PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly seasoned and reliable Business Analyst with a superb customer satisfaction record. Adept at inter departmental coordination to maximize business functionality and efficiency.
• Committed to ongoing professional development and research to ensure currency and innovation in management and problem - solving.
• Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)/Application Development |Requirements management| Enterprise Implementation| Data Migration and Maintenance
• Testing/IV&V/T&E |Cybersecurity implementation |Operations & Maintenance (O&M).
• Experienced requirements manager/BA, leading analyst teams and offering 14+ years of success skilled in all phases of diverse technology projects (SDLC, data queries, data transfer, data warehouse etc..) with both government and private sector. Ad vance degree in CIS/management. Multi years of industry experience such as finance/accounting, academic/education, health care (Medicare/Medicaid, commercial health care applications), defense (familiar with federal acquisition, DOD life cycle, DODAF, ITIL, OUSD etc..), Law enforcement (FBI/Marshall service), homeland security.
• Outstanding abilities in business analysis
• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent communicator ; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams (end-users, stake holders).
• Experienced in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. Experienced in using various tools, such as, MS project schedule, MS Visio, DOORS, Req Pro, Clear Quest, Share Point, and JIRA.
• Excellent knowledge of business process automation and workflow concepts and instruments.
• Experiences in managing junior and senior Business Intelligence analysts

SKILLS SUMMARY:

• Custom Software Development
• Requirements Analysis/Management
• Functional Requirements
• Agile & Scrum
• Test Plans, Cases & Processes
• Business Process Improvement
• FRDs, SRS, RTMs
• SQL Queries/reports
• Scripting & Documentation
• Data platforms and risk analysis
• SQA Testing & Methodologies
• Business Analysis
• Test Plans, Cases & Processes
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
• Functional Requirements
• Test & Evaluation IPTs
• Caliber
• DOORS
• JIRA
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Data Interface & Migration Testing
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Vendor Management
• Client Relations & Presentations

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:

Databases: Data Warehouse, Oracle, Global, SQL, Oracle forms, Oracle reports, Microsoft AccessRelational database design, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic for applications (VBA), HTML database, and .Net, Erwin.

Software Tools: IBM Rational Suite, JIRA (scrum board, Kanban, Fish Eye), Req Pro, MS Share Point Service, USMS JDIS, Caliber (requirements tool), DOORS (requirements tool), UML Together, Designer 2006, HTML Database (requirements tool), Crystal Reports, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Front Page MS office, PVCS tracker, On time Web (OTW) tracking software, Lotus Notes, MS Visual Source Café, axosoft ontime tracking system.

Hardware: Prime 750, IBM System 36 and 5251 mini computers, IBM-PC microcomputers, Hewlett Packard, Scan-Jet, Hayes Compatible Internal and external modems, DB2, SQL, Oracle servers.

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, 2000, 95/98, Windows NT, Windows for workgroup.

Servers Environment: SQL, DB2, Oracle, .Net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Manassas, VA

Sr. Business Analyst

Technical Environment: Oracle, JAVA, Share Point, MS Project Schedule, .Net, SQL Server, MS Office, Rally, VersionOne, ALM

Responsibilities:

• Create technical artifacts such as RTM, FRD etc
• Conduct JAD sessions with the stakeholder, application owners/users to better understand their needs.
• Translate user requirements into technical requirements.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure that requirements are properly executed.
• Coordinate with PM as the proposed solution transition from one environment (DEV, SIT, CAT, PROD) to other.
• Also conduct testing in SIT environment to properly confirm the enhancement/changes.
• Work with the QA team to review the defect report.
• Meet with business to identify and line up the next build, development and implementation.
• Manage, organize, and prepare slide deck for weekly briefing for the Program office.
• Utilize MS Visio, PowerPoint for artifact presentation purpose.
• Participate in mock up presentation to business.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Technical Environment: Oracle, DOORS, JAVA, Share Point, MS Project Schedule, .Net, SQL Server, MS Office, OMB MAX ( Confidential SharePoint)

Lead Test Evaluation / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide web application client support. Monitored and reported on client problems and issues.
• Contributed and delivered requirements gathering (functional and non functional), data queries/extraction, data migration, and testing.
• Translated business requirements into detail system level requirements.
• Prepared and delivered Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), RTMs, and FRD/SRS. Participate in Confidential ’s ship design, upgrades, testing.
• Activities include, requirements gathering, testing (TEMP, IV&V etc..), onsite ship visit to witness the upgrades (cybersecurity, navigation etc..).
• Provided and reviewed test reports. Study and analyze deficiencies reported during the testing.
• Organized briefings, meetings (TMOT, JAD sessions) in order to smooth transition during ship’s upgrades.
• Managed resources and prepared Project Management Plan (PMP).
• Managed, organized, and prepared slide deck for bi-weekly briefings for the TMOT board.
• Provide assistance and recommendation in formulating and defining new business process.
• Participated, engaged, and supported Coast Guard’s Confidential cybersecurity implementation program.
• Provided SME support on conducting requirements evaluation, technical study, and testing plan.
• Actively participate in briefings, conferences, and IPTs to discuss, review, and mitigate technical issues.
• Reviewed test plans to ensure that all the requirements are met and any deficiencies are resolved.

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Technical Environment: SharePoint, Oracle, Clear Quest, JAVA, JIRA, Share Point, MS Project Schedule, JAVA, .Net, Jboss, JDIS, Linux, SQL Server, MS Office, Host of other in-house tools

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Made sure that everyone in a team fully understands the business needs, motivations and critical success factors.
• Managed and provided support to client’s Software Enhancement (SDLC) development teams.
• Managed, and directly contributed/worked during the software development life cycle phases.
• Provided complete oversight and responsible for the projects from start to end, using agile methodology.
• Conducted daily scrum meetings to identify and monitor progress on the daily basis.
• Closely worked with each phase (team) and deliver the milestones (product) at the end of each phase (for example, requirement document, prototypes, design document etc.).
• Tracked defects and planned a mitigation strategy to resolve the post implementation issues.
• Streamlined the defect reporting system and provided a comprehensive briefing to client on the issues trend and remedy.
• Provided day to day leadership in resolving, mitigating, and real time support to client requests.
• Organized and prepared schedule, resources, budget, and guidance to staff.
• Assign, and monitored staff activities via established milestones and goals.
• Managed and allocated resources according to priority and assigned tasks.
• Worked across different groups (divisions) to effectively utilize resources and time to deliver product within budget and timeline.

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Technical Environment: Data Warehousing, Req Pro, Share Point Service 3.0, ASP .Net 3.0, JAVA, MS Project 2010, MS Visio, MS Office 2010

Lead Business/Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed data from a variety of sources in order to provide business insights.
• Conducted requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, end-users, and other focus groups.
• Translated user requirements into system/functional requirements.
• Analyzed and wrote technical data specifications.
• Provided support assistance to all functional business components.
• Run SQL queries for the batch data on the daily basis.
• Generated queries reports for the data comparison and duplications.
• Compared and cleansed data redundancies from different data sources.
• Reviewed, and recommended new data sets for Confidential internal applications.
• Analyzed existing data sets and proposed new data elements for database improvement.
• Provided status reports to client on regular basis
• Drew current business process in order to pinpoint areas of improvement.
• Prepared Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Document.
• Created activity diagrams to capture the current process flow.
• Met with the development team on regular basis to outline and draw requirements for coding purpose.

Confidential, Stafford, Virginia

Technical Environment: IBM Rational Suite, MS Share Point Service 3.0, SQL Server 2005, MS SQL, ASP .Net 2.0/3.0, Lotus Notes, JAVA, C++, DOORS .Net, MS Project 2003, MS Visio, MS Office 2003, RAD Methodology, SDLC.

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with the end-users and stakeholders in defining requirements.
• Provided guidance to analysts, developers, and testers.
• Provided technical leadership through the life cycle of the project.
• Maintained MS project schedule on regular basis.
• Created detailed tasks, and identified various milestones.
• Managed resource, schedule, and hours.
• Managed, organized share point documents flow.
• Met with client to discuss the project progress.
• Provided status reports to client on regular basis.
• Reviewed and prepared technical data reports.
• Prepared MS schedule tasks to capture expected milestones.
• Draw current business process in order to pin point areas of improvement

Confidential, Alexandria, Virginia

Technical Environment: SQL Server, MS SQL, ASP .Net 2.0/3.0, JAVA, .Net, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office 2003, SDLC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Initiated a project kick off meeting with project owners, stakeholders and end-users.
• Created and maintain MS Project plan. Planned and implemented SDLC oriented task with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Managed group of analysts, and small development team on COOP project.
• Led requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders.
• Met development team on a regular basis to discuss the user requirements.
• Prepared and provided meeting minutes to client and team.
• Provided leadership and guidance to team members.
• Resolved project related issues and made decisions to move forward.