SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of experience in Information Systems applications.
• Business Analyst on several large mainframe COBOL applications successfully migrated to DataStage and/or Business Objects platform.
• Used Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, and Project for project documentation.
• Conducted meetings with business owners to understand the business needs, documented requirements and specifications, and designed high level system flows.
• Insured other team members completed their tasks and monitored project deliverables.
• Performed research to assist in project scope development, requirements definition, and proposed changes when necessary.
• Created test plans, testing criteria, user acceptance cases, and deployment to production plans.
• Single Point of Contact for the Business Objects XI application - defect tracking, customer inquiry, deployment approvals and scheduling, facilitate weekly development team meetings, enhancement tracking, weekly statistics and status
• Liaison between business community and onshore and offshore development team
• Business Analyst on large and small projects which completed on-time and on-budget
• Development Services department lead creating process documents and department documentation.
• Software Development Life Cycle: Project Initiation Documents, Business Requirements Documents, Systems Design Specifications, User Acceptance Criteria/Test Case Scenarios, Change Control Documents, Program Specifications, Implementation Plans
• Modified application to reduce execution time from over 12 hours to under 20 minutes
• Third party software installation and integration

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Warwick, RI

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Self taught tools used for quality assurance validation - WinSCP, PuTTY, Bash, HeidiSCP, VMware, Snagit, and ExamDiff.
• Self taught proprietary application.
• Attended daily Scrums and completed several Sprints

Confidential, Providence, RI

Software Development Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Business Analyst on numerous large and medium applications covering the full spectrum of the life cycle development process: gathering and documenting business requirements; designing system flows; Business Object XI report specifications; user testing acceptance criteria; data mapping; test scenario cases; writing implementation plans; and change control process when requirements changed.
• Data mapping; database designs; and Business Object XI application point of contact for business owners and on-shore and offshore technical staff;

Confidential, Providence RI

Application Development Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Create and/or modify applications based upon customer requirements; resolve application incidents; create, code, and unit test small to large work efforts
• Business Analyst on small to large work efforts; peer SDLC document review and approval; development services department procedures creation; SQL review.

Confidential, Providence RI

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Code COBOL program from specs; write COBOL program specifications; design and write program specifications for small and medium applications review test results with business help deploy to production environment.