Business Analyst Resume

SUMMARY:

I am a seasoned information systems development professional with over 25 years of full life - cycle software engineering experience providing business analysis, data modeling, programming and project management consulting services to clients in the financial services, manufacturing, public utilities and government sectors.
A seasoned information systems development professional with over 25 years of full life - cycle software engineering experience providing business analysis, data modeling, programming and project management consulting services to clients in the financial services, manufacturing, public utilities and government sectors.
Areas of expertise include the Information Engineering Methodology, data modeling, testing methodologies and structured analysis/design. Business areas encompass scientific, manufacturing, financial services, sales order processing, customer information, inventory accounting and regulatory reporting.
Has served as both a user and provider of Information Technology systems. Accomplished in managing the user/data processing interface at all levels of an organization. Highly effective at presenting technical concepts to general audiences in common business language.

STRENGTHS:

Excellent oral and written communication skills; Accomplished leader and mentor; Strong customer-facing presence; Outstanding quantitative and analytical skills; Highly skilled at managing the user/data processing interface

SKILLS INVENTORY:

Methodologies: Information Engineering Methodology (16+ yrs), Agile (2 yrs)

Business Area Analysis: Data Modeling creating logical ERDs for OLTP(10 yrs), metadata (2 yrs), dimensional modeling for OLAP (1 yr); JAD Facilitation (10 yrs); Process Modeling functional decomposition/AHDs (10 yrs);

Database: DB2, SQL, QMF and File-AID (15 yrs); Oracle DBMS and SQL Tools (8 years); MS SQL Server (2 yrs)

Operating Systems: MS Windows 95 through Win8 (20 yrs), MVS / zOS (15 yrs), Linux (5 yrs), shell scripting (3 yrs)

Programming Languages: C (12 yrs), C++ (4 yrs), Visual C++ (2 yrs), COBOL (8 yrs), APL (4 yrs), JAVA ( < 1 yr)

CASE Tools: CA Gen (formerly known as AllFusion Gen, Advantage Gen, COOL Gen, Composer and IEF) (16 yrs) CA ERwin Data Modeler (2 yrs)

Other: VersionOne, JIRA, MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio; testing methodologies, test data creation, statistical sampling, operations management, stochastic processes, data extract, transform and load, data conversions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Southlake, Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Designed, coded and tested LMS enhancements to program code (COOL:Gen), shell scripts and job scheduler
Also served as the project team’s Business Analyst
Wrote and groomed stories (agile methodology) for LMS team using VersionOne and JIRA
As a result, Confidential was able to double its target market and remain a leader in airline related software
Designed, coded and tested the solution using COOL:Gen
Added enhancements permitting casual system users (internal and web) to access RCI data using commonly known identifying criteria instead of the numeric, semi-random internal keys previously required
Added geospatial data storage capability

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Working on an extremely tight deadline with little supervision and incomplete specifications, conceived, designed, coded and delivered step-pricing functionality by date or quantity
Step pricing was a key strategic capability not existing in the customer’s legacy system
Step pricing provided critical flexibility for offering customer incentives related to specific inventory and production scheduling opportunities
Converted over 600,000 sales orders with only two rejects
Directed the activities of a five member conversion development team
Personally designed, coded and tested the main conversion driver program
Coordinated all conversion-related activities with the core business system development team to keep conversion business rules in synch with changing core system business rules

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Reduced client’s write-off threshold by a factor of 8
Created data (50+ entity types) and process models
Formulated the data conversion process, converted 10 million rows of data
Wrote conversion technical specs, including field mapping and transformation algorithms

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Developed data and process models allowing system to be re-hosted on a modern, supported DBMS
Was the first - and only - in the IT chain of command to identify fully the implications of the initial draft sales contract on Confidential ’s balance sheet and consequently to the scope of divestiture project
Communicated the urgency to executive management
Formulated the strategy for selling the deposits and loans of the 17 affected CNB branches
Led Branch Divestiture Demand Deposit Accounting & Check Processing analysis and design effort
Established balancing and control procedures for Confidential divestiture

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