SUMMARY:

Seeking a position where my skills and experience in management and business analysis will allow me to positively impact organizational operations and revenue.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SAP PM, SAP FICO;
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Rational Unified Process Methodology, RUP (Project Manager role, BA role, System Analyst role);
• Rational Software Modeler, Rational Rose, ClearCase, Soda, ClearQuest, Biztalk & Business Rules Composer;
• Business Objects; Business Objects Data Integrator; Informatica;
• Borland CaliberRM and Borland Together Designer (UML Modeling Tool)
• Tableau
• SQL, MSSQL, and Oracle
• Adobe Photoshop
• MS Office (Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, InfoPath, Visio, Project);
• Bilingual in Spanish (Verbal and Written)

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business Analyst/PM

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided Confidential Pipeline Company analytical services with regard to organizational change, deployment service workflow analysis, business process mapping to future state, and organizational risk/strategy for its Confidential and Refined products business;
• Utilized Confidential ’s Requirements Management Work Process for project engagements as well as helped refine and build those processes for BAs, SAs, and PMs;
• Analyzed Confidential ’s Enterprise Architecture methodology against Business Unit current practice and made recommendations on how best to deploy, adopt, and implement information management practices;
• Tasked with developing the strategic and operational policy surrounding the information management and compliance for all facility engineering sites, control center, and related departments;
• Developed Data Governance policy and procedure of Process Safety Information which created significant operational cost savings in relation to validation and verification of engineering facility documentation;
• Developed extensive guidelines and strategy related to functional and logical system & UAT testing;
• Actively managed projects and budgets ($3 - $16M) to deliver and guide project delivery of requirements, governance, and information management as well integration with SAP and other BU specific applications;

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Senior Analyst charged with reviewing current client functionality and formulating the Confidential product business logic to address functionality around hydrocarbons, Confidential, power, in relation to new trade structures, pricing, risk analysis, and settlements;
• Developed Confidential professional services team artifacts into a single, orderly and branded methodology which reflected the companies new brand initiative as well as product acquisition of Affinity and brand drive around Symphony;
• Regularly acted as SME during new and existing clients discussions with regard to additional modules or enterprise suite of products, regulatory compliance (e.g. Dodd Frank), market data feed integration, and reporting;
• Worked directly with Confidential ’s sales efforts for potential and existing clients to bolster revenue and provide guidance around products and professional services;

Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Functional Manager for Confidential focused Confidential implementation for Confidential, Crude & Refined Products, Power, and Coal for North American and European markets;
• Functional Consultant for Endur and Findur implementations which encompassed Front Office, Mid Office, and Back Office functionality and requirements related to related commodities and financials (Project ranging from $4M-$18M) as well as integration to clients internal systems such as SAP;
• Engaged clients, inclusive of executive management, as the overall onsite Confidential engagement manager with key responsibility to interface with their business and technical sponsors, project delivery, risk identification and mitigation;
• Provided functional business training to client’s IT staff in order to facilitate understanding of the business their team support for commodity and financial sectors;
• Delivered projects ranging from large energy companies, agro trading floors, investment banks, central and regional banks, by providing functional business analysis for trade capture, credit/risk exposure, confirmations, market data analysis, market data integration, and confirmations across an array of clients and product types which range from commodities to debt.
• Acted as a functional consultant setting requirements and configurations for VaR, Curves, EOD Batch, Credit Exposure, Reporting (e.g. PnL Explained), Simulations, Business Requirements, and Business Process Mapping;

Sr. Business Analyst/PM

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided business analysis and system requirements for Confidential credit risk and MtM (Mark to Market) teams which provided analytical risk cubes for legal entity and counterparty exposure, thresholds, netting agreements, tenor limits, forward risk exposure scenarios, and MtM to provide several hierarchical views of risk for BP legal entities and its trading counterparties;
• Performed audits of the Credit Data Mart and other Analytical Risk Cubes to for their existing implementation against current business practice as well as business process mappings of current to future state;
• Supported Marketing & Origination with interpretation and data mining of current and historical trade data;
• Verified and presented logic changes for how the credit team handles deal level potential total exposure for Coal, Crude, Confidential, Power, NGLs, and Transmission physical and financial deals;
• Provided insight and guidance on how best to implement business requirements and project scheduling practices within the context of BP’s CMMI adoption and certification;
• Provided cost and benefit analysis in determining underlying database structure, software selection, and setup with regard to the establishment a comprehensive data model to replace existing legacy dbs;
• Provided Level Three production support for the Credit Data Mart for all of Confidential ;
• Analyzed and documented requirements for how BI systems consume and interpret physical and financial deal types as well as market data;
• Worked with the Business unit to establish Master Netting Agreement logic for exposure for Counterparties participating in these agreements.

Lead Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Mentored the analysis team in order to optimize and instruct Baker’s requirements gathering process within the confines of RUP;
• Responsible project requirements and systems analysis in enterprise application development for Baker’s Geoscience center which comprised of more than 1400 end users which created applications geared toward geophysical, image, acoustic, density, and waveform analysis;
• Analyzed business processes in order to streamline operational processes which then ensures reliable software development logic is captured as a part of requirements analysis;
• Redefined the RUP process between PMs, analysts, and development which created a more tightly interwoven software development group;
• Developed complex large scale UML models which fully integrated Rational Rose, RequisitePro, and Clearcase into a single tool for generating Use Case Specifications, Activity Diagrams, Analysis models for sequencing and MS Word documentation;

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the capture of business logic and requirements for external channels and the internal trading floor’s operations as part of bond securitization, risk analysis, interest rate hedging for both Prime and Subprime arenas to deliver technology solutions driven by the business unit’s need;
• Responsible for capturing requirements from different channel’s line of business process logic and operation workflow in order to ensure loan production moved from their operation to the trading floor for sale and their movement to the servicing unit’s system;
• Developed UML Model Diagrams to render business logic and requirements into work flow processes, activity diagrams, sequencing diagrams, class diagrams, and data models in a comprehensive and understandable set of documents to convey software requirements for staff programmers;
• Successfully delivered projects for electronic delivery of loans to external channels. The project reduced operational costs associated with Investor Shipping functions and allowed for a more precise execution of settlements providing the ability to remove loan inventory from the warehouse lines and settlement of loans from an average of twenty five days to as little as two days The project’s bottom line impact to revenue generated a savings of more than $6 million a year;
• Secured the business logic and requirements for the Aegis Inventory Management System to track, control and move loan inventory from pipeline to servicing which prevented loan inventory from failing to remain boarded in the warehouses and unsold. This project alleviated more than $50 million dollars in unsold loan inventory;
• Captured requirements for the trade floor’s comprehensive database system to run modeling, pricing and hedging strategies, and the capture of all relevant analytical data for Confidential predicative analysis.
• Developed trade floor reports and forms for daily volumes, interest rate positions, risk pools, and securitizations;

Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Successfully targeted multiple industry channels to provide project management, business analysis, and technology services growing from two clients in the first year to more than thirty by the second year;
• Provided business analysis services for trade floor operations in regard to risk management for options (e.g price risk), price curves for options, and value added risk structures;
• Set forth service offerings in Project Management to include: establishing project life cycle, PM processes, documenting and identifying project assumptions, scope management plan and change process, risk monitoring, and control tools and techniques within the methodology outlined by Rational and PMI;
• Maintained multiple projects simultaneously for several different industry channels with regard to capturing, documenting, and delivering business solutions;
• Responsible for assigned client projects and sites across multiple channels with regard to WBS, setting project milestones, pricing process and strategy, project risk management assessment, analysis and risk identification, and evaluating project feasibility through capital budgeting tools (e.g. analysis of NPV, IRR, TVM, discounted cash flows);
• Management Consulting services in technology and strategic development;
• Managed the day to day operation of the Confidential with regard to managing and establishing processes, financial planning and strategy, building vendor and client relationships, quality management, legal compliance, and leadership;