SUMMARY:

• Innovative Business Analyst skilled at enhancing and optimizing business processes to ensure growth and success. Experienced with analyzing internal workflow process to identify areas of enhancement, developing and implementing business development plans, and assessing business requirements.
• I am a Professional Scrum Master and a Senior Business Analyst with over 18 years of leading Digital Transformation (Cloud Enablement, IoT and CyberSecurity), Business analysis, requirements gathering and application deployment initiatives. Dedicated Business Partner who combines stakeholder management skills with an extensive knowledge of Business Analysis principles and processes such as Agile (Scrum and Kanban),.
• I have over 10 years as a business analyst with over 6 years executing full lifecycle projects under Agile process framework using JIRA and mapping process flows using Visio.
• I have been a Scrum master for multiple projects for over 6 years including doing Retrospectives, using JIRA for User Stories and Agile Process Management and Reporting, Confluence for Collaboration and sharing information and Zephyr for Test Planning.
• My projects have had teams across multiple geographies and have managed teams over 6 business analysts for enterprise wide application development and deployment.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Requirements Management: R equirements Gathering (Executive Interviews, Conduct Workshops, JAD Sessions), interact with multiple teams/groups and departments, Requirements Classification and Prioritization, Prepare Business Case, Business Use Cases (UML), User Stories, User Stories into Tasks and Sub Tasks, Business Requirements Document, Create Requirements Traceability Matrix, 3rd Party/ Vendor Management

Process and Workflow Analysis and Improvement: Process mapping, Process Efficiency Improvements, Workflow Analysis, As - Is and To-Be Processes, Gap Analysis, Process Efficiency Improvement through Automation, Technology and Tools Evaluation

Stakeholder Management: Liaison between Business and IT Teams, Expectation Management, Business Case Approval, Calculate Cost Benefit Analysis, ROI, Requirements Document Approval, Interact and regularly communicate with senior management on status, approvals and scope variations.

User Acceptance Testing: Create Business Test Cases, Plan and coordinate User Acceptance Testing, Defect Tracking, Test Automation Planning, and Management Reporting, GUI Design, Screen Mockups

Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM, Kanban), APQC (KM Framework, KM Management, KM Assessment, Process Management, Process Framework, Process Strategy), RUP, Waterfall, Spiral, CMM Level 5, CMMi, Product Lifecycle Management

Technologies: SAP (Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Asset Integrity Management), GIS (ESRI), Database Management (SQL, Long Transactions, Spatial and Non-Spatial, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Sharepoint (Multiple Collaboration Sites), JIRA, IBM Rational Suite (Test Manager, Robot, Rose, Clearcase, Requisite Pro), Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Based and Virtualized SolutionsData Models: PODS, PPDM, APDM, GE Smallworld

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements for Digital Transformation for Cloud Deployment, Plan for Migration to Cloud, IoT Requirements (connected SCADA Systems), CyberSecurity requirements (adherence to security standards).
• Gather, prioritize and document requirements from various stakeholders (Nominations, Contracts, Scheduling, Distribution, Pipeline Controls, Material Balancing and Accounting) to include Refined products transportation into the existing system from a legacy system.
• Map full life-cycle opportunity to cash flow from: proposal creation cost estimation quote generation job preparation ticket generation compliance documents ticket reconciliation invoicing
• Gather, prioritize and document requirements from various stakeholders for divestiture of assets (SAP, responsible for Supply Chain, HR, Finance and Asset Integrity) using Visio
• Requirements Triaging
• Scrum Master - multiple projects
• Manage Scope change
• Progress review for efficiency improvement and reporting
• Identify, document and communicate requirement change impact analysis
• Creation of business case and business case presentation for approval
• User Stories, Breakdown of user stories into system use cases
• Use Case Scenarios, System and Business Activity flows
• Document detailed alternate flows with exceptions
• Document AS-IS workflows and subsequent TO-BE workflows.
• Business case presentation with cost benefit analysis and effort estimation
• Interact with multiple teams to gather requirements from Business Users, Legal, Records Management for Nominee Agreement
• Interact with 3rd Party vendors
• Make presentations to senior leadership team on observations and findings
• Map Business Cases to Test Cases for coverage.
• Identify and log business and test cases in MS TFS.
• Interact with Testing team to create Test Cases and ensure Business User Acceptance Testing is for adequate coverage of business and test cases
• Plan/Plot deepwater fields, Trees, Jumpers, Manifolds, PLETs, Risers including pipelines to storage. Use PODS and PPDM to create a data model for subsea infrastructure
• Design a prototype data model for subsea infrastructure using Visio and Enterprise Architect following UML 2.0 principles. The data model is lightly based on PODS, PPDM and SSDM

Tools: Agile (Kanban, Scrum), JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, Visio 2012, Team Foundation Server (TFS), SharePoint, Power BI, ArcGIS Server 10.1, C#, ASP.NET, ArcSDE, Spatial Modeler, Python, Oracle (SQL/PLSQL) and Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather, document and prioritize requirements for Design and development of a consolidated geographical mapping system for corporate power generation facilities, towers, substations and conductor assets
• User Stories, Breakdown of user stories into system use cases
• Document detailed ETL workflows for system integration and consolidation
• Document detailed alternate flows with exceptions
• Document and Model UML-driven use case “to be” business workflows
• Interact with multiple teams to gather requirements from Business Users
• Interact with 3rd Party vendors
• Identify process gaps
• Identify process improvement areas based on expected process efficiencies
• Define To-Be processes with process improvements through Automation, Processes elimination, new application implementation and custom development
• Map Business Cases to Test Cases for coverage.
• Identify and log business and test cases
• Interact with Testing team to create Test Cases and ensure Business User Acceptance Testing is for adequate coverage of business and test cases

Tools: APQC (KM Assessment, KM Management, JIRA, Process Management, Process Frameworks), Sharepoint, Visio, Enterprise Architect, Excel, Word, Oracle Spatial (SQL/PLSQL)

Confidential

Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interact with multiple teams
• Interact with 3rd Party vendors
• Identify process gaps
• Identify process improvement areas based on expected process efficiencies
• Define To-Be processes with process improvements through Automation, Processes elimination, new application implementation and custom development
• APQC (KM Assessment, KM Management, Process Management, Process Frameworks),

Confidential

Manager - Upstream Commercial Software Products Development

Responsibilities:

• Manage large-scale, software development projects of commercially-offered E&P applications.
• Challenges included stakeholder buy-in, business process transformation, turnaround and change management, development and deployment of new project workflow infrastructure model, single-point accountability and interface amongst culturally and geographically diverse teams in Canada, US, India and UK.
• Interact with multiple teams
• Interact with 3rd Party vendors
• Identify process gaps
• Identify process improvement areas based on expected process efficiencies
• Define To-Be processes with process improvements through Automation, Processes elimination, new application implementation and custom development
• APQC (KM Assessment, KM Management, Process Management, Process Frameworks),

Confidential

Software Architecture Development & Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Business requirements analysis, business process consulting, software lifecycle process definition, framework design, data model framework design and various implementation strategies with a plan for implementation.
• Some of the customers where such services have been rendered.
• Consulting on Manufacturing and Product Life Cycle Management extend to Supply Chain, Manage information flow across the enterprise to reduce Prototype costs reduce Time to market, include Engineering information in flows of communication and information sharing.

Tools: PTC PLM, ArcGIS, Intergraph, MS Project, Trimble GPS, Oracle / Oracle Spatial (SQL/PLSQL), Arc SDE