SUMMARY

• Senior Business Analyst, Scrum Master and Project Manager (PMP) with responsibility to lead projects and provide analytical results for Health, Financial and manufacturing, consulting related projects in a Waterfall & Agile / SCRUM environment
• 8+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, 5 years of Project Management and 2 years’ experience as a Scrum Master
• 5+ years working in an Agile environment including user stories, Scrum meetings, burndowns and sprints.
• Strong background in finance with exceptional experience pulling and analyzing large data with experience working with SAP, SQL Server, Oracle, JIRA, TFS and managed large data migrations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management
• Enterprise Implementations
• KPI Dashboards & Scorecards
• Data Mining & Analytics
• Risk Management
• ERP & Big Data Platforms
• SAP CRM, SD Module
• Test Plans, Test Cases
• MS Office, Visio, Project
• Business Objects
• Oracle, MS SQL
• GAP analysis
• SDLC / Process Workflow
• Wireframe
• BAPIs, BADIs, IDOC
• Personas
• Moscow analysis
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• JIRA / Confluence
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Financial Modeling & Forecasting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business Rules Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and escalated to business sponsors business rules with conflicts and redundancies
• Analyzed rules for completeness, correctness, optimization (from a logical, not performance perspective)
• Identified how rules are used in processes that implement business policies to ensure quality of teh business rules
• Led team to successful project delivery, rule discovery and analysis phases
• Facilitated sessions with SME/IT
• Defined Rules methodology, templates, lifecycle, standards
• Rule grouping into packages
• Managed Rules vocabulary
• Rules validation/testing
• Worked on gathering requirements, developed workflows and set up parameters for data, and managed/analyzed large data

Confidential, Kingwood, TX

Sr. Consultant

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led project teams, internal and external, to achieve project defined milestones and deliverables
• Resolved issues in sage CRM software submitted as help desk tickets
• Facilitated project status meetings and provided weekly status reports to all stakeholders
• Gatheird business and technical requirements from stakeholders
• Created user stories and burndowns, managed daily stand up Scrum meetings and managed sprint planning and teh execution
• Led and coordinated offshore QA teams and user acceptance testing and acted as teh primary contact for questions, status updates & issues.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with teh desired results.
• Assist in training team members and other employees on Agile and Design Thinking

Confidential, Teh Woodlands, TX

Sr. Consultant

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects in Sales Force, Meaningful use Stage 1 & 2 Projects & Aileron Referral Data (IMS Solutions), Financial Data Warehouse & PeopleSoft big data load transfer and executing tasks in alignment with strategic plans and delivering results on schedule
• Developed and Designed User Interface (UI) analysis to Interpret custom data into easily understandable reports for total of 400 clients and Liaison sales team across teh United states.
• Led information gathering /JAD sessions, touch base meetings, interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Stakeholders, using Agile tools, JIRA Wiki and Confluence for documenting business needs for IT solutions
• Created user Stories, and managed morning Scrum meetings and sprint planning and execution
• Worked with team to make sure teh Developers, Business Analysts and Testers were following teh Agile Methodology
• Collaborated with stakeholders, Product Owners, developers, testers, and end users to define project work intake, budget to develop business, financial, operational plan
• Reviewed business priorities, and analyzed options, risks, and costs
• Actively participated / arranged with number of iterations between team and customer on domain related tasks to modify existing systems to improve business unit productivity
• Worked within a Waterfall environment

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Project/Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed various financial CRM projects globally
• Responsible for managing teh project timelines within an Agile environment
• Kept upper management informed by reporting on project status such as identifying risks, costs, issues and performance using MS power point slides, MS Excel and/or meetings etc.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Promoted to Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master for exceeding expectations: chosen as 1 of 5 associates, out of 70, for promotion in review period; ranked among top 10% for bonuses paid in current review year
• Conducted business impact analysis for expansion efforts at 6 locations
• Improved timeframes for more TEMPthan 50% of projects by successfully maintaining change management process
• Responsible for making sure teh teams followed teh Agile Methodology lifecycle
• Created user stories and burndowns, managed daily stand up Scrum meetings and managed sprint planning and teh execution
• Delivered two full cycles SAP (ISP, SAP R3/4.5) implementations functionality in Sub - Sahara Africa regions
• Mitigated defects by 15% by developing metrics to determine inefficiencies and areas for improvement across software systems
• Super User and Lead Trainer for SAP CRM tools such as Business Warehouse (BW 3.5, BI 7.0), Business Object (BO), Master Data Management (MDM), eBusiness, Opportunity Management (OM), Annual Planning Optimization (APO) tools
• Responsible for system requirements, detailed functional specifications, system configuration, unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance, and deployment
• Provided post-implementation, Go Live process and fixes; amongst which was system failure prevention, problem calls, user inquiries, general application support