Penny Wood
Business Analyst at London South Bank University
South Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPenny Wood is a seasoned Digital Business Analyst with over 12 years’ experience specialising in student records, CRM and cloud/SaaS transformations across higher education, retail and logistics. She has led end-to-end BA activities—from feasibility and process modelling to UAT and implementation—on large-scale programmes for universities, Boots/Boots UK and enterprise clients, often coordinating offshore teams and multi-stakeholder workshops. Comfortable in Agile, RAD and waterfall environments, she pairs hands-on backlog management and user story refinement with strong data and interface design skills. Recent work includes building a consultant portal on Salesforce and contributing back-end fixes and feature improvements to the popular Home Assistant open source project, showing she still writes and debugs integration code. Known for clear communication at all levels, Penny excels at turning complex curriculum, regulatory or logistics requirements into pragmatic, testable solutions. Her career shows a rare blend of deep sector knowledge (notably student systems) and practical technical fluency across databases, Azure and cloud integrations.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons) Computer Science, BSc (hons) Computer Science at Coventry UniversityBeaufort School
Github Skills (7)
mqtt10
iot10
python10
home-automation10
mqttnet10
asyncio10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Aug 2018 - Aug 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 47 commits, 85 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Penny primarily contributed to the iZone integration within the Home Assistant core. Their work included bug fixes, such as addressing an infinite loop in sun calculations, and improvements to the iZone climate component. They also added features like the ability to reload iZone config entries and implemented support for master RAS zone functionality. Furthermore, the user updated the iZone integration by adding supported features.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
Swamp-Ig/home-assistant
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
:house_with_garden: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:265 pushes, 131 branches in 6 years
raspberry-pipythonhousegardenmqtt
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