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Faith Katonha

Manchester,MAN

Summary

5 Years of valuable experience working within projects in a variety of roles between QA consultancy (HMRC) and IBM (BAE,DSI and NHS digital). A task-oriented analyst who utilises planning, development, stakeholder management and analysis expertise to ensure the impactful delivery of projects. Adept in producing artefacts for programme governance, working expertly to deliver efficient and effective solutions for deadlines as a certified Project Manager. Also skilled and have experience in PMO change management roles.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work history

Cultural Transformation Consultant

IBM
09.2023 - Current
  • Producing team charter playbook, providing valuable resource for teams within partnership, empowering them to independently facilitate their own Team Charter sessions which focus on needs of their teams

Business analyst

IBM (NHS Digitial)
04.2023 - 09.2023
  • Eliciting requirements for the system that participants would have to use to partake in the programme.

Business Analyst/PMO

IBM (BAE)
Manchester, MAN
07.2021 - 04.2023
  • Mapping programme business needs to solution components then identifying gaps and establishing recommendations for improvement.
  • For Governance, daily management and updating of the Programme's Assurance Trackers on confluence.
  • Mapping user stories to business use cases, for each phase.
  • Identified changes and captured actions/decisions for management on Jira.

Junior PM

QA Consultancy (HMRC)
Telford
07.2020 - 07.2021
  • Responsible for reporting weekly plans, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies onto Clarity.
  • Drove roles and responsibility activities,
  • Ran a bi-weekly checkpoint call between supplier, business and internal project senior stakeholders and captured outputs.
  • Removed blockers by familiarising with various aspects of the HMRC Estate, processes and point of contacts.

Business Analyst

QA Consultancy (HMRC)
Telford
05.2020 - 07.2020
  • Produced discovery data artefacts for some of HMRC's 700 services, to support their migrations. Artefacts included but were not limited to; DPIA, ROPA, Complexity calculators, BIA, PTA, NFRs, BDApps and Discovery Questionnaires.

PMO analyst

QA Consultancy (HMRC)
Telford, Telford and Wrekin
03.2019 - 05.2020
  • Worked as Change Manager, managing the change process for the SoTF programme.
  • Captured incoming change requests and leased with the change requester when necessary (for clarity or more information).
  • Documenting changes onto the Change Log and uploaded all changes to Clarity.
  • Organised the weekly Change Board and facilitated in it's running, ensuring to capture decisions and actions.

Education

Certified Cloud Practitioner -

AWS
03/2023 -

Business Analysis Foundation -

BCS

Business Analysis Requirements Engineering -

BCS

Prince 2 Foundation -

BCS

BCs Economics and Development Studies -

University of Bradford

Skills

  • Stakeholder management
  • Detail-orientation
  • Risk management
  • Technical business analysis
  • Jira
  • Clarity
  • Confluence
  • IBM Delivery Central Platform

Timeline

Cultural Transformation Consultant

IBM
09.2023 - Current

Business analyst

IBM (NHS Digitial)
04.2023 - 09.2023

Business Analyst/PMO

IBM (BAE)
07.2021 - 04.2023

Junior PM

QA Consultancy (HMRC)
07.2020 - 07.2021

Business Analyst

QA Consultancy (HMRC)
05.2020 - 07.2020

PMO analyst

QA Consultancy (HMRC)
03.2019 - 05.2020

Certified Cloud Practitioner -

AWS
03/2023 -

Business Analysis Foundation -

BCS

Business Analysis Requirements Engineering -

BCS

Prince 2 Foundation -

BCS

BCs Economics and Development Studies -

University of Bradford
Faith Katonha