Senior Business Analyst Resume
New York City, NY
SUMMARY
Operations, strategic planning, and project management to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the financial services, government, non - profit, telecom industries. Experienced in implementations of data mining, business intelligence, data warehouse, ecommerce, and CRM solutions at remote locations
TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP: Oracle Financials GL, AR, AP. (As well as in house ERP applications)
Database: MySQL, Oracle SQL, T-SQL
Project Management: Project Online, Jira, Waterfall SDLC, Agile Scrum
QAT: Mercury Quality Center
Business Intelligence: Power BI, Business Objects, IBM i2
Modelling: UML, Visio
Version control: GitHub
Authentication: Azure AD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, New York City, NY
Senior Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Elicit and document requirements during implementation of IBM i2 in 4 UN peace keeping missions.
- Document and trouble shoot issues arising during implementation of a CRM order fulfilment application.
- Document requirements in enhancement of this CRM application to decrease time to obtain supplies by 50%.
- Commercial risk management regarding risks and threats to UN facilities and peace keeping missions
- Oversee the development of an ebilling telecom cost recovery system through each stage of the SDLC.
- This system recovered $ 5 million in telecom costs annually.
- Gather and document customization requirements for each overseas location during implementation of an application to reduce notification time regarding peace keeper casualties by 50%.
- Track KPIs regarding 46 projects in the Situational Awareness Program
- Elicit requirements and document use cases for a simplified data collection application for battalions.
- Train 40 end users per location worldwide in the use of implemented software.
- Develop and execute SQL scripts to uncover duplicate payments to vendors
- Data modelling in design of Power BI tools to monitor KPI’s in UN peace keeping missions.
- Edit LMS learning materials for English to provide training to 1,500 military staff across 14 missions.
- Reduce duration of the incident report approval process by 1 day through business process modelling
Confidential, New York City, NY
Business Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Saved $250,000 per year by managing transition of provisioning functions to offshore team
- Monitored compliance with SLA in regard to offshore teams.
- Forecasted expected cost savings for future periods.
- Configured applications during ERP systems implementations.
- Decommissioned Avaya PBX’s saving $15,000 per month per PBX.
- Converted 3,000 circuits from AT&T to Granite to save $ 30,000 annually.
- Achieved savings of $ 100,000 annually by conversion of 5,000 circuits to VOIP.
- Achieved cost savings through SQL scripts to periodically uncover duplicate payments to vendors.
Confidential, Bellevue, WA
Business Systems Analyst / QAT Lead
Responsibilities:
- Reduced duration of QAT from 1500 to 150 test cases by regression for functionality changes only.
- Reduced offshoring costs by 20% by switching offshoring vendor from Xavient to Ciber.
- Elicited requirements for enhancements to the POS, CAM and Bill Payment Kiosk systems.
- Upgraded 707 kiosks from Windows 2000 to XP in 13 days.
- Conducted user training on Oracle Financials Accounts Payable and General Ledger modules.
- Resolved issues of inaccurate data flowing into the Oracle Financials database.
- Reduced billing costs by 70% by converting customer bills from detail to summary format.
- Identified and recovered $150,000 in duplicate refunds issued to customers.
- Improved compliance with the SLA by 20% through automation of manual tasks.
- Reduced support costs by 5 FTE’s by facilitating the offshoring of after-hours support to vendor Xavient.
Confidential, Seattle, WA
ERP Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Functional analyst role in customizations, enhancements and upgrades of Oracle Financials AP and GL modules, and migration from Oracle Financials to SAP.
- Trained 100 end users in the use of Oracle Financials GL and AP modules.
- Reduced filing costs by $ 35,000 annually through implementation of an optical imaging system.
- Reduced data entry costs by $ 70,000 by converting vendor billing from paper to ecommerce (EDI).
- Transitioned accounts payable functions to offshore vendor Infosys.
- Uncovered and recovered $ 50,000 in duplicate payments to vendors.
- Integrated systems of Danzas (JD Edwards), Airborne Express (Oracle), Confidential (SAP) during merger.
