OBJECTIVE:

To secure senior management positions in the field of Information Technology, Business Systems and Reporting.

SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years’ industry experience in Corporate Finance, IT Management, Operations and Business Analysis.
• MBA professional with extensive experience in the planning, analysis, development, implementation and integration strategies within a team oriented environment.
• Extensive experience with enterprise systems for Accounting (Epicor, SAP) Financial Reporting & Budgeting (Microsoft FRx, Applix, Cognos Impromptu, Oracle Hypherion), HR applications (Replicon Timesheets, Expenseanywhere) and CRM (Salesforce Enterprise, Goldmine)
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, Process Modelling, Master Data management (MDM) and Data Warehousing projects utilizing quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 8/7/ XP/2000/MacOS

Applications: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio and Sharepoint Portal.

Reporting: Oracle Hyperion, Cognos Impromptu, SQL Reporting services, Crystal Reports, Microsoft FRx and Excel Pivot Tables.

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access.

ERP Systems: Business Works Gold, SAP Netweaver Financials, Epicor.

CRM Systems: Goldmine (CRM), Salesforce (CRM).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Lead Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Lead agile implementation team and participate in requirements analysis sessions with Business to determine and document application requirements for new SOA platform implementations.
• Participate in day to day operations and processes for Data Services team to understand procedures, information flows, handoffs, decisions and communication channels.
• Create and prioritize user story backlog for future efforts by assessing impact and creating provisions to support upstream initiatives.
• Develop queries, analyses, enterprise dashboards or reports from applications for operations or management staff of assigned business unit(s).

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead Systems Analysis process for cross - functional, multi-dimensional teams and projects for the Lending, Human Resources and Credit Card business groups.
• Deconstructed complex Salesforce business requirements into sub modules and create project artifacts from user stories to extract Process Flow diagrams and System Requirements.
• Worked with the Dashboard and UI team using Agile Scrum three week iterations for building wireframes consistent with user stories and in adherence to UI design principles.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented executive analysis reports for CFO and Controller using Epicor BI Reporting Dashboards and SQL reporting services to clearly illustrate specific financial data of over $900M along with graphical representation in the form of pie charts, bar and column diagrams.
• Documented critical financial report data requirements, formulated SQL scripts and customized existing SQL queries for data analysis, ad hoc reporting and data requests to meet business needs.
• Managed and monitored projects by actively managing the development team and external ERP customization consultants for continued development, upgrades, UAT process and maintenance of the company’s Epicor 9 ERP program.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT integration projects by formulating project plans based on assessment of scope, project feasibility, level of effort, SDLC and resource availability.
• Engaged with key stakeholders and SMEs to manage various activities of collecting, aggregating, matching, quality assuring and consolidating MDM data to ensure integrity and consistency for ongoing maintenance and usage.
• Coordinated Business Intelligence reporting initiative after month end close utilizing specific ETL tools to extract Sales and Revenue information from various legacy systems to the Data Warehouse.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Sr. Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed budget analysis and financial reporting using SAP NetWeaver financials, Cognos Impromptu, Excel Pivot Tables and Oracle Hyperion reporting systems to monitor approximately $45M in annual spend, budgeting and forecasting for AOL Audience vertical programming channels (Movies, TV, Music, Radio etc.)
• Conducted financial analysis, reconciliations and financial modeling for audience departments, including month end close transactions, accruals, month end reports and variance analysis.
• Synchronized with business owners and business development to process deal signoffs for approvals against budget in adherence with SOX compliance requirements.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

MIS Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supervised IT deployment team to rollout yearly company-wide software updates, upgrades to existing ERP and CRM applications and network infrastructure.
• Provided annual cost savings from previous year by renegotiating with IT vendors to bring down recurring costs for maintenance of IT infrastructure.