“A Systems Analyst with 9 years experience of Engineering Requirements, Evaluating Usability and writing Functional and Technical Specifications for Software Development with 4 of the UK’s most successful online companies”

Qualifications:

2009 - Present               Analysis and Design of Enterprise Systems
                                    - an Object Orientated Approach

                                    With the Open University

The course covers topics such as domain modelling, requirements analysis, specifying the software, design, design patterns, implementation in Java, testing and component-based architectures. UML notation is used throughout.

The Analysis and Design course is highly relevant to my role as a Systems Analyst and has taught me how to integrate the many different techniques I have learnt such as Use Cases and Communications Diagrams into one structured methodology.

2007-2008 -                   Relational Database Systems With the Open University

This was a Post Graduate level module covering an introduction to database theory, relational algebra and SQL. Following this course I am confident specifying basic database design and field tables.

2006-2007 -                  User Interface Design and Evaluation With the Open University

This was also a Post Graduate IT course. The course covered design principals including Use Cases, Human Interaction Theory and how to evaluate a User Interface. Techniques including expert review, heuristic evaluation and user testing were thoroughly covered.

This course was passed with merit i.e. with an average of over 70% for both coursework and examination.

2006 - Current: -            Associate Member of the British Computer Society

2005-2006: -                  ISEB Business Analysis diploma including the following modules:

Business Analysis Essentials - the basic toolbox of analytic techniques that a business analyst requires.

Requirements Engineering - how to produce a set of requirements that is clear and unambiguous.

Business Organisations - different types of organisation and how their needs vary in relation to a business analyst.

Modelling Business Processes - techniques for modelling systems including with Swimlane diagrams.

Each module included an examination and the diploma was passed with a 1 hour oral examination.

2004-2005: -                  Analysing Data module from the Open University

This was an undergraduate level module that taught the basics of statistical analysis including distributions and significance tests.

1990 - 1999: -                MSc Operations Management from UMIST

The UMIST Operations Management MSc course is a thorough academic treatment of the theory underpinning the professions of Ops Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management etc. Manufacturing and Ops Research were also covered in some depth.

The course includes a 30,000 dissertation. Mine was a study of techniques for scheduling bus services.

1995-1999 -                   BSc (hons) Management from UMIST (2:1)

The BSc course covered a wide range of subjects including: Economics, Finance, Accounting, Psychology, Ops Management and Research and Creative Problem Solving to name a few.

Out of these, the Operations Management and Operations Research modules proved to be of greatest interest.