SUMMARY

• Certified IT Professional with experience in both consulting and employee positions in the financial services, insurance, publishing, telecom, healthcare, travel and retail industries.
• Areas of expertise include Project Management, Data Analysis, Systems Analysis, Business Analysis, Project Lead, Architecture and Software Development.
• Experienced in Agile, RUP - preparing activity flow diagrams, user stories, use cases, sequence flow diagrams, collaboration models, state diagrams, class models and other models using UML with knowledge of CMMI and Six Sigma.
• Experienced in merging Business Strategy & user requirements with technical systems.
• Areas of technical expertise include complex enterprise architectures using J2EE and COM technologies, OOAD and RDBMS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java 2, Java J2EE, Visual C++ 5, C++, Visual Basic 5.0, Microfocus Cobol 3.2, VB.NET

Web Technologies: JSP, EJB, JDBC 2.0, JConnect 4.2, JavaScript 1.2, RMI, Servlets, JMS (MQ Series), HTML, XML, XSL, SSL and digital certificates, CORBA and IIOP, Hibernate, STRUTS, Web/App Server IBM WebSphere v5.0, Weblogic 6.1, IBM Apache HTTP Server 1.3, JRun, JBoss 4.2.3 GA, CORBA, Orbix, Xerces Parser - DOM & SAX and XML4J parser, Maven 2.2.1, Ant 1.7.1, JDK 1.6, SoapUI 4.5.1, iWay, SAML

Version Control Tool: PVCS, Rational Clearcase, CVS, SVN

Modeling (OOAD): Rational Suite Analyst/Studio 1.5, VISIO, System Architect, Visual Paradigm

Methodology: RUP, Agile (Scrum & Kanban), UML, Traditional/Waterfall

RAD environments: IBM VisualAge 4.0, WSAD 4.0, IBM WebSphere Studio 3.0, VB 5.0, Visual Studio 2008, Eclipse

Database: Sybase 11, Oracle 9i, MS Sql Server 2008, DB2, Btrieve File Handler 6.10b

O/S: Unix V.2, Unix 10.0.1, Windows NT 4.0, OS/2 2.21, Xenix 3.2.1, Novell Netware 3.11, MS Dos 6.0

Paradigms/Patterns: Object Oriented, Model View Controller (MVC), Component, Functional, Logical

Project Planning: Microsoft Project, PERT, CPM

Other Skills: JIRA, RALLY, Clearquest, Crystal Reports, RequisitePro, Excel, SAS, VISIO, MQC, BIRT, SAGENT, Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst/Associate Director

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the implementation of the enhancements to the Keylink Feeds which input data to the central payments system from which SWIFT and Fedwire feeds are generated and sent to external banks.
• Worked on the analysis & implementation of the LoanIQ Data Archival system which fed Payments data in LoanIQ to the GERA repository.
• Worked on the analysis of requirements for enhancements the Agency Payments application for the Americas region by interacting with users, writing appropriate user stories and acting as liaison between the users, the development team and the QA team.
• The above mentioned Agency Payments Enhancements project also included Business Process Engineering and achieved its objective viz. increase of productivity of the users leading to greater savings by the firm.
• Working on the analysis of requirements for the GEM Migration project to be known as Exposure Management and have prepared numerous granular user stories meant to cover the entire requirement while following the AGILE approach.
• Prepared a thorough analysis of the Current State of the GEM Inbound and Outbound Feeds including Process Flows and Data Flows.
• Wrote and groomed User Stories for the UI and the Feeds for Exposure Management.
• While in the role of Scrum Master, conducted daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Review and Planning meetings, calculated the velocity of sprints and suggested enhancements to AGILE processes which were implemented.
• Played a role in the procurement of estimates and in the negotiation of costs with external and internal teams.
• Responsible for coordination between the CCS Loans team and external teams including Markit, a vendor to UBS.
• Responsible for planning the UAT phases for the WSO PV application.
• Responsible for implementing the enhancements to the Daily EROS Feed - a vital ingredient to the loans payments processes.
• Worked extensively with and coordinated with Global teams (users and technical teams) situated in Australia, Singapore, London, Romania, Poland, USA and Canada.
• Responsible for preparing weekly JIRA based status reports in the form of Periodic Reports for projects being worked on at the Milestone level.

Confidential, New Jersey

Sr. Business Systems Analyst Lead/Application Architect/Product Owner Delegate/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Wrote technical documentation which included specifications, wireframes and data mapping for REST and SOAP services using JSON and XML.
• Performed system health check testing applications using JSON and XML and verified request and response of services.
• Worked in an AGILE SCRUM and KANBAN based environment using the Rally tool.
• Performed coordination between business teams, QA teams and the development teams, and within the development team
• Conducted weekly status meetings to collect status from the development team for multiple projects. Reported this status to upper management thru RALLY.
• Conducted Estimates Gathering meetings and derived estimates for projects in the range of $100,000 to $500,000.
• Led team meetings and presented HLDs to the Business and internal & external Tech teams
• Prepared a process for the introduction of AGILE for the Fees & Billing team.
• Performed Analysis & Design, and wrote HLDs for the Frontend and Backend modules of Fees & Billing including batch jobs and data feeds.
• In the role of Product Owner Delegate for AGILE based projects, wrote User Stories and led the Story Grooming process; acted as Scrum Master for the MLAA Lite project.
• For Agile projects, worked in Scrum and Kanban modes.
• Participated in SCRUM ceremonies - Review of stories with Business and Development teams, Sprint Planning
• Completed Requirements Analysis, Technical Analysis and Design and data mapping across systems and databases including HLDs for the following Fees & Billing System deliverables:
• DoL Fee Levelling (Fiduciary Ruling) for Individual Plans, Institutional Plans and US Trust Plans
• ProRata Billing - Billing Engine was enabled to calculate prorated fees for Asset Based, Retainer and Education types of fees.
• LASER/Insurance Service - new service to retrieve the COB/Realtime annual enrolled rate for an account.
• RMS Feed - adapted the Client360 feed to accommodate the requirements of the RMS Feed
• Annual Client Review (ACR) Service
• Merrill Edge Select Portfolios (MESP) Accounts migration from the UMA Legacy system to the Merrill One IAP Platform
• Wealth Outlook (IProp CIO Guided Solutions) - performed design of Services and the Hypothetical Fee Calculator
• Short Options reduction from Billable Assets gathered from the MSG Asset Gathering System for the purpose of Fee Calculation
• Exclusion of Money Market Funds from Billable Assets gathered from the MSG Asset Gathering System for the purpose of Fee Calculation
• Institutional Investment Consulting (IIC) Legacy deliverable - included transformation of a Legacy MSP trait to an ML One trait to enable BAU processing
• Asset Control Report (in progress) - provided estimates for this project for changes to this report’s content.
• Blue Sky Europe One (Approval Workflow) - Enable restriction of enrollment of an account with non-US securities into a strategy if not permitted by the BlueSky Europe One regulation based on State in the Stencil Mailing Address.
• Blackrock PI Shadow Strategies - selection of low sleeve codes and rates from the Portfolio Management & Rebalancing (PMR) System
• Prepared a Scope of Work document which included scope, impacts and estimates per release and an HLD for the Fees & Billing deliverable for the organizational level MSP effort which involves conversion of First Mortgage and HELOC loans to the MSP product platform.
• Analyzed requirements for the Institutional Plan Retirement DoL Fee Leveling & US Trust DoL Fee Leveling projects and wrote HLDS & User Stories which were groomed with the Tech Teams and the Business Teams,
• Analyzed requirements for the MLAA Interim project and wrote User Stories which were groomed; project was successfully delivered using the Kanban approach. Acted as Scrum Master and Product Owner.
• Analyzed requirements and wrote User Stories for the Family IRA Data Feed project. Acted as Scrum Master and Product Owner.

Confidential, New Jersey

Sr. Business Systems Analyst Lead/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Requirements Analysis, Technical Analysis and Design of the Gateway Web Services (GWS) tier for a HELOC conversion (VLS2MSP) project and an Auto Loans Conversion (VLS2ALA) project.
• Analyzed requirements, performed design and wrote user detailed user stories for the VLS2MSP project and the VLS2ALA project which related to functionality and conversion.
• Performed Release Planning and Sprint Planning for services as per estimates derived.
• Wrote user stories for regression testing for First Mortgage GWS services which reside on the same platform.
• Performed extensive coordination in an enterprise scale Agile environment between UI Consumer teams, Functional Middle Tier modules and the Vendor Interfaces Services tier (BMW) teams.
• Prepared a Service Inventory AKA Current State Document which consisted of service level mappings from each UI Consumer channel to Intermediary tiers to the BMW tier including mappings to Requirements and User Stories.
• Participated in the mapping effort of the source VLS services’ elements to the target BMW services’ elements.
• Performed reverse engineering of JAVA code and identified user story logic and acceptance criteria including Request and Response elements.
• Analyzed requirements for projects and identified impacts to GWS code and User Story scenarios.
• Participated in analysis and user story review meetings
• Worked in a collaborative AGILE SCRUM based environment using the JIRA tool.
• Used Visio to prepare sequence flow diagrams which were used as attachments to user stories.
• Worked extensively with SPLUNK to reverse engineer transactions to identify used services.
• Exposure to Digital Project Intake process
• Performed reverse engineering of code using Java and PVCS.
• Performed business systems analysis, design, wireframes creation and architecture for IMS and have prepared a system level process flow diagram, a BRD and Use Cases.
• Participated in the creation of a strategy for the Cyber Security system at the enterprise level including identification of a platform.
• Application Design and the preparation of the Software Architecture Document for IMS is in progress.
• Recommended template formats which were selected for usage - Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Document (FRD), Use Cases and Software Architecture Document (SAD).
• Performed requirements analysis and wrote Business Requirements Documents which included wireframes for data ingestion thru File Registration and Table Registration systems which used HADOOP.
• Wrote User Stories, Use Cases and Functional Requirements Documents for the File Registration and Table Registration modules including SQL Statement as Source of Data, Manifest File Enhancements, Service Level Agreements, Data Registration Provisioning Workflow and Data Registration Promotion. Used Visio extensively.
• Led and mentored team members in the analysis and design process and in the writing of artifacts like Use Cases.

Confidential

Applications Architect/Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical guidance to development team and wrote multiple Software Architecture Documents (SAD).
• SADs included Technical Use Cases, Sequence Flow and other UML diagrams and wireframes prepared using Visio.
• Wrote technical documentation which included specifications and data mapping for REST and SOAP services using JSON and XML.
• Performed system health check testing applications using JSON and XML and verified request and response of services.
• Performed Architecture and Design for the following modules of EngageAdvantage (EA) –
• Patient Enrollment – wrote SAD and participated in data model changes
• User Management (Authentication, Authorization and other functionalities) – wrote SAD and also performed database design and prepared a data model. Worked with SAML specifications.
• TAL – Master Data Management (MDM) integration – wrote SAD and participated in database design. This module involves integration with HLI and FDB APIs.
• Virtual Call Center – wrote SAD. This module involves integration with 3C Logic vendor APIs.
• TAL Integration with EA to enable multiple products – wrote SAD and participated in data model changes.
• Configuration Engine – Wrote a high level SAD.
• Wrote a technical document for the Client Services team which outlined File Transfer Policies for Clients using Serv-U.
• Studied for and attained certification for SOA Certified Professional from Arcitura Education (SOA Schools).
• Evaluated Vendor products for Identity Management solutions and performed a Build vs Buy analysis with recommendations.
• Co-ordinated between the Business Analysts and the Development team.
• Performed reverse engineering of code using Java and PVCS.
• Researched and prepared a presentation for the Analytics project which included Risk Stratification, Simulation and Provider Mapping. Led the effort to develop reports using Tableau.
• Worked in an AGILE SCRUM based environment using the JIRA tool.
• Worked with JBoss EAP 6.1 and Oracle 11g along with Symphony and SQL Developer.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed Systems Analysis and Design and prepared wireframes for the Seminar Planner System.
• Attended requirements workshops, requirements gathering meetings and analyzed the requirements.
• Co-ordinated between the Business Analysts and the Development team.
• Prepared and delivered a presentation which contained description of external and internal components and a Functionality Decomposition diagram.
• Participated in the creation of high level estimates for the system.
• Wrote a High Level Design document. Used Visio extensively
• In the process of writing a Low Level Design document (Use Cases and Sequence Flow Diagrams are in progress).