Sr. Business Analyst Resume Windsor Mill, MD - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Senior Business Analyst with MBA
Experience in Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing
Experience with Tableau Visualization, SAP Business Objects Reporting, Cognos, and Microsoft Power BI Visualization
Strong skills eliciting, exploring, validating and composing requirements documents
Skilled in Data Analysis and Testing
Excellent written and verbal communications skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Windsor Mill, MD

Leads working sessions to develop the new DW data models. Documents meeting discussions, decisions made, and action items.
Liaison between business users and developers/programmers.
Recommends report and dashboard metrics, filters, and drill down reports.
Gathers and writes, requirements document for the OAGM Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence Dashboards and Management reports.
Conceptually envisions the content, structure, and presentation of the dashboards.
Creates dashboard mockups and presented them to the OAGM Director.
Collaborates with customers to generate and document the business logic to calculate the dashboard metrics
Understands business process and analyzes data to validate dashboard business rules.
Translates dashboard business logic into rough SQL code guidelines for developers.
Assists developer to conceive logic for complex SQL query to generate views for reports and dashboards.
Authored communications explaining technical issue and solutions options.
Assists Project Manager in tracking outstanding issues and action items
Assists Project Manager with strategizing and recommending next steps.
Demonstrates the Cognos reporting system to customers and OAGM contractor
Tests reports and dashboards; tracks defects to resolution.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Modified Universes and created BI reports in SAP Business Objects
Created BI data visualization dashboards in Tableau
Scripted SQL queries to validate data and test BI reports and visualizations
Created data flow diagrams in Visio
Facilitated requirements elicitation meetings
Elicited, explored, validated and authored requirements documents
Translated customer business needs into requirements specifications understandable to both users and developers.
Analyzed data to validate feasibility of customer requirements and identify/raise any data issues
Analyzed data to identify proper fields, conditions, and constraints and translated them into business rules that will accurately measure metrics
Created source, transformation, to destination data mappings
Diagrammed business process workflows in Visio
Tracked and documented changes to requirements and business specifications
Composed requirements traceability matrix
Authored test plans and test cases based on data analysis performed
Performed testing. Documented and tracked defects / issues resolution
Modified requirements document if necessary
Knowledgeable of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Quality Assurance Migration Technician

Confidential, Washington, DC

Information Technology Specialist

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Interviewed end-users, supervisors, and other stakeholders to elicit, understand, and document requirements
Managed efforts to have new applications pass agency IT Governance approval process
Planned and coordinated testing of new systems prior to roll-out
Crafted easy-to-follow user instructions to increase use of new technology
Created HTML web pages for disseminating technical information
Implemented agency monthly 'User Tips' to improve employee computer proficiency.