Objective

Seeking an exciting and fulfilling career in the Business Analysis and Systems Analysis fields.

Summary

• Over 13 years of progressive industry experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Manager with solid understanding of Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, testing and other aspects of SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
• Experience in Project Management including Project Scoping, Planning, Estimating, Scheduling, Critical Path Analysis, Earned Value Management and Forecast
• Requirements Management - Gathering, Analyzing, Specifying, Validating, and Tracking requirements for a project/service request, excellent presentation skills, writing Use Cases, UML diagrams - Use Case Model and Activity Diagrams
• Solid experience in acting as a Liaison between Business and Technical Personnel. Familiarity with ITIL best practices of conducting projects and delivering quality products and services to various entities
• Performed Change Management at various project phases from conceptualization thru deployment
• Good working knowledge of MS products Outlook, WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint, ACCESS
• Interface with clients from Operations, Marketing, Technologies, and Outside Vendors and acted as their customer interface point as the lead of the Projects
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in multiple languages - English, French, Arabic and Berber

Technical Skills

• Methodologies: Agile, RUP, Waterfall, SCRUM
• Programming Languages: Matlab, C, C , Java, Labview, VB.NET, Perl, Assembly, LaTeX
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix
• Internet: HTML, XML, VBScript
• Web Services: XML, SOAP
• Databases: SQL Server, Oracle
• Word Processors/Management Tools: LaTeX, MS Word, Frame Maker, PowerPoint, Visio, Microsoft Project
• Bug Tracking Tools: Jira, ITIL-Compliant HelpDesk Plus
• Agile Scrum Tools: Axosoft OnTime software

Work Skills

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• User Story creation to capture customer desired features and desired functionality
• Brought clarity and asked finding questions to the stakeholders to make sure we covered all aspects of expected features and requirements - technical feasibility, proposed alternate approaches
• Compilation and analysis of user stories to create product backlog, release backlog and sprint backlog in a scrum team environment
• Prioritized and Processed product backlog to create release backlog and contributed to establishing sprint backlog based on release prioritization using Axosoft OnTime
• Established test matrix and performed software testing to cover all features and access performance and response to unforseens conditions robustness

Confidential

Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities

• Collected requirements and created User Stories for both hardware and software parts of the project
• Created product backlog for project with SME and defined Sprint backlog for each iteration based on established priority
• Escalated defects found during testing in each of the Sprints to respective team members based on priority.
• Translated business requirements into functional and technical requirement documents, high level test plans and test scenarios
• Brought clarity in shaping project requirements - technical feasibility, proposed alternate approaches
• Converted the requirements into a schematic design using ORCAD schematic tools, reviewed with the stakeholders every time there is a modification as the designed progressed through different stages
• Actively involved in decision-making process, ongoing review meetings, to finalize the look and feel of the final solution
• Expert use of Visio. Microsoft Word, Excel to create illustrating graphics to add clarity
• Elaborated all requirements Data requirements, Integration Requirements, Assumptions, Dependencies, and Functional Requirements etc.
• Worked closely with stakeholders, Software Engineers, Project manager and QA lead in documenting, implementing, tracing, testing all requirements
• Worked closely with various teams to estimate level of efforts
• Validated all requirements in Testing Phase to bring defects to closure
• Suggested/Documented alternate user-experience identifying Gaps in the requirements thus ensuring user doesn't have broken experience
• Executed functional Tests of web services using SoapUIs
• Used Jira as a bug tracker. Prioritized, resolved, tested and validated solutions

Environment: .NET, Oracle, Agile SCRUM methodology, JIRA, MSDN, Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Oracle 9i, Documentum 5i, e-content server 5.2, BEA weblogic, WinRunner, UML, SoapUI, Web services, SOA Service-oriented architecture

Confidential

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created User Stories for both hardware and software parts of the project.
• Created product backlog for project with SME and defined Sprint backlog for each iteration based on
• Priority
• Software Requirement elicitation between device designers and marketing as stakeholders and software developers of tools that support device configuration
• Agile Scrum style software development even though developers were located at remote location overseas
• Clear and concise Business Requirement Document generation containing Use Case statements, diagrams and UML models
• Requirement analysis, enumeration, prioritization and elaboration of Traceability Requirement Matrices as well as test development of test scenarios
• Planning and performing software testing for maximum coverage
• Translating the level of efforts from cross functional teams into a Burndown chart to monitor various sprint progress, forecast completion dates and ensure on time project completion
• Planned and executed testing at each development stage, validated all requirements in Test Phase to bring defects to closure
• Followed the same procedures to design and build test, demo, and evaluation boards both schematic and layout following Hardware Development Life Cycle HDLC and track their revision control

Environment: Matlab, .NET, Oracle, Agile SCRUM methodology, MS Visual Studio, UML, Rational Unified Process methodology, XML, Web Services

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering project requirements for both Hardware and Software development to support new products and their characterization
• Documented the requirements in memos to my project manager
• Analyzed requirements and extracted TRM's to prepare for device testing
• Communicated the requirements and test cases to Software Architects and Developers
• Helped in Software testing and in software and hardware Integration
• Waterfall-style project development of hardware test platform boards for each new silicon product using ORCAD Schematic and Layout design tools. Held regular design reviews involving stakeholders design team and product engineering
• Gathered information and customer requirements from trade shows that helped identifying new timing markets and new products development at Exar
• Provided customer support for internal and external customers. Helped resolve problems, documented RCCA Root Cause Corrective Action for continual improvement purposes

Environment : .NET, Oracle, Agile SCRUM methodology, MS Visual Studio, UML, Rational Unified Process methodology, XML, Web Services

Confidential

Business Technical Analyst in the Timing Division

Responsibilities:

• Took a leadership role to implement a process for Third Party Programmer Vendor Qualification for Cypress's field-programmable timing devices
• Studied and gathered facts on the then current procedures and processes followed in Cypress's Timing Division to have their field programmable devices supported on Third Party Programmer Vendors
• Proposed a change to their procedures and implemented a new infrastructure for qualifying Third Programmer Vendors prior to adding Cypress's field programmable devices onto their supported device list
• Strategic selection of targeted vendors BP Microsystems, Hilo Systems and Data IO to use for Cypress's field programmable timing solutions
• Designed and documented specs outlining the procedure to follow by third party programmer vendors to comply with Cypress Semiconductor quality policies
• Managed incident and problems emanating from the field
• Documented root cause and implemented corrective actions to improve the process from the lessons learned
• Supported Cypress Semiconductor's field programmable timing devices
• Automated data acquisition and characterization of Cypress's SSCG Spread Spectrum Clock Generators timing products for faster customer support
• Prepared training material and trained field application engineers on Cypress's Timing product functions and benefits in various applications

Confidential

Instructor of Physics and Electronics

Responsibilities:

• Consistently prepared manuals containing neatly typed solutions for the student assignments
• Offered help to students outside my official office ours

Confidential

Intern in Radio Frequency Systems Engineering Division

Responsibilities:

• Debugged and tested RF transceiver board duplexer for GSM applications and the digital control board.
• Evaluated amplifier nonlinearities
• Assisted in final product integration and release