EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Project Manager and Business Analyst with 20+ years of proven experience in planning large projects, establishing project objectives, managing scope, and delivering high quality systems on time and within budget.
• Possess analytical problem - solving skills, software methodologies, tools and techniques for managing and delivering all phases of the system development life cycle.
• Possess good business judgment, excellent leadership skills, and the capacity to build strong client relationships at all levels of an organization.
• Utilize in-depth program management methodologies to define tasks and responsibilities involved with each project, with emphasis on budget constraints and resource limitations.
• A process model expert who has been involved with Lean, RUP, ISO, Agile, and CMM process modeling certification.
• Expert in Supply Chain, EDI, E-Commerce, E-Procurement, Vendor and Materials Management.

SKILLS INVENTORY:

• Project Planning & Management
• Risk Management & Mitigation Strategies
• Communication Management
• Scope Development & Management
• Technical and Business Use Cases
• Technical Specifications
• Data Flow Diagrams
• Test Plans & Scripts
• Training Plans and Documentation
• Rational Rose (RUP)
• Agile/User Stories

EXPERIENCE:

Sr IT Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing demand requests from partners, and IS, establishing IS demand work team, engage relative partners and IS leads, author, acquire estimates, and coordinate approvals for sizing proposals, deliver proposals to partners, manage partner expectations, communications and change control, track project artifacts to ensure timely delivery as they pertain to the demand.
• Represent Imaging Services in weeekly demand related forums.
• Manage partner requests (programs and projects, standard services, CRs)
• Perform comprehensive requirements analysis, align to capabiligties, identify impacts, and evaluate risk/complexity.
• Engage IS impacted delivery teams and solutions t3eam if applicable.
• Document and communicate requests, plans/timelines and progress - description, summary and scope, cross functional team members, assumptions and constraints, requirements and reis, identification and traceability to IS components, estimated labor and other costs, estimated delivery dates and release alignment.
• Maintain demand pipeline on daily basis (dates, activity logs, issue resolution, next steps)
• Management implementation tasks for demands where no technical implementation lead is assigned.
• Provide weekly and monthly demand reporting to management.

Platform: UI Viewer, Kofax, PMUWS, FileNet, SharePoint

Sr IT Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning any required new infrastructure based on approved solution/infrastructure design
• Configuring new infrastructure per approved requirements.
• Migrating all currently operational PSBI and Flood applications in St Louis Park to a core/regional data center.
• Removing and decommissioning all remaining equipment from Saint Louis Park.
• Working to Restructure the data center space to minimize floor space.
• Facilitated the gathering of all source documentation and created a SharePoint Project Repository for project documentation.
• Facilitated Test/Implementation Plan and strategies Production Readiness.
• Worked with the existing team through Design/Test/Production to assure all documentation was completed and archived.
• Define the primary business objectives/vision/scope.
• Engage existing off-site Vendor to provide contracts/documentation/installation/instructions/and user licenses for the project
• Define a project plan
• Engaged a project team (SMEs) for requirements high/Detail analysis and documentation.
• Created the current state use cases for requirements analysis.
• Created BRD/DRD/SOW for detailed requirements documentation per the plan.
• Created the WBS documentation to define project responsibilities.
• Created all applicable Detailed Requirements documents for reference in design. Began documentation for test/implementation plan and production readiness.
• Project involved architectural infrastructure feasibility studies and outside vendor interfacing.

Platform: OS Windows 8 Enterprise, Biz Talk, SharePoint, SQL Data Bases 2003,2005,2008, 2012, Servers VMWare Physical/Virtual Applied Vision

Sr. IT Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Worked with internal and divisional clients to define requirements, negotiate (WBS), create PMO Documentation for project initiation, and defined SOW, s, and designs for multiple IT projects. Projects involved architectural infrastructure feasibly studies.
• Project primary focus was to document "as is" process procedures involving the project manufacturing processes and perform process improvement analysis.
• Documentation was completed for project requirement approval and design.

Platform: Iseries, Merchandising. Processes, BUS, SharePoint, Documentum, and Clarity.

Sr. IT Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Worked with internal and divisional clients to define requirements, negotiate (WBS), created PMO Documentation for project initiation, and defined SOW, s, and designs for multiple IT projects.
• Projects involved architectural infrastructure feasibly studies.
• Project primary focus was to document "as is" process procedures involving the project manufacturing processes and perform process improvement analysis.
• Documentation was completed for project requirement approval and design.

Platform: Iseries, MPS MFG. Processes, BUS, SharePoint, ASI, Primavera, and Clarity.

Sr IT Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the servers and applications in their current location.
• Adhere to Confidential security and audit standards.
• Continuing to support applications and servers.
• Set up SharePoint project repository. Completed
• Review Source Documentation. Completed
• Document project scope following PMO methodology PMUWS. Completed
• Draft deliverable documentation: Concept, RTM, RACI BRD, SOW, Use Cases Drafts Completed
• Began Requirements/Gap analysis - Started-353-2130

Platform: OS Windows 8 Enterprise, Biz Talk, SharePoint, SQL Data Bases 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, Servers VMware Physical/Virtual.

Sr IT Business Analyst

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Requirements definition, contract negotiation hardware/software/services SOW.
• Confidential system interfacing and process integration design.
• Installation of Confidential Owned Truck Equipment/Interfacing of equipment.
• Requirements definition, SOW definition and implementation of an integrated Web Financial access system.
• Development of an integrated external invoice/payment tracking site.
• Development of a Vendor Profile update and tracking system.
• Development of an historical access capability for internal and external users.
• Interfacing of Web Process with internal Confidential and Planet Press processes.

Platform: as400, JDE, Biz Talk, SSIS, .Net Formatted FTP.

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client to define requirements, created the design and modeling of a desk-top computing system.
• Designed functionality to meet requirements, ordered equipment, and coordinated the installation and software configuration of a small office set-up.
• Implementation was completed in February, and I remained on support staff.

Lean Sigma Associate/Business Analyst

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Lead one or more application work streams in Intel/Unix and Global Delivery, for conducting diagnostics, performing analysis, helping with future state design, and working Application Team changes to be implemented.
• Performed deep diagnostics demonstrating results of data and analysis and formation of data to facilitate conclusions with delivery teams / contacts.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities with teams, fostering communications, drive problem solving with the frontline on a daily active basis.
• Worked closely with delivery teams, green teams, leads, managers as necessary.
• Delivered Problem Management, Lean Methodology, Metrics Gathering, Value Stream Mapping and any other pertinent education required to perform daily activities.

Multiple platforms: Intel, Unix, Intel, Lotus Notes, Micro Soft Suite, and Global Systems.