Lead Business Analyst Resume Profile
Arlington, VA
Skills
| Documentation and technical writing experience | 10 Years | 2012 | 3-Expert |
| Experience managing SOA projects | 3 Years | 2012 | 2 - Proficient |
| Experience with supporting project activities and overseeing contractors | 6 Years | 2012 | 2 - Proficient |
| Development and management of schedules and tasks for project team | 7 Years | 2012 | 2 - Proficient |
| Experience with document management systems | 3 Years | 2012 | 2 - Proficient |
| Knowledge of designing and generating reports, graphs | 6 Years | 2012 | 2 - Proficient |
| Experience leading executive meetings and/or delivering presentations to executive level management | 10 Years | 2012 | 2 - Proficient |
| IT project management experience | 6 Years | 2012 | 3-Expert |
| Project Management Certification | Yes |
Employment History:
Confidential
Lead Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Preparing project plan, validation and management using MS Project.
- Defining associated tasks and task prioritization
- Understand and document current business functions, processes and information flows.
- Analyzing current business processes and identifying gaps in the existing business processes and information flows.
- Developing vision, business requirements, process models and use cases.
- Manage requirements and traceability.
- Developed project vision document and project plan.
- Extensive project management experience and knowledge of SOA methodologies and Lifecycles.
- Provided status reports to the project management team to track progress against plan
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level mmanagement teams and other teams
- Tracking weekly progress and monitoring project progress.
- Prepared transition documents and conducted transition meetings.
- Involved in UML, designed Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram, Sequence Diagram, and State Diagram for project documentation using Select Enterprise
- Created Records Management and Document Control procedures for the Quality Assurance Department
- Wrote technical documents and technical publications
- Identifying and prioritizing tasks along with resource assignment.
- Interview users from various divisions to understand their business functions, processes and pain points.
- Feasibility analysis in the existing business processes to eliminate pain points.
- Tracking weekly progress and monitoring project progress.
- Weekly reports for program manager.
Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Star Team, Rational Software Architect, SharePoint, MSVISIO, MS Office, MS Project, BMC Remedy.
Confidential
Lead Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Managing teams for Data Commons and NRMP projects respectively.
- Preparing project plan, validation and management using MS Project.
- Defining work streams associated tasks, task prioritization and assignment to resources.
- Tracking weekly progress and monitoring project progress.
- Weekly dashboard for PMO and team.
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level management teams and other teams
- Helped the process team in Developing methodology and lifecycle for the BPM/SOA processes testing and quality assurance
- Writing Technical documents, analyzing document systems and outlining specifications for document management and control software.
- Used UML notations for Object Oriented Design and Documentation
- Managing external clients Capturing needs, issue resolution, meeting facilitation, status updates
- Gathering and analyzing requirements for Data Commons and NRMP.
- Defining processes and parameters for work streams.
- Preparing Use Cases and management using Blue Print.
- Facilitating JAD and review sessions.
- Managing issues and defects.
Confidential
Sr. Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Interacting with stakeholders/end users to understand the business and functional requirements.
- Prepared and managed detailed business and functional requirement documents using DOORS.
- Analyzed, reviewed and, finalized all required edits tolerances related to loan servicing and reporting.
- Identified and analyzed attributes for creating purchase record, defined purchase record creation procedure.
- Interviewing, writing, editing and HTML development of internal online corporate newsletters
- Prepared vision document for servicing portal.
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level management teams and other teams
- Training and supervising document management and control staff.
- Captured existing business processes into flow diagrams using Industry Print/VISIO
- Defined future business processes and created corresponding process flow diagrams.
- Implement and manage analysis and design methodology using UML for SOA Service Oriented Architecture conceptual modeling that will best describe the enterprise associations while thoroughly documenting the services message bus architecture .
- Analyzed 'as is' and 'to be' business processes and flows for identifying gaps GAP analysis
- Identifying and resolving procedural and process problems with applicable business areas.
- Identifying business requirements specific to a business product/process and translating the business application's needs into systems requirements.
- Developing business and technical subject matter expertise on business applications systems.
- Preparing and maintaining system documentation in accordance with business requirements.
- Trained team members to use DOORS for managing requirements.
Environment: Telelogic DOORS, Industry Print, Rational Rose, VISIO, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Lotus Notes, MS Office, MS Project.
Confidential
Lead Analyst
Responsibilities
- Interacting with stakeholders/end users to understand the business and functional requirements.
- Preparation of Requirement Documents, Process Models, Application Use Cases, Wireframes etc.
- Coordination between end users, technical team and project manager.
- Running weekly dashboard and status checks, coordination between business and technical team.
- Development of detailed functional specification, building data and functional models.
- Refined and finalized use case models, created UML diagrams to reflect use case text narratives.
- Defining business problems, driving feature identification and prioritization, defining and documenting business requirements and priorities.
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level management teams and other teams
- Captured content, writing and editing all documentation of the System Development Life Cycle SDLC for the Process and Project Management Group PPMG of the branch, ensuring that documentation complies with industry standards
- Writing procedures and work instructions to support and maintain document management and control systems
- Wrote technical documents and technical publications
- Development of test plans, test scenarios, test scenario execution, documentation of test results.
- Used detailed knowledge of application features and functions to assess the scope and impact of business needs throughout the analysis and completion of all enhancement specifications.
- Developing timelines for project delivery and its monitoring for successful completion.
Confidential
Lead System Analyst
Responsibilities
- Interacting with stakeholders/end users to understand the business and functional requirements.
- Doing GAP analysis to identify and resolve gaps in reporting needs.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements for reporting needs related to mortgage acquisitions and contract finalization.
- Prepared and managed detailed business and functional requirement documents using DOORS.
- Analyzed process work flows for system modeling and optimization.
- Researched sources of data attributes for comparison between EUC and CDW mapping.
- Researched entities and their relationships for data modeling.
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level management teams and other teams.
- Development of test plans, test scenarios, test scenario execution, documentation of test results.
- Wrote and executed SQL queries on CDW for data validation and comparison.
- Provided recommendation to business for identification of data sources.
Environment: Telelogic DOORS, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, UML, Lotus Notes, DB2, SQL, Visio, Windows and Unix platform, MS Office, MS Project.
Confidential
Lead Business Analyst
Responsibilities
- Coordination between end users, technical team and project manager.
- Defining and prioritizing tasks with their LOE and baselines.
- Interacting with stakeholders/end users to understand the business and functional requirements.
- Leading and supervising team of five 5 that include two analyst, two developers and one tester.
- Running weekly dashboard and status checks, coordination between business and technical team.
- Analyzing SCS needs and requirements for proposed GIS enhancement for real time remote monitoring and decision making.
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level management teams and other teams.
- Creation of possible scenarios/requirements, assisting with translation of requirements into technical specifications.
- Interviewing, writing, editing and HTML development of internal online corporate newsletters
- Creating and managing use case documents using Requisite Pro.
- Used TOAD to access Oracle database for research and data preparation.
- Involved in Configuration Management to efficiently integrate and manage application and system components.
- Creating various UML diagrams to capture the system functionality using MS Visio.
- Documentation of operational processes, reconciliation, data mappings and data dictionaries.
- Ensuring optimum performance of application with respect to request turn around time, data handling capability and Information Security.
- Developing business and technical subject matter expertise on business applications systems.
- Provided training to team members on Requisite Pro, Clear Case, and Rational Rose.
Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case, Remedy, ARC GIS, UML, PVCS, Visio, Windows and UNIX platform, Oracle 9i, MS Office, MS Project.
Confidential
Lead Business Analyst
Responsibilities
- Interacting with stakeholders/end users to understand the business and functional requirements.
- Prepared and managed detailed business and functional requirement documents using DOORS.
- Prepared Requirement Management Plan, Product Acceptance Plan PAT , and Training Plan.
- Analyzing business needs and requirements for proposed new business products / processes covering derivatives and other financial products.
- Writing Technical documents
- Designed and generated reports for executive meetings and presentations to the executive level management teams and other teams.
- Performing GAP analysis and evaluation of third party solutions vis- -vis business needs.
- Identifying and resolving procedural and process problems with applicable business areas.
- Worked with Business Intelligence team for root cause analysis and identification of key performance factors.
- Coordination between stakeholders, users and technical team to ensure precise understanding of requirements and smooth development of application.
- Preparing and maintaining system documentation in accordance with business requirements.
- Developing business and technical subject matter expertise on business applications systems.
- Creating various diagrams activity, sequence etc. to capture the system functionality using Rational Suite UML and MS Visio.
- Developed training manuals, knowledge transfer documents and gave training to application users.
Environment: Telelogic DOORS, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, UML, Lotus Notes, Visio, Windows and Unix platform, MS Office, MS Project.
Confidential
Business Analyst/Tester
Responsibilities
- Analyzing business needs and requirements for proposed new business products/processes for Restatement efforts.
- Capture of business requirements, assisting with translation of requirements into technical specifications to implement FAS 91, FAS 114, and FAS 140, and FAS 133.
- Managed artifacts using Requisite Pro.
- Managing writing team and technical publications
- Defining process flow for calculating LOCOM and Fair Value for respective credit derivatives.
- Development of test plans, test scenarios, test scenario execution, documentation of test results.
- Documentation of operational processes, reconciliation, data mappings and data dictionaries.
- Preparing and maintaining system documentation in accordance with business requirements.
- Creating various diagrams activity, sequence etc. to capture the system functionality.
- Prepared documents to facilitate learning of various tools/features by team members.
- Preparation of test cases/scripts, dummy data sets to test various functionalities of system.
Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, MS Access, MS Project, Visio, UML, MS Office
Confidential
Lead Business Analyst
Responsibilities
- Consolidation of existing use cases as per desired features and release priorities.
- Interview users to determine their needs. Research processes and compose/write business requirements. Identify and resolve procedural and process problems with applicable business areas.
- Identification of associated business rules and specification as per desired features and functionalities.
- Prepared and managed artifacts using Rational Requisite Pro.
- Used UML notations for Object Oriented Design and Documentation
- Develop and enhance systems by bringing specific business knowledge to the technical design process.
- Wrote technical documents and technical publications
- Preparation of pivot charts for tracking of AUC allocation and release features.
Environment: Rational Requisite Pro, Oracle, Visio, UML, C , Windows and Unix platform, XML, MS Office, MS Project.
