Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Affiliations
Timeline
Professional Development
Corecapabilities
Technical skills
References
Professional Development
Corecapabilities
Technical skills
References
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Tina Lyons

Tina Lyons

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Detail oriented Senior Business Analyst with recent leadership and Iteration Lead experience. Proficient at managing work from initiation to delivery, introducing new workflow processes and stakeholder management. Known for a strong work ethic, irreproachable integrity, a passion for continuous improvement and an ability to adapt to change in fast paced environments. Achieves a pragmatic approach to best practices to delivering the best business outcome. With a proven ability to lead, mentor, manage and influence is quickly established as the ‘go-to’ person for teams, stakeholders, and peers. Extensive experience in Digital experiences across Wealth, Insurance and Banking areas. Works in challenging and cross-functional environments, with experience in both a strategic insurance program looking at opportunities across the insurance value chain, and a $100m separation program. Committed to working collaboratively with stakeholders, focusing on bridging the gap between IT and the business to deliver business goals.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Feature Owner

AMP Services Ltd
Sydney, NSW
08.2024 - Current
  • Contractor role, 4-months to December 2024.
  • Oversaw daily operations, ensuring all tasks were completed accurately and efficiently by team members.
  • Managed day-to-day business operations.
  • Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
  • Technical business analysis of issues with user experience.

Senior Business Analyst / Iteration Lead

Auxilis Pty Ltd
07.2023 - 08.2024
  • Implemented Agile disciplines and methodologies, accompanied by standard IT practices to empower development team, providing coaching, guidance, and mentoring
  • Led cross-functional team to deliver impactful products, ensuring alignment between business goals and customer needs
  • Initiation of testing framework – including creation of testing processes, test document templates, and setup of testing knowledge base
  • Constructed release management framework for implementation of market-leading AI audit software
  • Worked closely with Product Manager in defining requirements for new functionality
  • Creation of templates for requirement gathering and test planning.

Responsibilities:

  • Management of workflow from concept to delivery, including sprint planning, day-to-day sprint management, status reporting, backlog grooming, backlog prioritisation, 3-amigos
  • Release management, including planning, building timelines for new releases and deliverables
  • Stakeholder management of external Product manager
  • Support management, including creation of knowledge base for knowledge sharing across teams
  • Facilitation of business requirements when canvassing for new clients

Senior Business Analyst

AMP Services Ltd
04.2020 - 03.2023
  • Produced foundation documentation for existing Digital based insurance business processes, including claims, product application and administration processes
  • Achieved recognition as subject matter expert, owing to extensive Digital knowledge and experience, within Separation Program
  • Coordinated multiple IT delivery teams and project team to complete Separation of Digital systems across AMP and AMP Life
  • Creation of high-level project summaries for provision to senior managers
  • Contributed to successful product migration and data clean-up from multiple AMP systems, with zero impact to surrounding system and business processes
  • Supply guidance and support to AMP business stakeholders while enhancing existing business processes to transition to external insurance provider
  • Determining solutions to business problems for complex software projects including both system development and business process improvements
  • Coordinated, tracked, and managed updates for legal entity changes to multiple Digital systems following sale of AMP Life, contributing to successful completion of Legal Separation
  • Facilitation technical information gathering sessions with IT teams; and create project knowledge base and process documentation
  • Driving target state and RACI matrix (responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed) documentation for agreement of joint operating model with Resolution Life
  • Data analysis of AMP’s billing system to locate opportunities cost savings and automation of employee termination offboarding steps (exit checklist), resulting in $3m benefits
  • Management of content changes, from keyword searches to publication of changes, across multiple channels for both customers and advisers
  • Elicitation of changes to AMP’s Digital channels, including scope outside Digital portfolio and management of business requirements through sign-off.

Senior Business Systems Analyst (Feature Owner), Digital Delivery

AMP Services Ltd
01.2014 - 03.2020
  • Managed team activities for re-pointing interfaces from Siebel to Salesforce for high-profile Portal features with zero impacts on planners, customers, and internal staff
  • Implemented integrated customer verification feature to store customer identification status and documentation in central repository allowing for improved single-customer view across AMP
  • Delivery of new My AMP website providing customers with increased features and greater level of data security
  • Delivery of continuous improvements to Digital systems for all user groups making transactions with AMP smoother and less complicated for customers and advisers
  • Leadership of BAs within both business and IT delivery teams on large programs of work
  • Lead BA and practicing Scrum Master for team of 4-5 developers championing agile methodologies and ceremonies throughout delivery lifecycle
  • Analysis and data mapping of new self-service online customer experiences.

Education

Diploma of Financial Markets -

KAPLAN Professional
Sydney, NSW
01.2001

National Certificate of Business Studies -

Wellington Polytechnic
New Zealand
01.1991

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Influencing
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Project Management
  • Gap analysis
  • Software Development Lifecycle

Affiliations

IIBA (Institute of Business Analysis)

Timeline

Feature Owner

AMP Services Ltd
08.2024 - Current

Senior Business Analyst / Iteration Lead

Auxilis Pty Ltd
07.2023 - 08.2024

Senior Business Analyst

AMP Services Ltd
04.2020 - 03.2023

Senior Business Systems Analyst (Feature Owner), Digital Delivery

AMP Services Ltd
01.2014 - 03.2020

Diploma of Financial Markets -

KAPLAN Professional

National Certificate of Business Studies -

Wellington Polytechnic

Professional Development

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner – AxisAgile / Scrum Alliance (2019)
  • Certified Scrum Master – AxisAgile / Scrum Alliance (2017)
  • Human-Centered Design Practioner Program (HCP PP) (2016)
  • Professional Testing Techniques
  • Project Management Fundamentals

Corecapabilities

  • Business Analysis and IT Delivery
  • Exemplary written communication skills
  • Product ownership experience
  • Documentation of user stories, including authoring acceptance criteria
  • SDLC experience on multiple large projects; coordinated across portfolios; both waterfall and Agile methodologies (scrum, kanban and SAFe)

Technical skills

Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Adobe Enterprise Management (AEM v6), SQL, Salesforce and Google applications.

References

Available on request

Professional Development

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner – AxisAgile / Scrum Alliance (2019)
  • Certified Scrum Master – AxisAgile / Scrum Alliance (2017)
  • Human-Centered Design Practioner Program (HCP PP) (2016)
  • Professional Testing Techniques
  • Project Management Fundamentals

Corecapabilities

  • Business Analysis and IT Delivery
  • Exemplary written communication skills
  • Product ownership experience
  • Documentation of user stories, including authoring acceptance criteria
  • SDLC experience on multiple large projects; coordinated across portfolios; both waterfall and Agile methodologies (scrum, kanban and SAFe)

Technical skills

Atlassian JIRA/Confluence, Excel, Word, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Adobe Enterprise Management (AEM v6), SQL, Salesforce and Google applications.

References

Available on request
Tina Lyons