SUMMARY:

• Versatile and detail - oriented Analyst with excellent financial, auditing, purchasing, negotiation, project & vendor management skills.
• Concise knowledge of Project planning, in O&G, E&P, Subsea, and P&W industries.
• Responsible for managing end-to-end sourcing and contracting process (including RFI/RFQ/RFP’s) for assigned commodities and services.
• Works collaboratively within Supply Chain Operations Support, Purchasing Services, Strategic Initiatives, Key Stakeholders, Change Management, and Global Procurement Group.
• Proven excellence in RFP/RFQ process, Agile/Waterfall methodologies and technical analysis, with a solid understanding of legal contract management principles including: contract pricing, risk management and incoterms.
• Manage administration of contract communications during tender, negotiation, finalization and contract execution stages to ensure ease of access and understanding of all internal and external parties involved.
• Vast knowledge of enterprise cost modeling, SDLC, lifecycle mgmt, project controls, and matrix reporting tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: SAP, SharePoint, SalesForce, SQL, Tableau, Ariba, Lotus Notes, Primavera 6, JDE, SSP5, WebEx, Oracle, ERP, Uperform, MS Project, Cognos, RCS, GECARS, EMIS, BRIO, OFA, APE, Word, GIBB, O2(Oxley Sabre), Virtual Tax Advisor, MS Excel & Word, Power Point, Access, Visio, Documentum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Product owner leading the contact with business owners to determine the Stakeholder’s requirements and storyboards by prioritizing features and demands.
• Participate and provide inputs to Burndown Charts for daily SCRUM meetings. Discussing product and SPRINT backlogs.
• Builds and maintains relationships with the project business stakeholders and team members, tracks requirements and deliverables to ensure that business requirements are being met.
• Confirms business requirements with Stakeholder and Scrum Master, that may change due to development or technical decisions or as a result of scope changes or technical changes from vendor
• Worked with team of IT Analysts on 3 phase Workstation Migration Project.- involved project integrating Confidential into Confidential, migrating over 2000 users from Windows 7 to Windows 10
• Meetings with Stakeholders for decisions to Replatform/Replace/Retire current desktop and server apps.
• Performed departmental App inventory and tracking, workstation & printer inventory, analysis and reconciliation, analysis of department shares from Columbia and remapping to current owners and org structure.
• Involved in highly complex matters and business systems processes that had overall impact for the organization and that involved Senior Management strategic decisions.
• Managed a variety of projects; facilitated user requirements/user story/backlog development sessions; documents assumptions and constraints
• Worked closely with App Testing & Packaging Team to conduct App analysis on all desktop and server apps
• Lead definition of requirements with project teams and business users, translating business needs into documented requirements and user cases that can be used by developers to create software, by application specialists to configure software, or by infrastructure specialists to develop technical solutions.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Business Analyst/Change Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Populate weekly, monthly, quarterly reports for Learning Management project managers.
• Provides effective technical and functional support for complex applications.
• Evaluates, analyzes and designs solutions for moderately complex business problems
• Works effectively with 3rd party software vendors to enable Abreon business goals
• Works effectively with other IT groups (Infrastructure, Integrations, DBAs, Networks) to provide innovative solutions and/or support to existing applications
• Anticipates opportunities and can articulate recommendations and suggestions to business and IT
• Maintains good relationships and broad general knowledge across multiple business and IT functions
• Collaborates with the business partners on the development of business requirements and use cases as well as test case
• Approve LMS consultant’s project time and expenses in project expense tracking database for customer invoicing.
• Leverages technology to automate ongoing processes and create the most efficient and stable delivery of services to clients
• Assist Learning Management Team to schedule varies corporate classes, platform migrations, ie: SAP, ERP, etc
• Analyzes and understands system requirements for the execution of implementation and ongoing work (i.e., is expert in aligned client requirements)
• Works with Implementation and System Managers to configure core system platform to meet plan design specifications
• Documents details of configuration steps for future
• Creates, executes, and maintains accurate and detailed test plans (unit, function, integration, and regression) for all new system functionality testing
• Works with managers and client teams to coordinate provision migrations for aligned clients

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business Analyst/Contract

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Technical SMEs to deliver the objectives of the project.
• Collaborate with the technical SMEs to analyze and create the detailed technical requirements, RFI, RFPs, Technical Comparatives
• Collaborate with the PM to deliver the project management documentation deliverables at each phase of the project, Project tasks and Schedule, communication, budget, commercial documentation, status updates.
• Schedule and facilitate project team meetings, stakeholder engagements, technical meetings with vendors, meeting with deployment and production support teams, management
• Create outage/circuit reports for Engineering PM’s and Foresters
• Extract data from SAP and ERP systems to support reporting requirements.
• Provide assistance to PM’s and internal clients in preparing management budgets and monitoring ongoing expenditures to meet core annual budget plan requirements.
• Assist in managing and updating ongoing management reports and documentation to meet compliance reporting requirements.
• Assist staff with SAP job order/ project creations and maintenance to meet work timing needs and requirements.
• Direct CenterPoint customers to managing Forester for complaints/grievances
• Provide field support to PM’s and Foresters, assisting with documenting and logging daily location reports.
• Maintain filling system for PM’s field circuit trim records
• Order CenterPoint brochures, door tags, and other field material for PM’s.
• Manage vendor relationships, attend vendor meetings, and provide vendor support
• Maintain employee or vendor badge creation/deactivation reports weekly

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sourcing Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implement cost savings on Global Engineering/ IT Services. Year 1 savings goals
• Negotiate with preferred suppliers and identify potential alternate suppliers.
• Provide information on the company, its policies, benefits, and available opportunities to prospects
• Conduct telephone pre-interviews of applicants and gather information regarding, experience,, job skills, and salary requirements of applicants as needed
• Conduct RFQ’s (Request for Quotations) for assigned IT/Engineering services
• Analyze HR Data and coordinate with Global Commodity Leader management to identify cost reduction opportunities.
• Maintain Vendor Management relationships with all IT/Engineering suppliers.
• Measure suppliers in delivery and quality performance.
• Maintain knowledge on various market trends and recommend sourcing strategies for market.
• Prepare descriptions of job opportunities and accompanying compensation schedules as needed
• Managed full cycle recruiting process to meet the various staffing goals across all levels within multiple business units
• Track and report key metrics to measure and predict staffing activities and progress
• Check credentials, s, and schedule follow-up interviews with firm project managers and/or partners as needed
• Lead full-lifecycle recruitment efforts to include sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, offers, and on-boarding
• Work with hiring managers to write job descriptions and post roles through proper channels
• Compiling and communicating recruiting data and metrics and ensuring compliance with hiring policies, practices, and company values

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Commercial Business Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Review tender/RFQ quote requests received to determine requirements, coordinate completion and gathering of all requirement documents to meet tender requirements and company objectives.
• Provide and perform strategic business analysis in support of various company initiatives i.e., new reporting development, system enhancements, or process improvements.
• Manage administration of contract communications during tender, negotiation, finalization and contract execution stages to ensure ease of access and understanding of all internal and external parties involved.
• Organization of all tender & quote tracking with intent to ensure all objectives are met and provide data analysis on key performance indicators.
• Attend customer meetings to discuss and review contract agreements, and amendments as necessary.
• Attend and present in internal R2 meetings as required.
• Review and provide feedback with respect to project milestones, cancellation schedules, and regular reviews, etc.
• Assist in the re-design, implementation, generation and validation of operational business reports to capture metrics.
• Execute complex data analyses which require using extensive database management skills necessary to complete comprehensive executive summaries.
• Manage ad-hoc requests and multiple projects simultaneously, while operating in a high level environment with changing priorities and tasks.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Support Sales and Marketing, Engineering and Legal departments to develop the cost calculation and pricing for large, complex multi-million Sub-Sea platforms, and Gas/Steam Turbine RFP’s, which requires close collaboration and involvement with all relevant departments.
• Performs cost price calculation, cash flow for proposals, and commercial risk analysis using SAP to track customer data.
• Support & assist with project closeout including document controls.
• Coordinate cross-divisional calculations with financial counterparts in other international business entities to ensure the profitability targets are achieved.
• Utilize commercial finance expertise regarding project set-up, including taxes, on-shore, off- shore, and Sub-sea scoping and pricing.
• Support the sales team with commercial contract terms such as Payment milestones, Liquidated Damages, Financial Guarantees, Bid Bonds, Letter of Credits etc.
• Understand foreign international currency including hedging and affects in cost calculations
• Used basic knowledge to review Engineering drawings with engineering department.
• Interface with senior and global management through the bid proposal approval process.
• Expert Advisor to the Sales Team and handle all commercial sales aspects within the Limitations of Authority (LoA) process.
• Strong analytical skills and financial acumen, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Understand current and relevant commercial business issues related to international project business.
• Knowledgeable of spreadsheet modeling, general and cost accounting, strong mathematical skills, with the ability to manage variable workload, balancing quantity and quality.
• Understands domestic and international project structure in relation to tax procedures. i.e. Permanent
• Assist/Mentor team with skill development
• Schedule and lead weekly team meeting to discuss on-going or upcoming projects and metric

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assist with developing SOW for RFP/RFI/RFQ’s under areas of responsibility.
• Lead strategic Sourcing events for categories that correspond to areas of responsibility. Follow outline “Blue Book” sourcing methodology.
• Implement multiple strategies leveraging Total Cost of Ownership, Lease vs. Buy and Economic Value models.
• Manage end-to-end sourcing and contracting process (including RFI/RFQ/RFP’s) for assigned commodities and services.
• Works collaboratively within Supply Chain Operations Support, Purchasing Services, Strategic Initiatives, Key Stakeholders and Global Procurement Group.
• Demonstrate competency in negotiating legal terms and conditions.
• Monitor, assess and adjust sourcing strategies based on supplier and market intelligence.
• Leverages market intelligence to evaluates, negotiate, and manage annual price fluctuations.
• Work closely with the Vendor Relationship Management Specialist for key suppliers under areas of responsibility. Build consistent, repeatable series performance indicators which can be used to gauge supplier performance and create actionable improvement plans.
• Meets with key customers routinely and proactively identifies sourcing and contract value opportunities.
• Develop relationships with key customers to understand their service and commodity needs and implement strategies to maximize savings in the Capital Maintenance Plan, Expense Plan, and for emerging projects.
• Negotiate commercial terms for significant or aggregated project-based spend associated with managed categories.
• Partner with Legal to ensure current and continued compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures, both internal and external
• Assists with contract start-up functions involving appropriate department managers
• Participates in identifying emerging opportunities within the supply community.
• Evaluates existing contract relationships to identify savings realized, new savings opportunities, risk mitigation strategies, and other commercial terms enhancements.
• Manages contract life-cycle for all Frame Agreements and Contractor Rate Agreements within area of responsibility.
• Utilizes all Supply Chain Technologies for Contract Management, SRM, and Spend Analysis.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with internal processes, including but not limited to, contract filing processes, bidding processes, and value creation reporting processes.
• Facilitate periodic business reviews with key suppliers and facilitate action items that result from the meetings.
• Provide various weekly Sourcing reports as requested by Manager.