Description

Technical Data Delivery Lead & Senior Business Analyst

I bridge the gap between complex technical infrastructure and executive-level business intelligence. With over a decade of experience across heavily regulated telecommunications, data migration projects, and local government frameworks, I specialize in taking messy, disparate legacy data environments and turning them into sleek, automated reporting pipelines.

Core Areas of Expertise:

Data Migration & Strategy: End-to-end planning, risk mitigation, and execution of large-scale legacy database migrations, ensuring absolute data integrity and zero-loss cutovers.

Business Intelligence (Power BI & DAX): Designing and deploying enterprise-grade dashboards and predictive data models that translate complex operations into actionable executive insights.

Infrastructure & Capacity Planning: Extensive background managing high-stakes infrastructure deployments, navigating complex third-party supplier dependencies (such as Openreach), and balancing cost versus delivery logistics.

Process Automation: A track record of auditing manual data workflows and using automation (including Power Platform, SharePoint pipelines, and custom scripting) to radically collapse operational timelines.

I am focused on high-execution, independent contract delivery where organizations need a senior expert to plug in, map the business logic, build the data architecture, and deliver results without requiring hand-holding.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Halton Borough Council
Project Manager | Technical Delivery & Data Automation
DIGITAL AND IT
April 2024 - Today (2 years and 2 months)
Widnes, UK
Focus: Data Migration, Reporting Pipelines, and Infrastructure

Overview: Managing the transformation and consolidation of complex, legacy infrastructure data pipelines across municipal operations. Specialized in bypassing bureaucratic friction by engineering optimized, automated reporting architectures.

Data Migration & Consolidation: Spearheaded the migration and consolidation of disparate, legacy project management spreadsheets into centralized, automated reporting pipelines.

BI Architecture: Developed and deployed advanced Power BI dashboards utilizing complex DAX modeling to give corporate stakeholders real-time visibility into cross-departmental delivery milestones.

Process Automation: Audited existing manual data workflows, introducing automated data connectors and SharePoint pipelines to eliminate redundant data-entry hours.

Stakeholder Management: Acting as the core technical translator between frontline operational teams, external suppliers, and senior public sector leadership.
Microsoft Power BI Data Migration Business analysis Microsoft Sharepoint Data analysis
TalkTalk
Migrations Delivery Manager
DIGITAL AND IT
November 2022 - February 2024 (1 year and 3 months)
Manchester, UK
Focus: Large-Scale System Migrations & Database Transformation

Overview: Delivered end-to-end data migration strategies for large-scale enterprise environments, focusing on data integrity, risk mitigation, and seamless cutovers.

Risk & Strategy Management: Formulated comprehensive data mapping and risk mitigation frameworks for high-volume subscriber and financial databases.

Pipeline Optimization: Coordinated cross-functional developer and engineering teams to ensure low-latency, zero-loss data transfers during critical system cutovers.

Data Validation: Established rigorous automated validation scripts to ensure target database alignment with strict regulatory and compliance baselines.
Data Migration Data analysis Project Management Reporting SQL
TalkTalk
Senior Network Planner
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
March 2013 - November 2022 (9 years and 8 months)
Irlam, Manchester, UK
Focus: Scale Bearer Deployment, Openreach Relations, and Cost Optimization

Overview: Managed nationwide access network capacity, infrastructure business cases, and physical backhaul delivery for a major UK ISP (TalkTalk). Instrumental in transitioning national network topology from single-Gig point-to-point circuits to scalable, high-capacity multiplexed bearer systems.

Architectural Business Cases: Developed and successfully pitched multi-million-pound business cases to executive boards for the deployment of Optical Spectrum Access (OSA-FC) and Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) bearer architectures.

Strategic Traffic Modeling: Modeled and resolved highly complex regional traffic aggregation bottlenecks caused by asymmetric Next-Generation Access (FTTC/NGA) routing topologies, ensuring backhaul capacity matched exponential data spikes ahead of the curve.

Process Automation (VBA/Excel): Engineered a custom, automated predictive capacity engine using VBA and macros, collapsing a manual, multi-day exchange auditing process into a streamlined 1-hour daily tracking routine. This enabled seamless, large-scale subscriber migrations without over-provisioning infrastructure.

Supplier & Civil Works Logistics: Acted as the sole operational planner balancing high-velocity internal hardware card infills (5-day turnaround) against long-lead external Openreach copper and fiber tie-cable deliveries.

Cost Control: Audited and negotiated Openreach Excess Construction Charges (ECCs) and civil engineering routing hurdles to protect project business cases from scope creep.
Project Management Business analysis Data Migration automation Strategic planning