SUMMARY:

An experienced and highly motivated senior software engineer and analyst specializing in requirements engineering (RE) with more than fifteen years of success supporting software development efforts in government and public sectors. Skilled in facilitating effective communication between stakeholders, developing consensus, identifying requirement gaps and conflicts, and creating clear, concise well - structured deliverables.

SKILL:

• Leading requirements engineering efforts including:
• Analysis of legacy documents and current database schemas,
• Creation and management of structured business vocabularies and domain models,
• Stakeholder identification and goal-based analysis,
• Modeling of requirements knowledge, and
• Interviews and facilitated requirements workshops.
• Establish and maintain traceability of critical metadata (needs, concerns, conflicts, mitigations, rationales, dependencies, sources).
• Predict, identify, analyze, and manage requirement change and impact throughout the project’s lifecycle.
• Use of Uniform Modeling Language (UML), Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Object Role Modeling (ORM), and Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) notations to help visualize and communicate information to business, solution, and testing audiences.
• Modeling of As-Is, To-Be systems using structural, behavioral, models and views.
• Development of system and software engineering documents (e.g., CONOPS, BRD, FRD, SRS, ICD documents and supporting RTMs) for new and legacy systems.
• Process development and improvement efforts using CMMI-DEV and other approaches.
• SDLC methodologies - Waterfall, Spiral, Unified Process (RUP, OpenUP) and Scrum.
• Use of Visual Basic for Applications, VBScript, and JavaScript to customize tools and add automation to MS Office, and Sparx System’s EA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SysML/UML tools: Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (EA), Rational Software Architect

Requirement Tools: DOORS, EA, ReqPro, MS TFS

Coding: C#, Python, VB, VBScript

Controlled Natural Languages & Patterns: RuleSpeak, Planguage, Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS)

UI Prototyping: Balsamiq, Moqups, Axure, Visio; Database and SQL tools - ORM, SQL, All Microsoft office suite products including SharePoint, Project, Visio, and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developing and conducting in Model Based System Engineering with a focus on structural, behavioral models and the introduction of goal-based requirement engineering techniques.
• Using Sparx Enterprise Architect and SharePoint to develop Requirement Knowledge Management that crosses project boundaries (represented in stakeholder, goal, conceptual, fact, and behavioral models) enhanced by constraints of shared controlled vocabularies.
• Exploring the use of Python and Natural Language Processing to extract domain knowledge from/analyze/ markup legacy documentation and jump-start modeling efforts. In addition researching semantic based conceptual modeling and the ontology mapping of ‘OntoUML’.
• Participating as technical SME in trade study to identify, evaluate, and recommend requirement engineering / MBSE tools for CBP and their components. Developing a SysML based model to be used as the “source’ project to be used in exercising/evaluation of each tool’s capability.
• Involved in AoA/AA study for the Office of Trade (providing modeling, analysis, and requirement knowledge management assistance).

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provided business analysis on USA G-3/5/7 applications supporting Continuity of Operations (COOP) including all areas of requirements engineering (elicitation, analysis, specification/documentation, and functional testing).
• Previously responsible for requirement engineering and testing software projects supporting the General Officers Management Office (GOMO) and Colonels Management Office (CMO).

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provided process and data analysis for Deutsche Bank, assisting in impact and remediation efforts from sale of a business unit.
• Used my experience with Microsoft SharePoint, Visio, Excel, to create integrated dashboard solution linking live business data to Excel dashboards, and Visio diagrams/Viso Shapes to support project and task management.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Responsibilities:

• Supported Confidential Operations Center’s Business Analysis Line of Service as part of requirements team developing the baseline requirements for the existing National Response Center - Incident Reporting Information System (IRIS).
• Additionally, worked independently developing business domain and requirement models to support the ‘Abstract of Operations - Management Tool’ (AOPS-TMT).

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in analysis of proposal for business process improvements (BPI) to USDA’s Requirement Development (RD) processes.
• Mentored analyst staff in use of business domain modeling and use of structured business vocabularies to reduce ambiguity in requirement specifications.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Worked with project manager to review statement of work (SOW) and plan approach for initiating a BPI effort for budget formulation and execution processes for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Performed initial modeling and analysis for stakeholders, goal/objective chains, and As-Is business processes.

Senior Business Analyst/VBA Developer

Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Planned and initiated financial business process analysis and modeling across multiple business.
• Elicited information using group meetings, interviews, surveys, and reviews of legacy documents and work products.
• Managed O&M support of legacy Excel VBA reporting tool.
• Logged change requests and issues, developed and deployed solution.

Senior Requirements Analyst

Confidential, Linthicom, MD

Responsibilities:

• Replaced previous requirements lead and established new requirements baseline and UML models including: conceptual domain, state machines, use case catalog with composite activity diagrams.
• Facilitated stakeholder workshops to develop non-functional requirements for data quality management of spectrum data (specified using Planguage).
• Mentored analysis staff in requirements engineering and modeling best practices within an agile scrum framework.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, APG, MD

Responsibilities:

• Independently performed inventory and analysis of financial logistics applications; Interviewed system users, captured business process flows, reviewed current application metrics and outstanding issues.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Worked independently developing “As-Is” baseline requirements and use case model for CMS legacy single sign-on feature.
• Established “To-Be” models from requirements narratives and created an integrated requirements traceability matrix and report.