SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of IT consultancy which includes Business Modeling, Business Process Reengineering, Business Process Reverse Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) using RUP, Software Development, Quality Assurance and Project Management.
• Experience in Business Analysis for enterprise systems in functional areas of Financials - Home Mortgage, Insurance services, Healthcare services, IT Infrastructure at Manufacturing Industry and experience in developing programs used for tracking the test flight of missiles.
• Experienced working in all phases of Software engineering, such as business and software systems modeling with UML (Unified Modeling Language). Also in Requirement gathering (Functional Specifications/Use Cases), Systems Analysis and Design, Coding, Debugging and Testing, Acceptance Tests, start-up, Troubleshooting, Training, Benefits Analysis.
• Exceptional ability to build productive relationships with colleagues, clients, and vendors across all functional and technical disciplines.
• Experience in providing constructive inputs to the project management team.
• Facilitation of JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions and coordinating extensive communication networks (interviews, written correspondence, reports, implementation requirements, project status reports, oral presentations, e-mails, etc.) to keep executive staff and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts.
• Expertise in analyzing and redesigning business processes and systems in gathering business process information to create clear, concise and complete business and functional requirements.
• Expertise in eliciting and synthesizing business requirements and in ensuring those requirements meet approved business plans.
• Seamless understanding of business and technology and their interrelationships.
• Strong organizational and communication skills that facilitate success in attaining commitment and team work.
• Experience with training and mentoring team members with product knowledge and business processes. Strong time management skills in handling multiple projects, releases and deadlines under minimal supervision.
• Configuring and Implementing Rational Unified Process
• Requirements Management with Use Cases using RequisitePro
• Configuration Management using Clear Case
• Change Management Integration with Clear Quest
• Rational Rose artifacts for Web-based applications including Use Case, Class, Sequence, Collaboration, Component, Deployment, Activity Diagrams
• Business Modeling / Visual Modeling with the UML
• Rational SoDA for Word
• Database Design/Reverse Engineering with Rose Ada

FUNCTIONAL AREAS:

• Home Mortgage Products and Services (Web-based 1003 application, AOW - Apptaker On the Web)
• Health Insurance Services (Enrolment, Claims Processing - Delivery System)
• Manufacturing Industry (IT Infrastructure)
• Insurance Solutions ( Confidential Advanced Billing System)
• Policy Admin System (Policy STAR)
• Track test flights of Missiles (Missile Chip Integration)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Process Methodologies: RUP - Rational Unified Process, UML - Unified Modeling Language, EA - Enterprise Architecture, IM - Integrated Methodology, WUP - Wells Unified Process, CMMI - Capability Maturity Model Integration

Visual Modeling Tools: Object-Oriented Rational Rose Data-Oriented, Erwin

Universal: VISIO, Irise Studio

Requirements Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Irise Manager

Languages: C,C++,, PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle 9i-10g,11g,DB2, MS SQL ServerTools

Reporting: Rational SoDA, Artemis, Crystal Reports, MS Access, Irise Manager

Testing: SIT, UAT, Unit test, Rational Robot, Rational Test Director, Win Runner, Load Runner

Configuration Management: PVCS, CVS, Clear Case, Sharepoint

Change Management: Clear Quest, Sharepoint, VSS

Project Management: MS Project

Office Tools: MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Project, Outlook, Lotus 1-2-3

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux,, Windows XP,7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

Business Systems Analyst

Environment: Irise Manager, Irise Studio, Visio, Sharepoint, Acrobat Reader, MS-Word, MS-Outlook, Excel, Rational Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest

Responsibilities:

• Elicited requirements and documented specific business and technical requirements for the construction of the DRED AOW system. The requirements set comprised of Functional Specification Document (FSD), Inventory Reports (BAC - Business Acceptance Criteria), FSR (Functional Specifications Report).
• Extensively involved in the development of system agnostic Business/System Use Cases. Developed and pruned the artifact repository and templates to conform the WUP and IM standards.
• Maintained released-based and baseline artifacts utilizing formal configuration management strategies.
• Extensively involved in creating BAC’s and Functional Specifications for different capabilities under Deal Management, App Management, Common Service Management (ETS - Express Tools Suite, Prepaids, Rate Lock, Fees, Product Pricing, and Property) and Offline Data Capture (ODC); handled across multiple releases of the DRED AOW program.
• Supported full traceability among all artifacts throughout the software development life cycle.
• Performed GAP analysis on the Existing Baseline System (Classic AOW) against the given Business Needs and Requirements.
• Extensively involved in communicating the Business Needs and Features to the technical teams: User Interface (UI) designers, Testing, Development and Data Modeling/Mapping to help produce their artifacts.
• Extensively involved in the review process of all the technical documents including High Level Design (HLD), Detail Design Specification (DDS), Data Mapping Document (DMD) and Prototypes (User Interface (UI) lay-outs/WebPages).
• Extensively involved in creating and managing Change Requests (CR) in multiple releases using Sharepoint.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME’s (Subject Matter Experts), Stakeholders and Managers from different groups/platforms.
• Extensively involved in the review process of Reverse Engineered System Requirements Specification documents of major components of existing system.
• Involved in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Business Systems Analyst

Environment: Rational Analyst Suite (Requisite Pro, Rose, ClearCase, SoDA, Clear Quest), PVCS, MS-Word, MS-Outlook, Excel, Diamond

Responsibilities:

• Developed and pruned the artifact repository and templates to conform the RUP standards.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME’s (Subject Matter Experts) and Managers of various Business Units.
• Instrumental in writing the Business and System Vision documents, Business and System Use Cases, Supplementary Specifications and extracting Stakeholder requirements.
• Developed system agnostic Use Cases for the processing of Institutional and Professional claims using NDC.
• Supported full traceability among all artifacts throughout the software development life cycle.
• Realized Use Cases and their corresponding activity flows with complete entity relationship, recording all flows in Rational Rose and using ClearCase for Version Control. Also used PVCS for Version Control before migrating to ClearCase.
• Generated reports for the realized Use Cases in Rational Rose, using Rational SoDA for Word.
• Extracted the Business Requirements during various sessions with business leads and tagged all requirements in RequisitePro, tracing them all the way to the stakeholder requirements.
• Designed conceptual and specification methodology using OOAD methodologies based on UML (Unified Modeling Language)
• Extensively involved in integrating existing models for various LOB’s (Lines of Business) and highlighting issues due to abstraction of Use Cases from Process Flows.
• Extensively involved in performing Gap Analysis in the upgrade of the existing Claims Processing system and highlighting related issues.
• Co-ordination with multiple teams and integration architects, in performing analysis for issues regarding speed and stability.
• Interfaced with Artifacts and Solutions delivery teams to provide input for planning a Web-based Architecture.
• Extensively involved in performing the SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) testing of new system.

Confidential, Columbus, IN

Business Analyst/ Business Planner

Environment: Rational ClearCase, Clear Quest, MS-Word, MS-Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, MS-Power Point, Artemis, MS-Project, VISIO

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in redefining the ITPPT (Information Technology Product Proceeding Technology) business process documents to meet the current LOB (Line Of Business) requirements of CorpIT.
• Designed and captured changes in the Enterprise Architecture Roadmaps documents per the usage of tools in multiple LOB’s.
• Extensively involved in redefining the PEF (Preferred Environment Foundation) Blueprint Process documents based on the current state of multiple LOB’s.
• Updated ITSPM (Information Technology Small Project Management) and ITPM (Information Technology Project Management) process documents as per current state of the LOB of CorpIT.
• Involved in the Enterprise Architecture Review/PEF On-Ramp Review process for multiple LOB’s.
• Created the POC (Proof Of Concept) for Search Engines.
• Created Cookbook templates for multiple technology items.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business Users’ of various levels (Business, Development, Testing, Architects, SME’s, Managers) from multiple Business Units.
• Extensively involved in facilitating sessions with Architects and Owners of various Business Units to join the Technology Hopper Voting Process. Designed a Template to coordinate all the voting process into one spreadsheet.
• Generated reports using Artemis tool and documented matrix defining technology migration from Oracle Application Server (Oracle 9iAS) to Web Application Server (WAS).
• Extensively involved in redefining the Enterprise Architecture Standards and updating it on the internal Confidential Web Page (it. Confidential .com)
• Identified and defined the User Levels and Workflow required to setup Clear Quest for the users in Crop IT team.

Confidential, West Des Moines, IOWA

Business Analyst

Environment: MS-Word, MS-Outlook, Bugzilla, CVS MS-Power Point, VISIO

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in writing the Statement Of Work (SOW) documents, Business Needs and Features (BNF) documents, Business and System Vision documents, Business Requirements documents, Supplementary Specifications and extracting Stakeholder requirements.
• Created system agnostic Business and Functional Requirements to develop FAB.
• Supported full traceability among all artifacts throughout the software development life cycle.
• Conducted JAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME’s (Subject Matter Experts), Stakeholders and Managers to extract various Business Needs and Features (BNF)
• Documented System Requirement Specification for major components of existing system using the Reverse Engineering process.
• Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with various levels of User Groups and logged the issues/defects in Bugzilla.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Environment: Rational Analyst Suite (Requisite Pro, Rose, ClearCase), PVCS, RUP, UML, MS-Visio, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook, MS-Power Point

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in creating the Business Case and the System Requirement Specifications for the existing process.
• Responsible for writing High Level Design (HLD) documents and Detail Design Specifications (DDS) documents.
• Generated comprehensive documentation including version control templates - Enhancement Change Requests, Defect Change Requests.
• Developed the class mode, database implementation, detailed design (screen layouts, etc.) decided on what design patterns to enforce leading most walkthroughs.
• Conducted RAD sessions with extensive involvement from Business, Development, Testing teams, Architects, SME’s (Subject Matter Experts) and Managers from various platforms.
• Recommended development techniques, specified development tools, mentored other developers. Used the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for the software lifecycle, Rational Rose for modeling, ClearCase and PVCS for source code management, and RequisitePro for document management
• Participated in SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with multiple user groups of various platforms.

Confidential

Programmer

Environment: Qnx 4.25, Watcom C/C++, Microsoft Word.

Responsibilities:

• Extensively involved in code generation of the program and testing the efficiency of the chip during flight trials of missiles.
• Documented a report on the functionality of the program and its efficiency during the trials.