I.T. Rockstar

Master of all trades business technology analyst gone entrepreneur…

As businesses strive to improve and meet customer satisfaction, IT’s relationship with the business is paramount.

Jody is a business oriented analyst who understands how businesses work, but he is also technology savvy. He is comfortable liaising, communicating and managing technical and non-technical teams, while dealing with all levels in any business. He represents the blur between business and technology and is focused on business value through technology. He is the new generation of business technology analyst.

He can code, design relational databases, build PCs, web sites, servers and manage networks. He has an in depth knowledge of application architectures, relational database systems, ERP and enterprise software applications. He has extensive experience in researching and defining end-user requirements, business process analysis/automation/reengineering, creating business cases, developing requirement documents and functional specifications, development, and testing.

He is enthusiastic with a positive approach to life and work and maintains an active lifestyle with a work life balance.

Jody moved to NZ from the UK after graduating with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Business Information Management where he also received Pfizer’s Award for outstanding academic achievement. Complementing his academic qualification is over ten years experience in every stage of the software development life-cycle and Microsoft certifications in the following disciplines, Database Administrator, .Net Applications Developer and Solutions Developer.

Jody helped protect NZ’s meat and dairy industry, working with the Animal Health Board (AHB), developing VectorNet, an internet based system to help plan, manage and control NZ’s bovine tuberculosis control programme. He was the senior Business and Technical Analyst on this project. The project also made use of a software solution designed by Jody that provided a shared understanding of requirements, specifications, releases and quality metrics. The solution and the project were a great success. AHB and the VectorNet team won a series of awards for the project, which included the 2008 National Computerworld Excellence Award for Overall Excellence in the Use of ICT and Innovative Use of ICT. AHB was also selected from over 100,000 sites worldwide to received a “Special Achievement in GIS" from ESRI's the world leader in GIS (geographic information systems).

Jody enjoys travelling and has backpacked for 8 months through North and South America. He is an active soccer player and competes in one the region’s top soccer divisions. He is a keen tramper and recently completed the Milford, Routeburn and Abel Tasman tracks. This year he will be travelling to Nepal to tackle the Everest Base Camp trek.

Jody has recognised the value in his software and the pain organisations experience in achieving successful outcomes from software development activities. In the past year has formed his company ‘Yonix’ to help companies attain more certainty around the delivery of business value through technology endeavours. Yonix’s software is focused towards Business Analysts, but is utilised across the software development life-cycle.

Yonix has been accepted into Grow Wellington’s high-growth business incubator, Creative HQ, where Jody is working to build a high-growth technology business.

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