SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Business/Technical Requirements Analysis, Agile/Scrum/Water Fall Methodologies, Process Flow, Project Coordination/Leadership, Technical Writing, RDBMS, Full life cycle Software Development, QA Testing, Integration, Training, Production Support, Disaster/Recovery Planning and Document Management Systems.
• Expertise spans Web based, Client/Server, Real Time Transaction Processing systems in the Government, Health Care, Financial industries.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Challenge driven and self - motivated with excellent interpersonal communications abilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Atlassian Confluence
• JIRA
• Rally
• OnTime Agile Scrum Project Management applications
• Microsoft Word
• Power Point
• Visio
• Visual Basic
• Excel/VBA
• Access
• Project
• FrontPage
• IBM/Rational Suite of Tools (ClearCase
• ClearQuest)
• AutoSys
• BEA WebLogic
• Apache Tomcat
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
• Embarcadero Rapid SQL
• Toad
• ORACLE 11g (SQL Plus)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• XML
• XSD
• HTML
• CSS
• Java
• Struts
• JSP
• Java Script
• OOD /OOP
• UNIX C/Bourne/Korn Shell Scripts
• Perl vi make awk sed cron

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Holding weekly JAD sessions with the Development and Test teams, ensuring successful requirements implementation. Resolving issues.
• Ensuring the accurate updates of related deliverables like RTM, SDD, Impact Matrix, etc.
• Testing the implementation of several features as specified by the system requirements.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing the development and timely delivery of project documentation and artifacts, of a team of two BA/Tech Writers.
• Creating a document review process/workflow, to manage the deliverables life cycle.
• Gathering requirements, interviewing SMEs, and ensuring the validity/accuracy of information.
• Ongoing update and maintenance of RTM documents, PMAS deliverables tracker, and document delivery tracker.
• Managing the compilation and distribution of PowerPoint presentations/Agenda for several ongoing status meetings.
• Creation of various Visio diagrams as part of system artifact/documentation.
• Development of numerous project documents (Project’s Vision, Technical Governance Structure, System Design, Solution Architecture, Requirements Specification, Production Operations Manual, Prioritized Agile Backlog, Installation Guide, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Configuration Management, Continuous Integration Management Process, etc.) thru interviews and working with SMEs.
• Ensuring the project deliverables pass the internal and external customer review.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Securities and Exchange Commission

Responsibilities:

• Review of artifacts for a number of major SEC systems such as EDGAR and SEC.gov. Review was conducted on artifacts such as FRD, RTM, Test Scripts, Test Plan, The Business Case for the SEC’s new CRM and EC initiatives, based on industry standards such as IEEE, CMMI, INCOSE, etc. Provide recommendations based on findings and observations during the review.
• Development of IV&V Review Plan/Reports prior/after UAT.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Business/Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead analyst for the OMB 300B submissions component. Analyze XSD Schemas, identify data elements and records, and create specifications for database tables and XML file generation.
• Analyze requirements and design a validation process workflow. Create workflow diagrams, Mockups.
• Evaluate and define business requirements and functional design facilitation for the Project Dashboard.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with business SMEs and the development team, clarifying business needs and translating them into technical specifications, keeping meeting minutes and follow up with action items.
• Create BRD, SRD, RTM, Use Cases, User Stories, Workflow diagrams, Mockups
• Provide support to the clients during UAT sessions as a subject matter expert.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Business/Systems Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and define business requirements and functional design facilitation in an Agile development environment.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with business SMEs and the development team, manage meeting minutes and action items.
• Validate and document detailed Systems Requirements, User Stories, RTMs, Workflow diagrams.
• Develop and execute Quality Assurance test plans and scenarios and verify anticipated results.
• Create applicable test data where needed. Participate in testing phases, logging test results and creating test artifacts.

Confidential, Washington D.C.

Software Engineer/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led several projects within Agile development process, conducting Business Analysis, technical meetings, managing and facilitating infrastructure setup, development activities, version control, application builds and deployments, coordinating system testing, production roll outs. Created SOX required documentation for the development process.
• Provided production support for multiple applications. Addressed user issues, questions, resolving technical issues in a high pressure environment.
• Performed all aspects of development process including gathering requirements, data analysis, design, development, builds, testing, and production rollout and support.
• Member of development team, created financial applications utilizing Java, J2EE, SWING, Struts, Spring, Web Logic, MVC, VBA, SQL, Excel, Unix Shell Scripts, ClearCase.
• Created logical and physical database models using MS Access.
• Wrote SQL statements and stored procedures for Sybase, Oracle, and MS Access.
• Hands-on experience with real time market data (e.g. Bloomberg, Financial Times).
• Performed requirements gathering, data analysis, application design and development.
• Conducted meetings with users to ensure layout, look and feel, data flow and navigation among web views are complying with Confidential standards.
• Created usability schemes for navigation, site maps and wire frames.
• Designed and developed JSPs and Java Scripts to provide dynamic web contents, custom functionality, data flow and navigation among application’s web pages and the middle tier servlets. Developed Java classes to retrieve and update data from an Oracle database.
• Developed a Disaster/Recovery plan for the eReporting system and participated in two Disaster/Recovery exercises.
• Provided ongoing support and maintenance of the Online Billing System.
• Designed and developed a VB (6.0) application to implement an indexing scheme utilizing COOL APIs to provide specific data retrieval through some huge (2 Gig) reports.
• Designed and developed the application’s GUI layout, functionality and data presentation.
• Developed sophisticated awk, sed and shell scripts to extract and preprocess indexing data.
• Designed and developed backend application server to watch for, monitor, preprocess and record incoming documents into the COOL system utilizing C, Bourn shell scripts, awk, cron.
• Designed and developed a data interface program with a Visual Basic application. Utilized C, SYBASE stored procedures, CT-Library to update the systems tables with document indices.
• Developed a Disaster/Recovery plan for the COOL system and participated in two Disaster/Recovery exercises.
• Add new types of loans into the system workflow.
• Loan Sampling process that is controlled through a VB application.
• A Duplicate Loan Matching system.
• A Document Archiving system.
• Tracking loans from initiation through approval and delivery.

Confidential, Washington D.C.

Software Engineer/Systems Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Principal designer/developer of two releases of the BFRS (Business Forecasting Reporting System). BFRS is a Client/Server, Event Driven system on RS/6000 under UNIX and SYBASE 10.
• Developed forecasting and reporting applications; Database tables and relationships, VB client interface modules, data conversion programs utilizing C, Stored Procedures, Triggers, SQR, Korn shell scripts; Performance Analysis and tuning of the system.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Software Engineer and Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed SYBASE system administration and partial development of a client/server Store and Forward Facsimile Broadcast system (SureFax) under SUN OS.
• Designed and developed Procedures/programs providing automated database backup, recovery, replication and fail over to redundant systems.
• Performance analysis, tuning and troubleshooting of the system.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Software Engineer/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 4 in the design and development of the SOMA Alarm Management subsystem.
• Developed components of a Network Call Transport system on STRATUS utilizing C.
• Performed software testing at Unit, Component, System and User Acceptance levels.
• Created related testing documents and artifacts.

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Principal developer of the back-end system of the Typing Tutor II, an interactive educational software package utilizing C, MS-DOS.
• Designed and developed lessons, tests, games, and statistical reports on user performance.