Modern Analyst Project Members

Craig Brown (www.betterprojects.net)

Craig began working as a business process analyst before moving on to larger projects as a BA, BA team leader, manager of a team of process analysts and as a project manager. Today he consults, swapping between project manager and business analyst depending on the projects on offer at the time. Craig has worked as an analyst in Australian telcos, banking, education, government and small business.

Craig is a regular participant at the ModernAnalyst.com forums, often focusing on the business value of work rather than the specific technical practices.

Craig’s education, training and certifications include:

• Bachelor of Business; University of Newcastle (NSW)
• Master of Project Management; RMIT

Craig’s Project Member contributions include:

• MA Community Expert - General Analysis (Jan '10 – Present)
• MA Community Expert - Project & Personnel Management (Jan ’10 – Present)
• Core Member Program - program phased out (Sep '07 - Jan '10)

 

Guy Beauchamp (www.smart-ba.com)

Guy Beauchamp started his career in 1985 as an analyst programmer working on mainframes writing in Assembler. He moved over to Business Analysis in 1992 and has worked in many large and small enterprises, private and publicly owned. He has been a BA trainer and runs his own on-line training programme. And he also still does Business Analysis! He is author of two manuals on Requirements Engineering and Modelling Business Processes, as well as numerous articles for Modern Analyst.

Guy’s Project Member contributions include:

• MA Community Expert - Data Analysis & Modeling (Jan '10 – Present)
• MA Community Expert - Structured Systems Analysis (Jan '10 – Present)
• Article Submissions - 4 Articles (ModernAnalyst.com)
• Article Submissions - 3 Articles (Requirements.com)
• Core Member Program - program phased out (Nov '07 - Jan '10)

 

Jarett Hailes

Jarett Hailes is President of Larimar Consulting Inc. His career has always straddled the intersection of Information Technology and Business. While an undergraduate student in University, he co-founded two spin-off companies that commercialized leading mathematical technology into a variety of industries including targeted advertising and financial portfolio management.

Jarett discovered that there was a dedicated role for what he found he was always doing: identifying root causes of problems, working with stakeholders to identify and evaluate solutions and translate one group’s terminology into something another group could easily understand, and vice-versa. Since Jarett has moved into Business Analysis and Project Management full-time he has had the opportunity to work on a variety of strategic projects and has managed teams of Business Analysts to perform large-scale requirements gathering activities with hundreds of stakeholder organizations.

Jarett’s education, training and certifications include:

• Bachelor of Science, Business Minor; University of Alberta
• Business Analyst Citation Program; University of Alberta
• Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner; Scrum Alliance

Jarett’s Project Member contributions include:

• MA Community Expert – Agile Methods (Jan ’10 – Present)

 

Kieran Creaton

Kieran Creaton's career began as a Banker within a Retail Banking company.  Kieran later moved into a Business Analyst Role and has worked for a number of financial institutions. He is currently working as a Senior Business Analyst on a large Business Programme in the Global Financial Reconciliation and Investigation area.  Kieran’s current role entails substantial analysis and investigation across multiple systems and business areas.  Kieran performs AS-IS business process analysis, requirements analysis and creates of functional specifications.  Kieran has a strong professional interest in Business Analysis and Systems Analysis.  Kieran's other interests include history and walking.

Kieran's education, training and certifications include:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP); International Institute of Business Analysis
• ISEB Professional in Business Analysis; Information Systems Examination Board, British Computer Society
• MBCS - CITP Chartered IT Professional; British Computer Society QFA Qualified Financial Adviser, Institute of Bankers

Kieran's Project Member contributions include:

• MA Community Expert – Requirements Gathering & Facilitation Techniques (July ’09 – Present)

 

Mostafa Elbarbary

Mostafa Elbarbary graduated from Ain Shams University with a degree in Computer and Information Sciences and currently works as a Software Engineer at ITSoft. Mostafa's role requires him to contribute to analysis, design and implementation activities. Mostafa has knowledge of and experience using a number of different Software Development Lifecycle models such as waterfall, spiral, iterative, and agile.  Mostafa's skills include Object Oriented Analysis, Object Oriented Design, Testing, Requirements Engineering, Requirements Management, writing Use Cases, Domain Modeling, use of Requirements and Analysis Patterns, RUP, and UML. 

Mostafa's education, training and certifications include:

• Computer and Information Sciences; Ain Shams University 

Mostafa's Project Member contributions include:

• Modern Analyst Project - Interview Questions (Feb ’08 – Sept '08)
• Analyst Diary