SUMMARY

• A result - oriented and highly skilled certified Project Manager (PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM) and Business Analyst seeking a permanent fulltime position demanding these skill-sets.
• Proven strengths in managing cross-functional teams to achieve optimal business outcomes within mission-critical initiatives.
• MBA in Information Systems includes planning, design, requirement and lifecycle project implementation experience from concept to implementation involving complete SDLC/AGILE/RUP.
• Instrumental in managing stakeholder expectations through best practices in project management and requirements engineering management methodologies.
• Prioritize new project requests with the business and actively manage priorities and project/program roadmap
• Multi-industry experience across complex, large-scale IT and business programs/projects.
• Experienced in Defining, Modeling and Implementing artifacts using project management, business analysis, SDLC, AGILE-Iterative and Scrum, Waterfall, and RUP frameworks/methodology
• Experienced working with “Fortune 100” and top tier firms including Confidential, IBM, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential
• Excellent in Articulating and communicating various views and view points thereby ensuring everyone’s interest and participation at the highest productive level
• Cross-functional Team Leadership, international and cross-cultural experience
• Excellent communication skills to earn trust, persuade, motivate, and mentor

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Program/Project Management: Setting Goals/Objectives, Communication Plan, Schedule, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Risk Management, Sprint/Release Planning, Burndown Charts, Retrospective and Reviews, Quality Standards, Team Management, Relationship Management, Budget Planning, Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

Business/ Systems/Data Analysis/Intelligence, Business Process Modeling, and Strategic Planning and tools: MS-Project, Project and Portfolio Management (PPM v7.x), Blue-Print Requirements Center, UML-(Sequence Diagrams, Use Case, Activity Diagram, etc), BPMN/ BPML, MS Office Suite, MS Project, Visio, ERWIN Data Modeling IDEF0, IDEF1, IDEF1x, ADF, BPEL, ADML, RUP, AGILE, SDLC

Documentation: Vision & Scope Document/Project Charter, Burndown Charts, Product Backlog, Business Requirements Diagrams (BRD), Functional Specification, Process Models/Workflows, Technical Specifications Document, Mapping Document, SOA Services Documentation, Training Materials, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Deployment/Implementation Strategy Business Analysis Models, Data Models and EA Artifacts

Methodologies/Frameworks: PMBOK, IIBA,, The Open Group (TOGAF), Zachman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created project plans, summaries and presentations to ensure the components are delivered within project success factors.
• Collaborated with various levels of stakeholders (including product owners) in establishing project scope, requirements, approval and sign-off
• Led requirements sessions, worked with Product Owners and other stakeholders to maintain product backlog and change requests to requirements
• Created and used various UML diagrams in elicited, analyzed and documented requirements in collaboration with diverse stakeholder groups
• Collaborated with various functional teams to ensure detail testing was carried out which resulted in minimal issues post implementation
• Lead and promptly escalated quality and/ or integrity issues
• Created QA and UAT Test plans and test scripts in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
• Facilitates weekly and bi-weekly meetings includes status update and issues, monitoring project progress
• Prioritize new project requests with the business and actively manage priorities and project roadmap
• Communicate in all direction, established and managed productive stakeholder relationships

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project, HP PPM, Quality Center, SQL MS Access, Snag it, Interface Specifications, Mapping Documents, BRD/FRD, Borland Caliber, Training, iGrafix, Microsoft Lync collaboration tool, WinCvs, SDLC, AGILE-SCRUM

Confidential, New Providence, NJ

PMO-Program/Project Manager/Scrum Master (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Led project planning efforts. Managed several successful ecommerce projects to improve company flagship products and to extend scope of products in an agile-SCRUM development environment.
• Produced results that included formal processes and procedures for product management processes and tools to capture, prioritize and manage requirements
• Managed cross-discipline team of 20+ professionals from technology, operations, design, editorial, marketing, and information architecture and off-shore teams.
• Planned sprints and release, conducted daily standup meetings, reviews, retrospective, and demos with stakeholders.
• Oversaw and responsible for the collection, analysis, review, documentation, and communication of performance issues in an effort to improve performance of the web application.
• Worked with Product Owners to maintain product backlog and change requests to requirements
• Collaborated with business and technical functional areas to gather and identify cross-functional issues, risks, reporting needs, and dependencies to recommend alternative solutions.
• Ensured daily update of burdown to track team’s and project progress
• Identified issues and roadblocks to maximize team efficiency
• Communicated effectively with stakeholders such as Product Managers/ Sr. Management and management on status, issues, risks, change requests project goals and objectives

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project, HP PPM, Quality Center, SQL MS Access, Project Plan, LiveMeeting Collaboration Tool, AGILE-SCRUM

Confidential, New York, NY

PMO-IT Project Manager/Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Led project-planning efforts and managed projects to improve and automate processes including budget process in an AGILE/Iterative environment.
• Provided project leadership and developed project deliverables including but not limited to project charter/business case, project plan, schedule/time, work-breakdown structures, risk management, defined project milestones and deliverable with due dates, status reports and estimates for project completion across multiple projects
• Defined and achieved diverse stakeholder requirement needs through one-on-one/group sessions and ongoing communication
• Facilitated/Led requirements gathering JAD sessions with business users and IT partners for information translated into project scope, Use Cases, and functional specifications for the global-wide Capital and Budgeting solution.
• Provided mitigation/remediation recommendations and shepherd through risk/issue management as needed.
• Ensured the overall consistency of requirements (e.g. quality, completeness and deliverable format) across Business Customers and End Users
• Facilitated and Participated in quality management reviews of designs, prototypes and other requirements-related work areas to ensure they fulfill the requirements

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project, SQL, Interface Specifications, Mapping Documents, BRD, UI, Project Plan, HP-PPM, Snag it, SDLC/Iteration

Confidential, Cincinnati/Dayton, OH

PMO-Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Led project-planning efforts and managed projects Integration/Migration of systems from an acquired company into the Lexis Nexis Enterprise Systems. Systems included Legal research, Datawarehouse, CRM, E-Commerce capabilities for strategically expanding company base business via sales and marketing, and growth expansion of Business Services. This project also included Business Process Analysis and Modeling.
• Identified risks and issues, provided mitigation/remediation recommendations and shepherd through risk/issue management or change control as needed. Project tracking, update and maintenance
• Managed stakeholder expectation(including vendor management) thru various communication channels and medium and early escalation issues as needed be
• Participated in overall unit, system and Conducted User Acceptance Testing (BAT) on the application - resolved issues from the participants, prepared and submitted Test Analysis Reports and participated in Product Readiness Review
• Part of key “core member” that conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility determination and post-implementation support

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project, BluePrint Requirements Center, UML, BRD, Interface Specifications, Mapping document, Project Plan, Snag it, Training, SDLC

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Enterprise Business Architect/Sr. Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Business leaders, Senior Executives, PMO, Architects and other key stakeholders for project profiling, requirements gathering and deployment to ensure the successful implementation and to bring a common viewpoint of the business strategies, priorities, and scope.
• Projects included a roadmap of 30+ projects over a 3-5 year period; implementing a self-service web-based solution for customers, vendor management and CRM project implementation, Datawarehouse and Business Objects, and Business Process Initiative.
• Facilitated the definition of project scope through the use of Scoping deliverables and ensure traceability of all future deliverables back to Scoping. Created Project Charter/Vision Scope Document
• Acted as the key liaison between the (Sr.) Project Managers and the other project teams/leads, taking ownership of the development of the Business Requirements for their functional areas
• Proactive at identifying needs, expectations and hidden assumptions by gathering requirements using various methodologies such as interviewing, asking questions, JAD, etc, probing at potential gaps.
• Took leading role when establishing Business Customer reviews and signoffs for Business Engineering/Business Analysis deliverables such as High Level Logical/Conceptual Data Models and BRD’s (Business Requirement Documents), and Analysis Models (UML diagrams, User Interface Diagrams, Flowcharts, Data-Flow Diagrams, Workflow/Process Flow model Diagrams - current/future state, etc)
• Developed and maintained standard practices, protocols, and templates to ensure business requirements are comprehensive, well documented and to affected areas of the business with traceability and can be traced from policy to implementation.
• Created and Conducted presentations and walkthroughs with end users and key stakeholders prior to formal training sessions and other appropriate stakeholder training sessions

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS Access, BPMN/BPM, UML, Interface Specifications, Mapping Documents, BRD, Project Plan, Training, SDLC, Iteration

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Business/Data Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Proactive at identifying needs, expectations and hidden assumptions by gathering requirements using various methodologies such as interviewing, asking questions, JAD, etc, probing at potential gaps in the requirements
• Created Interface Specifications, mapping documents and data model, XML schemas to be used by various Functional Streams. Wsdls, and sample files (test files) for development team
• Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRD’s (Business Requirement Documents) supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the actors to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Worked with business team, developer and major developer to resolve mapping and other data mapping issues, Developed Test Strategyand test Plans, test cases
• Translated and Wrote customer business requirements, functional and technical designs/ specifications, product configurations and communicated requirements to development teams
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing on the application - resolved issues from the participants, prepared and submitted Test Analysis Reports and participated in Product Readiness Review
• Conducted presentations and walkthroughs with end users and stakeholders prior to formal training session

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS Access, XML-Spy, UML, Interface Specifications, Mapping Documents, BRD/FRD, Eclipse, SQL, SDLC, RUP

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Business Analyst/ETL Developer(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Took ownership of the quality of all requirements by leading/coordinating activities to refine and document functional and non-functional requirements, Performed Business Process mapping for new requirements
• Created and Conducted presentations and walkthroughs with end users and key stakeholders prior to formal training sessions and other appropriate stakeholder training sessions
• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME (Subject Matter Expertise), vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues to develop specifications.
• Translated customer business requirements into technical designs and product configurations.
• Defined the data definitions, and created the target tables in the database., manipulated data with SQL queries
• Identified information and analytic needs of business users (Business Intelligence related analysis, report and metric requirements)
• Created Mapping document and mapped the source and target databases by studying the specifications and analyzing the required transforms

Environment: Rational Suite Tools, MS-Office, MS-Visio, SQL, Ascential DataStage 7.0/6.0 (Designer, Director, Manager, MS Access, UML, Interface Specifications, Mapping Documents, BRD, UI, RUP

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst / Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detail analysis of existing business and QA processes and procedures. Assisted management and development team, identified and resolved potential process defects and provided recommendations for quality process improvement.
• Assisted and worked closely with consultants to define application metrics, reports, data mapping, and other integration requirements according to customer requirements. Translated customer business requirements into technical designs and product configurations.
• Project Lead. Successfully planned and executed multiple projects for configuration, maintenance and changes to test environment. Part of team that successfully performed extensive functional, regression, integration, fail-over and performance in testing to ensure compliance with stated objectives in the development of SAP Business One Confidential Edition.
• Participated in reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans, requirements and specifications. Worked with consultants on a daily basis, providing support to ensure seamless execution of clientele projects.
• Assisted business partners and clients in problems solving during and post implementation.