Adrian Howard Swann

CONTACT Scheldestraat 58 A.H.Swann@gmail.com

Antwerp 0032486531735

QUALIFICATIONS
M.Sc. Software Engineering, Newcastle University England

B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry, Leeds University, England.

SKILLS BA
CONSULTING SKILLS:
23 years technical expertise and experience of full software lifecycle from requirement gathering through to the
testing phase
An experienced IT professional who has performed and coordinated duties at all levels of the software
development life cycle
Experience of working in an international, multinational, local Belgian and offshore companies.

Business/Functional analyst
Strong focus on analysing the business needs of target audiences as well as the key stakeholders to help
identify business requirements and propose solutions
Effectively liaising between the business side of an enterprise and the service providers (internal or external).
Key attributes:

Communicating with clients, customers & business representatives to ascertain their initial detailed
requirements
Strong communication and customer facing skills whilst ensuring that business objectives are met
Good facilitating skills with ability to influence without assertion
Ability to build relationships and team approach with business, marketing and IT stakeholders
Requirement gathering via workshops, 1-2-1 meetings and brainstorming and the ability to integrate that
information into one solution
Development of test strategies and plans based on business/functional requirements
Producing high-level project documentation (UML and BPMN)
Core project team member.
Relevant Project Experience: Agfa, Temenos(Viveo), DHL Aviation, Sony, Alcatel

SKILLS PM
Project management

Experience in putting project teams together and setting up change management processes, ensuring project
scope and scope extension are properly managed
Experience in managing multi-cultural teams in a local and within an international context. A “getting it done”
mentality while maintaining the balance between scope, deadline and budget.
Key attributes:

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 Proven technical leadership taking product from business analysis through to deployment
Ability to build relationships and team approach with both business, marketing and IT stakeholders
Able to deal with conflicting issues and possessing good negotiation skills.
Both Political and commercial awareness.
Relevant Project Experience: Temenos, DHL Aviation

WORK EXPERIENCE
AGFA May 2011 — July 2013
Senior/Lead Business Analyst
·‘As is’ description of the global processes.

·Modelling business processes by means of BPMN diagrams on a sales organisation (country) basis

·Creation of user cases and/or user stories

·Working alongside the development teams and customers to implement the selected solutions

·Identification of business rules

·Delivery of business requirements while also monitoring potential impact of change

·Performing process analysis, identification of weaknesses and bottlenecks.

·Stakeholder management:

Liaising with customers (on site & remote) - workshop organisation

Product presentation to customers
Creation of business requirements to satisfy the needs of global and local users
Creation of user documentation and processes.
·Analysis:

translation of high level requirements into business and functional requirements via a series of
workshops with internal/external stakeholders
Undertaking the design of user interfaces
Undertaking business process and data mapping activities.
·Implementation:

Project issue identification, tracking and resolution

Handling/raising of Change Requests
Creation of test strategy, UAT test scripts and testing
Assistance in UAT activities
Creating and delivering of software distribution packages.

Temenos March 2009 — March 2011

Business Analyst/Project Manager
Banking software (AML-anti money laundering) :

·‘As is’ description of all processes, a model of the application environment and a representation of technical
architecture in order to facilitate re-engineering and external audit

·Developing and gaining approval of project plans and budgets

·Stakeholder interfacing:

Liaising with customers (on site & remote) - workshop organisation

Identification of compliance issues/business rules
Conducting cost/benefit analyses and risk assessments

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 Product presentation to customers
Creation of business requirements and user documentation.
·Analysis:

Translation of high level requirements and organisational structures into business and functional requirements
via a series of workshops with internal stakeholders
Creation of BPMN flows and use cases
Working alongside the development teams and customers to create a number of potential solutions, each with
their individual costs and functionalities defined.
·Implementation:

Delivery of business requirements Implementation of Agile methodologies

Working with offshore providers to ensure requirements and deadlines are met
Project issue identification, tracking and resolution
Handling/raising of Change Requests

DHL Aviation
Business/Functional Analyst

Working on a multiple of aviation based projects

including:
·Cognos 8 reports (HR and Finance).

·Leipzig autosort.

·Restricted goods handling.

·Checkpoint reporting.

·Stakeholder interfacing

oOrganisation of workshops with existing users and impacted parties

oTranslation of high level requirements, high level process maps and organisational structures into detailed business
and functional requirements via a series of workshops with internal stakeholders

oWorkshops to ensure European customs regulations adhered to

oValidate high-level design with experts.

Analysis:
Design of system interfaces in collaboration with third party suppliers
Compliance with system architecture standards
Creation of user cases and/or user stories
Translation of high level requirements into high level process maps BPMN.
·Implementation:

·Delivery planning with third party suppliers and internal development teams

·Development of testing and UAT strategies

·Interface with internal development teams.

Project Manager: First point of entry

·Project planning and status reporting of deliverables

·Plan integration of impacted applications

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 ·Review and validation of internal development documentation

Sony Jan 2002 - — Jan 2004

Functional Analyst

Consumer Goods
·Development of specification (use cases)

·Development of user testing strategies

·Raising of change requests.

Alcatel Jan 1994 — Dec 2001

Functional Analyst
Project GSM BSC:

·Analysis of customer specification (use cases) and change requests

·Development of component, integration and acceptance test strategy, test plan and test execution.

Senior Software Engineer

Project GSM BSC:

·Analysis of specifications, customer change requests and fault reports

·Design, coding and host test of real-time embedded features.

·Integration test/validation test Multi-modules host testing of complete functional area.

·Review system specifications for interfaces and Functional specification for BSC internal feature

·Trouble shooting/ trouble report analysis

Nokia Dec 1992 — Jan 1994

Senior Software Engineer

GSM MSC
·Specification, design, coding and host testing.
·Quality manager responsible for software quality
standards in design group adhering to ISO standards.
Ericsson Oct 1990 — Nov 1992
Senior Software Engineer

GSM BSC
·Responsible for state orientated function/system design of multiple modules.

Design/coding and host testing of multiple modules

REFERENCES
References available upon request.

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