PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 plus years of elaborate Business Analysis experience with a strong software and business background.
• Well - rounded exposure across all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• A versatile Business Analyst that offers extensive repertoire of expertise vital for Business Analysis, Business Strategies, and Project Management.
• A lateral thinker with innate strategic mindset that is proficient at conceptualizing the “big picture” and providing fresh perspectives by applying crucial insight and vertical knowledge cultivated while working in multitude of domains.
• A steadfast team player with a “can do” attitude that is experienced working in cutting-edge startups, where speed-to-market is of paramount relevance and multi-tasking, given the confines of scarce resources, is imperative.
• A hands-on troubleshooter with a keen propensity for customer oriented roles that quickly adapts to markets and deftly identifies novel business ideas and enhancement opportunities.
• Conversant with the criticality of key project deliverables and offers inherent work ethos that assure apt and concise documentation practices through the project.
• Offers a knack for successfully streamlining intricate - outcome-driven - projects that thrive on an ability to bridge gaps among stakeholders and interface with decision makers at different levels while, at the same time, adhering to tight deadlines and budget constraints.
• Outstanding people skills Articulate in presenting to stakeholders across board
• Flair for business development Categorical self integrity; highest level of work ethics

TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTS:

Business Modeling: iRise, MS VISIO

Project Planning: MS Project, MS Office, Yodiz, Freedcamp

Wireframe / Prototype: Justinmind

Methodologies: Waterfall, SDLC, OOAD, UML, Agile and Scrum

Database: SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, Cassandra

Languages: C, C++, Java, HTML

IDE &Tools: Eclipse

Version Control: Bit Bucket, Visual SourceSafe

Mobility Technologies / Tools: Sencha Touch 2.1

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Unix ( Sun Solaris, Harris), VAX/VMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst / Business Development

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Responsibilities:

• As part of an innovative technology company that is building a social networking platform for the hospitality and tourism markets, my duties entail a broad array of functions:
• Analyze business opportunities, make necessary course corrections and refine requirements
• Discover attractive market segments and prepare a plan for early adoption
• Define scope, identify key skill requirement, outline key roles and help build a stellar team
• Lead the initial product idea through the validation stage to help build an evolved solution
• Create basic financial projection including sales and revenue estimates to present to likely investors
• Facilitate Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions among likely customers and technical team
• Elicit Business Requirements from Stakeholders and translate them into System functionality
• Create Use Cases (exa: Sustainable-Tourism) to identify, clarify, and organize system and functional requirements for the proposed software platform (mobile phones)
• Build wireframes using a prototyping tools to facilitate software development
• Develop project plans with milestones, checkpoints for new market implementation strategies
• Closely support the beta deployment phase to identify trouble areas and likely improvements
• Select, setup and manage version management, issue tracking and project planning tools
• Track progress: identify and report product deficiencies and systematically monitor possible
• Improvements - in an iterative manner - through the upgrade cycles with proper documentation
• Prepare a Go-To-Market Plan; Build specific focused plans, as part of it, with Use Cases (exa - adoption plan for overseas markets using Eco-Tourism that evaluated integration of geo-local aspects such as language and other compliances like electronic data - EDIFACT - as entry barriers to
• European and other markets that follow UN deployed standards.)
• Author Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Document (FSD).

Technologies: JAVA / J2EE, Solar, Cassandra, Hadoop, CQL, Bitbucket, freedcamp, Sencha TouchPhoneGap, XML, Justinmind, OOAD

Business Analyst

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Identified and coordinated business needs from various stakeholders into system requirements
• Analyzed and validated business requirements for completeness and consistency
• Created detailed Process Flows using Microsoft Visio
• Served as a conduit between the business and technical teams
• Evaluated resource needs for given assignments, delegated work and monitored status
• Documented requirements for the system using Use Case
• Captured AS-is process, designed To-Be Process and performed Gap Analysis for enhancements to existing system and processes
• Developed Wireframes using a prototyping tool
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases and basic Operator’s Onsite Guidelines
• Created deployment and support plans and periodically provided onsite integration and support
• Handled post-event support issues and customer care
• Formulated, executed and validated Test Cases and Test Results to validate that the outcome satisfactorily fulfills respective requirements

Technologies: Python, MySQL, Linux, Bit Bucket, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Project

Business Analyst

Confidential, Marietta, GA

Responsibilities:

• My role, to name a few, required me to be involved in a numerous cross project activities:
• Researched and analyzed potential downstream markets for green chemicals like: green plasticslignin, and phenolics.
• Conducted an in-depth study (with particular focus on types of feedstock, suppliers, logisticsenergy needs, and different subsidies package ) in order to identify ideal location for a bio-refinery.
• Surveyed possible locations and recommended the best choices to the top leadership.
• Interfaced with several industry thought leader on a regular basis
• Conducted end-to-end requirement generation
• Presented ideas and served as a conduit to building key alliances and strategic partnerships
• Served as a intermediary between the Business, Technical, Overseas team and other Stakeholders n an ongoing basis by facilitating discussions. Meticulously documented the key take away points
• Played an important role in the conceptualizing the idea from ground zero and contributed in designing some features of the platforms (Green Nucleus and EcoBAM)
• Conducted complete requirement generation phase for (Green Nucleus and EcoBAM)
• Documented requirements for the system using Use Cases
• Set meeting agendas, kept meeting minutes, and created financial projection (for presentations)

Technologies: Java, MySQL, iRise, Dilatto software framework (proprietary software & Algorithms)

Confidential, Duluth, GA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted an in-depth market segmentation and scope analysis of M2M markets including RFID
• Built business strategies, goals and subsequent detailed plans
• Devised a service oriented business model
• Constructed detailed system and functional requirements with help of the core team
• Built outsourcing alliances with overseas firms
• Facilitated interaction between US and India Team by ensuring proper discussion platform
• Participated in Code Reviews
• Regularly conducted Project Reviews to ascertain the project was staying on course
• Co-wrote the starters user’s manual

Technologies: Java, Linux, Tiny OS, ZigBee