professional synopsis

• Mr. Oluwaseun Balogun is a very skilled and talented professional with Over 10 Years of Information Technology as a Business Analyst in the Federal and State Government, Health Care, Financials and Education domain.
• Mr. Balogun has been with BCS Inc. since November of 2011 and is currently leading the dashboards development efforts for the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy EERE division of the U.S. Department of Energy DOE . He is also leading the Corporate Planning System CPS redesign for the DOE's Office of Energy OE .
• A solid background in requirements gathering allows him to bring his expertise and knowledge to BCS to help coordinate these efforts.
• Proficient in understanding, analyzing, and documenting Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Business Process Flow, Business Process Mapping, Modeling, and Testing.
• Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Agile Methodology, Rational Unified Process RUP and Rational tools used during all four phases of RUP: Inception, Elaboration, Construction, and Transition.
• Extensive experience in project initiation, conceptual design requirement definition, Database design/modeling, system/documentation, quality assurance/system testing and implementation, Web based Application, Website Usability, Database technologies, Business process reviews.
• Strong knowledge of DBA Basics, Oracle Database - Installation, Creation, Up-Gradation, Migration, Re-Organization, Database Tuning Memory, SQL, I/O , Back-up And Recovery.
• Strong background working with clients, designers, and programmers to identify requirements, provide cost analysis, assist with creating user interfaces, and develop implementation timelines
• Extensive experience in developing SOA based applications.
• Extensive experience in creating Business Requirements Specification BRS , Functional Requirement Specification FRS .
• Organized many Joint Application developments JAD , Joint Requirement Planning sessions JRP , and Rapid Application Development RAD sessions with IT Groups and Conflict Management with Project team members.
• Highly experienced in analyzing and creating use cases, Use Case Diagram, Activity Diagram, Class Diagram, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagram with UML methodology, mockups and wireframes using MS Visio and Rational Rose.
• Experience in preparing Project Charter Document, Business Requirement Documents BRD , Functional Requirements Document FRD and Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM .
• Conducted GAP Analysis, SWOT Analysis and Impact Analysis, modeling Businesses Processes, and prepared Training Manuals and Knowledge Transfer manuals.
• Highly Experienced in UML Object Modeling, Process Modeling, Data Modeling using Visio, Object Oriented Concepts.
• Proficient in Testing Lifecycle including Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Case Preparation, Test Execution, User acceptance testing UAT and Defect Management.
• Process-oriented approach to all assignments, with ability to understand the overview, plans and measures progress toward goals.
• Worked on different databases and performed validations using SQL queries.
• Familiar with current industry standards, such as HIPAA, SOX, Title 21 CFR Part 11, 21 CFR Part 820, ISO, Six Sigma, and Capability Maturity Model CMM , Section 508.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and created management reports while working in matrix environment.

PROFESSIONAL Experience

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I am leading two teams on different projects: 3 Business Analysts, 1 Developer, 1 Technical Writer, and 2 Data Analysts.
• Facilitates Requirements gathering sessions with current system users and development team to discuss and come up with design strategies for new DOE software to track House, Senate, and Congress allocations to all recipients across the U.S.
• Performs automated testing using Mercury QTP in different environments as well as performance and regression testing both in the GUI and web interface to ensure bugs are captured in systems developed.
• Developed use cases, workflows, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements.
• Assists in the development of both high level and detailed application architecture documents to meet business needs.
• Performs continuous software demo's with end user to capture additional changes and feedback before final deployments of software.
• Responsible for developing the DOE's the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dashboard to track all funds that were given out as well as what they were used for. I am also responsible for four other Base program dashboards Using IBM Cognos.

Confidential

Lead Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements from Subject Matter Experts SME's to understand how current legacy mainframe system works.
• Reviewed the current performance, analyze how to put the functionality into a Graphic User Interface for optimized performance and handling.
• Created Use Cases which are used to finalize Detailed Functional Requirements for Web Interface.
• Conducted sessions to achieve 508 compliance and meeting Web Content Accessibility Guidelines on the designed application.
• Performed functional review meetings with previous contractors working on project Lockheed Martin, CSC to obtain information on process and current state of the Validation Database.
• Participated Functional Designs Meetings to review development activities in relation to requirements that have been specified during requirements gathering.
• Designed screen mock ups for the User Interface Detailed Functional Requirements using Microsoft Office Visio.
• Organized the GAP analysis meetings to go over As-Is and To- Be of the requirement.
• Interacted with Division Branch Chiefs to discuss SOA as well as systems designs
• Created training documents for different phases of the development.
• Participated in Joint Application Development JAD sessions to design Data Flow Diagrams DFD's for the different phases of requirements.
• Developed Master Test Plans and Test Cases for each Use Case developed
• Developed User Manuals, System Documentations as well as Robo-Help for all phases of the requirement.
• Created meeting agendas for Use Case meetings, GAP analysis meetings and the Technical Design Meetings.

Confidential

Federal Account Executive/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Apply Earned Value Methodology EVM to determine project performance and implement necessary corrective actions to ensure project is on track
• Participate in the collection of functional requirements from system users and the preparation of business requirement documents using Rational Requisite Pro that allows implementation by the development team and COTS products
• Responsible for gathering business both functional and non functional requirements, performing gap analyses, writing business and functional specification documents, and facilitate UAT testing.
• Assisted business unit by identifying, understanding and documenting business needs.
• Collected and documented business processes and business rules.
• Created targeted questionnaires for SME's have to gather requirements in SharePoint.
• Developed use cases, workflows, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements.
• Assisted in the development of both high level and detailed application architecture documents to meet business needs.
• Assisted Project Manager to evaluate the impact of change requests and plan accordingly.
• Developed test scenarios and conducted several project related presentations.
• Assisted the QA team in reviewing test cases, test plans and tested final application for usability testing to verify that all user requirements were met.

Environment: RUP, UML, Oracle, SQL, JAVA, HTML, MS VISIO, MS OFFICE Word, Excel, MS Access, PowerPoint, Project , Requisite Pro, HP Quality Center, and IIS.

Confidential

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed oversight of the entire Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC , including systems requirements, coding, testing, and implementation of proposed systems and provided critical recommendations and solutions for complex problems
• Demonstrated the ability to define problems, analyze and develop plans and requirements in the subject matter area for simple to moderately complex systems in the subject matter area.
• Coordinated and managed the preparation of analysis, evaluations, and recommendations for proper implementation of programs and systems specifications in the areas of risk management
• Responsible for developing and maintaining validation databases and automated techniques for effective and efficient conduct of systems and acceptance testing.
• Provided validation support using automated test tools, and develops, documents, and executes manual tests
• Worked in close coordination with software designers and business analysts in performance and failure analysis of detected problems.
• Lead a team of specialists to gather requirements.
• Acted as a point of contact with users to provide advisory services, conduct validation studies, conduct training, identify problem areas and determine feasibility of new or modified processes responds to user recommendations for areas of responsibility.
• Tested the back end Data Base by preparing Queries with SQL to retrieve data from database.
• Held weekly status meetings showing progress and future testing efforts to the QA manager.
• Assisted in Creating Detailed Timelines, Test Plans and Test Strategies for major releases and organized strategy review meetings.
• Established Traceability between the Requirements and the Tests in Traceability Matrix using Quality Center
• Checked for inconsistencies in data entered in contacts list applied recovery and restore operations of critical database file.
• Developed prototype of new information processing application and Performed Critical update patches.
• Wrote SQL queries in MS Access and Oracle for data manipulations.

Environment: Web Sphere MQ Workflow, Visio, Rational Suite, Java, .NET, SQL Server, Sybase, UNIX , Windows 2000