration Design/Plans
  • Test Plan/Cases, Stakeholder Engagement and Service Delivery to deliver qualitative successful migrations
  • To support documenting legacy .NET Applications I worked with development teams to review and analyse code (.NET/C#/SQL) to create ‘as is' system specifications
  • In this role I was actively engaged with Architects (Solution/Enterprise), Developers, Microsoft Consultants, SMEs, Test Teams, Service Delivery and Programme Management.

Senior Technical Business Analyst

ENGIE Resources
11.2018 - 11.2019
  • My role was the Lead Business/Systems/Data Analyst for the Business and Enterprises Division on the Decommissioning Programme
  • The programmes scope was to either remove, migrate, or replace Legacy Business C&I Billing Applications operating on end-of-life infrastructure and operating systems
  • The Team successfully migrated Legacy Applications to a resilient, scalable, and future proofed cloud-based platform in AWS allowing the on-premises Data Centre to be decommissioned
  • I successfully delivered an approach, framework, scope, and timescales to assess the IT Enterprise Estate, contributing to the programme planning activities and estimation
  • A core deliverable of the programme was the development of an in-house Billing Solution (.NET/SQL/C#) in AWS to replace a legacy Oracle Solution
  • I was responsible for leading requirements workshops, engaging with key stakeholders and business SMEs to derive and capture business requirements
  • I worked closely with developers to translate requirements into system specifications and user stories, reviewing and assessing code
  • I led several BI Developers to provide real-time on-line analytical views of large data within Power BI
  • I was accountable for ensuring any known risks, issues, impacts are resolved and documented.

Senior Business System Analyst

Walgreens Boots Alliance
01.2018 - 11.2018
  • Working for the IT GDPR Programme I led the Process, Procedures and Operating Model workstream
  • The IT GDPR Programme objective was to assess compliance against GDPR and Security Policies through analysing the application, integration, processes, and network estate to identify risks and decide upon remediation
  • I was accountable for designing a conducting a survey to assess compliance against GDPR and company Security Policies
  • I delivered into WBA a compliance tool PRIMED and the supporting processes and procedures to maintain the WBA Information Asset Register
  • This role also involved me working closely with Legal/Contract Management Teams to review contracts with 3rd
  • Party's/Vendors to assess compliance, make recommendations/proposals to update contracts to ensure GDPR compliance.

Senior Business System Analyst, Metering Business Analyst

Siemens Digital Logistics
10.2016 - 12.2017
  • I work within the Smart Grid Division as the lead analyst for the Smart PAYG programme
  • A complex technical delivery developing a market leading PAYG solution to integrate with SMETS 2 Meters through the DCC via an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  • A key programme objective was to migrate the existing solution and operating model from end of life on premise architecture to a resilient, scalable and future proofed cloud-based platform (IaaS)
  • Smart

Business Analyst

Npower
04.2016 - 10.2016
  • Foundation Volume Increase
  • Working as a Business Analyst both to deliver Business Requirements and Business Change and Readiness for the Foundation Volume Increase Programme
  • The objectives of the programme are to:
  • Develop new infrastructure to maintain npower capability of deploying foundation meters
  • Progress meter sets to Smets1 compliant certification
  • Develop an over the air solution to upgrade npower meters estate to Smets 1 compliant
  • Work with 3rd part providers to scope, design and build required solutions across the programme
  • Align deliverables to commercial and business environment
  • Smart Metering Business Analyst npower

Business/Systems Analyst

Siemens
08.2015 - 10.2016
  • I work in the Business Change and Readiness function on npower's Smart Metering Programme
  • My role involves me reviewing Business Process Specifications to assess the change within each release from the ‘as-is' to the ‘to-be' process in terms of people, system, process and compliance, and what the impact will be on existing business processes and functions
  • I am actively involved in requirements workshops, engaging with key stakeholders and leads to assess change and form part of the design review process to assess changes with the Business/Smart Programme
  • I work on a day-to-day basis with SMEs, Design, People Transition, Change, Organisation Design whilst producing proceduresfor Business End Users
  • I am also responsible for the definition and development of procedural documentation in support of business end users, throughout the technical release cycle
  • My specific focus is within communication with the DCC, Management of Meter Events & Alerts, Business Service Request Exceptions, Business Process Exception Management and Workforce Management within SAP CRM/WAM, Click Mobile/Schedule, DPI and EnergyIP.

Business/Systems Analyst

Carter Synergy
01.2010 - 08.2015
  • Working for the Smart Grid Division as a lead analyst on key business projects and change
  • Within this role I was actively involved on all aspects of the Systems Development Lifecycle
  • I was responsible for producing business cases/feasibility studies to outline the benefits, risks and costs of developing solutions and the complexity of the change
  • As the lead analyst I was responsible for facilitating end- to-end process workshops with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to extract and define the business requirements (functional and non-functional), KPIs, SLAs and map the high and low level end-to-end processes
  • Whilst conducting requirements elicitation I utilised the following methodologies SSADM, Agile, UML, RAD, Object Orientated Design and core tools i.e., BPMN, Use Case, User Stories, Process/Activity Modeling and Data Flow Diagrams
  • My role involved me working closely with technical/solutions architects to aid in translating requirements into technical specifications and test leads/analysts during User Acceptance testing to resolve queries from the business during the test phases
  • On a day-to-day basis I had an active involvement with suppliers, internal developers, project managers, the business, users, 3rd parties and stakeholders to ensure that systems developed successfully match the requirements of the business
  • I worked closely with the business to define task efforts and implementation plans and manage business change between the transition to new to-be business processes and the delivery of new systems into operations day-to-day function
  • One of my core projects within SMCS was developing a Smart PAYG solution both for the UK Utilities and global market
  • The Siemens Smart Pay As You Go (PAYG) Solution enables customers to top up their electricity and gas meter how they want, when they want and virtually anywhere, they want; using the internet, a smart device app, text message, in store or by telephone.

Business/Systems Analyst

E.ON
08.2007 - 06.2009

Systems Analyst

HSBC
01.2006 - 05.2007

Business Analyst

Unilever
05.2005 - 10.2005

Education

BSc (Hons) - Business Information Systems

Sheffield Hallam University
2002

Certification

I have actively worked on all aspects of the Systems Development Lifecycle which includes Business Project Proposals, Feasibility Studies, Project Mandates, Contract Tenders/Bids, High/Low Level Design, Functional and Technical Specifications, Process Modelling Workflow, UAT/QA Plans and implementation plans.

Interests

My main interest is in Motorsport. At weekends, I visit and watch alternative Motorsports at various tracks around the country. I also enjoy playing snooker, football and tennis.

Technical Skills

  • Requirements Elicitation
  • Oracle/SQL Server
  • Business Readiness
  • Systems Development Lifecycle
  • Process/Activity Modeling
  • SSIS/SSAS/SSRS
  • Data Analysis/Modelling
  • ESB (Mule/WMB)
  • Agile/Scrum/Jira
  • Salesforce (Heroku/Lightning)
  • C#/C++
  • Confluence
  • PL/SQL
  • Process Re-Engineering
  • BPMN 2.0
  • Cloud Services (AWS/Azure)
  • Enterprise Service Bus
  • API Development
  • Functional Specifications
  • Jira
  • Databricks

Timeline

Business Data Analyst

Specsavers Opticians
11.2022 - Current

Technical Business Analyst

SES Water
12.2020 - 11.2022

Senior Technical Business Analyst

Walgreens Boots Alliance
11.2019 - 12.2020

Senior Technical Business Analyst

ENGIE Resources
11.2018 - 11.2019

Senior Business System Analyst

Walgreens Boots Alliance
01.2018 - 11.2018

Senior Business System Analyst, Metering Business Analyst

Siemens Digital Logistics
10.2016 - 12.2017

Business Analyst

Npower
04.2016 - 10.2016

Business/Systems Analyst

Siemens
08.2015 - 10.2016

Business/Systems Analyst

Carter Synergy
01.2010 - 08.2015

Business/Systems Analyst

E.ON
08.2007 - 06.2009

Systems Analyst

HSBC
01.2006 - 05.2007

Business Analyst

Unilever
05.2005 - 10.2005

BSc (Hons) - Business Information Systems

Sheffield Hallam University

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