Business Analysis

Professional

Business and Solution Analysis Experienced in dealing directly with technical clients and suppliers. Multicultural and offshore team leadership. Product Life Cycle PLC and Software Development Life Cycle SDLC processes. Accomplished technical writer and speaker. Developed award winning and cost saving web, rich client and desktop applications using Object Oriented techniques. Multimedia development experience.

Project Management Design

Project/Team Management and Process Definition/Deployment using Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, HP Quality Center, SourceForge, MS Project, MS Visio, Subversion, CVS, MS Office

Languages/

Development Tools

J2SE, J2EE, JavaScript, Eclipse, REAL Studio, ANSI SQL, DHTML, PHP, XML

Databases

MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, Postgre, SQL Developer, Toad, DBVisualizer, Softerra LDAP Administrator

Multimedia

Photoshop/Gimp, Flash/Flex, Dreamweaver, Cubase, Premiere and other multimedia applications.

Other Areas of Expertise

GUI design.

Technical Writer and Trainer

Confidential

• Working on an Anti - Money Laundering Investigations application for JP Morgan Chase.
• Worked with Business and Development in creating User Story Cards.
• Helped coordinate application requirements from multiple business groups.
• Supported Quality Assurance group.

Business Analysis

Confidential

• Analysis utilized test-based development tools TFS and utilized the Gherkin language for acceptance criteria definition
• Provided analysis, coordination and testing for the following projects:
• Complete overhaul of the customer self-enrollment and password reset functionality
• New username lookup functionality
• New interstitial and banner ad functionality that allows marketing to determine ad presentation rules.
• Re-consent functionality that forces online users to accept new disclosures and electronic statements. Tasks: Business Analysis, GUI Design, Development Testing and Test Script Creation

Confidential

• Working on an internal application that controls pricing modification for the entire set of bank products and services.
• Assisted in developing Agile procedures.
• Lead effort to improve and document BA procedures and products.
• Worked with Business and Development in creating Use Cases.
• Created test procedures and coordinated testing during development iterations.
• Created HTML mockups/wireframes.
• My experience with technical and business issues form a communications bridge between Development and Business.

Business Analysis, GUI Design, Development Test Coordination

Confidential

Performed maintenance work on two production line tool projects for Jostens, Inc..

Business Analysis, Programming-REAL Studio

Confidential

• Provided offshore project management, software architecture, SDLC process development and documentation services for internal web applications.
• Defined and documented best practices for Java development including error handling and source code structure and documentation.
• Defined and documented defect resolution procedures for offshore development and client management team.
• Defined and documented software development request initiation and tracking procedures.
• Defined and documented database deployment request initiation and tracking procedures.
• Created SourceForge Trackers in support of defect resolution, software development requests and database deployment processes.
• Developed and documented universal web service architecture for use as template for multiple web services.
• Managed implementation by offshore Java development team.

Project Management, Software Architecture, Documentation

Confidential

• Provided project management, software development, business analyst, test plan development and documentation services for an internal web application.
• Worked on an application that created, distributed and presented results of informational audits at the store, district and regional level.
• Evaluated Opinio survey tool from Object Planet.
• Led requirements gathering and documentation team.
• Responsible for creating project timeline
• Performed J2EE programming to add functionality for multiple in-survey calculations via Opinio plug-in API.
• Performed technical design for J2EE application that presents available audits to participants and results to audit owners.
• Developed test plan and test cases.
• Provided support for UAT testing.
• Created user and installation documentation.

Business Analysis, Data Mapping, Programming-J2EE

Confidential

Performing maintenance work on a project for Strike Industries.

Programming

Confidential

Provided technical support and analysis to portions of a project that implemented a chat feature. This feature allows insurance agents to invite visitors to received live assistance in a reactive and proactive fashion.

Business Analysis

Confidential

Developed a prototype business intelligence dashboard solution using the Java-based Pentaho Suite.

Systems Analysis, Programming-J2EE

Confidential

Developed the administration portion of an online flyer creation/distribution application that created preview artwork, managed customer contact information, handled customer billing/payment and generated and retrieved distribution lists from an Experian database.

Programming-J2EE

Confidential

Confidential is the President of Apogee Development, a software development firm that provides contract project management, analysis and software development services and consultation.