In the latest in our series of interviews I talk to Business Analyst Lead John Wisner who speaks about his career story to date. You can connect with him on LinkedIn Here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? Having left school with a set of GCSEs, I got into Banking with HSBC (Then Midland Bank) in the City (of London) after a brief spell as a credit controller. I soon found myself working in Commercial Loans Administration and after moving banks a few times, at Swiss Bank, UBS. I’m not one to enjoy repetitive tasks and soon used my skills in Excel to automate some of my ..read more

In the latest in our series of interviews I talk to Business Analyst Simon Platt who talks about his career story to date, his neuro-diversity advocacy and a desire to swim the English Channel! You can connect on LinkedIn Here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? I left school without any real qualifications or much of plan and, through luck more than anything, stumbled into a job working at a lending centre for one of the major banks. After a few years working as an Underwriter, I was asked if I’d like to support this thing called ‘a project’ by doing some ‘user testing ..read more

In the latest in our series of interviews I talk to experienced Business Analyst Jonathan Hunsley who tells us about his career story to date, his involvement in the brilliant BA Brew podcast and even his practice of martial arts! You can connect on LinkedIn Here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? My first role after leaving university was as an insurance underwriter. This gave me lots of exposure to operations and the services and systems that underpin an insurance organisation. After a year, I applied to move internally to an Information Technology (IT) graduate schem ..read more

It was great to take some time recently to record a podcast for the BA Brew, a great initiative run by AssistKD. I spent some time talking with Lisa and Jonathan about how the BA Story website came about and some of the insights from the previous interviews. This was a bit of a wake up call for me, as to be honest I have neglected this site for some time. This is due to a number of reasons including the challenges of lockdown and also some disruption in my own career that led me to fall out of love with being a BA if I am really honest. I suppose that is just another chapter in my own BA stor ..read more

In the latest in our series of interviews I talk to Business Analyst Yulia Kosarenko who tells us about her career path into Business Analysis, the personal challenges along the way and gives great advice for those starting out in the profession. You can connect on LinkedIn Here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? I have a degree in computer science, but in my early career worked in various business roles including marketing, sales, customer service, and operations. I modified each job using my tech skills by creating process flows, developing custom reports, optimizing ..read more

In the latest in our series of interviews I talk to Business Analyst Yvette Kempson who tells us about her career path into Business Analysis, the personal challenges along the way and gives great advice for those starting out in the profession. You can connect on LinkedIn here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? I was basically born a BA I just didn’t know it till a lot later on in life! I started my ‘career’ as a farm hand at the age of 13 and was always problem solving and finding efficiencies in everything that I did. As my confidence grew, I then started making sugg ..read more

In this interview we talk to Business Analyst Karen Newnham who tells us about her career path into Business Analysis, the personal challenges along the way and gives great advice for those starting out in the profession. You can connect on LinkedIn here Can you give us a brief summary of your career path to date? When I moved to Nottinghamshire a friend mentioned a trainee developer program at his company and encouraged me to apply. I had no IT background or qualifications but managed to get a place. I learnt to code and then took a role in the marketing team. After a few months of coding I ..read more

In this interview we talk to Business Analyst Lisa Hudson who tells us about her career path into Business Analysis, the personal challenges along the way and gives great advice for those starting out in the profession. You can connect with Lisa on LinkedIn here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? When I first embarked on my career, I stumbled around for a few years in jobs that didn’t quite suit me as I didn’t know what I wanted to do. Looking back now I can see that my first big opportunity came when I was offered a job at Close Motor Finance which is part of the Close ..read more

In this interview we talk to Business Analyst Daniel Callaghan who tells us about his move from Policeman to BA! You can connect with Daniel on LinkedIn here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? One thing a lot of people don’t realise is that I was a police officer for 10 years before training as a BA. I am not advocating that you need to do this before becoming a BA but without doubt I picked up a lot of great problem solving and life skills which I have relied on many times. I started my BA career about 10 years ago at the MoD and was very fortunate to be mentored by so ..read more

In this interview we talk to Business Analyst Grant Wright who tells us about his path to setting up his own BA consultancy. You can connect with Grant on Linkedin here Can you give a brief summary of your career path to date? I’m not sure how to squeeze over 20 years of working in Business Analysis and related fields into a brief summary! My first proper job was working as a Risk and Information Analyst for a cheque guarantee company (back in the days when people actually used to use cheques in retail outlets!). I didn’t know it at the time, but I was already performing business analysis to ..read more