SUMMARY:

• A seasoned consultant experienced in multiple core skills. Adept at leading, working with executive level leadership and contributing as a team member.
• Ability to see the ‘ Confidential ’, confront and command details of day to day operations. Comfortable managing projects/teams and complex technical situations.
• I have developed extensive expertise in consulting spanning the Pharmaceutical, DOD (& quasi government), Automotive, Retail, Energy/Utilities, Banking, Aerospace and Electronics industries.
• Most recent focus has been in the BI domain helping clients through their BI implementations.
• Vast and deep experience in Business Analysis, Project/Portfolio Planning & Resource Management with complex multi - million-dollar high profile data intensive web-based implementations in intense pressure filled and demanding environments.
• Complete understanding of software development, SDLC-Agile/Waterfall and lean six sigma process improvement methodologies.

S KILLS:

• Client facing, Team Leadership, Business Process model definition. Full SDLC expertise.
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Scrum/Agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Confidential -R3/R4, SAP R3, ABAP4, SAP BI, Qlickview, QlikSense, Assembler, FORTRAN, BASIC, ORACLE fundamentals, SIX SIGMA, KAIZAN, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft PROJECT, VISIO, Basic HTML and SQL server, Relational Databases, CLEARQUEST, Blueprint, HP Quality Center. JIRA and Pivotal Tracker.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. BA/PM

Responsibilities:

• Part of Vulnerability management team handling harmonization of entire Confidential applications Cyber security scans and patching updates on all servers.
• Handle massive amounts of data, create dashboards using advanced Excel functions ( Confidential, Confidential Tables etc.) allow for data analysis and forward/advise individual applications team to stay compliant with updates. Direct and manage the teams entire process for all multiple departments using Java applications, Windows 10 upgrades, Middle-ware etc..
• Support other initiatives involving SDLC, Identity management.
• Create from scratch a share point website to allow team a common venue to access and control project related data.
• Use Qlikview display and analyze data, research the Qlikview design to determine improvements to process and design.
• Hospitalization due to temporary illness forced me to resign and return home for specialized treatment.

Confidential, Garnet Valley, PA

Sr. Project Manager/BA

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical strategy and consulting services for this financial entity.
• Services include upgrading entire computer and network system.
• Modernize office operations to handle intense tax season workload, transfer from old school manually based to digital system for handling transactions and communications.
• Investigate and advise client in the BI use of QlikSense for company’s reporting and data intensive workload.
• Implemented a structured and lean six sigma based operation which truly benefited the client especially in the hectic tax season.

Confidential

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Create enterprise wide operational roadmap schematics, analyze, process data and recommend improvements.
• Implement the corporate-wide BI (SAP) model in Qlikview.
• Elicit requirements combining UI/UX compliant design of BI prototypes using best practices.
• Prepare and publish documentation for developers, testing, validation and release procedures.
• Conduct deep data mining/discovery, manipulation and analysis using SAP BI objects, complex Excel models and MS Access records for the company’s Operational Delivery and Distributions as well as Financial Systems.
• Collaborated with business owners & SMEs to define their critical KPIs and develop dashboards (multiple QV apps).
• Use Qlikview to create the straw-man reports for visualization by users.
• A Qlikview super-user with self-taught skills to develop complex reports within dashboards.
• Assisted developers in planning, testing, design of ETL and scripting.
• Scheduled and conducted peer reviews to proactively analyze and tune the QV apps.
• Create materials and educate/train users on the applications. Develop the enterprise mobile applications initiative providing testing strategies, methods using Scenarios, Uses Cases and Test Scripts.
• Consulted directly with company Directors and V.P.s to create and analyze strategic and tactical options.

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Business/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise in direct interfacing with the customer/owners, gathering and qualifying business requirements, translating to technical specification.
• Complete immersion in web based technologies, databases table structures, data models, website layout, UI/UX, wireframe concepts, behavioral operation.
• Write full complement of software development documents BR, CUIS, SA. Collaborating with Data Modelers/Architects, Programmers, ETL/Scripters and Users.
• Additional development, review and formulation of KPIs.
• Assist Scrum Master following Agile Scrum methodology using JIRA project management software.
• Created Epics, Stories, and Tasks for entire enterprise development effort.

Confidential, North Wales, PA

Lead BA

Responsibilities:

• Investigate, create and update the entire documentation library and methodology, guide to regulatory compliance and setup for enterprise wide deployment.
• Delivered show stopping documentation ahead of schedule.
• Used entirely Scrum based (Altassian JIRA) methods with global Business
• Development and offshore Testing teams on GUI/Database system applications.
• Scrum methodology used JIRA.

Confidential, Valley Forge, Pa

Lead BA

Responsibilities:

• Condensing from 13 to 3 systems using Identropy software.
• This Involved transferring and manually validating thousands of Access groups to Active Directory.
• Drove the Physical Access part of the implementation to successful on time delivery.
• Analyzed and updated the business processes for HR on-boarding, reassignment and termination.
• Gathered requirements and created homegrown tracking and administration system for reporting on the entire system for all business users - a total of 80 web SQL server based reports.
• Additional requirements review for KPIs development.
• Created a dashboard to manage the entire report design, development and testing system. PJM used scrum/Agile methodology for the implementations.
• Scrum methodology used Pivotal Tracker.
• Used MS SQL Server to validate complex SQL queries used for user reports.

Confidential, West Point, PA

Sr. BA

Responsibilities:

• The current stage of project was in concept phase so primary focus was on business strategy, capability, vision alignment, approach and KPIs.
• Formulate and define business cases and solution requirements. Support development and improvements to business process design.
• Drive deliverables by collaboration with BAs, Solution/Enterprise Architects, Technical Analysts and user community of Scientists, Clinical Researchers, Curators and Business owners. Participate in projects run with Scrum Agile methodologies both in Clinical and Safety Assessment using Confidential SLC procedures.
• Authored full complement of SLC and SDLC documentation from FRS, QAP, CMP, IQ/OQ/PQ to SLAs for associated systems.
• Drug Discovery worked with chemists for compound development, formulation and chemical synthesis, Primary/Secondary Assays Toxicity and metabolism screening for Clinical candidate and promoting to safety assessment.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, NJ

Lead Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct critical and major redesign analysis on an existing resource/scheduling system and performance capability.
• Interact with multi-divisional functional operations, facilitate and drive meetings/elicit requirements data and generate formal functional/technical documentation.
• Set up new processes for Lean Six Sigma format.
• Cover work spanning the entire drug development process
• Discovery/Preclinical and Clinical and Regulatory areas.

Confidential, Valley Forge, Pa

Responsibilities:

• Successfully drove the IT division portfolio management services to productively utilize their MS Project enterprise wide implementation.
• Lead the Project Management related activities for several multi-million dollar projects.
• Analyzed, aligned and rectified the organization’s financial reporting system (SAP, project web and MS Projects).
• Designed, produced and presented monthly reports and charts to line management and executives for the entire division portfolio.
• Provide the technical expertise and training on the use of MS Project.
• Initiated definition of the WBS, RBS and other structures for optimal design of the MS Project Architecture.
• Conducted analysis on the design for automatic transfer of actuals data into MS Project - the existing process was manual and very labor intensive.

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Real estate investment. Bought and renovated properties for rental income.
• Experienced the true ins and outs of money and (more importantly) people management.
• Even more importantly I learned about myself.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed significant and multiple consulting roles in this major Confidential implementation for the organization.
• Pivotal and principle design authority for the dynamic resource allocation system used in what if scenarios.
• Redesigned the pilot algorithms for a more efficient user maintainable system - reducing programming cost and operational expenses.
• Covering the entire drug development process - Discovery/Preclinical/Clinical and Regulatory areas.
• Determined the business requirements, translated to formal technical documentation.
• Planned and devised the Project Management Methodologies including WBS, RBS, OBS, special breakdown structures, work-packages including project templates and using macros.
• Training/ mentoring clients on use of the Confidential tool including formulas, styles, filtering, file operations, report builder, concept mode and beyond.
• Technical liaison with offshore team. In depth expertise in modeling condition based algorithms (parametric and modular).

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a complete analysis for the organization’s enterprise wide implementation.
• Consulted with Finance, Strategic Program Development, Capacity Planning groups, IT (including offshore), various Therapeutic and Functional areas to establish a common integrated roadmap for the operational business model.
• Translated the business requirements to technical documentation.

Confidential, Palmer, Pa

Responsibilities:

• Conducted an in-depth analysis for this E-commerce organization’s business model for their order entry, process, fulfillment, financial AR & AP integrated system
• . Created formal technical documentations to reflect the business model.
• Designed complex business process model and cross functional charts.
• Generated the templates which the vendor subsequently adopted to use with all their clients.

Confidential, West Point, PA

Responsibilities:

• Hired for expertise in Project Management specifically with Confidential .
• Core team member of the original implementation team.
• Covered multiple disciplines of technical consulting, administration expertise, architectural design of system.
• Educated the client/user on use of application.
• Designed testing methodologies and generated UT scripts and held UAT sessions.
• Work spanning the entire drug development process - Discovery/Preclinical and Clinical and Regulatory areas.

Confidential, Allentown, Pa

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Project management activates of resource planning, scheduling and budgeting using Confidential .
• Successfully converted a chronically poor implementation into a productive tool that the clients actually used in their operations.