SUMMARY:

• Complete understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and SDLC methodologies - mainly Agile (SCRUM) and Waterfall
• Ability to elicit requirements from business owners through a variety of methods such as brainstorming, JAD sessions, interviews, document analysis, interface analysis and focus groups
• Proficient in designing schema using Facts, Dimensions, Physical, Logical, and Alias tables.
• Strong experience in OBIEE 11.1.1.7, which includes design and development of OBIEE Repositories at three levels: Physical Layer, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation Layer.
• Highly experienced with repository development, configured metadata objects (Subject Areas, Tables and Columns) and Web Catalog objects (Dashboards, Pages, Folders, Reports).
• Adept at facilitation of joint application design (JAD) sessions and interviews, written correspondence, presentations and keeping stakeholders apprised of goals and project status
• Highly skilled in developing Business Requirement Documents, Functional Requirement Specifications, Change Requirement Document and Unified Modeling Language (UML) Diagrams
• Expertise in requirement gathering through direct user interviews, workshops, secondary market research and databases and convert User Requirements into Business Requirements. Analyze the same and segregated them into High Level and Low Level business requirements Facilitating JAD sessions with business users and development team to drive out detailed business requirements. 
• Experience in designing customized interactive dashboards using guided navigation, prompts, filters, variables, and drill down features
• Exceptional documentation skills for writing use cases and functional requirement documents. Thorough knowledge of System Analysis and Design tools such as Data Flow Diagrams (DFD’s), Entity Relationships Diagrams (ERT), Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Test Cases, User Acceptance Testing and Traceability Matrix.
• Excellent time management and multitasking ability which helps in conducting project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews according to the varied needs of the people involved
• Strong command over conducting Enterprise Requirement Analysis including Requirements Planning and Management, Requirements Gathering and Communication, Solution Assessment, Risk Analysis, GAP Analysis, Business Impact Assessment, Testing and Validation of Projects. . Expertise in a analyzing Business and technical specifications, developing and documenting Test Requirements, Test Scripts, Test Cases and procedures along with formulating Business Models. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills leveraging technical and business acumen to communicate with top executives and respective large, diverse and cross-functional team from various locations. Great people skills to bring diverse groups together to agree on project scope and build consensus. Excellent team player with ability to think analytically and troubleshoot issues. Responsible and strong work ethic, fulfilling all duties and meeting deadlines. 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Modelling Tool: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Visio, Star UML, UML 2.0

Languages: SQL

Configuration Management: Rational Clear Quest

Testing Tools: Rational Robot, Win Runner 7.6, Load Runner 7.8, QTP

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Databases: Oracle 11g, 12c, MS Access, Teradata 14,

Other Tools: OBIEE 11g; TOAD; MS Office; MS Project; MS Power Point; Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Senior Business Analyst 

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirement gathering for various work streams by meeting with stakeholders and transforming business requirements to technical requirements
• Analyze, interpret and document the elicited requirements clearly, and get signoff from all the stakeholders before the user stories move into iteration 
• Produced supporting artifacts/documentation for reports, dashboards, models, security, and environmental architecture
• Established and maintained standards and best practices for building the environment, environment maintenance and data/report distribution
• Utilized Enterprise Manager for the management and deployment of the OBIEE repository and catalog
• Managed all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Fact and dimensions modeling to support reporting needs such as hierarchies for drill downs, and time series analysis
• Analyzing the CR received from line of business as whether it’s a defect or enhancement.
• Act as a key liaison between software development and QA staff, management and the business on various assigned projects 
• Responsible for keeping all versions of specification documents, and other documents up-to-date as well as creating new ones 
• Coordinate JAD sessions with management, SME’s, vendors and other stakeholders and actively participate in reviewing and documenting business processes and to produce high-quality deliverables
• Assist in developing and grooming user stories, prioritizing the product backlog, attend daily scrum calls for all projects, facilitate iteration planning meetings and championing scrum ceremonies
• Responsible for coordinating user acceptance testing with the various business owners and verify delivered work meets acceptance criteria and delivers value to business stakeholders by leading user acceptance testing
• Resolved numerous project issues including staffing shortages, tactical matters, scope creep and divergent business and user needs
• Conducted Functional Requirement walkthroughs and reviews with designers, developers, and stakeholders. Developed Use Case diagrams, flowcharts, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and user interface models using UML.
• Documented project processes and procedures and version controlled them using Rational Clear Case. Designed and developed project document templates based on System Development Life Cycle Methodology (SDLC).
• Ensured good performance of the assigned efforts to the mutual satisfaction of the business partners/Sponsors. Created various SDLC documents such as; Project Scope & Charter, Business Owner View (B.O.V), User Case Models & Summary, Change Request, Requirement Specification using MS VISIO tool.
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, and risk and resources.

Confidential, Columbus, IN

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a business analyst throughout the software development life cycle, gathering business rules and requirements, documenting requirements and processes, managing meetings, tracking tasks and progress, and resolving development issues throughout the project process
• Conducted formal interviews, Live Meetings and JAD sessions with business users, Subject matter experts (SME’s) for requirements gathering
• Ensured collaboration between team members, from different departments to ensure project success.
• Collaborated with the data architects to assess common data points for consistency and reuse opportunities in business models
• Communicated action plans, statuses, and issues to higher management levels, as well as resolved outstanding project problems
• Implemented best practices in service management and delivery in software design
• Provided a stable, high performing business intelligence environment that satisfied business SLAs
• Developed reports and dashboards to satisfy reporting needs of the business as well as KPI’s, thresholds, prompts, agents, etc.
• Produces supporting artifacts or documentation for reports, dashboards, models, security structure, environmental architecture and project management
• Presented output to business owners and provided training or knowledge transfer where necessary
• Ensured that deliverables were compliant with existing industry standards and company best practices
• Used the WebLogic Console and Enterprise Manager to design and implement security for OBIEE
• Utilized Enterprise Manager for the management and deployment of the OBIE repository and catalog
• Administered and troubleshot the environment using Enterprise Manager, as well as troubleshot using log files and other techniques
• Provided business intelligence recommendations
• Managed all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Revise complex project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.
• Work with the Data Architect and act as semantic architect to ensure solutions meet the functional and performance requirements

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Driven the assigned program through the entire product life cycle including definition, through end of life and maintained product portfolio.
• Worked with business analysts in supporting building business models that satisfy business requirements
• Collaborated with the data architects to understand the data and build models that satisfy business processes
• Led the team in building and deploying OBIEE dashboards and reports
• Provided a stable, high performing OBIEE environment that exceeded business SLAs and on schedule
• Studied the business requirements, designed and developed repository models, individually and in working in a multiuser development environment
• Worked in all the layers of the OBIEE repository: physical layer, BMM and presentation layer
• Planned the full range of programming actions needed to achieve desired end-results on complex problems

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Business Intelligence Developer/ Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as an active duty Marine with a security clearance, and received an Honorable discharge.
• Communicated with the Commanding Officers from the 1st Logistics Group to gather requirements and define the requirement specifications document.
• Modeling activities that included building star schema to support the business requirements and configuration of the logical layer, logical tables, dimensions and columns in business model and Mapping layer.
• Implemented comprehensive security functionality by creating users & web groups, external table security using session variables, test and validate the model using OBIEE Administration tool and associating catalog objects with the created users and groups
• Created dimension hierarchies and assigned levels for each level.
• Designed and implemented dashboards in answers for different groups of users to view figures across regions, products with the facility to drill down to individual customer relationship manager.
• Worked in answers to build interactive dashboards with drill-down capabilities.
• Responsible for designing scripts for unit and system testing, as well as performed data validation