SUMMARY:

• Solutions - oriented, analytical, and technical professional with a proven track record in the successful direction of a broad range of corporate system development initiatives.
• Active participant in the planning, analysis, and implementation of solutions in support of business objectives.
• Excel in providing comprehensive system analysis, detail design, development and integration of web-based solutions for government and civilian institutions.
• Possess system development expertise that includes requirements definition, design, architecture, full system construction, testing, and support.
• Outstanding project leader, able to coordinate and direct all phases of project based efforts while motivating and guiding teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Business Requirements Definition
• System Analysis and design
• Functional and Technical Specifications
• Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) development
• Business process flowchart development
• Waterfall / Agile / Scrum development methodologies
• Documentum Enterprise Content Management
• User Interface (UI) and GUI mockup design and development
• Application System Development
• Unit/Component Testing and Acceptance Testing
• Off-site and On-site Support
• SDLC Best Practices
• CMMI Level 3 Practices

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conduct JAD sessions with key stakeholders and SMEs to identify and elicit business requirements
• Conduct daily scrum calls to identify development and testing progress, as well as gaps, if any
• Daily tracking of PWS and ensure all activities are up to date
• Track and manage requirement traceability matrix (RTM) to ensure all requirements are aligned with user stories and testing scripts
• Authoring and management of Use Cases according to approved business and functional requirements

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business/Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project Leader, Systems Analyst, Applications Architect, QA Analyst.
• Solutions for corporate system development initiatives while participating in the planning and analysis of business objectives.
• Provide comprehensive system analysis, detail design, development and integration of PC based solutions for DOL institutions.
• System development that includes requirements definition, design, architecture, full system construction, testing, and support.
• Project leader, able to coordinate and direct all phases of project based efforts while motivating and guiding teams.

Confidential, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Identify business needs and articulately describe the problem areas. Liaise with business partners to define requirements and prioritize requests. Develop comprehensive functional (structural and behavioral) and non - functional specifications that can be implemented by IT solution delivery partners.
• SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Elicitation and definition of business and system requirement.
• Waterfall methodology of system development.
• Structured analysis technique (e.g., Information Engineering, Object Oriented Analysis, and UML)
• Modeling and tools for documenting requirements using Rational Requirement System tool.
• Microsoft products, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Logical Data Modeling, data normalization, and relational data schema.
• Writing requirements for web based applications.
• Creating wireframes or other User Interface (UI) requirements documentation.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Systems Analyst II

Responsibilities:

• Develop Level of Effort (LOE) to estimate projects length and roadmap for all development phases.
• Design, construct, and analyze clear and concise software development documents.
• Write software change requests with client input.
• Gather requirements from system end users and weekly project status from all team members.
• Develop Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) using MS Excel.
• Develop business process diagrams and flowcharts using MS Visio to include: activity diagrams, process flow, systems requirements, use cases, and sequence diagrams.
• Present software design documents to stakeholders and component team.
• Guide stakeholders through the collection and consolidation of business requirements.
• Conduct data modeling sessions with data Architects.
• Define functional specifications and system architecture approaches.
• Play a key role in system construction, testing and user acceptance.
• Coordinate production deployment and provide initial application support.
• Conduct all activities according to SDLC practices.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and system requirements, mange development of specifications to create and execute detailed test plans, and verify bug fixes.
• Configure test environment and create strategy for product development and certification. Assure test data, schedule automated/manual tests. Approve results documentation and tracking systems updates.
• Manage script creation for manual test methodology.
• Use PVCS Tracker for reporting and tracking defects, and providing updates on resolved bugs.
• Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports. Tested server and Web Portal.
• Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing.
• Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
• Interacted with developers, system engineers, and testing teams to identify applications defects

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Independent Software Consultant serving college student and faculty community on one-on-one and small group basis.
• Statistical and Mathematical Analysis using SPSS for Windows, Lotus 1-2-3 and MS Excel with Stats Package; Database Design and Development, Productivity and Presentation Software including MS Office, Corel Suite, Harvard Graphics and Visio

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and produced statistical and business reports based on clients' requirements using MS Access/SQL queries, SPSS, SAS, PowerPoint, and Word from employee questionnaire data.
• Data extraction from various sources and conversion to useable and readable format.