SUMMARY

• Candidate has the IT technical acumen and extensive business management experience that brings value to complex projects and their fast moving development teams.
• Has strong technical expertise in the following areas: requirements analysis, functional design, solution architecture, database design, web software development, business process modeling and data analysis.
• The experience in these areas facilitates helping business clients identify, clearly define their business need, so that UI and backend development and testing teams can successfully fulfill the identified business priorities.
• Experience as a software developer provides necessary insight for producing design documentation, especially technical documentation for developers, i.e., data specifications, schema, technical user stories, and acceptance testing scenarios.
• In addition, extensive past business experience adds another useful benefit for the business and their product owners so that system learning curve is short and requirements are written in business terms.
• Over the past several years the PM methodologies used were a mix of waterfall and Agile, but tended to be mostly Agile environments. Engagements normally include multiple concurrent projects where there was minimal direction and oversight available. It was necessary to quickly learn about the client’s business and current processes and rules, while becoming a subject matter expert on the system under development.
• The developers and testers always rely on the design documents to reflect the expectations of business for UAT.
• The largest projects undertaken lately involved rewriting legacy systems to utilize web services thereby vastly increasing the performance and reusability of the new code. Most recently completed a project at Confidential to seamlessly move their VB.NET loan origination system into a faster, more flexible C# and Angular 2 environment.
• The new system heavily utilized web services to remove bottlenecks faced by users. Development experience in this case was essential because reverse engineering existing code, ensured that Give - When-Then scenarios provided full coverage for automated testing in Selenium.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

IDE, Software Development Tools & Platforms: Visual Studio 2015 - ASP.NET, Core 1.0, C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, VBA, Ruby, Visual FoxPro, Mathematica, XML, JSON, Axure RP, Angular 2, Typescript, Ionic, jQuery, ReactJS, Xamarin, Backbone, Cucumber, Gherkin, Swagger.io, WPF, GIT, Adobe CS and of course MS - Office (Excel, OneNote, Word, Visio, Project, PowerPoint)

Design & Support Artifacts: User stories, business requirements, business rules, tollgates, functional & technical specifications, use cases, test plans and strategies, analytics and report design, operating platform models, component & deployment models, target audience personas, business process flows, screen mockups, FMEA, flowcharts, wireframes, user journeys, idea boards, KanBan and mind maps.

Project Management, Business Analysis & Requirements Management: CA Rally, IBM Rational RRC, IBM Blue Works, LucidChart, Hilton Enterprise Methodology, HP Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, Confluence, FDD Project, CaliberRM, JIRA, Basecamp, SharePoint and RuleSpeak.

BI/Big Data, Web Marketing & Analytics, ETL & Data Modeling Tools: Tableau, R, Enterprise Architect, Oracle BI Discoverer, Movation Mortgage BI Platform, MS SQL Server, PL/SQL, Oracle, Microstrategy, MySQL, Access, SAP, TOAD, Adobe Analytics, SiteCatalyst, Omniture, Google Analytics, WordPress, Balsamiq, SPSS, Hadoop, Neo4j and NOSQL.

Methodologies, Environments & Architectures: ASP.NET, iSeries, Windows, UED, OLAP, Web Services - GDS & KML Schemas, SysML, HTML5, Agile (FDD, TDD, XP, SCRUM, Behavior Driven Deign (BDD)), Waterfall, UML 2.0, BPMN, OOAD, OOP, MVVM, MVC and Responsive Web Design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Tools: Angular 2, VS-TFS, Caliber H2O, C#, VB.NET, VS Code, XMLFox, Selenium, Cucumber, Swagger

Responsibilities:

• Became a SME of the Decision Services portion of the H2O application from the prospective of the Underwriter role.
• Wrote stories describing the current functionality fishing for variations that would require different test scenarios.
• Built Given-When-Then scenarios with the stories for use by QA for BDD Automated Testing using Cucumber.
• Created scenarios by tracking events and conditions throughout the H2O existing VB.NET code base.
• Performed load and performance analysis on a custom automated testing tool that documented time savings.

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Tools: XMLSpy, Oxygen, C#, XML, Angular 2, Typescript, Ionic, jQuery, ReactJS, Backbone, SoapUI, BPMN, UML, Balsamiq

Responsibilities:

• Built business facing user stories describing all aspects of the target market used to define project scope.
• Used UML and BPMN tools to further refine process flows and business requirements for project.
• Created many project documents used by company founders when pitching project to investors when acquiring funding.
• Lead storyboarding sessions with team defining scenarios for targeted user roles for refinement of scope of the project.
• Assisted in the development UI walkthroughs representing user stories.
• Wrote technical user stories from UI stories and mapped API data to/from UI and back-end services.
• Created and modified XSD data contracts used in the web service API requests and responses.
• Worked with .NET developers and built test plans to clarify design of features.
• Assisted developers in building prototypes of application in Angular 2 using a variety of JavaScript packages.

Confidential - Southlake, TX

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Tools: Rally, XMLSpy, Oxygen, C#, XML, SoapUI, OTA, BPMN, UML, Balsamiq

Responsibilities:

• Translated business UI requirements into technical requirements for a new web service (SaaS) Booking Engine.
• Wrote technical user stories from UI stories and mapped API data to/from UI and back-end services.
• Work focused on n-tiered web architectures, SOA and associated technologies, i.e., XML, SOAP, WSDL, REST and JSON
• Created and modified XSD data contracts used in the web service API requests and responses.
• Worked with data architects, .NET and JAVA developers and UAT testers to clarify precise feature design.