Burzin (Buzz) Lawyer

Experience

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  Supersave Wine Store

  Jan 1989 - Aug 2006

  Retail Manager

  This was the family business.Gained valuable experience in the fundamentals of running a business. Ranging from stock control to sale negotiation, staff management, product pricing and promotion to accounts management.

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  Coventry Building Society

  Jul 1995 - Dec 1995

  Marketing Analyst

  Competitor analysis and market research techniques.Worked on project for the design and implementation of a customer information database.Geographical analysis on the impact of repositioning branch offices.

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  Sherwood and Partners Chartered Accountants

  May 1996 - Jul 1996

  Accounts Clerk

  Gained experience in accounts preparation and auditing practices.

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  JPMorgan Chase

  Feb 1997 - Jun 1998

  Purchasing Officer

  • Key point of contact for external consultants to improve business processes which made a 50% cost saving in four departments. • Redesigned databases to improve the efficiency of invoice payment tracking, enabling the clearance of a £2m backlog in overdue supplier invoices.

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  LV=

  Nov 1998 - Jul 2013

  Managed and optimised the overnight batch processing of raw General Insurance data to provide the pricing analysts and reporting teams with the source of information required for them to analyse and make recommendations to senior management.Managed the integration of new data to enrich the available information for analysis.Key point of contact to assess the information needs of various business benefit projects and provide support for programming and analysis requirements for my customers. Show less

  • MI Infrastructure Analyst / Senior MI Database Analyst

    Nov 2008 - Jul 2013

  • Credit Risk Analyst

    Jun 2005 - Nov 2008

  • Product Communications Controller

    Sept 2004 - Jun 2005

  • Business Analyst

    Nov 1998 - Aug 2004
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  Spark New Zealand

  Oct 2013 - Dec 2017

  Managed several projects and initiatives to provide and improve business intelligence, enabling data driven decisions for the company to evolve and change priorities.Provided timely Key Performance Indicators for efficient day-to-day management of over 1,000 engaged employees.Re-built the trust of the company in the reported KPI's Worked with business partners to model the impacts from various initiatives, enabling a reduction in the operating cost by $16m (20%) in 2 years. Built analytical models to strategically forecast the demand requirements in Contact Centres, providing senior management with a simple visualisation of when further resource would be required. Optimised voice and non-voice Call Centre Operations, to enhance performance and increase productivity in the leading NZ telecommunications provider.

  • Planning & Management Information Manager

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2017

  • Senior Business Optimisation Analyst

    Oct 2013 - Jan 2015
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  Latitude Financial Services

  Feb 2018 - Oct 2018

  Business Intelligence Specialist

  Using knowledge and experience to ensure correct interpretation of raw data, and provide simple visualisations for the Operations teams to manage their people. Simplifying complex data within a Contact Centre environment, and providing Business Intelligence and Analysis for the organisation to monitor performance and gain insights.

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  Halo - The Supply Chain Intelligence Company

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2022

  BI Consultant

  Implement Business Intelligence solutions for clients consisting of end to end ETL for Data Marts, Business Dashboards, Forecasting solutions and Training. Visit clients to understand their business requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Build solutions from the technical specifications.

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  Vista Group

  Mar 2022 - now

  Lead Business Intelligence Engineer

  Reshape data output to enable public users to create their own stories for weekend box office performance with dashboard analysis capabilities.Working in cross-functional teams to develop and enhance products.Enhance, maintain, migrate pipeline code, using Python script languages.Add new data points, create fresh visualisations for client facing and public dashboards.Automate data refresh capabilities, removing manual reliance.Create user guides/information for products.