OBJECTIVE:

Meticulous, organized and determined Business Analyst with 6+ years’ extensive experience in liaising between business and technical departments and personnel. Effectively able to translate and interpret business needs into technical requirements, along with analyzing impact of changes as new solutions are introduced. Demonstrated ability to manage multifunctional teams to solve problems and address challenges.

SUMMARY:

• Project Manager with proven success in managing multiple projects throughout the completion of Projects.
• Business Analyst   with strong experience in Business   Requirement gathering, Documenting Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Functional Specifications and Business   Process Modeling at different areas of IT systems.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies with emphasis on the Planning, Analysis/Design, Development, and Testing for the software/system development process.
• Have experience in transforming business   requirements into functional requirements and designing business   models using UML diagrams like Use - Case and sequence-diagram and developed wireframes, mockup screens, and prototypes with MS Visio. 
• Experienced writing complex SQL queries for problem solving and reading complex stored-procedure to understand the implemented the business   logics. 
• Experience in facilitating the test process by using bug tracking tool like HP Quality Center. 
• In depth knowledge in documenting requirements changes in the form of creating and maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix. 
• Expert in conducting business   reviews, walkthrough sessions and in facilitating monthly and weekly meetings/reviews. 
• Hands on expertise with collaborative tools like Microsoft Share-point portal. 
• Inspected the Gap Analysis, SWOT Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements.
• Experience in working with Agile and Water-Fall software development methodology. 
• Created Source-Target-Mapping documents along transformation rules as per the business   and technical needs. 
• Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project for project planning and status reporting. 
• Aided in creating, updating and maintaining Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Reports & Metrics to update required stakeholders.
• Experience in creating and executing test plans for functional tests, smoke tests and UAT. 
• Strong presentation skill and ability to tailor presentations towards different functional areas of business. 
• Demonstrated an exceptional ability to adapt to new developments in the world of technology and working environment. 
• Ability to prioritize and schedule multiple tasks on a day-to-day basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile

Management Tools: JIRA, RALLY, TFS, MS Share point, HP Quality Center

Documentation Tools: Rational Requisite Pro, Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint.

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite

Database: Oracle, Sybase, SQL, MS Access

Other Tools: Quick Books, Notepad++.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Analyst

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for eliciting requirements for a upgrading POS by consulting with IT application team and functional business leads, which requires the ability to lead a group through both technical and non-technical discussions using active listening skills and a compassionate approach. 
• Responsible for the organization, analysis, translation and simplification, as well as management and communication of requirements. 
• Conduct “As-Is” Situation Asse ssment of business processes including organizing and conducting SME workshops identifying and documenting business improvement metrics for benefits verification and Provide best practices guidance to client in the application of the Store Suite solution to create their “To Be” business solution model.
• Worked with the business to define business requirements and analyze the possible technical solutions, to write the Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Documents, for all IT changes needed to the store system.
• Create training documentation and train end users at all levels of the organization on POS.
• Support the project manager in arranging meeting logistics. 
• Draft meeting agendas and assist in preparing meeting minutes. 
• Develop and manage work breakdown structure in collaboration with project manager. 
• Actively participate in resource planning. 
• Participate on project teams and be involved in each phase of the project. 
• Act as a liaison between implementation teams, stakeholders and functional users to accomplish project goals and timeline objectives. 
• Collaborated closely with manager and director of operations on POS functionality, testing and making system functions easier to understand while documenting steps.
• Document functions and changes to new or modified features/modules, test activities/results and other areas such as error handling.

Business Analyst

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance and maintain system and data integration for a Enterprise Business Solutions application/database suite.
• Participate in planning sessions with team, customers, and design agency to implement process improvements. Assess customer needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to assist in identifying business priorities and advice on options.
• Analyze existing information systems to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements and publish the internal application to World Wide Web. Evaluate and provide recommendations for new data sources, work-flows, and software projects. Lead or participate on cross functional teams to implement the improvements.
• Ensure the success of web project, understanding business goals as a whole, and coordinate with the experts in each phase to bring all of the required elements together. 
• Review, understand, and document feature requests originating from customer for inclusion into the product 
• Clarifying/explaining business requirements to technical team 
• Analyzing business and user needs, documenting requirements and translating into system requirement specifications 
• Maintaine a requirements traceability matrix in order to keep the clients and all the teams up-to-date with the current progress of the project.
• Performing data mapping activities and distributes to the technical team 
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and IT partners on assessing impacts of new initiatives and assisted in the development and execution of implementation plans, including the creation of backlogs, estimation of effort, and identification of tasks.
• Draft an updated the sprint burndown chart and product burndown chart to calculate the velocity of the team during the sprint.
• Facilitate the Scrum ceremonies: Daily Scrum, Product Backlog, Product grooming Sessions. Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review.
• Test the pre-release code in User Acceptance Testing Environment and opened tickets for any possible issues.
• Review the developed product with Development before the release cycle and worked with development to fix issues.

Project Manager/ Business

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Proven success in managing project scopes, budgets, schedules, staffing, resources and deliverables throughout completion of Project.
• Collaborate with management to develop standards processes and metrics that can be applied across manufacturing units
• Assist the GM of Manufacturing in developing and communicating the manufacturing strategy.
• Work with Skanda Aerospace to streamline to process for launching new manufacturing products and product lines
• Analyze production capacity and efficiency and make recommendations for change to how or where we manufacturing products with the goal of increasing efficiency.
• Develop cost estimation for multiple projects related to the aerospace manufacturing industry  Consulting with department supervisors and tradesmen to generate time line for projects 
• Send out necessary documents to Clients to lock in pricing upon being awarded a new project.
• Procure materials based on specifications designed for project 
• Monitoring overall progress and use of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary
• Applying change control and configuration management processes
• Identify areas where cost savings can be achieved without the sacrifice of quality
• Prepare month end reporting for management that includes status of projects in process, cost savings, supplier visits, and future goals and objectives.
• Maintain working relations with various departments that include, but are not limited to Accounts Payable (to resolve invoice discrepancies, or supplier info), Quality Assurance (to resolve product quality issues) and Warehouse (to resolve receiving or stock issues)
• Preparing progress reports for coordinating and maintaining project completion dates 
• On site project management, directing work in a time sensitive and economical manner