cate sharp

About

Experienced Manager in Business Improvement and project management. Proven track record as a Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager with a background in Strategic Planning, Project Management, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Process Improvement and Change Management. I have over 25 years experience in the Banking, Utilities, Government, Scientific, Manufacturing and Professional Services Industries. Previous experience includes roles with major Australian Corporations including Australia Post, National Australia Bank, Agilent Technologies, Origin Energy and Orica. Excellent analytical and mathematical skills combined with proven abilities in project management, and problem solving together with sound communication, leadership and negotitation skills. Task oriented team member with experience in managing a team of business analysts to manage and implement capital improvement/ change management projects.

Country

australia

City

melbourne

Industry

financial services

Skill

business process improvement, business analysis, project management, cross functional team leadership, strategic planning, team leadership, stakeholder management, business process re engineering, business strategy, team management, business process, change management, management, strategy, product development, program management, project planning, business development, business requirements, training, sales, business planning, requirements analysis, requirements gathering, continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, supply chain management, lean six sigma, leadership, performance management, customer service management, organisational development, coaching, project delivery, account management, marketing

Experience

project manager - education solutions

agilent technologies

2011-1 - 2016-12 · 6 yrs

senior business analyst

alphacommercehub

2017-2 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

business improvement and reporting manager

origin energy

2006-1 - 2007-6 · 1 yr 6 mos

* Drive and prioritise value adding process and system changes for all systems owned and used by the department. * Develop and maintain suitable reporting across CMS that effectively measures key performance indicators (KPI's) * Lead a team of business analysts in developing project concepts, project briefs and business cases to implement process improvement projects across the CMS business. * Assist the business to develop and implement minor system improvement projects and liase with the IT groups to deliver these changes. * Manage the bill print contract with HPC, worth an estimated $1.44m p.a.

senior business analyst

national australia bank

2007-7 - 2008-11 · 1 yr 5 mos

Led the business process documentation stream for the Business Operations Group in NABConnect. Manage and co-ordinate the completion of the process maps, business requirements (BRS documents) and operating procedures. Liaise with various stakeholders to the NABConnect Project and hold workshops to determine information needs of the various stakeholder and to enable the new business processes for the new portal to be agreed and documented. Major responsibility was to develop the end to end process maps for the billing functional area of the NABConnect to document the billing processes which are a feature of the next roll out.

project manager - corporate it

australia post

2008-11 - 2009-12 · 1 yr 2 mos

Developed Business Requirements Specifications (BRD) documents for the new Australia Post website. Led workshops with multi disciplined groups within Post. Used this new model to successfully roll out several large projects in the Corporate Sector including postage calculator, meeting management system and HR enabled. Post to develop a new road map for Post IT on how it develops Business Requirement Specifications. Developed process mapping tools for use on Business Requirements Specifications and acted as a liaison between the business customer and IT Architects and technicians to implement the project .