Senior Lead IT Business Analyst

Accomplished Sr. Business Analyst Professional offering exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical abilities and proven track record aligning technical solutions with business needs. Adept at cultivating relationships with key stakeholders, executives, and business users across all business areas to determine high-level requirements. Demonstrated success working with federal agencies, private corporations, and contractors / subcontractors to support system integration, development, and implementation projects to capitalize on cutting-edge technologies.

Areas of Expertise:

Confidential

Principal Consultant and Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Play key role in large-scale projects for top clients. Collaborate cross-functionally with client stakeholders, business users, and technical teams to facilitate successful development and project delivery in alignment with complex requirements and industry / regulatory standards.

Key Projects Achievements:

• Systems Engineering and Independent Verification Validation IV V : Senior Business Systems Analyst for project for the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection Agency DHS CBP .
• Planned, executed, and analyzed life cycle compliance activities. Evaluated processes methodologies and conducted compliance audits for multiple programs and project artifacts interviewed stakeholders, documented requirements, and verified alignment with system engineering methodology and client IEEE 830 standards.
• Managed requirements traceability matrix RTM and status created activity diagrams, process flows, and spider diagrams developed RACI based on project scope and solution delivery and prepared regular reports.
• Enterprise Data Warehouse: Served as Sr. Requirements Analyst and Data Analyst for Securities and Exchange Commission SEC project replacing legacy online database with new enterprise data warehouse.
• Led requirements gathering workshops and prepared Functional and Technical Requirements Documents, Requirements Specification Document, and Requirements Management Plan using standard templates.
• Collaborated with solution and data architect to develop System Definition Document, logical and draft physical data models, prototype documentation / design, data source documentation, metadata metadata repository documentation / design, data quality data definition design, data warehouse design, measures metrics documentation, data mapping documentation, and report BI design.
• Conducted risk assessment and escalated issues to management as needed.
• Systems Assurance and Systems Engineering: Requirements Team Lead or DHS United States Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS project.
• Established requirements management best practices, served as SME, collaborated on enhancements to Kovair Requirements Management Tool, and provided user training support.
• Facilitated stakeholder meetings to translate requirements into business epics, features, and user stories supported test acceptance criteria identification to effectively capture and convey requirements in end-user and business value terms.
• Determined performance metrics produced analyzed reports measuring requirements quality.
• Supported Knowledge Acquisition Process KAP Systems Assurance and Technical Services SATS Requirement Improvement Program by writing KAP syllabus and KAP Reverse Presentation.
• Worked with Agile development teams and product manager to identify, track, and manage product backlog.
• Led Sprint Planning sessions, participated in Sprint Demonstrations, and approved user stories.
• Interfaced with QA analysts to verify corresponding scripts for all requirements.

Confidential

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Liaised with clients to gather / document business intelligence functional requirements for SAP Business Objects project. Reviewed existing system documentation and summarized relevant functionality. Contributed to enterprise training, module design, and use case analysis.

Key Achievements:

• Led business functional requirements and sales travel management data specifications definition for BO Universe Reports.
• Implemented row-level, object-level, and other BO security features to protect sensitive data.
• Developed reports of varying complexity exported documents from Webi Rich Client, created Webi reports from multiple Central Management Servers, and published reports to destination servers.
• Spearheaded design and implementation of scorecard and dashboards using Crystal Xcelsius 2008.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst / Configuration Management Analyst

Followed Iterative methodology for 10M Department of Education Federal Student Aid Lesson Learned Database Web development project. Assisted in stakeholder interviews and brainstorming sessions to define project specifications and requirements created scenarios and wireframes.

Key Achievements:

• Leveraged IIBA BABOK methodologies to identify and address appropriate business needs to develop business analysis approach.
• Created and documented requirements management process plan used for approving implementation requirements and managing changes to solution scope.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Held responsibility for validating technical designs against functional specifications using Requisite Pro for Internet Employee Database Migration Web Development project. Managed RTM. Created use cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, process flows, and state diagrams.

Key Achievements:

• Assisted in improving SDLC process automation, traceability, and control using ClearQuest through collaboration on defect tracking and change management efforts.
• Handled installation and configuration of Business Objects Edge Series 3.1 managed BO services using Server Intelligent Agent.