SUMMARY:

To obtain a position that will utilize my skills and knowledge acquired from my college matriculation and my professional career in a progressive environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Vendor Products: PolyPaths, RSA Archer, Teradata, Bloomberg Terminal, Veracode, VersionOne

Certificates: Bloomberg Essentials

Development Methodologies: Agile(Scrum & Kanban),Scaled Agile, Waterfall, Confidential

Languages: Python, HTML, CSS, SQL

Microsoft Office: Expert in Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Project

Operating Systems: Windows, OSX, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements into software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and development tasks
• Coordinated with data consumers to understand their needs and transformed those needs into actionable requirements that impact the way the security master serves up data.
• Acting SME on security master data, helping new consumers understand each data elements attributes, limitations and usage.
• Completed ad hoc data analysis utilizing extensive SQL knowledge to put together coverage reports, research data issues and provide data driven recommendations
• Laid out the data requirements to allow the firm to commence trading futures and options on futures.
• Provide technical impact analysis on upcoming vendor feed changes
• Acted as SME in support of the Golden Source Security Master Vendor Application
• Pricing and reference data vendor relationship representative for Security Master Data Management Team.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior System Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements into software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and development tasks
• Work with scrum master to assist in managing the process
• Coordinate with the business stakeholders to prioritize the backlog
• Meet with business stakeholders to understand their needs and strategic vision
• Work with developers and QA on grooming new stories and conveying the strategic vision for the functionality
• Provided functional and data analysis to the business stakeholders on existing functionality.
• Setup up all new stories within VersionOne and groomed these with the tech lead, development team and testing team to ensure a complete understanding throughout the team.
• Directly influenced design decisions of the systems functionality to ensure it aligned with the business intent of our customer.
• Trained new users on the systems functionality.
• Agile champion on the team - played key role in transitioning team from waterfall to agile

Confidential

System Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with DDE, DBA and source systems on new data feeds for feed design, DB requests and DDE requirements.
• Provided QA testing support and test case design - regression and individual stories/enhancements.
• Provided root cause analysis for bugs and issues within the production environment.
• Developed prototype of a SalesForce workflow component for our system.

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Drove the teams conversion to Confidential testing methodology
• Test case design
• Drove Test Strategy for the team
• Test Automation Strategy
• Implemented the conversion to Confidential
• Stood up test automation scripts with selenium for the application.
• Test case review
• Creating Test Plans and Test Labs in HP Quality Center
• Evaluate test management software options based on the teams future needs
• Emphasis on Automation and DevOps capabilities

Confidential

Senior Confidential Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed communications and relations between the Application Security team and the rest of the company.
• Served as the Archer reporting platform Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Operated as the Veracode platform owner and managed the vendor relationship.
• Administrated the company Application Security training and education program.
• Ran the Veracode (SaaS) static scanning program for development teams.
• Developed new reporting capabilities utilizing Archer and Excel to provide deep analysis of the threat landscape.
• Managed requirements gathering for all new enhancements of the Archer module.
• Maintained data sync processes between Archer and upstream/downstream systems.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as liaison between clients and developers to transform clients' requests into business plans and technical requirements.
• Served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on projects that impacted PolyPaths, a fixed income analytic platform.
• Developed new calculations, reports, and data transformations within the PolyPaths environment.
• Executed ETL transformations for QRM platform.
• Managed the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for all patches and enhancements
• Performed extensive Quality Assurance (QA) tests on version releases to ensure there are no critical issues with the software.
• Designed the system to automate the calculation and output Value at Risk (VaR) & Stressed Value at Risk (SVaR) on a daily basis. This reduced the business customers work from 3 hours to less than 30 minutes.
• Performed data analysis on new version releases to ensure the business processes were not adversely impacted.
• Preparing the End User Communications and relaying them to the users for upcoming changes to PolyPaths.
• Drove the development of the application framework and application roadmap.
• Consulted on Basel II based projects that impact or utilize the Polypaths platform.
• Assisted in the delivery of an expansion to the PolyPaths server farm, which increased the server cores from 50 to 220.

Data Analyst Intern

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute SQL scripts to test new data structures within Teradata.
• Completed impact analysis on a data warehouse for incoming projects.
• Drove design from requirements through the physical data model.
• Answered questions about existing data structures in the data warehouse.
• Preparing the End User Communications and relaying them to the users for upcoming changes to the Data Warehouse.