SUMMARY:

• Business Analyst with over twenty years of experience in business and financial analysis in the private and public sectors. Projects have spanned different industries and have included finance, healthcare, Confidential analysis, human resources management, transportation, and wealth management systems. Quick learning curve for new systems.
• Recommendations through incisive analysis problem solving skills.
• Experienced in database analysis, design and documentation.
• Proficient in trawling for requirements from stakeholders and users. Liaises well with stakeholders, users, subject matter experts, and development teams. Communicates effectively with team members from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Skilled in unveiling the obscure during the requirements discovery process. Validating these findings and translating them into project artifacts, including business and functional requirements documentation, use cases, wireframes, and activity diagrams.
• Immersed in project through all iterations and phases; from requirements documentation, analysis, design and development, test plans, to training. Verifies, prototypes and tests solutions.
• Produces relevant supporting artifacts and presentations with Visio, PowerPoint, Rational DOORS.
• Provided quality service to customers resulting in greater customer satisfaction and decreased complaints.
• Managed schedule for deliverables and resolved roadblocks resulting in projects coming on - line, on time and on budget.
• Performed cost/benefit analysis on recommendations generating cost and time savings.
• Increased revenue by producing superior reports, providing new products, and by creating computerized analytical tools. Created user documentation and training manuals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile.

Software: Microsoft Office Suite Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio; HTML; SQL Server, SQL; UML; VB; iRise; Rational DOORS, Tableau.

Op Systems: Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Conducted background research regarding potential projects for prospective clients
• Liaised with and elicited project requirements from clients
• Formulated specifications and presentations for client Confidential
• Created Requirements related artifacts from clients’ supporting documentation

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented the proprietary Confidential rating and ranking program, including analysis of complex SQL coding, involving hundreds of tables, modules, and interfaces.
• Documented and diagrammed library of SQL procedures via Visio and MS Word.
• Created traceability matrices between client exhibits and system outputs.
• Suggested and tested improvements made to legacy system.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Documented and diagrammed library of SQL procedures via Visio and MS Word.
• Formalized structure for documentation.
• Included traceability matrices between Visio diagrams and SQL statements.
• Advised on construction of SQL procedures for new reporting system to feed internal and external freight payment and audit system to use in vendor invoice audit, reconciliation, parcel cost allocation, and related reporting.
• Provided business and technical expertise on the addition of new tables and fields to the Finance database. This required modification to existing SQL logic and the in corporation of new logic, to accommodate requirements for greater precision and flexibility in interfacing with upstream corporate systems.
• Conceived and developed data dictionary to cross reference over 300 fields to sixty tables. Automated procedures for updating and adding tables and fields to the dictionary. Advanced features included field definitions, references and uses in procedures, and a system allowing for the entry of a set of fields to determine tables and the reverse. System featured hyperlinking of components to each other.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Elicited business requirements for project to replace production of paper summonses via electronic handheld devices. Adopted and expanded project management role to instill and maintain a positive relationship with client side to foster enthusiasm for major changes in business procedures and culture.
• Associated features with these devices included the development of new back office systems and the continued liaison with legacy systems.
• Extracted tables from legacy system for analysis via SQL. Discovered requirements through one-on-one and group sessions with management, SMEs, and clerks.
• Analyzed, validated, and documented business requirements in Business Requirements Document (BRD).

Confidential, Parsippany, New Jersey

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Created functional specifications for Performance Evaluation, Administration, and Setup modules for a new web based, fully integrated Human Resources Management portal.
• Prototyped access flow for reports and created wireframes for reports UI.
• Analyzed proposals and discussed issues with global team of stakeholders, developers, and analysts.
• Performed ad-hoc testing on various modules in the application.

Confidential, New York, New York

Business Analyst/Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed analysis and design of product and relationship with clients.
• Produced business requirements and functional specifications including process flow and functional analysis. Interviewed stakeholders and users and incorporated their needs and visions into the new application. Analyzed structure and functionality of existing legacy program via SQL.
• Documented and presented website proposals via Visio mockups, wireframe diagrams PowerPoint slides.