SUMMARY:

• Senior BA / BSA working in capital markets, compliance, retail and health domains with solid understanding of Business Requirement gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modelling and Business Workflows.
• 15 + years of scope identification and requirements gathering via meetings, interviews, interface analysis, research etc.
• Utilized a combination of business knowledge, technical skills and strategic analysis to provide solutions and creative insights to critical business problems.
• Maintained channels of organizational communication and acted as the point of contact between teams.
• Aligned business and technical requirements for a complete/hybrid move to the cloud.
• Profound ability to guide and lead multi - disciplinary teams; encompassing analysis, design, implementation, modification, and daily functional support of all applications.
• Highly skilled in writing Business Analysis (BRD), System Analysis (SRS). Functional Requirements Documents (FRD), Request for Proposals (RFP's), Statement of Work (SOW).

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant - Senior BSA

Responsibilities;

• Managed multiple simultaneous projects with competing priorities.
• This role focused on both application integration (primary), as well as architecture practice (an analytical function), and was delivery based.
• Provided functional and technical support for the Oracle Project module and all other modules that interface with it (HRMS, Quote to Order, CRM, AR, GL, Workflow, Order Management, and Oracle Time and Labor).
• Create proof-of-concepts for various implementation designs and participate in future roadmap decisions.
• Designed system controls to ensure PCI DSS compliance.
• Interacted with stakeholders to understand client business processes.
• Worked on complex information model, logical relationships, and the data structures that support different TV programming packages and their changes.
• Prepared data dictionary stating what data elements are involved, what is the business definition, format and possible values for all data elements involved within the various systems for InfoSphere - MDM - Data Stage ETL functionality.
• Worked with key members of other functional departments and members of the IT team to design and implement new business processes to improve the activation and recovery of receivers in the field using BPMN.
• Responsible for SIT and end to end user acceptance testing (UAT) of related business processes such as single sign on capability related to preparation, failover to opposite data center and failback to normal data center.
• Coached teams by conducting JAD, scrum, workshops and retrospective sessions.
• Created Effective Use cases and Integrated High level Use case Scenarios in the Project.
• Partnered with the product team to determine product requirements and define the product specifications.
• Monitored key sales KPIs, and analyzed metrics as they changed, by working closely with the management.
• Ensured all artifacts complied with corporate SDLC policies.
• Updated data warehouse system according to the change in the needs of networks and regulatory reporting system.
• Authored SRS, Test Cases, Test Strategy, System integration specifications and data mappings.
• Designed and developed use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams using Business Process Model and Notation ( BPMN ).
• Created and documented Agile ( PMLC ) epics, user stories, tasks using tools JIRA / Confluence / Share Point
• Wrote SQL queries for the tasks in which values should be verified in the DB along with feature testing.
• Delivered a BI Maturity Model which included
• Data structure and readiness
• Data Quality
• Data integration

Confidential

Consultant - Senior BSA

• Worked closely with the RedX Product Team.
• Created proof-of-concepts to showcase potential analytics capabilities of HDFS using Scoop, Hive, and Pig and participated in future roadmap decisions.
• Supported qualifying prospects, requirement assessments, specifications, value proposition, sales presentations and contract negotiation.
• Wrote BRDs, SRSs, Functional and Non-functional requirements for a cloud based learning management system using RabbitMQ for reliability and to consolidate disparate http services/endpoints and redis servers.
• Engaged in a modernization project as a, pre - sales business consultant.
• Analyzed BI source system data and transformation rules per ETL mapping specifications into Informatica Power Center mappings.
• Analyzed and conducted requirements elicitation and documentation using tools like RALLY, SharePoint etc.
• Extracted, interpreted and analyzed data ( data mining ) to identify key metrics and transform raw data into meaningful, actionable information for the learning management system.
• Identified gaps in the data capture strategy and made suggestions on improvements/enhancements.
• Proposed new ideas and opportunities for customer analytics projects.
• Client interaction and project management through the business requirement process.
• Worked with design teams to create concept models, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed specifications for COGNOS reports to support a wide variety of customer specific authentication scenarios using MotioCAP.
• Created and documented Agile (PMLC) epics, user stories, tasks using RALLY.
• Agile coach to the MIMIR team.
• Used database to gauge customer targets and counseled organization on best ways to generate conversions.
• Informed existing customers of product launches updated features and new schemes
• Co-coordinated with off shore teams.
• Daily updates to the client.
• Project Planning and prioritizing.

Confidential

Consultant - Senior Developer / BA / BSA

Responsibilities:

Engaged in a variety of projects as a, business system consultant, with hands on experience pertaining to financial system implementations and regulations, in the Capital / Financial Markets (Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Retail and Wholesale), Trading and Non - Trading business.

Confidential

Consultant - Senior BA

• Validated business rules and identified low quality missing data in the existing enterprise data warehouse (EDW).
• Identified the business rules to reconcile the Informatica - ETL lookup transformation for financial instruments like equity options, equity derivatives (processes included trade life cycle, trade Order generation, trade order execution, trade settlement process and reconciliation. )
• Assessed data quality impact on descriptive analytics used in assessing credit risk; using past financial performance to predict a customer’s likely financial performance

Confidential

Consultant - Senior BA

• Authored functional and interface specifications for WSS (Wall Street Systems) for end to end forex trading life cycle and back office operations.
• Served as an internal control to the development and implementation teams so that Provincial and Federal regulatory returns and reports including OSFI, CDIC are available on time.
• Created Process Diagram templates for messaging protocols (XML, FIX).
• Conducted interviews with Front office support and front office technology to understand the trade booking life cycle or booking models of equity derivatives instrument and capturing the impacts on the future state
• Documented and tested trade order life cycle for instruments (equities, equity options etc.)
• Elicited, analyzed and validated CDIC Premium calculation according to CDIC Standards.
• Conducted data acquisition by validating and analyzing the data for SSIS - ETL transformations.

Confidential

Consultant - Senior BA

• Developed Target State Design Inputs, Current State, Upcoming System Changes, Proposed resolutions to current challenges for the equity derivatives instruments and debt markets.
• Captured and documented the AS - IS system including Financial Datawarehouse, Treasury
• Datawarehouse and planning and analytical engines for regulatory reporting in Confidential .
• Analyzed the existing ETL’s - SAS, DTS, SSIS, Informatica and custom PL/SQL.
• Analyzed databases like Oracle, IBM DB2 and IBM netezza (datawarehouse) for data integrity from multiple sources.
• Developed a road map to migrate the valuation used to measure capital-at-risk across the firm from market, credit, and operations risks, to a firm-wide RAROC initiative.

Confidential

Consultant - Software Developer

• Constructed standards/conventions for application functionalities and features.
• Created strategies to leverage the Hadoop platform as the data store
• Participated with a team of technical staff and business managers to create a strategy for implementing mapping and transformations using Informatica - Power center ETL.
• Product owner for resolving complex issues and completing all assigned tasks/assignments.
• Consistency in meeting deadlines with little or no supervision.
• Developed PoC’s using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and unit tests.
• Created detailed architecture ( for mobile and cloud) documentation.
• Defined the technical solution and architecture for a range of mobile solutions (web, SMS, native apps, 2.0 etc.)
• Investigated and recommended emerging mobile and cloud technologies.
• Gathered requirements for FATCA and its impact on Anti money laundering ( AML ).

Confidential

Consultant - Lead Senior Developer

• Gathered user stories, tasks and requirements in an agile (PMLC) development process.
• Demonstrated the solution and lead the proof of concepts using a SAML authorization system that offered Single Sign ON (SSO) across multiple customer facing applications.
• Designed the application from business concepts with business stakeholders and technical team members including completing Suspicious Activity Reports as required by the Bank Secrecy Act.
• Drove technical design for this multi-tiered application with emphasis on scalability, performance, and conversion of XML message formats.
• Tuned SQL Queries, Procedures, Functions and Packages to improve database performance.
• Defined and created business process flows for assigned Data elements improving data quality