Barbara Hancock

Barbara Hancock has a diverse work experience spanning various industries. Barbara began their career at Mitre 10 New Zealand Limited as a Marketing Coordinator and Analyst from January 2009 to November 2009. Barbara then joined COUNTRY Financial® as a Financial Advisor from May 2010 to January 2011. Barbara then worked at Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) as a Pricing Analyst from June 2014 to April 2016. Following this, they moved to Tuatahi First Fibre, starting as a Business Intelligence Analyst from May 2016 to April 2017. Barbara was then promoted to Business Intelligence Manager and held this position from April 2017 to October 2022. Barbara's most recent role is as the Head of Business Intelligence at Tuatahi First Fibre, starting in October 2022. Alongside their work at Tuatahi First Fibre, Barbara also served as the Chief Information Officer at Dealbuddy New Zealand from January 2022. Overall, Barbara has gained expertise in various aspects of business intelligence and has demonstrated a strong commitment to talent development and data management processes throughout their career.

Barbara Hancock completed their secondary education at Rotorua Girls High School from 1998 to 2002. Barbara then pursued higher education at The University of Waikato from 2003 to 2013, but their degree and field of study were not specified. In addition to their formal education, Barbara obtained certifications in various areas including SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL 2016 Data Warehouse implementation, SQL Data Models development, Creating Splunk 6.5 Knowledge Objects, IT Service Management with ITIL Foundation Certificate, Searching and Reporting with Splunk 6.4, Splunk Enterprise 6.6 Data Administration, and Using Splunk 6.4. The months and years of when these certifications were obtained were not provided.