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General Manager Loyalty and Data Solutions @ From May 2015 to Present (7 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaDigital Technology Head - The Wine Quarter @ From December 2013 to May 2015 (1 year 6 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaDigital Product Head @ From August 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 5 months) Programme Manager @ From February 2012 to August 2012 (7 months) Sydney Area, AustraliaSenior Project Manager @ From November 2010 to February 2012 (1 year 4 months) Director - Digital Media and Partnerships @ From 2006 to 2012 (6 years) International Program - Stream Lead, Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master @ Stream Lead, Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master July 2009 – Current Working for the world’s most successful online grocery retailer, I am an active lead in the team looking to rollout the UK success into International Markets. I have been able to influence key architectural decisions, and business case justifications in taking the business model overseas, plus deliver successfully the first release of the International Grocery home shopping solution for central Europe. My Roles within the Team have included – • Budgeting and Project Management of key Product and Promotion streams, and guidance on UI, Core Business Systems and their integration to the online environment. • Creation of Operating Model documentation and processes for rapid deployment into foreign markets. • Leading the localisation and legal requirements of markets for the solution to be implemented within chosen markets. • Defining the web offering to the customer from use of Endeca, Omniture and Taxonomy structures • Creation and set up of teams located in the UK and India to deliver the International Solution. • Scrum Master and successfully delivering the first release of the International Home Shopping solution for Tesco. • Scrum Master responsible for the Scrum of Scrums – Aligning multiple streams to deliver towards the Programme goals. • Scrum Master ensuring Backlog Maintenance, Cross Team Reviews and AGILE principles are implemented and adopted company wide. Some of the key methods I have used to achieve these milestones include – • Creation of governance documentation to support proposed solution and way forward. • Use of Requirements and Process workshops with both the business and IT to derive adequate solutions. • Adoption of AGILE and SCRUM methodologies • Communication packs addressing all levels of Tesco.com to achieve buy in. From June 2009 to October 2010 (1 year 5 months) Senior Business Analyst and Business Benefits Lead @ Senior Business Analyst Working with the Largest Business and IT Project delivered within Harvey Norman, “Project Reload”. I have been able to influence key areas such as ensuring HN is maximising Business Benefits, and drastically improving customer service. During my time at Harvey Norman I have been directly involved and assisted in the creation of: • Input into the creation of Harvey Norman Online/Multi Channel White paper • Requirements Gathering and Process Creation • Identification of $XXX Million Benefits of a new ERP/EMS solution • Communication Management Between Business and IT • Vendor Evaluation and Scoring From September 2008 to May 2009 (9 months) Business Analyst Lead @ From 2009 to 2009 (less than a year) Senior Business Analyst and Team Lead @ Working within the Program Office, I was able to deliver and drive key "IT to Business" benefits. Key Analyst Activities include but are not limited to: • Business Case creation and justification of projects, and management of senior stakeholders for governance approvals. • Preparation and ownership of Program Planning Packs • Gathering business requirements and Workshop facilitation • Creation of functional and non functional Specifications • BPM analysis and design • SWOT and GAP Analysis • Change Management Planning and Implementation • Training needs analysis • Vendor and contract negotiation (RFI, RFP and RFT) • Management, Mentoring and Development of 5 Business Analysts, and assisting in resourcing and project plan development for IT initiatives. Key Enterprise Projects Delivered include but are not limited to: • Identity and User management enterprise wide, incorporating 700 applications and over 180 000 internal users, with growth to 3million external customers. Woolworths Enterprise Services Bus. • SOA and Utility Computing implementation, a change in the way IT is delivered as service to Woolworths. Decreasing costs, through process improvement, implementation of Virtualisation technologies, Shared storage and the supporting financial processes, policies and models to ensure a true shared cost of IT is presented to the business. • Tender and Contract negotiations for external vendors to deliver, infrastructure, consulting and new enterprise systems to support growth thus offering better services to business teams. • Implementation of organisational Change Management initiatives to ensure that IT initiatives are better embraced through the business. From September 2006 to September 2008 (2 years 1 month) Business Analyst @ Touchstar is an International Company with offices in 3 countries and customers in many more. The companies’ main role is to produce Handheld and server software for a wide array of industries and corporate companies. The tasks attributed to this role were to study business processes, refine, streamline and develop best practises. These processes were then developed for the field users, via software, hardware and communication procedures. I was also responsible for developing customer benefits/costs briefs for clients such as British Petroleum, George Weston Foods, Goodman Fielder, Caltex and Amalgamated Pest Control. Some of the key projects completed here include: • A Trade Delivery service application suited to the Baking Industry. • Service based application for inspections in the Building Industry. • In Store Merchandising solution for Field Forces. • Fuel Delivery and Processing systems. From May 2005 to August 2006 (1 year 4 months) IT and Manager @ I have built a solid foundation of skills through my 7 years with this leading BRW IT company. This is a Retail Orientated company with 14 stores across Australia, internal Auditing and Accounting as well as a marketing company with 120 employees across 5 states. From 1997 to 2004 (7 years) Western Sydney University From 2000 to 2004 Change Management, Organisational Change @ Pro SciCert 4, Project Management @ Australian College of Project Management Ananth Sarathy is skilled in: Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Marketing Communications, Project Delivery