PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Ven has over 15 years of successful end - to-end Information Technology implementation experience, including five years of program and project analysis within
• Enterprise/PMO, eight years business analysis and four years lead and development experience. His experience in PMO as well as front line program with detail analysis and problem solving skills, make him an extremely versatile business and portfolio analyst.
• Ven excels in developing others and guiding teams toward success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: .NET, Java, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Oracle, SQL Server, ERP Packages, AS400, JIRA, QC, ClearQuest

Methods: Lean & Agile, Agile Scrum, Rational Unified Process, Rapid Appl’ Dev, Six sigma, BABoK

Techniques: User Stories, Benchmarking, Brainstorming, Flow Diagrams, KPI, Org Charts, Prototyping, RCA, Use Cases, State Diagrams, Vendor Assessment, PESTLE, SWOT, VPEC-T, RACI-VS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Holistically and diligently understand all applications and SLA’s within each LOB (Mortgage, Servicing, HEQ, Corr., Capital Mkts, Community, Retail, Wholesale, Compliance/Legal - RECOR)-CFPB, Imaging & Reporting Services
• Remarkable acumen in end-to-end business process of Wells Imaging Services across all verticals
• Elicit, analyze, document and communicate requirements for customization of the tool which suits best to Wells business processes and standard practices across all LOB’s and in accordance to International Banking Regulatory Compliance
• Tailor the User stories/drafts out of Interview Questionnaire sessions
• Perform needs assessment to help determine a long-term business and technical strategy and roadmap & author Scope documents and BRD’s
• Manage the Technical Requirements for both internal and 3rd party vendor teams, within the sprint, and provide status burn down charts to the management
• Assist with Proof-of-Concepts, architecture recommendations and onboarding the new systems/users, to ICMP
• Provide solution and recommendations on open issues and tie back floating dates
• Define and refine process models which enable upstream and downstream business process integration and with FSD’s for various tech teams
• Successfully connect with different internal groups to fill in the gaps and communicate back to various levels of management teams with the new or changed business needs and via CR’s
• Assist portfolio and program managers with triaging the product backlog and demand management (WBS & sizings) for each sprint (AGILE - SCRUM)
• Identify the integration points and co-ordinate inbound/outbound d Confidential for successful loads

Confidential

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop Proof-of-Concept and Business Case documents/presentations during project kick-off
• Review Policies and Procedures (PNP) documents, client (Freddie Mac, Confidential, BofA) and compliance protocols and successfully negotiate the project scope
• Collaborate with related departments/experts and 3rd Party Vendors (LPS-MSP, NCP, eMason) to present a united team focused on meeting the needs of the users
• Negotiate, recommend, define and implement system and/or process options to meet the needs of the customers
• Develop solutions for operational issues associated with new service offerings, legislative changes, policy changes, etc.
• Work in conjunction with technology staff, at various levels, to ensure .NET and Mainframe applications meet the business needs and track the change requests/defects in JIRA
• Assist QA teams with Test plan and various testable business scenarios for validation

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review and document the current UM/DM/CM/Behavioral Health policies by Commercial, MHCP (PMAP, MSHO) and provide a future state business architectural model spanning across multiple core programs/groupers (ETG, ERG, EBM, PEG, DRG) with the ICD 9 and 10 code sets
• Conduct in-depth interview sessions with executive steering committee, PMO and all program managers
• Document Business Rules and User Stories
• Assist portfolio managers with the Program Charter, Scope documents
• Write Requirement Documents, Use Cases, which translates user requirements, for both internal and external teams
• Successfully negotiate across the board for a common solution and crystallize decision making with risk assessment elaboration and ROI estimates
• Assist project managers with the direction for a specific project overlooking at the birds-eye view and with work breakdown structure
• Help cross functional teams with the activity diagrams and schedule mapping
• Participate, with the help of portfolio managers (PMO), in the budget and team allocation procedures
• Present the executive committee the budget approval for projects execution
• Monitor product development and take back to the needful committee members the s from one stage gate to another
• Identify the gaps timely and provide a solution to the root causes for smooth implementation
• Closely monitor the changes and get the controlled updates which effect the budget and approval processes
• Communicate program managers with the status updates from time to time and for the needful business opportunities to improve (sprint retrospective)

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Underwent for 'Minnesota Statutes' needed to be adhered from report development stand point
• Gathered the requirements from end users, both internal and county wise, and explain them the industry standards, limitations & best practices which makes the reports more appealing and useful to majority of the counties
• Explained the management team with the underlying effort and target dates
• Understand the tables, view's, functions, and SP's and associated ER Diagrams
• Developed the SQL & Stored proc's needed for the critical reports
• Managed the development effort on reports as per the user requirement and scope of project
• Assisted DBA’s in migration of needful d Confidential from D Confidential warehouse (Terad Confidential ), using SSIS packages, into Dev and Prod Boxes (SQL Server)
• Assisted the IT Support team for the needful connections to talk to Crystal Management Control (CMC)
• Categorized the reports per user groups usage and handed over to the CMC team
• Requested for the deployment of reports, accessible through Infoview, for end user testing in dev environment
• Assisted in configuring the needful settings and solve the potential issues raised for successful deployment of reports in production environment
• Adhered to the HIPAA & Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Compliance standards across all reports
• Tested the reports which should be JAWS compliant
• Updated the management team regularly, using JIRA, with the workflow, potential barriers and how to surpass them, and constant s