SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and organized senior business analyst with proven leadership in both business and technology organizations across industries: financial, insurance, real estate, communication retail, fast food and manufacturing.
• Seasoned problem solver adept at quickly acquiring business knowledge, experienced in all phases of the SDLC with the ability to multitask to meet aggressive timelines.
• Strong people skills providing the foundation for building and maintaining relationships with senior executives, business teams, and technology teams.
• Proven expertise in generating and maintaining requirements that bridge the gap between business processes and technical solutions.
• Team Lead
• Project Documentation
• Business Case, Project Charter, SOW
• JAD Facilitator
• Requirements Specification
• User Stories, Use Cases
• Functional Design Documentation
• GUI Functional Specifications
• Quality Assurance
• Test Plans, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, Defect Remediation, UAT Test Management
• Implementation Planning
• Training
• Training Materials, In - class Support, On-line Help Authoring
• Products: Confidential Global Solutions - Auto Finance

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS / SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

MS Office Tools: Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint

Requirements Tools: Jama, Rational ClearQuest, UML, RoboHelp

Platforms: Mainframe, Client-Server, Web

Databases: Oracle 10g, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server

Languages / Tools: SQL, Dot Net, Spreadsheet Gear, XML, Visual Basic, Cobol, Toad, SQL Query Analyzer Tool, Java, Web Services, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Little Rock, AK

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Data Conversion
• Data Mapping
• Defect documentation / resolution
• Implementation Support
• Post Implementation Client support

Environment: MS Office, Jira, Mainframe / EZT, Confidential Global Solutions - AF tool

Confidential, Chicago, Ill

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• CCAR Risk
• FR 2052a Regulatory Reporting

Environment: MS Office, MS Access, Visio, Jira, Agile, Oracle, Sybase, SQL

Confidential, Libertyville, Il

Lead Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Data conversion approach requirements (including):
• Financial History
• Historical Quotes
• Finance Lease APR calculation
• Charged off accounts
• All Financials
• Data mapping requirements (including):
• GL Key
• Products
• Fees / Taxes
• Accruals
• Balancing requirements (including):
• Conversion balancing
• GL balancing
• Testing (including):
• Data mapping reviews
• Test planning
• Development of test scenarios
• Test execution management
• Defect tracking
• Defect Resolution
• Co-ordination of data clean-up activities (including):
• Conducted meetings
• Progress tracking
• Metrics reporting
• Development of data exclusion strategy
• Documentation Standards / Weekly Meetings (including):
• Developed Requirements template
• Design / development of a data mapping tool
• Weekly status reporting
• Weekly meetings with vendor conversion team

Environment: MS Office, MS Access, Visio, JAMA, Jira, Agile, Oracle, Sybase, SQL, Mainframe, Confidential Global Solutions - AF tool

Confidential, Oak Brook, IL

Lead Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functional design documentation
• 3rd party vendor software analysis / gap analysis
• Proof of Concept requirements / modeling
• Conducted weekly requirements / status meetings with business clients
• Development/support of MS Excel workbooks containing financial modeling business rules pertaining to:
• Sales / Sales Growth
• Rent Income
• Operating Income
• Cash Flow
• IRR
• ROI
• Depreciation
• Debt analysis
• P&L Reports
• Impact Analysis
• Liaison between business clients and technical team
• System test plan
• System test execution
• UAT coordination
• Defect tracking
• Defect resolution for Excel workbooks
• Deployment Planning
• Ongoing support including new software releases

Environment: Dot Net, Spreadsheet Gear, XML, UML, Visio, MS Excel, Oracle 10g, Toad, SQL, MS Access, Visual Basic, Rational ClearQuest, Sharepoint, Agile

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identified and documented risks.
• Supported efforts to identify tasks and time estimates.
• Responsible for status reporting to IT leadership.
• Drove the analysis phase by meeting with primary business stakeholders to document requirements and Use Cases.
• Created wire frames
• Supported the technical design phase by transferring knowledge to the offshore and onshore technical teams.
• Tracked issues and drove issue resolution
• Wrote test plan and test scripts.
• Managed system test phase

Environment: Dot Net, SQL Server, MS Excel, DB2, SQL Query Analyzer Tool, Data Warehousing

Confidential, Deerfield, Il

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of onshore analysts responsible for documenting requirements for reports and outgoing / incoming data flow interfaces
• Identified and assigned tasks to other team members
• Responsible for status reporting to project management and ‘on-time’ task tracking.
• Acted as liaison between onshore and offshore technical team
• Helped drive the analysis phase by meeting with primary business stakeholders to document requirements for reports and interface processes
• Documented data mapping for reports and interfaces
• Tracked issues and led issue resolution process
• Authored test plan and test scripts

Environment: Java, Oracle, DB2, Toad, Visio, UML, Business Objects, Web Services

Confidential, Chicago, Il

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Drove the analyze phase by meeting with the primary business stakeholder to document requirements and develop Use Cases.
• Developed data definition requirements