PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of experience with Information Technology Systems in regulated industries with emphasis on Business Analysis and Project Management.
• Strong Work Experience in Web Banking/ Mortgage Application, Credit Risk, Capital Market & Retail
• Strong Knowledge and experience of Agile, RUP’s Iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Waterfall processes.
• In - depth knowledge of and experience in the financial industry and global financial markets including product expertise (Equities, Swaps, Fixed Income, Money Markets, futures & options and both OTC and exchange-traded derivatives products).
• Regulatory experience BASEL III LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio), Dodd Frank, CCAR, Liquidity Risk Management knowledge, and reporting needs like FR Y-14A, FR Y-14Q and FR Y-9C.
• Solid understanding of FDA regulations, 21 CFR part 11, Annex 11, 21 CFR 820, Pharmacovigilance, Electronic Records/ Electronic Signatures, cGXP (GMP, GLP, GCP), ISPE, GAMP 4, GAMP 5, MHRA, ISO9001, ITIL and ICH.
• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) methodologies including RUP, Waterfall and Agile.
• Possess strong suits of business analysis skills which includes Gap Analysis, ‘As is’ and ‘To be’ Analysis, ROI Analysis, Project Coordination, Requirement Gathering and Business Communication.
• Strong BPM (Business Process Modeling) and UML skills for creating Swim Lane Diagrams, Flow Charts, Activity Diagrams, Use Cases, GUI mockups and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD).
• Superior skill in data collection, tracking, analysis, interpretation, graphical representation, and presentation.
• Experience in designing Test Plan, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing defects and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects.
• Firsthand and years long experience in Project Planning, Client Management, Business Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Business Design, Scheduling, Cost Control, Risk Management, Contract Management, task management, quality management, Configuration, testing, deployment and Rollout.
• Ample experience in developing implementation plans for the requirements provided.
• Strong Client facing skills, Ability to work autonomously, self-motivated and naturally organized, Strong logic/Critical reasoning and quantitative skills, strong leadership and negotiation skills, detail oriented, able to rapidly assimilate information, experienced with onsite/offshore work structure, emotionally resilient, able to meet deadlines without stress and capable of coaching teams if necessary.
• Good, clean sense of humor that has been crucial while dealing with sticky situations throughout my career.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Systems: Seibel CTMS, Medidata Rave EDC, Oracle Inform EDC, PhaseForward EDC, PeopleSoft FSA, ClinPay, Tableau 9.0, Dotmatics Vortex, Salesforce CRM, IDBS ActivityBase, GraphPad Prism, SigmaPlot, SigmaStat, EpicCare, Accelrys ELN, LIMS Labvantage, Perkin Elmer WinPrep, HCS Studio, HCS Connect, Zeiss LSM and Zen Digital Imaging, FlowJo 9.0, ModFit, JIRA, SOAP, REST API, SharePoint, JIRA, Rational Enterprise Suite, Bloomberg

Methodologies: Agile, RUP, Waterfall, SDLC

Technical Writing Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, HTML/CSS, R Programing, Python

Management Tools: MS Project, IBM RequisitePro, TopTeam Analyst, Six Sigma, SAS (data analysis)

Database: MS Access, MS SQL, Oracle

WORK EXPERIENCE:

SR. BUSINESS ANALYST/ PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed business and IT projects including software implementations, change management, and improvement of business operations; provided strategic consultation for client, a global CRO - Confidential .
• Led cross-functional teams to resolve complex business issues and provided organizational improvement plans.
• Designed creative solutions to ensure extraction of required date from a variety of system to meet business requirements while maintaining data integrity for Salesforce CRM project.
• Developed effective strategies for account growth through research and analysis of comparable market information.
• Assessed vendors, prepared item data for product RFP's and negotiated in-license agreements to provide optimal cost savings and resource management.
• Identified risks and issues; collaborated with senior leadership and external partners to find solutions.
• Forecasted workflow changes and maintained BRD, FRS, Requirement Traceability Matrix, and testing tools for Salesforce.
• Prepared and presented detailed business plans, financial projections and Gantt charts for projects.
• Conducted educational workshops for consultants and project managers to provide training on various vendors.
• Provided key project management (Agile, Waterfall and RUP) and business development consulting services; performed cost analysis and ROI for ERP systems and Salesforce CRM.
• Created Swim-Lane Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD’s) and Process Flows using UML and Microsoft Visio.
• Worked with technology team to build, test and implement the solution to support post-production validation
• Explained complex technical ideas to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels

BUSINESS ANALYST LEAD

Confidential, UT

Responsibilities:

• Review current architecture and perform Impact Analysis. Also create Design of finalized Business requirements geared for feature enhancements.
• Detailed Analysis of and verifying feasibility of the requirements to be implemented. Interfacing with all of the Zion’s vendors to identify the specific scope of this initiative.
• Creation of Business Requirement document and Business scenarios.
• Interacted with cross-functional teams to conduct Process and Data Flow analysis and derive requirements for existing system enhancements efforts.
• Prepared cost-benefit and return-on-investment analyses to aid in decision-making on system implementation.
• Communicating the progress, key risks & mitigations, key issues to stakeholders including senior management.
• Guiding the processes and standards to be followed by the design & development team (standards, checklists, reviews etc.). This was applicable for both onsite and offshore teams.

BUSINESS ANALYST/ PROJECT LEAD

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Work with Project Manager in the development of AGILE methodology and documentation strategy.
• Assist the Project Manager in the performance review and strategy and act on behalf of the Project Manager during the PM’s absence.
• Co-ordinate with the PM, designers, the software development team and the testing team to enable seamless working across work groups and ensure on time delivery of project objectives.
• Conducted user interviews, JAD and RAD sessions, gathered Business requirements, FRS’s and analyzed the requirements using MS Visio and Requisite Pro.
• Involved in requirement gathering including interviews, brainstorms and meetings with stakeholders and created requirement specification artifact (SRS’s and SDS’s).
• Performed Gap analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility study and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements Involved in the creation and maintenance of the Workflow plans and artifacts.
• Created Use-Case Models using MS Visio to depict Actors and Use-Cases in various Business Processes.
• Examined, analyzed and model Test plans, Use Case Model cases & Test procedures based on AGILE methodology.
• Extensively work on Access, MS Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SQL, MS Project and Python scripting.

SR. BUSINESS ANALYST

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the change in the proposed system.
• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions for communicating and managing expectations, and to discuss the different ways and means for the integration of rational tools with the current system.
• Have used Agile methodology - Scrum to develop Sprint backlogs and we have successfully delivered many projects within sprint time frame.
• Have good knowledge in Business-to-Business (B2B) web to obtain requirement solution.
• Utilized Agile software development methodology SCRUM as a lightweight process we used to manage and control software and product development. Using iterative, incremental practices. SCRUM is an effective tool that significantly increased productivity and reduce the time to achieve benefits.
• Experience in Rational Requisite Pro, using Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Created and managed project templates, Use Case Project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships in Rational Requisite Pro.
• Collaborate with development architect and the business to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet the business needs.
• Extensive experience with User acceptance testing (UAT) and system testing.
• Conducted walkthroughs with business and development teams.

BUSINESS ANALYST

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Liquidity Reporting Infrastructure team of Standard Chartered for Basel Regulatory compliance on CCAR, USLCR, 5G, and Stress Reports.
• Responsible for writing Functional Specifications Document and Use Cases for Cognos and Tableu variance report for the Corporate Data General Ledger (CDGL), Strategic Liquidity Statement (SLS), CCAR, USLCR, 5G and Stress Reconciliation.
• Responsible for writing the Business Requirement Document for the Intercompany Reconciliation project which reconciles trades between the Booking Legal Entity and the Counter Party Legal Entity on maturity and currency level.
• Responsible for writing Functional Specifications Document for the Day over Day report for Global Treasury and Top Management of Standard Chartered for the breaks on the various Basel Reports and identifying tools for investigating the breaks in these Reports.
• Moderated meetings with Stake holders for requirement gathering and gap analysis.
• Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Results in QA (SIT) and UAT environment on ALM .
• Worked as a PMO for the above projects, gathered progress and ensured project timelines are met.
• Worked with developers to create logical data model for the SLS to CDGL project and finalize the core processing flow.
• Proficient in Oracle DB, SQL Server query writing, data analysis, Python and R prohgramming .

RESEARCH/ DATA ANALYST 

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Business Representative for projects, which are implementing new computerized systems and/or implementing changes, upgrades, enhancements or fixes to legacy systems.
• Performed extensive analysis on system's 'As is' and 'To be' status to build high-level process map.
• Perform detailed financial analysis, modeling, profitability analysis and ROI analysis to assess impact to bottom line.
• Consulted with researchers to gather requirements for developing and configuring high-throughput screening projects using automation equipment at the core facility.
• Rigidly followed FDA’s 21 CFR Part 11 to create, modify, maintain, archive and retrieve Electronic records required throughout all the phases of SDLC.
• Prepared Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).
• Utilized TopTeam Analyst to manage the document workflow.
• Established validation standards, testing plans, UAT and maintained the equipment testing reports.
• Attended key meetings, both internal and external and reported findings from the meetings.
• Assisted bioinformatics team with data preparation for analysis and reporting purposes; responsible for data pre-processing, creating data model and regression studies for genetic studies.
• Provided GMP compliance subject matter expertise for library management, data management, software development, and instrument troubleshooting.
• Helped PI with budget and re-forecast operations for the maintenance of the lab.
• Maintain lab grants and expense consolidation for the lab.
• Assist staff and train graduate students in protocols and instrumentation use.
• Performed in vitro cell culture and maintained mammalian and human cell lines; Developed and validated protocols as required; performed qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Did toxicity tests to determine efficacy of various compounds against melanoma; cell-based assays.