SUMMARY:

• Agile Requirements Business Analyst w/ more than 15 years of experience
• Project Manager with 9 years experience
• Agile Coaching: Sprint Schedule, Epics & User Stories, Story Detail Requirements, Planning, Scrums, Acceptance Criteria, Stakeholder & Developer hand holding (4+ years); implement the Agile process in the software development environment
• Industry experience in government and commercial sectors
• SME in Accounting, Health Care, and Math
• Agile and Waterfall development environments with JAD sessions
• Software Developer and Software Design architect, XML Interfaces (7+ years)
• COTS Integration Designer, SharePoint, Facilitate meetings with clients

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Over 15 years of experience as a Project Manager and Sr. Business Analyst supporting client custom SDLC Software Development. Agile SDLC, Waterfall, CMMI, PMBOK, MS - Project, Office2016, Visio, MBA, Technical Software Architect, Integration between platforms
• Agile Process Implementer for Government and Commercial environments
• Leads the SDLC: Develops the Project Plan, defines the Scope and Functional Requirements, analyze the Business Requirements and review with Client, manage the development team, test the new Software, obtains Stakeholder acceptance of UAT, implements the system, monitor Change Requests, and train the Stakeholders; XML Interfaces between systems
• Manage budgets, interface with the stakeholders, cost/benefit analysis, vendor management, scheduling, and customer reporting; root cause analysis, Risk Management, Process Improvement
• Platforms SQLServer, Oracle 12c, IBM Mainframe, Windows Client/Server, SharePoint, UNIX, HP, OOD, .NET, XML, ASP, Java, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and MVS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements gathering and documentation for eFMS
• Provide documentation to ALM
• Create test cases
• Track Testing and identify defects in eFMS software application

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager/Business Analyst - enhance Sales Tracking software for Tennessee business and redesign process interface for owner
• Created User Stories, test cases, Epics, detailed requirements, and developed a Test Plan for this .NET based system. This Fuel Commodities Trade and Trade Commission Tracking System. We used an Agile process to elicit requirements from which I created user stories. Test cases and detailed functional requirements followed. XML was used to feed data from CTS to Excel for reporting and data collection purposes
• Scheduled meetings with client, provided mockups, wireframes, and interfaces.
• I created new business processes for companywide work flows to improve efficiency and streamline processes.
• Provided Client training.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Agile Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reorganize the project and re-establish an Agile Sprint Schedule based upon the customer’s needs. This project produces barcodes for the Confidential ( Confidential ) nationwide and allows the mail to move between 225 Mail Distribution Centers and eventually to the recipient through a series of barcodes applied in Postal Distribution Centers. This system provides the barcoded tracking of all mail nationwide and includes a total revamp of remote servers and infrastructure to a central facility for 33,000+ Users nationwide.
• Create Epics, User Stories, and detailed functional requirements utilizing VersionOne.
• Sr. Business Analyst - Agile software development providing epics and user stories from business requirements and map to the ERP application. Design the WebATLAS UI and its interface to mail processing equipment. Sprint Planning, Test Plan, Test Cases, Acceptance Criteria, Epics & User Stories, Agile Coaching, User Proxy. Provide business process analysis with Visio, facilitate meetings, wireframes, table layouts, and test cases. Represent the customer’s interest and create user stories, acceptance criteria, and detailed functional requirements for User Stories. Convert and map existing Oracle 10g data tables to Oracle 12c tables for import to the new system
• Provided support for Gap Analysis on 17 Mail Handling Equipment Projects throughout all 225 Confidential Distribution Centers. These 17 on-going projects used SharePoint to version and store reporting of this gap analysis for nationwide access and to update areas where new Confidential policies and procedures are required.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Self Employment: Business Analyst - custom Agile design of functional requirements for Tennessee business; process interfaces in Visio and Functional Specifications for Fuel Commodities Trade and trade commission tracking interfacing with XML and Excel. Create mockups for all reports and review with users. User Stories, requirements and agile process coaching.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Business Analyst/ Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Develop Business and Functional Specifications for Federal Communications Commissions on-line auctions of the Broadband spectrum. Coach the Development Team on the agile process.
• Business process analysis and re-design of existing system. Agile User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, detailed Functional Requirements for User Stories
• Develop requirements for the Confidential Optimization Model using a modified Agile process and JIRA

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop Business and Functional Specifications
• Develop requirements for Automated Provider System using a modified Agile process
• Designed HIPPA Eligibility Transaction System for the Center for Medicaid & Medicare with XML interfaces; CMMI Level 3
• Meet weekly with the CMS to participate in JAD sessions to define business processes
• Prepare deliverable documents: Schedule, Project Management Plan, Risk Log
• Create Use Cases and user stories from requirements
• Apply GIS location services to state locator system databases
• Lead JAD sessions; interface to HIPPA Eligibility Transaction System (Mainframe)
• Develop new Requirements Template for Automated Provider System for use by business analysts: Oracle 10g environment
• Process definitions and re-engineered process recommendations

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Develop Functional Specifications. Designed / developed / maintained the Data Dictionary; write Functional Specs for VBMS, Acceptance Criteria and User Stories
• Daily SCRUMs, Agile Development Environment
• Provide direction to other business analysts
• IBM Jazz Suite: RRC, RTM, RQM Document Library, SharePoint
• JAD Sessions with SMEs
• Create Use Cases and user stories for testing
• IBM Rational Pro/Clear Quest; RUP
• Swim lanes process flows utilizing Visio
• Detailed specs for system interfaces

Confidential, Reston, VA

Compliance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for QA on Fannie developed code of financial systems to ensure that it is in full SDLC compliance
• Assess all SDLC documentation including PMP, Requirements, Releases Plans, test plans; access DOORS, HP Quality Center, Remedy

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Re-Engineer the existing Waterfall SDLC to Agile process, daily SCRUMs, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria incorporated into daily work environment. Coach the development team.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise on creating an Agile / Scrum Methodology for financial Software Development Life Cycle projects currently in use at OCC.
• Project Management responsibilities include reporting, customer facing, metrics

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ’s North American Enterprise Asset Management System; this $8 million Project interfaces with 37 databases in 450 North American locations; the Team is comprised of 25 in-house and contractor staff. Implement BI rules in the Data Warehouse model. Design interface to legacy systems using XML. Applied Agile methodology to requirements collection and documentation.
• MS-Project and Visio used to document Confidential ’s in house SDLC

Confidential, Reston, VA

Master Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 21 concurrent IT SDLC Projects to support the Department of Education loan processing programs; identified risks and standardized reporting practices; introduce the Software Development Team to Agile; coached Project managers on how to implement Agile process into daily work environment
• Design new agile version for the existing Confidential Corporate wide SDLC: redesign of the Scope & Functional Requirements document, the Business Systems Design document, and other SDLC process documents. The purpose of this Project is to shorten the software development cycle, and to reduce IT costs.
• PeopleSoft Accounting modules.
• Evaluate Use Cases / user stories
• Project Manager: Design and established a SharePoint Site for internal document repository and publication; Business Analyst full SDLC process
• Disaster Recovery Plan; Configuration Management assessment for 41 software applications for the Department of Education
• Process redesign: Moved methodology to Agile as we made revisions to Waterfall SDLC process, PowerPoint/Visio swim lane definition of roles and responsibilities; BI rules review and updates
• ClearCase, ClearQuest, Remedy

Confidential

SAIC Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Project Manager; Status Reporting for Quality Assurance
• Project Management responsible for Configuration Management Process definition / Office2007 /Swim Lanes/Visio
• CMMI Level 2 Project Manager for DHS/IT Management (assessment of 3 active DHS Projects)
• IT Department Configuration Management (CM) PM representative
• Provide weekly project status for 3 active SDLC projects (10-Print, Enumeration, Change Control Process Improvement documentation); work with customer to develop joint solutions; MS-Project Server; fingerprints integration for Border Patrol (Accenture)
• Monitor and assign Change Requests from multiple User Departments; Clearquest, and SharePoint
• Represent IT Management in status meetings for Change Management & CMMI

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

General Manager, SDLC Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Account Management - customer facing
• PeopleSoft and Great Plains Accounting modules
• Project Manager/Business Analyst for SDLC applications; functional specs & business requirements; interface to Great Plains G/L Accounting; SME in Finance and Accounting
• Tech Shop Manager, LAN installation