SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an Information Technology professional with over 9 years of extensive experience in successfully managing enterprise - level software and infrastructure development projects in both the private and public sectors, including Fortune 100 companies. He has hands-on experience of all aspects of Information Technology including: Project Management, Resource Management, Configuration Management, Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS), Business Process Re-engineering, Full Lifecycle (SDLC) Packaged and Custom Software Development, and Integration. Confidential has practical experience with a variety of SDLC methodologies including the Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile/XP, and SCRUM.
• Confidential also has solid experience in providing strategic and tactical planning and understanding of Information Technology, including how it is employed in order to set directions for organizations. He possesses excellent staff management and exceptional project management skills to effectively partner with project teams to foster effective proactive collaborations. His experience in leading the requirement elicitation process has allowed him to develop solid experience in gap analysis, requirements management, risk analysis and project plans, with proven expertise in creating UML diagrams, flowcharts, screen mockups, and systems requirements specifications.
• Knowledge of PMBOK and PMI principles;
• Expert level knowledge of standard PM tools (MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite);
• In-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), having thorough understanding of various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing;
• Practical knowledge of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) as SDLC and all five levels such as initial, repeatable, defined, managed and optimizing levels;
• Practical knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) as an Iterative SDLC with implementation of all four phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition;
• Strong project management skills including planning, scheduling, monitoring and budgeting with experience in gap analysis, risk analysis, effort estimation and determine ROI etc;
• Working knowledge of requirement gathering by conducting personal interviews, developing questionnaire, brainstorming, or role playing to get a better understanding of client business processes and creating requirements traceability matrix for tracking the requirements;
• Proven experience creating RFP/ RFI/ RFQ;
• Proficient at creating and transforming business requirements into software requirement specification (SRS) using Rational RequisitePro and designing business models using UML diagrams such as use case model, class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams in Rational Rose and MS Visio thereby helping development and quality assurance team in understanding the requirements;
• Experience in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions and workshops with end-users, system analysts, developers and QA team for to solve the problems and enhance the application;
• Experience in prioritizing outstanding defects based on business requirements and allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and considered deadlines;
• Conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) with business users; and
• Post production maintenance support once the product is in the use.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Modeling Tools: Sparx Enterprise Manager, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational Enterprise Suite, AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler, Telelogic Doors System Architect and MS Visio 2003 Professional

Requirement Tracking: IBM Ratonal RequisitePro and Telelogic DOORS

Software QA/Testing: Seapine TestTrack Pro, Mercury Test Director 8.0 and WinRunner

Database Systems: SQL Server 2000 (Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager), Oracle 9i (iSQL Plus), and FileMaker Pro

Programming Languages: VBScript, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, Visual Basic.Net, PHP, XML, HTML, and VBA for MS Excel and MS Access

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows 98, NT, 2000, and XP

Miscellaneous: MS Project, MS Visio, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook), SAS, and Crystal Reports

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team of business analysts and business managers to develop detailed business requirements; data architects to improve data access performance; and QA team to create end-to-end system tests to ensure that the application functioned in accordance with the specifications;
• Creating “as is to be”, GAP, general design, detail design, test plans, plans, contents and production support plan documents;
• Managing full life-cycle projects with team members from cross-functional areas;
• Communicating issues and status to senior management and other impacted team members;
• Reviewing team activities with respect to performance standards analyze deviations, and established corrective actions;
• Defining scopes, level of effort (LOE), allocating and managing resources;
• Developing work breakdown structure, project plans, milestone, risk log, issue log, change control log;
• Developing work plan, assigning resources to right projects based on their expertise;
• Tracking project activities to ensure timely and cost effective performance in accordance with Confidential ’s policies and practices;
• Gathering functional requirements, process and procedures and designed workflows; and
• Collaborated directly with business units to assess the technical impact of business requirements and to reach consensus on alternative solutions when necessary in an effort to maintain a consistent yet flexible architecture.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business process assessment to determine application needs to interface with Confidential external service providers;
• Developed and maintained information and documentation related to developing and modifying business processes and systems;
• Developed and enhanced systems by bringing specific business knowledge to the technical design process.
• Interviewed business users to determine their needs. Research processes and compose/write business requirements. Identified and resolved procedural and process problems with applicable business areas;
• Interfaced with internal staff and contractors to identify business requirements specific to a business product/process and translated the business application's needs into systems requirements;
• Prepared detailed system test cases that adequately represent the business application's needs and documented Product Acceptance Testing to verify requirements; and,
• Coordinated the implementation of changes in the software/systems and the rollout of the product information. Communicated with and coordinated efforts among various team members.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the interviews with different project stakeholders and project managers to gather the requirements;
• Conducted the software requirement workshops to document stakeholder needs;
• Created the “To-be” and “As-is” models;
• Created use case diagram using MS Visio;
• Identified use cases and wrote use case specifications;
• Created use-cases and business use-case models after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes;
• Created and maintained data element dictionary and business rule matrix;
• Identified and documented the data conversion requirement for the system, identifying the strategy for migrating existing data into the new system;
• Managed all the requirements using Rational Requisite Pro, making requirements available to all team members;
• Conducted design walkthroughs with end users, developers, managers and analysts;
• Created software specification requirements (SSR) document and provided required information to developers; and,
• Acted as Configuration Management (CM) Lead for project, preparing the project CM plan, establishing the Project Change Control Group and ensuring that the project adheres to the CM Policy and Process;
• Tracked and maintained changes to various project artifacts and other software development assets using Rational ClearCase; and,
• Lead UAT effort tracking defects using Rational ClearQuest.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements;
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams) in Rational Rose;
• Created Use-Cases and Business Use-Case Model after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes;
• Managed all the requirements in RequisitePro (transitioning from DOORS), making requirements available to all team members;
• Integrated RequisitePro with ClearQuest and Rational Rose to provide all teams visibility and maintain traceability among requirements, use cases and change requests;
• Created test plan and test cases for user acceptance testing;
• Conducted informal sessions to develop an architectural solution that the application meets the business requirements, resolve open issues, and change requests;
• Used the Unified Change Management from Rational to track changes to multiple artifacts by versioning artifacts, associating requirements to specific change request/defects to streamline the defect/change tracking process;
• Coordinated and prioritized outstanding defects and enhancement/system requests based on business requirements, allowing sufficient time frame to ensure accuracy and consider deadlines; and
• Monitored client expectations and conducted user interviews.

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Business Process Models that included modeling of all the activities of the business from the conceptual to procedural level;
• Gathered and documented the requirements that are critical to the business mission and using those requirements to design application software using a Use Case in Rational Rose;
• Analyzed and documented business requirements and detail design of the software for full understanding of the business;
• Developed use-case diagrams, business flow diagrams, activity/state diagrams and sequence diagrams using Rational Rose so that developers and other stakeholders could understand the business process;
• Used RequisitePro to document requirements, associated change requests with requirements and connected requirements with use-cases;
• Assisted project teams in preparing software requirement specifications (SRS), software design documents (SDD), user-interface design, and database modeling;
• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly;
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams (state diagrams) for the stakeholder review
• Conducted reviews and walkthroughs with the designers, developers and stakeholders;
• Performed feasibility, adaptability study and risk analysis to identify the business critical areas from the end-users perspective; and
• Wrote test cases and test scripts for the user acceptance testing.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed project to conduct a cost/benefit analysis of data acquisition operations, leading a cross-functional team and implementing a strategy that led to an increase in incremental profits of $13.5 million;
• Provided key analysis of local, long-distance, international, and Internet sales; generating forecasts, tracking various performance metrics, using SAS to formulate weekly checkpoint presentations for review by Vice Presidents and Senior Management to ensure that strategic goals were being met;
• Collaborated with Information Systems groups to resolve system issues that directly impacted revenues and develop system enhancements, successfully working with various internal departments to implement resolutions to limit future operational risks, resulting in an increase of sales by 20 percent; and
• Developed spreadsheets with OLAP functionality to model target groups for various local, long-distance, international, and Internet products, using geo-demographical data (PRISM Clustering Methodology) and Brio Query.

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted due diligence, performed cash flow analysis, prepared investment committee memorandum and investment term sheets, and worked on investor presentations for multi-million dollar real estate transactions;
• Utilized spreadsheet models to generate financial projections, conduct interest rate sensitivity analysis, determine internal rates of returns, and cash balances for proposed investments; and
• Developed and maintained database of investment deals, generating monthly status and weekly pipeline reports for presentation to managing directors and investment committee members to both track status of deals and monitor performance of equity investment fund.