1. Dean Purcell
dean.purcell@gmail.com
Professional Profile I am an intelligent,motivated, diplomatic,calmand passionateBusiness Analyst.On a daily
basis I seethe valuethat the artof Business Analysis addsto a business and their projects.I
am a puristBusiness Analyst with an activeinvolvement in the BA community. I have
experience workingon the vendor/IT sideand the business side,with exposure to UML,
BPMN, Agile, and Prince2.
My key skill areasinclude:
BusinessCase
development
Requirementselicitation
Requirementsanalysis
SignificantSDLCexperience
SCRUM master
Team andStaff management
Presentingandpublicspeaking
Professional
Accomplishments
Business Casedevelopment
Enterprise ContentManagement(OpenText) forOneTechIAG
Networkinfrastructure uplift forMeridian - $2.2M project
Data Storage upgrade for Meridian - $2.5M project
IT componentforCaregiverAcquisition forMSD
Business Analystleadership
Full staff managementof ateamof 2 SeniorBA’sat Meridian
Resourcing,mentoringandperformance managementof a teamof 5-9 BA’sat
MSD
Projectteamleadof the US implementationof the GentrackBillingand
Customermanagementsoftware –5 to 15 memberteamof BA’s,developers
and testers
Major projectwork
Seniorandsole BA on the developmentandimplementation of FlyBuysGift
Card solutionatLoyaltyNZ.22 Use Casescoveringthe full businessuse of one
of NZ’sfirstnationwideelectronicgiftcards
Keymodificationstoandimplementationof the GentrackBillingandCustomer
managementsoftware toMxEnergyinthe US at Gentrack
Projectmanagementof the contentand the deploymentof multiple CYRAS
releases (the bespokeSocial WorkerCase/ClientManagementapplication) at
MSD
BA initiatives
Developmentandimplementationof the Meridian BA peerreview process
“Requirements101” trainingcourse development,“Personal brandfora BA”
workshop,bothat Meridian
Centre of Excellence atMSD, initiatedand ran quarterlyforums
IIBA WellingtonEventsCommittee (2years)
2. Work History September 2013 – present
Senior Business Analyst,IAG– Workingin the Corporate Officeproviding supportto the
supportingbusiness units (Finance,IT,Office of the CEO, etc). Primarily workingon the
implementation of a new project delivery framework, plus Business Casedevelopment and
small end-to-end initiatives.
October 2011 – July 2013
Lead Business Analyst,Meridian Energy - NZ’s largestelectricity generator, generating from
100% renewable resources.The ICT department is a high performing unit, with over a
dozen BA’s.
May 2008 – September 2011
Senior Business Analyst(TeamLead) at the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), one of
NZs largestgovernment departments that looks after benefit payments, child & youth &
student & senior welfare, with one of the country’s largestIT departments, including a BA
group of over 40.
June 2005 – September 2007
Senior Business Analyst atLoyalty NZ, who manage NZs most iconic loyalty brand Fly Buys.
November 1997 – May 2005
Business Analyst<- Team Lead <- Software Engineer at Gentrack, who develop and supply
specialistsoftwarefor energy utilities.
Education Bachelor of Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington - 1995
Leadership from the InsideOut – Meridian’s 6 month program raising personal self
awareness to improve management capability.
Other Skills UML – experience in both Structural and Behavioural
SCRUM Master and Kanban trained
iServer, Sparx EA
LZA – SOA Junior Architect
IIBA member, since2006
Basic,Java,PHP coding
SQL
References Reference details availableon request:
Ruud Dautzenberg – Business AnalystServices Manager,ICT, IAG
Jane Sinnett – Senior Business Analyst,ICT, Meridian and MSD