SUMMARY:

• Saved $431,250 by engineering test environment requirements and tools to minimize developer training. Ensured quality by also creating tools, designing and testing the test UNIX/AIX environment for Confidential .
• Saved $146,700 by creating a standard e - Commerce process and designing deliverables templates tied to process map for Confidential .
• Saved $69,000 by cutting 62% of system and QA testing of web site via conceptual and logical modeling, site flow, database usage design in Visio for Confidential .
• Experienced in Agile team and business collaboration, epic, feature, sprint backlog grooming, story authoring and grooming.
• Produce applications with a very low rate of incidents as a result of clear communication with clients, developers, and testers; 6 software incidents per year for Confidential, 4 incidents per 5 years for the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia’s interface to the Confidential .
• Excellent communicator with business clients, technical team leads and developers using UML, prototyping, business and technical use cases, workflow and process flow diagrams, functional and technical specifications.
• Experienced communicator with 3rd party designers in both directions - business requirements to the 3rd party, the package functionality to business and developers.
• Engineer requirements, helping business stakeholders discover and articulate needs as well as distinguish them from wants, using collaborative interviews, surveys, and JADs.
• Quite experienced learning new business lines ranging from financial to logistical, insurance to retail to e-Commerce.
• Highly skilled in effective testing and change management, successful in single contributor and team roles.
• Experienced in various SDLCs including Agile, RUP, waterfall, and in-house methodologies.
• Experienced in managing audit and legal requirements with Confidential, Federal Reserve, Confidential Bank.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: ORACLE 10g, SQL Server, MS Access; logical data design, database design & coding

Languages and tools: Version One, Rally, UML, Web Forms 10g, ORACLE PL/SQL, python, kornshellUNIX/LINUX/AIX, MS Office Suite, Visio, TOAD, SQL Navigator, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Confluence

Software Change Control and Quality Control software: ClearCase, ClearQuest, Mercury Quality Center, CVS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oaks/Malvern, PA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Helped ensure full utilization of 4 scrum teams by developing and analyzing requirements well ahead of work loading.
• Saved work effort at the scrum team level by clear communication via the documentation to which they were accustomed.
• Facilitated clear communication with business owner, scrum teams by effective questions and documentation at both levels.
• Learned complex investment instrument processing as part of requirement engineering and documentation.
• Worked with a culturally very varied group of co-workers, adding to my ability to communicate across cultural lines.
• Developed, authored requirements for loan and option loaders and UIs while learning options financial instruments.
• Developed, designed pooled fund UI while learning the pooled fund financial instrument.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Authored and groomed epics and stories, including requirements, acceptance criteria, tasks.
• Groomed business and sprint backlogs to reflect business and team priorities and requirements.
• Collaborated closely with sprint team developers and testers to clarify their understanding of acceptance criteria
• Researched across both internal and external functional teams to develop requirements.
• Developed and tested operational workflows, GL accounting templates.
• Authored and delivered requirements to the vendor.
• Researched to develop requirements.
• Led twice weekly grooming sessions, collaborated with ACH business stakeholders and sprint team to set priorities, generate questions, get answers, determine acceptance criteria

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Business Analyst/System Requirements Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed all business requirement discovery, development, and documentation for Customizable Products migration and enhanced functionality. Communicated this to management, authored functional specifications, sequence diagrams, and business class diagrams for technical team.
• Extracted, documented data migration requirements and processes for order history, customer and wish list data.
• Collaborated on developing requirements for access of 23 roles to site, marketing, shipping configuration tool.
• Mapped requirements to user stories, test scenarios, and test data for promotion configuration.

Confidential, Plymouth Meeting, PA

Business Analyst / Lead Designer

Responsibilities:

• Solely responsible for all business requirement development, design, and documentation. This included business, functional and non-functional specifications, data requirement definition, business rules, user interface processing flow, backend processing flow, and business classes. Documentation was in Word, Excel. UI prototyping in Visio.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders to develop and design requirements in UML and business use cases.
• Defined and designed data interfaces to internal inventory application and external delivery providers.
• Designed relational database to meet user needs.
• Designed test strategy, authored all QA test scripts in Mercury Quality Center, executed main test cases.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engineered requirements to ensure all necessary code was migrated to 10g and unnecessary code was archived.
• Designed, authored Mercury Quality Center test cases for 10g Web Form Business Critical Scenarios (BCS).
• Wrote 10g PL/SQL, python scripts to execute applications in 10g.

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Senior Systems Analyst/Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensured that process flow was followed by the technical team by authoring Visio process flow diagrams.
• Collaborated with the legal department to ensure that public online help descriptions were approved by auditors. e-Commerce Aggregator Interface - via ACORD (industry file format) from partner websites to 3090 IBM mainframe
• Created standard process map for adding new aggregators and designed deliverables templates tied to process map.

Confidential, Lester, PA

Project lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented procedures, change control processes; collaborated with auditors to meet legal requirements for same.
• EOD Scheduling Information - MS Access. Application provides detailed system flow information to developers and operations personnel, using a CONTROLM interface. The information can be requested in several ways.
• Carried out complete SDLC - engineered requirements, designed, implemented, and installed.
• Designed, coded, tested tables, data relationships, queries, forms using macros, variables, SQL, and function code.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project lead

Responsibilities:

• On time and on budget; in production for 5 years with a total of 4 errors.
• Heavy client interface, engineered requirements, application design on a new platform.
• Designed, coded, tested interface to the US Board of Governors.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Engineered client requirements, performed analysis, design, implementation, production support.
• Enhanced and debugged tax cost subsystem to satisfy audit requirements.