SUMMARY

A diligent result oriented professional with fouryears of diverse experience in Business Analysis and Project Management with focus on Financial Services and Engineering. Possess strong Project Management skills necessary to handle all aspects of tasks including analytical, problem solving, information gathering skills, coordination and scheduling.

• Ability to manage/plan multiple tasks on an extended basis and within deliverable time frames.
• Possess effective Meeting Management Skills and ability to adjust to a new system in short period.
• Effective listening, verbal/written communication and negotiation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, organizational skills and strong detail oriented and self-motivating skills.
• Proficient in using MS Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word).
• Other Skills: Contract Negotiation, Requirement gathering, decision making, Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management, Loan Origination & Processing, Change Order Management, and Close out of projects.

Technical Skills:

Project Management Software: Latista, Prolog
Analytical: @risk, Compliance Ease, Rumba Mainframe
Methodologies: Agile, Rational Unified Process
Others: MS Project, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Access, HP Quality Center, Snag IT

Professional Experience:

Confidential, San Diego, CA May 2012 - present
Business Analyst
Responsibilities:

• Participated in meetings with Line of Business, to understand scope of future requirements.
• Write Business Requirement Document based on interaction with the Line of Business.
• Facilitate meetings between Business and the technology team for various discussion on System Enhancements.
• Prepared Compliance reports based on the testing performed using Compliance Ease to ensure system meets specifications in addition to gathering compliance related specifications.
• Prepared Test Cases for testing using HP Quality Center which helped reduce defects by 10%, in addition to performing Acceptance testing to confirm proper functioning of the system.
• Verify and Validate data entered into Loansoft and Dorado Platform to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
• Set-up Loan Officers for access to order appraisals using FNC.
• Customize Price master application to facilitate Underwriting team post CDU retirement.
• Prepare Userguide and Procedures for the various process currently handled by Consumer Lending team.
• Perform data validation on database and coordinate with Business on rectifying errors based on the validation.

Environment: Windows, LPS, Visio, Office, HP Quality Center

Confidential, Columbus, OH July 2011 - March 2012
Business Analyst
As part of the Retail Financial Services team, I was involved in Project UNO, CRRU - Lotus Notes Database Retirement and project focused on project focused on sending POQs (PayOff Quotes) via email, fax and text messages on the consumer's mobile device.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project teams to analyze high and low level requirements.
• Met with the various stakeholders and participated in JAD sessions to determine the user requirements.
• Write Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and develop Functional/Technical Specifications.
• Writing Used cases andActivity Diagrams.
• Prepared detailed Post migration daily reports and was involved in preparation of KPIs reports and involve various teams to rectify errors based on these reports.
• Was involved in the Dress Rehearsal and Go-Live Implementation for Project UNO and successfully completed the tasks assigned by the Project Manager.
• Maintained the SharePoint site for my application team and updating the SharePoint site based on details for the current and upcoming releases.
• Coordinated with Line of Business about the templates to be uploaded to SharePoint.
• As part of the Letters team, assisted the CCS (Customer Care & Service) for ease of use in servicing customer requests for Fax, Email and Letters of Financial Services and also involved in solving the ticketing issues raised by CCS.
• Created Test Cases by analyzing Use Case Documents for Functional and Integration testing using HP Quality Center.
• Playing a key role in the updating the existing Test scripts as per the latest releases of the Software Requirement Specification document.
• PreparedUse Case Modelsbased on Business Requirement documentation gathered through interaction with users.
• Conducted JAD Sessionsfor understanding the workflow.
• Identified internal and external system requirements, design and configuration set-up, also created User Documentation and trained business about use of the new application.

Environment: Windows, Visio, Office, HP Quality Center.

Confidential, Rockville, MD Jun 2010 - May 2011
Project Coordinator
Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings between the estimation, project management team, and owners to resolve issues.
• Generated RFI's, Submittal Orders and Change Orders for various projects after successful acceptance of bids.
• Assisted the Estimators in quantitytake-offs and bid creation.
• Released Material Orders for fabrication and coordinated with general contractors to ensure time bound delivery.
• Successfully streamlined the workflow along with the project management team to increase efficiency from the initial to the final phase of projects leading to a 25% increase in the number of projects during a financial year.

Confidential, Washington, DC Oct 2009 - May 2010
Project Engineer Intern
Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the preparation of RFIs, Submittals, and Change Orders to owners.
• Prepared a database involving all the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) for various materials used in the project.
• Performed analysis and forecasting of the requirements for the project.
• Involved in generating of Manpower Reports and updating daily work report.
• Developed a database for utilities and other instruments installed in the building, as part of the commissioning report used as a basic reference in future building operations and maintenance.
• Calculated the overall cost saving achieved through negotiations, on pricing of products purchased from sub contractors.

Confidential, Mumbai, IndiaJul 2007 - Jul 2008
Marketing and Contracts Engineer
Responsibilities:

• Executed USD 2.25 million worth business deals and negotiated contract terms with clients.
• Worked directly with clients to detail technical specifications of Cable Management Systems and Control Panels.
• Inspected and supervised work sites to assess the execution and commissioning of LT and HT installations.
• Initiated corrective measures for completion of work as per schedule.
• Resolved customer complications with efficient feedback about products and modified specifications as per project requirements.

Education:

MBA in Financial Management
MS in Engineering Management (Finance & Costing)
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering

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