SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented Advanced IT professional for over 20 years with proven track record of delivering high quality solutions for Fortune 100 clients:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Advanced Consultant

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assigned as an advanced BSA to work with all business and technical systems management subject matter experts within JPMC’s Public Receivables Accounts department on the USCIS LockBox Project.This involved JPMC as a main vendor for delivering software solutions to the Department of Homeland Security’s /United States Citizenship Immigration Services Agency. Required to gather all business/technical requirements from various different USCIS/FMS government departments and perform kickoff presentations with diverse senior stake holder audiences located in New York & Washington D.C in order to conduct JAD sessions to extract complex business and functional requirements for Government Applications
• Responsible for the creation of various artifacts to assist with the functional & technical design of USCIS applications. Also various UML diagrams both Behavioral and Physical to present to portfolio architects for sign off
• Responsible for facilitating User Story creation with key business stakeholders to ensure proper capture of business and functional requirements
• Engaged in various stages of the SDLC process within an Agile Delivery environment. From Product Backlog Refinement reporting updates directly to the Product Owner in NYC on the status of taking the story creation to the status of Definition of Ready. Also developed user acceptance criteria for each story which would determine if key functionality was actually properly being added to meet stake holder expectations.
• Utilized JIRA application to capture new User Stories to create PBI’s to track real time sprint scheduling. Also would use JIRA to stage PBI’s into the appropriate sprints per the instructions of the Product Owner
• Acted as pseudo Scrum Master for team responsible for facilitating daily scrum stand ups. Also managed Retro Ceremonies for team to cover Retrospect ceremony. Would also be responsible for Sprint Review to cover all delivered stories to business owners and review new functionality and Enid of sprint along with proper /Notes documentation
• Assisted Release Coordinator with staging of deliverables and hot fixes by delivery phase to meet Product Owners Milestone Delivery Timeline. Also assisted with key stats that would support velocity metrics

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to work with all business and technical systems management subject matter experts within Confidential on the Non Person ID Catalogue Project. This involved Confidential ’sDepartment of Information Security in assisting with the governance and tracking of the enterprises Non Person system ID’s. Required to gather all business/technical requirements from various different departments and perform knowledge transfer presentations with diverse audiences in order to conduct JAD sessions
• Responsible for various deliverables to the seniorstakeholdersin a very aggressive time schedule in order to comply with external audit security compliance requirements
• Engaged in various key phases such as detailed technical discovery/solution delivery phases that required presentationplussign off from director of information security policy&senior audit stakeholders. Responsible for gathering requirements from various different technical SME’swith the distributed environments
• Created a Database repository where various tables resided with data extracts from various distributed platforms during the Discovery phase. Also performed variousadvancedSQL queries to support DBA’steam togenerate the necessary Catalog table to support the Inventory Metrics to provide to Audit.Generated Entity Relationship Diagrams to perform data analysis and validate integrity of results
• Also performed current state/future state GAP analysis for NPID governance policy to research and document for a re procedure to recommend to Information Security department

Software Design Analyst III

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to work at BCBSA Chicago Headquarters with all business and technical systems management within the BCBSA Data Informatics department on the DASA (Data as a Strategic Asset) Project. Worked on designing the DRM- Data Request Management Portal by converting business requirements to functional specifications for the software engineering team to develop the Data Request Management Portal. This was performed byconvertingbusiness user stories stored in JIRA to functional specifications for the software engineering team withinan Agile team environment by performing daily SCRUM meetings for sprint releases
• Responsible for creating wireframe mockups of future UI screens for the DRM Portal along with creating various System Use Case artifacts which were maintained in IBM Clear Case. Also used Enterprise Architect V10.0 to create various UML Behavioral artifacts (Use Case, Activity, Sequence & State Machine Diagrams)
• Also assigned to work on National Programs team for Releases 15.5, 16.0 & 16.5 to create functional specification deliverables for Blue Square/B2, Claims Admin & Confidential s. Required to also perform impact analysis if other systems are affected such as IPDS/Inter Plan Data Services & IPOR/Inter Plan Operational Reporting
• Responsible for reviewing Functional Requirements Specifications Document per each release on ‘All BCBS Plans conference call’ which consisted of a board of representatives composed of both business and technical stakeholders from all Confidential Plans. Representatives would be both technical subject matter experts and business stake holders that would address any concerns on the call to my attention as I would present and cover every detail of my functional deliverable specification(s)
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with senior stakeholders as well as third parties to collect/analyze information needs and validate business requirements via JAD sessions to deliver the following relevant artifacts as needed. Effectively collaborate with developers and subject matter experts (SMEs) to establish the technical vision and analyze the tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. Oversee the development and implementation of system testing plans, scenarios and scripts for enhancements and projects. Perform various other duties as assigned by IT management at BCBSA

Lead Systems Analyst Consultant

Confidential - Evanston, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to NMSC as a consultant to assist and work with all business and technical systems management and operation support teams engaged in the Legacy Modernization Project. Provided direct, hands on assistance to the director of information technology in all facets of the NMSC work to include strategy, issue resolution, planning, people management, and project leadership
• Worked closely with the NMSC management team to understand their business, mission, goals, and objectives. Gained in-depth knowledge of the corporate functions, processes, operations, and IT environment; and analyzed how business applications are used to achieve these. Participated & lead systems improvement projects by understanding the current practices and designing improvements. Assisted in determining the need for, and selection of, any outside resources/consultants or tools
• Performed the following project responsibilities at NMSC: Clearly defined the project objectives and scope and completed a project plan (i.e project charter) and other management documents following the project manager standards. Monitored project progress by tracking activity, publishing progress reports and recommending actions. Elicited business requirements using JAD sessions & interviews with senior stake holders, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Performed Discovery and Application health assessment of legacy system to allow the development of the business case for renewing the current state. Business rules mining of extracting core business requirements from the various legacy applications to store in a repository for analysis. Re-Platforming analysis and Data Migration/Conversion procedures required for Future State
• Provided Delivery Metrics reports to executive management to display deliverable output progress aligned with planned resources recommended versus budget dollars allocated for project

Lead Systems Analyst

Confidential - Rolling Meadows, IL

Responsibilities:

• After recent acquisition of Confidential 's CRS Division in 2012 assigned to work as a lead business systems analyst on the Settlement team of Confidential 's CRS/Card IT group acting as a liaison between the senior business stakeholders and the application development group to gather business requirements for functional/technical design specifications by developing clear estimable user stories for enhancements in the MBS/TRAMS application systems using Agile methodology within various development teams using SCRUM and KANBAN methods
• Performing the responsibilities of ensuring that application development teams pass environment release standards in unit/regression testing by creating UAT plans that meet users/stake holders approvals, upon passing UAT cases they are then staged for production release
• Performing current/target state definitions for conversion strategy projects after merger leading on (COF) and off shore resources (Cap Gemini team) to prepare design specifications, testing & deployment of application enhancements for enterprise wide Master-card/Visa compliance systems release. Also required to perform consistent interfacing with executive level clients in various time zones for requirements gathering and providing project management deliverables that impact numerous core legacy interfaces
• Required to provide various high-low level estimates to assess business workflows, research business models, perform impact analysis and providing technical specifications referencing code solutions using SQL statements for CRS card application development team
• Assisted backend development teams to perform data mapping of Merchant Banking System for their credit transaction history tables on DB2 DBMS using TOAD data modeler tool to build logical/physical relationship model
• Delivered solutions with future state of MBS system involving offshore team to perform functional/technical design requirements for implementing network protocol data transfer upgrades within IBM’s Connect Direct system containing server/port parameter specifications to route to appropriate listening ports for valid inbound file transfer connectivity

Principal Systems Analyst

Confidential - Mettawa, IL

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to work with a team in Confidential Technology Services to design and implement a re-engineered set of new group application systems that will leverage key functionality from various legacy group systems for a new global wide initiative that transforms the Confidential global business model
• Responsible for conducting JAD sessions with project sponsors, stakeholders and department managers for assessing new business functionality and providing functional requirements to then develop technical requirements for various related integration project issues as needed
• Responsible to coordinate and report metrics with various senior stakeholders according to plan when assigned from various divisions within Confidential Holdings worldwide
• Leadingonandoffshoreresourcestocontribute to“roadmap” enterprise vision plan& designinfrastructure specifications,testing&deploymentof application architecture enhancements in order to retrofit legacy surround systems for interacting with the new One Confidential (OH) platform for a global systems release to integrate with ERP systems. Also required constant interfacing with executive level clients in various time zones for requirements gathering and providing project management deliverables that impact numerous core legacy interfaces
• Enforcing TOGAF ADM methods for aligning the current frame work at Confidential with new business practices/compliance standards to ensuring guidance and controls to support Confidential architecture stakeholder vision plan

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Confidential - Downers Grove, IL

Responsibilities:

• Contracted as a consultant for assessing new business functionality for providing new technical enhancement upgrades to cater to RRD’s largest client for the core WICS logistics system which composed of accepting data from various interfaces within various data formats
• Performing architecture assessment, requirements gathering, project planning while leading multiple application development teams (Saggezza) on-shore and off-shore (Bangalore India) on clients strict timeline to deliver solutions using waterfall methodology
• Conducting requirements gathering from business stake holders and translating business function requirements to technical requirements according to SOW
• Assigned tasks to lead multiple teams on and off-shore and also led team to perform data mapping and develop technical specs in SQL & T-SQL needed for database integration of many DBMS sources and stores in data warehouse using Informatica Powercenter
• Conducted design coding /code review sessions with both on/off shore teams while enforcing expectations of daily coding output to meet time frames which were not flexible
• Performed design session conferences with multiple on/off shore teams to enforce best practices for design and change control standards
• Provided Delivery Metrics reports to upper management to display deliverable output progress aligned with planned resources recommended versus budget dollars allocated for project

Senior IT Analyst Consultant

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Contracted as a tech analyst lead to manage delivery of new application services while contracted to Integrys -a large Mid-Western based Energy Corporation; which distributes Natural Gas in reg/Non-regulated markets across the North American region
• Led BAM Project for gathering technical requirements to deliver new portal project while developing User Interface mock-up to support solution for supporting new system to co-exist with mainframe and Unix servers utilizing RUP framework
• Performing application analysis, development, testing and implementation on CFirst Service applications residing on various servers (UNIX and Mainframe) within Peoples Energy for an enhancement release that impacted various applications with Gas Rate increases on CVS Service Application Dev dept
• Assisted DBA team to perform data mapping of Gas Utility Rate project and create data reports within data warehouse using Informatica’s Power Analyzer
• Created functional requirements specifications from soliciting requirements from business stake holders. Would translate the functional requirements to technical requirements documentation to turnover to off-shore development teams
• Led design coding /code review sessions with development teams while enforcing expectations of daily coding output to meet non-flexible time frames in dynamic environment

Technical Lead Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Confidential Methodology for leading Technical Architecture & Development outsourcing teams to perform all design specs with on shore resources with PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Manager) project at IBC/Independent BlueCross of PA using RUP methodology(components written in COBOL, JCL, SQL with DB2, VSAM, REXX, CICS)
• Performed TOGAF framework principles with Confidential 's ADM methods for defining the business needs and developing infrastructure architecture layers that met the needs for Confidential Project with coordination implementing new IBM server hardware and software systems (Tivoli Job Scheduler)
• Performed as tech lead at Confidential Project to manage upgrade of various infrastructure systems and perform massive data integration effort from various data stores by coordinating ETL team utilizing Informatica Powercenter suite V8.0 (onshore and Manila), IBM data storage services team & Confidential team (onshore and India) dbms/data warehousing support
• Managed other Confidential teams (on and off-shore) to deliver design/development application solutions for NPI/National Provider Indicator mandate at Blue Cross New York/Excellus with planning stage through development under tight schedules, while assessing estimated costs of deliverables and resources required to inform senior executives

Senior Application Developer

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Current and BlueSTAR department Application Systems & owned BlueSTAR Members Inquiry, HMO Capitation process, BlueCard Adjudication Processing via ITS & HIPPA Outbound system COCC and was responsible for gathering requirements, designing, developing and deploying healthcare Blues applications
• Was the lead developer for the BlueSTAR Members Internet/Intranet Portal application build for a J2EE platform using MVC architecture. The effort involved converting an Inquiry application in Power-Builder 7.0 to the Web, working in WSAD 5.1.2 and utilizing Servlets with JSP pages invoking Java components, Java Script events and using XML to interface with its three tier architecture design
• Designed, developed and tested a variety of windows on a three-tier architecture application during Members System implementation. Maintained the Inquiry application which is Power-Builder windows on the front tier, which invokes XPL/COBOL-DAP programs containing embedded SQL on middle to access DB2 tables on backend tier. Also utilized MQ Series Middleware, REXX, Easytrieve+ and Magna/XPL
• Performed design for BlueSTAR conversion from Current Systems with CICS screens converted to Powerbuilder windows and switching architecture to 3 tier arch with VSAM files being replaced by DB2 tables; Also performed BlueSTAR for MEMBERS conversion to Intranet Portal project converting Powerbuilder windows to J2EE architecture with changing the presentation layer but leaving the second and back end tier intact
• Supported BlueCard Adjudication processing via ITS network utilizing BlueChip Claims System along with AEP/Automated Enrollment Process batch support

Technology Consultant

Confidential - Detroit, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Employed by a large software firm and utilized firm's best practices/tools to resolve Y2K mainframe coding issue with a large Banking organization with outsourcing resources
• Performed in Y2K inventory analysis, development and testing phase with Century Date Team at First Chicago/BankOne/NBD
• Designed and developed a reporting application using COBOL and JCL combined with REXX programs to be used as Inventory Tool replacing IBM's RA tool set for Chicago Factory Y2K effort
• Executed a mass migration of First Chicago's/NBD Trust applications using version control software into test environment for change/analysis and various levels of testing in virtual testing facility. Was trained extensively with Compuware core products such as File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Xpeditor and Playback as well as required to utilized these tools at the client site