SUMMARY

• I have over 20 years of information technology experience in various roles leading to a specialization in Business Analysis.
• My experience spans the marketing and automotive sector working in Finance, Marketing, Order Fulfilment, Logistics, Quality, Security and Purchasing.
• Currently I am working as a Feature Owner for Confidential Motor Company’s Connected Vehicle Platform and Products driving every aspect of the User Profile and Comfort settings feature.
• Previous projects have included globalizing regional Order to Fulfilment processes, launching the FordHub in New York City, quality systems and legacy order processing.
• In each case many disparate processes and systems were analysed to understand the requirements to create a single business process and its supporting technical solution. I have extensive experience in driving initiatives from concept to delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile, Large Scale Agile (Daikibo); System Development Life Cycle; Unified Methodology
• MagicDraw; JIRA; Rally; Blueprint; Requisite Pro; Rational Software Architect; HP ALM; Mercury Test Director; Zendesk; VSEM; Fede

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Feature Owner/Connected/Autonomous Vehicle

Responsibilities:

• Led the Requirements Engineering process for autonomous vehicle features.
• Responsible for eliciting and documenting requirements, issues and risks for Connected Vehicle Features for Confidential ’s Autonomous Vehicle Ride Hailing initiative.
• Collaboration with in vehicle module owners to ensure robust product design and architecture as well as the cloud feature interface and interactions.
• Responsible for end to end delivery of feature ensuring successful integration with off - board and on-board functionality.
• Responsibilities include SysML modeling, feature documentation, API definition, functional specs, supporting systems engineering as well as vehicle engineering.
• Responsible for driving risks and issues to closure, feature DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) creation and coordinating test plan creation and execution.

Integration Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading project teams in Agile practices to deliver software for the Confidential Commercial Services Autonomous Vehicle.
• Elicit requirements from business partners and translate those into user stories. Work with adjacent teams to ensure seamless integration.
• Consult with engineering teams to ensure vehicle spec align with business and technical requirements.
• Create business process flows and functional decomposition of proposed business processes to gain alignment with integrating teams.
• Requirements elicitations, documentation and communication. Led effort to create product roadmap.

Lead Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with over 30 supplier partners to deliver and maintain the Confidential Hub Experience Center in New York City.
• Ensured business requirements were documented and tested, documented legal reviews and requirements.
• Developed support plan and processes.
• The Hub was routinely updated to stay relevant and fresh requiring simple iterative processes for change management, incident support and technical updates.
• This role demands the ability to quickly asses risk and makes situational management calls.

Strategic Portfolio Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Acting as an IT advocate for the North American business process owners, educated the business on the new global capabilities in order to design an adoption strategy and integration plan.
• Facilitated and planned two very successful workshops to educate business on the new capabilities, understand the root cause of resistance to adoption and identify strategic gains for the individual stakeholders.
• Drawing on extensive knowledge of both the Global and Regional order processes was able to broker a mutually beneficial partnership between the North American regional users and the Global Order Fulfillment team.

Business Analyst/Business Process Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided business analysis to replace several disparate regional Order to Delivery processes into one global process in an agile environment.
• Designed and developed interim solution synchronizing the North American and Global Order Banks.
• Identified and documented risks and issues.
• Responsible for the administration of Requisite Pro (access, permissions, training) for seven global teams.
• Successfully co-authored new agile processes and artifacts and supporting training.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included documenting business processes; current and future state modeling, creating Use Case Specifications, logical and physical data modeling; creating and running test scenarios; working with Design Analysts to ensure requirements are correctly translated into technical specifications.
• Interviewed subject matter experts to understand and document business requirements. Identified and documented risks and issues.
• Projects included multi-year, multi-million-dollar project redefining business process of Order Fulfillment.
• Responsibilities also included ensuring conformity to external and internal Security and Controls policies including Sarbanes-Oxley, documenting compliance and/or gaps and corrective actions.