SUMMARY:

• Accomplished and integrity - driven Business Analyst with a proven track record analyzing complex issues and developing solutions to support business objectives. Recognized as a leader with strengths in reengineering businesses processes utilizing data/statistical analysis to provide dynamic alternatives. Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at facilitating discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders.
• Proven track record in planning and executing projects among cross-functional, high-matrix organizations.
• Effectively manage multiple priorities, and perform well under pressure in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Adept in project organization and management, problem resolution and data documentation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, hard work and dedication have built up a reputation for being positive and honest in communicating to all levels of personnel while being flexible in problem solving.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business System Analyst

• Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues.
• Participate in design sessions in prototyping new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow.
• Conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.
• Create systems models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmers.

Confidential, Houston,TX

Business Analyst - QA

• Elicited workshops and working sessions with functional groups to create 2 of 11 test plans to streamline project commencement.
• Cross-collaborated with the functional and technical analysts to provide support in creating test plans for the remaining process areas.
• Defined the As-Is process with the functional team by creating a process diagram using Visio to identify gaps in technology and processes.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with project team members to analyze business needs and dependencies as part of the two Product Service Line (PSL) divestitures.
• Assisted both my project managers in developing metrics and status reports in relations to upcoming key milestones, risks and mitigations, and accomplishments.
• Worked closely with project managers, developers, testers, and product owners to ensure all testing activities occur in a timely fashion and to the level of quality demanded by the business.
• Frequently perform application reconciliation at a scope management level across 11 project tracks to keep with constant application scope changes.
• Managed multiple projects and maintained deadlines in SharePoint and Project server.
• Continuous collaboration between 9 business analyst to own and complete requirement traceability matrix between the various projects.
• Conduct triage meetings using Agile methodology across all teams in respect to their functional areas for bug defect management and resolution using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and HP Quality Center.
• Developed SharePoint sub sites to track project activity within multiple departments, creating a centralized and cohesive work environment.
• Sat with project manager and delivery manager to outline schedule, milestones, resources and budget using MS Project.
• Assisted in creation of the implementation strategy/cutover list and schedule using Project for all of the 22 functional areas with Cutover lead and Project Manager.
• With the team of 11, we provisioned the movement and Cutover of over 2,000 tasks and sub-tasks for the divestiture project. Overseeing the entire disposition from infrastructure to mobile devices to applications.
• Prepared Cutover strategy, identification of cutover objects, and coordination with various project managers in respect to their process area for smooth migration of SAP and Non-SAP landscape from Confidential 's domain to DivestCo domain.
• Created process maps/flows using Visio to identify roles and responsibility between the different functional areas during our blackout rehearsal.

Confidential,HESS Houston,TX

Business Analyst

• Ownership of all deliverables, including FSDs and TSDs among the cross functional teams, ensuring consistency and level of detail is in parallel to the stakeholders requirements.
• Led scrum and status meetings with various internal teams to identify impendent issues.
• Liaison between business stakeholders, IT team consultants and 3rd party vendors.
• Gathered, analyzed and documented detailed business requirements, functional and technical spec with the appropriate teams.
• Conducted interviews, meetings, JAD sessions during the process of gathering requirements.
• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into unambiguous business requirements for proper BRD creation.
• Coordinated development, testing and implementation of 32+ interfaces across Success Factors through BizTalk to 3rd party applications.
• Worked with all teams on B2B integration project HR module, transitioning from SAP HCM to SAP cloud Employee Central.
• Supported SAP consultants in developing, configuring and modifying interfaces based off of FSDs for the SAP Success Factors HRT project.
• Liaison between the SAP Success Factor configuration team and the SAP Success Factors data migration team.
• Converted functional requirements into a workflow design using Visio for a concise and visual point of view.
• Worked closely with offshore team personnel and application vendors to manage testing and issue resolutions.
• Assisted in administrating SharePoint by adding/changing/removing users and creating user group permissions for various sites, updating/uploading content, changing navigation and configuring views among countless of users involved in the project.
• Developed, build and maintained relationships with key business customers and other stakeholders, to ensure continued alignment with their business objectives and strategies.
• Analyzed data segments and data structure between test files and source/target documents from Success Factors system to 3rd party sub-systems.
• Applied formal project management methodologies and reporting practices in line with E&P IT PMO project guidelines and principles, to ensure timely and effective delivery of the HRT project.

Confidential, Houston,TX

Business Analyst

• Researched and analyzed scope, time, and cost using MS Project with project managers.
• Liaise between the business and IT teams for deployment of new enhancements using UX methodology and mockup process for value-add usage of HMIS ERP application.
• Gathered and documented business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and other deliverables required by the project as determined by the project manager.
• Adhere project guidelines based on business functional specs and business rules while revising use cases created in earlier phase to reflect system and user correlation.
• Transition software development efforts to a test-driven development process, bringing QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for improvements in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity.
• Collaborated with several teams performing testing in an implementation model (UAT) to capture development requirements in an iterative software development life cycle.
• Utilize reporting tools such as VSTS for testing and identifying bugs in use case scenarios while regression testing, negative testing and error/bug retests for agile development.
• Successfully prioritized and planned design for application enhancements, integration and upgrades.
• Ensured accuracy and detailed solutions to issues and deficiencies while following quality assurance and implementing quality control methodologies.
• Provided business analysis and coordinate activities to achieve goals of IT projects, including system design, implementation and production support of the HMIS system for the client’s business needs.
• Attended high-level status meetings to derive and execute action plans, meeting project deadlines and standards.
• Versatile consult on impact assessments to Production environments and process improvement; for projects such as, Microsoft connectivity issue, AZ052 interface, and technical parameters for the OAS application to successfully operate on end users hardware for a more robust productivity.
• Administer security functions overseeing 10,000 plus users with their security access to our HMIS application via SQL Server.
• Performed Data Analysis using excel, SQL, and other tools necessary to query the database and generate reports.
• Managed multiple projects concurrently and spearheaded initiatives to increase the efficiency and adeptness within the organization.