SUMMARY:

• Business/system analyst with end - to-end requirements management & business process improvement. A techno-functional liaison between IT & business and proficient in ERP (SAP/Oracles) & Non-ERP solutions alike. Portfolio of accomplishments include Big Data Management via Hadoop Echo-system, products development, process engineering, data conversions/ETL, development process automation (Continuous Integration & Delivery (CID), compliance and cyber security initiatives.
• Analytical w/ solution-oriented and PCS: Plan > Commit> Succeed approach to address any business challenge. Agile in requirements analysis, generation of use-case driven Solution Requirements Specification (SRS)/Functional Design Specification (FDS) with use-case/scenario approach, excellent communication, professional change management, requirements configuration (ERP) & functional testing. Translation/alignment of business strategies into the leading-edge business solution proposal & designs.
• Proactive coordination w/ PMO, Quality Management & project stakeholders throughout project initiatives. IT Service Management (ITSM) using Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v 3). End-to-end knowledge of new product development & project management processes & absolutely capable of playing PM role as needed. A results-oriented professional with strong aptitude for self-discipline, critical thinking, conflict resolution, peer-collaboration & inter-personnel skills throughout SDLC.
• Proficient in Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), Object Oriented Analysis (OOA), Data Warehousing/BI, SQL, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Statistical/Predictive Modeling & Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for process modeling. Implementation of various compliance initiatives including but not limited to Payment Card Industry (PCI), SOX, Positive Train Control (PTC), and cyber security. Adept in end-to-end implementation of Big Data (Hadoop) solution.
• Domains: Trading, Election, Online-Banking (OLB), Merchant Services & Payment (Credit/Debit card) Processing, Rail Road and open to any domain for future engagements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Frameworks: Scrum/Agile, RUP, XP, Waterfall, ASAP & TOGAF 9.1
• Tools: MS Office, MS Paint, MS Vision, JIRA, FACETs, IBM Rational suit & MS Project, Tableau, SAS & Datameer
• Quality Management: ISO, 6 Sigma (DMAIC) & UFT aka QTP. Service Desk Manager & Netcool.
• Database: MY SQL, MS Access, MS SQL server, DB2& Oracle, Cognos & Splunk
• Platforms: ERP & Big Data (Hadoop) Echo-system (HDFS, HIVE, Kafka, Solace, HUE, ES & Kibana)
• Languages: SQL, UML, R & Python
• Endto: end implementation of SAP HANA i.e.
• HANA sizing, landscape & architecture and
• Data provisioning into HANA via BODS, SLT & SRS.
• Data Modeling (Attribute, Calculation & Analytical views) using HANA studio
• BOBJ tool set to generate universe designs, dashboards & BI/analytic reports.
• Hands on SAP Master Data analysis configuration & implementation for Finance (FI-GL,AP,AR &Assets Accounting), Management Accounting/Controlling (CO Internal Order, Product Costing & Profitability Analysis), Project System (PS), Business Process Consolidation (BPC) & Supply Chain Management (SCM).
• LSMW & Solution Manager & X: PACK (Big Data security & administration package)
• SMAC: Stack: Social (Media), Mobile, Analytics & Cloud (SaaS, PaaS & IaaS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Big Data Business Analyst/Data Scientist

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Elicited the list of all the source application to Hadoop and categorized them into Phase I (Pilot apps) and Phase II application within BRD.
• Analyzed and diagrammed the current interim solution in place to store the Positive Train Control (PTC) data.
• Extracted and categorized the project’s Critical Success Factors (CSFs) including Hadoop’s daily storage capacity, High-Availability and Max Data Loss Tolerance etc.
• Interviewed SMEs from all the PTC teams to capture their current and future business & data retrieval requirements and translated them into CMMI- compliant Requirement Specifications.
• Managed the project resources and schedule in Primavera (P6). Provided bi-weekly, monthly and quarterly status reports to the upper management.
• Maintained the Meeting of Minutes (MoMs) from our daily stand-up meetings & final solution decisions sessions.
• Diagrammed and maintained an end-to-end Hadoop solution architecture depicting the PTC source applications, Solace for guaranteed data ingestion, Stack of data processors (aka Deployment Units per UP standards) to consume the data from their dedicated Solace-Topic, data processing/enhancement as applicable, store it in its respective destination i.e. HDFS, HIVE & Elasticsearch (ES) and finally acknowledge it back to the source team via e-alert/notification.
• Modeled a separate architecture diagram portraying the inter-dependencies between all seven Deployment Units.
• Elicited the processing & transformation requirements to convert the raw/unstructured messages into JSON format and enhance them per requirements prior to ingesting them in HIVE & ES.
• Captured the retention requirements for failed messages while processing and/or indexing them.
• Performed, documented & presented Decision Analysis & Resolution (DAR) between the following options along with their Pros & Cons;
• Apache Kafka vs Solace vs custom-built APIs to select the most robust and guaranteed data ingestion solution per data storage requirements.
• Apach Solr & Elasticsearch to select the best data Analytical Engine per Near-Real-Time (NRT) analysis and UP infrastructure requirements.
• R vs Python vs SAS vs Datameer to select the best technology for Data Analytics & Statistical algorithms per various Advance Predictive Modeling requirements.
• MS Power BI, Tableau & Qlik to choose the most collaborative solution for data visualization per
• Elasticsearch’s X-pack vs Search Guard vs custom code for the most appropriate security solution per secured & Role Base Access (RBA) requirements.
• Extracted the security requirement and translated them into READ/WRITE/EXECUTION/DELETE (RWX) READ ONLY (RO) access restricted at HDFS folder & HIVE tables & even at column level. Depicted the secured access to Hadoop Cluster with the implementation of Apache KNOX & Ranger.
• Identified all the potential failure scenarios along with complete and partial system breakdown/downtime and generated a separate Disaster Recovery specifications illustrating how Hot Stand-By cluster will become ACTIVE in case of failure of Primary Cluster.
• Generated a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for High-Availability and other critical Non-functional requirements between Big Data Management (BDM) & PTC Applications teams.
• Ensured the all the project artifacts are in accordance with CMMI standards and professionally maintained them on UP-Wiki pages on Confluence and local SVN.
• Frequently modeled the Proof of Concepts (POC) scenarios into developer’s friendly diagrams for their comprehensive research & testing.
• Documented, diagramed and presented the future state topology of Hadoop cluster in DEV, TEST & PROD and DR environments.
• Generated & maintaining various other ad-hoc deliverables to the date.
• In addition, I am getting practical hand-on experience in the following technical skills needed for Big Data Engineering & Analytics;
• Core Java (with completion of 70-75 percent)
• Data Sciences (Machine Learning/Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence) using R, Python & SAS.

Enterprise Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Functioning as Enterprise Analyst to assess the enterprise-level transformational & virtualization challenges, propose the most appropriate solutions & recommend the seamless implementation strategies to achieve the program objectives- Global Automation & workstream Efficiencies.
• Direct & professional interaction with inter-continental & national executives, managers, SMEs and command center operators during analysis & design of current & future states in terms of people, processes & technologies.

Business System/Process/Project Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as primary liaison & SME for Fiserv’s robust suite of web solutions dedicated for domestic & international banks & credit card issuers.
• Responsible for functional design for new product/ application development, existing product engineering with niche features, product customization as per client-needs, technology projects (single-sign-on, Fiserv as Identity Service Provider (ISP), compliance initiatives (PCI & Pen Testing) as per periodic audit findings & product customization as per client need, compliance initiatives i.e. PCI & Pen Test etc.
• As a Business Analyst, performed the pre-project analysis tasks including the Market & Competition analysis, Feasibility analysis SWOT analysis, Cost-Benefit analysis & generation of project scope document. Upon project kick-off, used the various elicitation techniques (focus group and/or one-to-one interview sessions) to gather business requirements, documented & organized them into Business Requirements Document (BRD) & validated them with Fiserv’s clients via WebEx sessions.
• In Process Analyst role, for brand new features development and/or product customizations, captured the client’s existing business process and future state with the potential implementation of new solution/ features, modeled the business processes using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) as well as data flow diagrams, performed the Impact & Gap analysis, communicated the findings to internal & external stakeholders & recommended the most fit options for process improvements/automations.
• At System/Solution Analysis phase, used various elicitation techniques to gather the business requirements, performed requirements analysis using Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) by modeling the use case/activity/sequence diagrams in UML notation, aligned the requirements & their implications to the business/product strategy, organized the requirements into functional & non-functional ones, designed the user-friendly yet consistent GUIs along with pre & post-processing, dynamic presentation of data fields & navigations. Performed Interface Analysis in terms of Mainframe GUI/SAML2.0 Protocol/Web Services, SSO discipline & so on. Translated the requirements into the System Requirements Specifications (SRS) aka Functional Design Specifications (FDS) containing use scenarios/user stories in functional narratives as per IEEE standards, Interface designs, HTML & data specs as needed, professionally managed the requirements throughout SDLC using Change Request Forms (CRF), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) & Requirements Prioritization Schema
• My solution design specifications included various technologies including but not limited to Java, C++, Tuxedo, HTML, Oracle, SAML2, SOAP, Web Services, APIs, RFCs & Trans Messages etc.
• In Project Analyst/ Coordinator role, analyzed the project resources for various project initiatives, provided the implications of business/system requirements in terms of project budget, schedule & cost, coordinated with project managers throughout project management plan and in generation of various key deliverables including Level-of-Efforts (LOE), High-Level-Estimate (HLE), Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) & Networking Diagrams. Communicated any schedule conflicts, resource & time constraints to the stakeholders and coordinated in identification & escalation of potential risks and generation of Risk Management Plants (RMPs).
• For Business Analytics/Intelligence (BI) reports, captured web intelligence/ financial reporting requirements, analyzed them along with specification of required dimensions to be reported along with report format & medium of delivery.
• Conducted the walkthrough session to validate the final FSDs with stakeholders, facilitated the prototype and product DEMO sessions, performed manual as well automated testing to validate the functional specification in addition to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and drove Go/No-Go Sessions upon successful testing in PTEST & Pre-Prod environments.

Business System Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Acted as primary interface between Election Services (Internal department (representing the client's needs) and IT team.
• Initiated with the elicitation of high level functional modules to set-up Office Contests, Election Types, Counties, Districts Types, Precincts and Split Precincts, Parties, Candidates, Poll Places, Ballot Styles, Inter-Relationships, Import & Export Election Data and Results Transmission required by Election Commission of client states for 2010 election.
• Used Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to model ‘As-Is’ & ‘To-Be’ processes based on project scope and elicited requirements. Attended SCRUM meetings on daily basis to discuss progress made and remove impediments if any.
• Communicated with various states officials using Web-Ex to extract detailed functional as well as supplemental including Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and other Election Assistance Commission (EAC) compliance requirements.
• Utilized Enterprise Architect (EA) to model use case & activity diagrams in UML notation for each module along with basic scenarios as well as alternative paths, diagrammed the requirements and finally generated Rich Text Format (RTF). Mapped each functional requirement with its data fields required and prepared data attributes table to include in RTF. Also Prepared Prioritization Scheme to assign the features at the end of each iteration,
• Communicated the final Functional Specification Document (FSD) for each iteration with internal team as well as with the state officials and validated the added functionality by conducting UAT sessions.

Business System Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, modeling & documentation of the business requirements into BRD, modeling the future process after the implementation of the potential new solution and its business impact & translation of business requirements into Functional Design which was meant to be used as Blue-Print for DTI and internal IT team.
• Conducted Focus Groups with business end-users and interviewed process owners & SMEs from each department including Brand Merchants, Merchandise Buyers, Merchandise Planners, Marketing, Demand/Inventory Planners, Retail Sale & Warehouse.
• Actively participated with Project Manager in generation of Statement-Of-Work (SOW). Identified the Business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from Sales, Marketing And Merchandise Departments that are used in their Decision Making Process (DMP).
• Interacted with DTI & Internal BI/EDW team to communicate the functional & technical specification Of KPIs to be displayed in presentation layer.
• Till the successful implementation, validation/testing & finally Go-Live, communicated the Project Status Report (PSR) to the internal stakeholders via IBM Lotus.