Lydia Gilbert

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ABOUT LYDIA GILBERT

Over 18 years experience in high quality design, analysis and implementation of projects within financial, retail and utilities institutions. Full project lifecycle proficiency with an excellent appreciation of legal, corporate, business and technical issues. Superb communication skills and great attention to detail, also acknowledged for discretion, flexibility and a desire to exceed performance targets.• Strong experience in the definition of business strategies and delivery of transformational projects into corporate functions. • Possess a full set of analytical techniques that have been practically applied with agile and waterfall methodologies forming where applicable; business requirement catalogues, process maps, operating models, epics and user stories, use cases, data modelling, data analysis, questionnaires, interviews, observations, workshop facilitation, 1-2-1 meetings, prototyping and functional specifications. • Skilled in working from own initiative, on multiple projects, within a complex regulated environment with strict contractual milestones and tight deadlines. • Covered a range of industries working on small, medium and large-scale change. Implemented various projects; procurement, data migration, product development, technology, legal, compliance, regulatory, mergers, acquisitions and business process improvement. • Professionally qualified with full ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis including modular certificates in; Business Analysis Essentials, Requirements Engineering, Organisational Context and Modelling Business Processes. Completed PRINCE2 to practitioner level in 2007. • Excellent stakeholder management skills, being able to handle differing viewpoints from across the business, over multiple locations including remotely and managing any conflicts.