Stuart McDonald
Lyneham
Summary
Professional systems expert with strong background in programming and analysis. Proven track record in delivering impactful solutions through effective team collaboration and adaptability. Skilled in software development, systems integration, and troubleshooting. Reliable and results-focused, ensuring high-quality outcomes in dynamic environments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Business Analyst
Services Australia
04.2022 - 09.2022
- Conduct business analysis approach that may include specifying team roles, deliverables, analysis techniques or stakeholder communication
- Assist in defining and clarifying business needs to contribute to the creation of technical requirements and design solutions
- Liaise with stakeholders to understand, gather, and analyse their requirements and concerns in line with the programme’s objectives
- Identify potential business needs to recommend improvements for consideration by senior staff and provide analysis, verification, and validation on the recommended improvements
- Conduct stakeholder analysis to assist in engaging with stakeholders to effectively understand cross business functions
- Facilitate communication across business units with a range of stakeholders and represent the programme
- Assist with managing requirements and communication through scope, traceability, and maintenance
- Produce business analyst artefacts and documents that may include risk analysis, scope modelling, problem tracking, User Stories, Mapping documentation, sequence, and design diagrams
- Prepare or contribute to change management plans and/or communication plans
- Participate and perform elicitation requirement techniques such as brainstorming, workshops, prototyping, observation, or interviews, and confirm or report on results
- Prepare and contribute to clear business and stakeholder requirement documentation including prioritising, organising, and verifying the requirements
- Examine and organise requirements to record and identify dependencies, relationships, and logical sequences
- Review project documentation and agency processes to assist with determining deliverables
- Contribute to risk analysis, identify issues and problem tracking to assist senior staff with the mitigation of potential issues
- Contribute towards the requirements management plan, including testing and quality checking activities
- Contribute towards or manage performance reporting activities and/or variance analysis
- Prepare textual statements, matrices, diagrams, and formal models to contribute to the analysis of requirements
- Manage workloads for self and others, including setting work direction and priorities
- Develop proof of concepts to demonstrate proposed technical solutions
Unstructure Data Auditor
Clean Energy Regulator
04.2019 - 08.2019
- Write a report detailing the organisation data issues and suggest possible improvements to the systems
- Some database maintainance
Data Analyst, Systems Support Officer
Directions Health Services
07.2018 - 04.2019
- Design and create VBA applications for data entry and data checking for the bi annual alcohol and other drug (AODT) statistical reports
- Create client surveys on google forms and automated the process using google sheets to produce individual recovery charts
- Help in the transaction, including data transfers and user testing, from using commicare to master care as the main client usage software
- General IT Support
Software Engineer, Trilogy M204 team
Department of Human Services
03.2014 - 07.2014
- Develop routines, methods against requirements within a highly controlled and mature SDLC and Agile System Mythologies (D2P)
- Produce documentation for end users, manuals and technical staff
- System architect
- System Testing
- Mentoring and development of junior employees within the team
- Lead development team for major projects
Business Analyst, Strategic Web Service Branch
Australian Taxation Office
05.2011 - 04.2012
- Development and implementation of validation rules for transactions to ensure integrity of the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) data
- Create Technical specifications which contain the transaction rules (Excel)
- Business process and tuning improvements for SWS design and methodologies
- Design and development of a common taxonomy for SBR transactions and methods
M204 Software Engineer, Employment and Online systems Branch
Department of Human Services
05.2010 - 09.2010
System Analyst/ Project Modeler, Systems for People
Department of Immigration and Citizenship – Enterprise Taskforce
03.2008 - 09.2008
- Confirm the specification for services and translate the specifications then produce macro level and micro level technical documents (Word and Excel)
- Use of IBM’s Rational Software Architect in analyzing and modeling services using UML
- WSDL systems lifecycle
Project Manager, System Architect, Deploy to Production project (D2P)
Department of Human Services
09.2005 - 12.2007
- Design, prototype and code the first M204 to SAP integration using XML web services to trigger the payment of DHS benefits
- Designed and implemented inter-Departmental web service(s)
- Lead a team providing architectural advice, documentation and test plans for the conception and delivery of the Mid-Range Environment Generation phase 3 (MEG3)
- An improved version of the Deploy to Production project that I had worked on previously
- Creation of an auto deployment system from the mainframe through websphere
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computing
University of Canberra
Canberra, ACT01-1998
Skills
- Business Analyst
- System/Software Architect
- Interfaces and integration
- Data Analyst
- Database and Data Warehouse (M204, SQL, VMS)
- Data Modeling (UML)
- SDLC
- Agile System Mythologies (D2P)
- System architect
- System Testing
- Mentor and develop junior employees
- SAP Basic
- Visio
- M204 / ISIS
- XML/XSD/XSLT/XBRL
- JCL
- Java Script
- HTML Script
- Python
- Jira
- Tosca
- Qtest
- Process mapping
- Requirements gathering
- Agile methodology
- User acceptance testing
- Stakeholder management
- Software development lifecycle
- Business process improvement
- Data analysis expertise
- Process development
- SQL proficiency
- Pivot tables
- Gap analysis
- Systems analysis
- Data mapping
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Test case scenarios
- Release planning
- HTML and CSS
- Agile methodologies
Languages Platforms
- M204 / ISIS at an expert level
- XML/XSD/XSLT/XBRL
- JCL expert level
- Java Script at an expert level
- HTML Script at an expert level
- Python
- Jira
- Tosca
- Qtest
Security Clearance
Baseline, 08/11
Certification
- First Aid Certification
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst
Services Australia
04.2022 - 09.2022
Unstructure Data Auditor
Clean Energy Regulator
04.2019 - 08.2019
Data Analyst, Systems Support Officer
Directions Health Services
07.2018 - 04.2019
Software Engineer, Trilogy M204 team
Department of Human Services
03.2014 - 07.2014
Business Analyst, Strategic Web Service Branch
Australian Taxation Office
05.2011 - 04.2012
M204 Software Engineer, Employment and Online systems Branch
Department of Human Services
05.2010 - 09.2010
System Analyst/ Project Modeler, Systems for People
Department of Immigration and Citizenship – Enterprise Taskforce
03.2008 - 09.2008
Project Manager, System Architect, Deploy to Production project (D2P)
Department of Human Services
09.2005 - 12.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computing
University of Canberra