EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• I am a key project resource providing stakeholders with thought partnership insight while serving as the critical liaison between business stakeholders applications design, development, quality assurance teams.
• My roles in business analysis project management have covered the identification, elicitation, documentation approval gathering of business requirements that are complete, correct, unambiguous, verifiable, feasible, prioritized testable.
• As an advocate for the business, I serve as a catalyst for change and improvement in processes, policies, documentation, training, risk mitigation while reviewing test deployment plans to ensure seamless integration with existing systems.
• Superb communication, articulation inter-personal skills allow me to foster an excellent collaborative team culture.
• Expert level skills in documentation the visual rendition of complex business concepts presentations to senior management.

EXPERIENCE:

Business Systems Analyst, Contractor,

Confidential

• Worked with a local offshore team for the IT infrastructure applications Identity and Access management group reporting directly to the CSIO, on a high profile project that entailed employee provisioning for firm wide applications using CA IdentityMinder a proprietary enterprise wide single source provisioning solution currently sold by the firm.
• Project entailed building custom connectors in Java to enable CA IdentityMinder to be able to provision employees for firm wide applications like Salesforce, Chatter, IBM Sterling CPQ, Ms-Exchange, Team City, Version One, HP ALM, and Clarity.
• Elicited documented business requirements, functional specifications, traceability matrices support impact statement within Clarity PPM, in conformation with the waterfall phased delivery Accenture Development Methodology ADM of the firm.
• Crafted logical architectural flows, workflow diagrams, use case diagrams, detailed use cases which translated to test cases.
• Used SQL queries to extract analyze non-employee data Conducted data mapping between SAP, Salesforce, CA IdentityMinder, CPQ, HP ALM HR systems to ensure standardized data flow during employee provisioning.
• Reviewed project documents, technical design and prototypes, test plans and test cases.
• Collaborated with IT Process Control team to ensure compliance with SOX governance and developed a custom excel based tool that allowed for data analysis and seamless reporting of change management metrics to senior staffers.
• Created presentations and elicited requirements from HR operations providing them with the ability to immediately suspend end user technology access being controlled by CA IdentityMinder ensuring enterprise information security.
• Re-engineered excel tools for IAM SAP user role mapping and segregation of duties SoD analysis.

Business Analyst Developer, Consultant

Confidential

• Managed a vendor team of 6 consultants to design and develop a website providing small business owners the ability to download customized templates to craft business plans with free Excel based templates. Site engineered using the LAMP software stack Linux based Apache servers using a MySQL database and PHP scripting based content management system. Small pieces of JavaScript, jQuery Html are a part of the technology mix. Development methodology was Agile Iterative Incremental.
• Business Analysis of existing online space identified potential solutions, defined requirements and business rules for the new online property. Translate business needs into actionable documentation/specifications, including use case scenarios, models and conceptual design diagrams to support iterative development. Site successfully launched with content addition forthcoming.
• Designed and deployed an Access, Excel, VBA, SQL Adobe Photoshop based solution for image management for all website visuals. Mock ups, wire framing, GUI screen design was done using PowerPoint, Visio Snag IT.
• Artifacts created include data flow diagrams, use case diagrams, high level process maps and detailed swim lane diagrams.
• Identify strategic business-building opportunities in products and services that can be offered, developed and implemented.
• Work closely with the testing application development team to design and develop test cases that align with use cases and ensuring that solutions are built to specifications.
• Training documentation material for the project was developed using Camtasia, Snag IT and other desktop technologies.
• Developed and administered UAT tool to facilitate pre-launch testing and post launch ongoing verification feedback.
• Scheduled, coordinated, and facilitated requirements gathering sessions with the business to identify and drive requirements.

Business Analyst Developer, Consultant

Confidential

• Conducted business analysis and used an Agile Iterative Incremental development methodology to craft solutions for the Finance and Core Management functions while working in a dynamic, matrixed, meritocratic transparent culture.
• Translate business needs into actionable documentation/specifications, including use case scenarios models and conceptual design diagrams based on user stories.
• Redesigned the Excel based employee assignment grading tool after business analysis with the CEO leverager team, providing automation of employee grading while allowing for data capture from SharePoint and IPAD generated response datasets.
• Solved the need for a comprehensive project and program tracking solution by conceiving and creating tools in Excel that handled data storage on project milestones, tasks and deliverables while generating crisp senior management stakeholders reports. Business analysis included creating consensus amongst stakeholders for reporting criteria, metrics methodologies.
• Collaborated with AP team to develop an Excel based firm wide travel and expense tool resulting in better expense insight and easier back office processing of data into Microsoft Dynamics SL accounting database. Business process analysis included brainstorming to elicit detailed Business Rules for AP coding approvals, General Ledger data mapping and expense coding. Created excel based UAT tool to capture user testing results and coordinate deployment with project manager.
• Planned and crafted the first issues log metrics tool using data analytics on Share Point data, in Excel to generate management insight into bottlenecks and problems relating to the people, processes and technology of the finance department.
• Integrated Microsoft Dynamics SL data on open invoices to create the first comprehensive invoice aging tool in Excel.
• Partnered with finance administration team to build consensus on new grading methodology for the firm's extensive client billing process and completely reengineered the billing reconciliation and metrics reporting tools using Excel. Business analysis included understanding reconciliation, grading invoicing processes. Detailed UAT was required pre deployment.
• Conceived, designed and deployed the department's first and most comprehensive vendor analysis Excel based tool that gave AP team crisp insight into multiple dimensions of their vendor relationships. Data analysis was part of solution design.
• Consolidated reengineered revenue team fund administrator Excel based data reconciliation and rebate calculation tools.
• Conceptualized and created a cash flow metrics tracking tool in Excel to contrast multiple cash flow projections and variances.
• Reengineered Excel based general ledger analysis templates for improved FP A income statement and balance sheet analysis.

Business Analyst Developer, Consultant

Confidential

Designed and created a tool for the collection of IT production services data for the firm's institutional clients giving the firm the ability to set standardized criteria for data collection. Excel based tool included a management reporting module generating automated reports generating insight into system wide production bottlenecks and pain points.

AVP, Business Funding Strategies

Confidential

Provided business planning consultancy for startup, acquisition and expansion of small businesses and arranged financing solutions collateralized by commercial and residential real estate. Closed over 30 million of business.

Business Analyst Developer, Consultant

Confidential

Conceived, crafted and created a robust Excel tool that captured trial balance data from Peachtree and automatically created consolidated financial statements for multiple corporate entities with GAAP intra-company adjustments. Business Analysis included gathering requirements from CFOs' and Controller. Development methodology was Agile Iterative Incremental.