SUMMARY:

I serve fundamentally as a liaison between various stakeholders within business and technical domains to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. Successful delivery is predicated on an understanding of business problems and opportunities within the context of the aforementioned requirements, and the recommendation of solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. I'm a 2003 MBA graduate.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES:

• Utilize advanced data definition, traceability, and quality management techniques.
• Design User Interfaces to maximize user experience.
• Prepare entire sets of artifacts to define and present requirements to various audiences throughout the organization.
• Implement advanced strategies for gathering, documenting, and reviewing requirements.
• Story Card Development
• Use Case Development
• JAD sessions
• Functional Requirements Gathering
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall SDLC
• CORE COMPETENCIES:
• Facilitate Business Process Management paradigms utilizing the three BPM core dimensions business value, process transformation, and management enabling.
• Utilize strategies for dealing with requirements changes and their impact on quality.
• SQL
• Business Process Management
• Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN 2.0
• UI Design
• UML Diagrams
• ETL and Logical Data Modeling
• RUP and utilization of best practices
• Extensive Presentation Skills
• Object-Oriented Design
• TECHNOLOGIES: PARTIAL LIST
• Microsoft Office
• Visio
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• MS Project
• Lotus Notes
• SharePoint
• Various Wireframe Technologies
• Business Objects
• Rational Requisite Pro
• Doors
• DB2
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MS Access
• Mercury Quality Center

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST

• My current responsibilities include the development of functional specifications for enhancements to applications utilized by the Chase Auto Finance division that support Auto Lease and Loan operations. This activity requires an understanding of two main applications, middleware services supporting the applications, and recipient financial systems that utilize data captured in underlying business processes serviced by the applications. The systems and associated services all reside in a heterogeneous environment. My daily activities include:
• Review of business requirements.
• Elicitation of Functional Requirements.
• Process Analysis and Modeling.
• Specification of functional requirements using various artifacts.
• Presentation of various solutions
• Securing approvals from various stakeholders representing disparate groups.

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST

• Currently involved in an enterprise initiative to re-write a major system for managing all facets of contract administration with external ODOT service providers. The system will integrate functionality from eleven separate systems, and consolidate all processes into one composite business orchestration across the entire organization. I serve as liaison between business stakeholders, development, and testing groups to articulate systems for this new system. A Waterfall SDLC is being utilized, and thus all requirements are to be completed before the development phase begins. The system is to be web-based, and will be developed in C . Data integration will be accomplished through a Master Data Management initiative in which Data Governance rules will be developed to determine survivorship, etc.,. My specific responsibilities include:
• Consensus development between stakeholder groups
• Process Analysis and Modeling.
• Oversee data modeling
• MDM analysis using SQL
• Functional Requirements elicitation and specification using Use Cases
• Specification of technical requirements using various artifacts
• Coordination of development efforts
• Coordination of testing efforts
• Coordination of UAT

Confidential

SYSTEMS ANALYST

• Serve as liaison between business stakeholders, development, and testing groups to articulate systems requirements necessary for developing new and enhancing existing critical leave management software applications in both Waterfall and Agile environments. Applications are developed to conform to FMLA, State, and Client-specific policy restrictions. Utilize various tools including Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, SQL, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, and SnagIt. Clients include fortune 500 companies such as Apple Computer and Walmart. Specific responsibilities include,
• Consensus development between stakeholder groups
• Process Analysis and Modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN 2.0 .
• Functional Requirements elicitation and specification using Use Cases and more recently Story Cards.
• Specification of technical requirements using various artifacts.
• Coordination of development efforts
• Coordination of testing efforts
• Coordination of UAT

Confidential

SOLUTIONS ANALYST: CONTRACT ASSIGNMENT

• I currently determine system requirements and assist in design activities for enhancements to the existing Nationwide Insurance FUSION application in an Agile Environment. Specific responsibilities include,
• Process Analysis and modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN 2.0 .
• Requirements elicitation.
• Technical analysis.
• Creation of Story Cards and associated artifacts in conformance with Nationwide documentation standards.
• Utilization of Rational tools to manage release deliverables throughout development lifecycle.
• ybase.