Business Analyst Resume
Pittsburgh, PA
SUMMARY:
- Software Development, Hardware Configuration, Multi - Platform Integration
- Project professional, proven leadership abilities, innovative and business focused with 25 years combined experience.
- Background includes work in Health Care, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Retail Banking and Finance companies.
- Extensive experience in Information Technology project management including active participation from concept and scope phases through to implementation and closedown.
- Managed deliverables, resources, budgets and schedules while remaining compliant with company standards and business regulations.
- Particular expertise in integrating internal and external cross functional teams to accomplish specific project goals.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
CMM (Capability Maturity Model) level 3 standards / Configuration Management / Testing Coordinator Complete Software Development Life Cycle / Mainframe Integration with various Distributed Platforms Middleware Development and Management (MQSeries) / DB2 Database Design and Data Warehousing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Business Analyst
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Tasks include communicating with application resources to gain knowledge of their application as it relates to regulatory requirements.
- Manage that data into customer reference material for access by other consumers inquiring about that application.
Project Manager
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- responsibilities include managing across a matrix organization, identifying and estimating work efforts to migrate applications from an outside platform to Highmark platforms.
- Work closely with business and vendor contacts to develop requirements, communications and finalize integration.
- Maintain budgetary controls, collaborate with other teams to accomplish deliverables on time and on budget.
- Managing projects using Clarity and MS Project
Project Manager
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Managing projects using Clarity and MS Project for Major Expenditures and smaller work requests and Funding Masters.
Project Manager
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Application project manager for extensive range of software development initiatives.
- Utilize the company’s project management methodology for several major Financial Treasury systems applications.
- Managed project budgets ranging from 1.2 million dollars up to 7 million dollars.
- Coordinate project teams of 7 to18 members.
- Team members included bank technical personnel, infrastructure support teams and business sponsor representatives.
- Acted as primary liaison to internal functions, staff members and direct reports; determined project timelines, budgets and established project charter and scope.
- Provided direct supervision and mentoring to direct reports; coordinating daily work schedules, preparing work assignments and providing coaching and feedback in the execution of roles and responsibilities.
- Manage On site and Off Shore resources throughout many projects
- Performed Business Analysis role creating business and functional requirements documents
- Coordinated test plans.
- Evaluated project participants and provided feedback to their resources managers
- MS Project, SDLC, Agile Boot camp, other methodologies
System Analyst/Tech Lead
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Held the position of Lead Analyst for several maintenance and development projects, provided extensive technical expertise, customer support and troubleshooting to the client base.
- Technical skill sets used include MQSeries, CICS, batch Cobol, DB2 database design
- Develop interfaces between mainframe and distributed environments
Systems Analyst/Tech Lead
Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA
Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities included support of branch client server systems and Internet transaction processing systems.
- Architect integration of Internet Lending to Mainframe legacy system Occasional project management assignments to coordinate and install system installations in bank branch network and integration of customer relation systems.
- DB2 database coordination and optimization, Security coordinator.
- Technical skills utilized include MQSeries, CICS, online VSAM files, batch job streams and JCL development
Lead Programmer Analyst
Confidential, Blawnox, PA
Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities as Lead Programmer/Analyst included support of various Marketing systems, billing processes, automated warehouse functions.
- Lead base level support coordinator for warehouse and marketing systems
- Managed all system aspects pertaining to three highly technical departments.
- Technical skills used included batch Cobol, Microfocus Cobol, JCL
