OBJECTIVE:

• Experienced and passionate Business Analyst cum AWS solutions architect with over 5 years of experience evaluating and improving business systems for well known organizations.
• Dedicated team leader with the ability to effectively manage and achieve project goals, leveraging my complex understanding of systems engineering concepts and experience as AWS solutions architect.
• Hands - on AWS cloud experience working with different services VPC, EC2, EBS/EFS, ALB, Route 53, ECS, EKS, S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, Cloud Watch and IAM.

SUMMARY

• 5+ years of industry experience as a Business Analyst with solid understanding of Business Process Modeling, Business Requirements Gathering, Business Process Flow, Systems Analysis and Testing.
• Experienced in gathering business requirements, application design, technical and business writing and testing methodologies.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) aspects such as Requirements Analysis and Design.
• Developed use case diagrams, context diagrams, process-flow diagrams and sequence diagrams using UML to make users and developers understand the system.
• Good experience in writing requirements and specifications like Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Systems Requirements Specification (SRS).
• Worked on Projects which used Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and ROI analysis.
• Experience in facilitating the test process by using bug tracking tools like JIRA, Asana, and Smart sheet. Created and managed User Stories on project management tools.
• Communicate effectively with development team at various stages of Bug tracking cycle
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, SDLC, Software Testing Life Cycle and Test Methodologies
• Extensive experience in end-to-end UAT/QA for planning, design and execution
• Installation, support of applications and new projects for specific business needs.
• Analyzing the details available in disciplinary actions and industry fines to identify areas of improvement in our existing procedures
• Analyzes sales campaign performance, report on key business metrics and develop insights through customer analysis, profitability and segmentation
• Experience in Manual testing for Web and Client server applications
• Reports development using various reporting tools like Tableau.
• Experience in Access database, SQL queries and SQL server to create reports and filtering.
• Involved in creating Dashboards as needed using Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server.
• Created concise documentation which included FRD documentation, generating reports with tableau, making graphical charts, helped in Business cases documentation.
• Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project for status reporting and planning.
• Always able to listen, negotiate and compromise to ensure quality and business value
• Good analytical skills and ability to learn complex business processes
• Knowledge of product management life concepts and how technology enables product development and solution delivery
• Proven ability to effectively develop and maintain relationships at all levels of the business, including IT and vendors
• Worked on mobile application development process including Android and IOS. Third Party API integration.
• In-depth knowledge of industry practices and application development protocols
• Knowledge of application testing, debugging and troubleshooting
• Worked on Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route53, Lambda, etc.)
• Worked for AWS in Linux & Deployment.
• Worked on migration of services in data centers like Database, Domain's & Server's to Cloud Infrastructure (Amazon Web Services)
• Worked on Virtualization.
• Worked with different database Environments like MySQL & MongoDB.
• Manipulation of Shell Scripts, Bash Scripts, Pearl Scripts during migration.
• Exposed to all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing, Implementation & Post-Production analysis of the project.
• Experienced in using cloud migration tools like Snowball, direct connect for migrating data from on-premises data centers to AWS Cloud and Implemented Terraform modules for deployment of various applications across multiple cloud providers and managing infrastructure.
• Expertise in Virtualization technologies like VMware ESX/ESXI, CITRIX XEN SERVER/OPENSTACK and involved in the maintenance of virtual servers.
• Experience in Linux/Unix System Administration, Network Administration and Application Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Php, Python

Database: My SQL, Mongo DB, MariaDB, AWS RDS

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, XML

Scripting: Bash/Shell, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, HTML5, PowerShell, JSON

Version Control Tools: GIT, Bitbucket

Virtualization: VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V,Virtual box.

Build Tools: Maven, Gradle

Repositories: Github

Web Servers: Nginx, Apache

Operating System: Ubuntu 16/14/13/12, Debian, Fedora, Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP,Mac OS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst /Solutions Architect

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• Develop business architecture using requirements such as scope, processes, alternatives, and risks.
• Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Redesigned mobile UI, and implemented dynamic image sizing and support for multiple devices
• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Provide input into developing and modifying systems to meet client needs and develop business specifications to support these modifications.
• Liaise between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.
• Worked within the Cloud for integration processes. working with AWS DevOps platforms and services like EC2, S3, Load Balancers, Route 53, Networking, VPC, Firewall, Lambda Cloud Watch
• Focused on automation and integration.
• Launching EC2 instances and involved in AWS RDS, S3, Load Balancing, IAM, VPC, Auto Scaling, and Cloud Watch.
• Worked on Branching, Tagging and Release Activities on Version Control Tools: Git & GitHub.
• Monitoring the servers by using cloudwatch.
• Installation, maintenance and regular upgrades of Red Hat Linux, Centos, Ubuntu servers.
• Experience supporting and deploying to web application servers such as Apache, Tomcat, and Apache HTTPD servers.
• Accountable for all strategy, product design & development deliverables including overall customer satisfaction.
• Review the analysis and interpretation of others work
• Develop and implement effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes
• Develops innovative approaches identify opportunities for improvements to team processes and take action to implement
• Solve complex problems / conceptual analysis and develop innovative solutions
• Present analysis and interpretation for operational and business review and planning
• Created and designed wireframes for proof of concept
• Leveraged agile software development methodologies throughout product lifecycle with the development team.
• Actively participated in scrum meetings, generated user stories and prioritized product backlog.
• Responsible for product roadmap regarding new concepts for future enhancements and features.
• Conducted market research and created an in-depth competitive analysis..
• Designed wireframes for the mobile app
• Implementation of AWS cloud solutions technology

Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Capturing Business Requirements through Elicitation
• Gathering business needs
• Performing need analysis and assessment
• Choosing the best elicitation technique
• Assessing mobile business capabilities and gaps
• Measuring the feasibility of options & organizational direction, objectives, operations, processes, systems/applications and users
• Mobile SDLC methodology framework, mobile applications scope and objectives
• Interpret business needs translating the initial high-level vision into something realistic
• Translate conceptual business and user requirements into mobile applications functional requirements
• Mobile apps project scope and vision, constraints, dependencies, assumptions, risks and issues
• Project stakeholders and key influencers
• Requirements specifications and standard templates
• Interpretation of requirements into feasible options, and communicate options to the stakeholders, Project managers and sponsors
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary
• Process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to solution designers and developers and/or the mobile app project team
• Translate technical issues, prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements or assist solution designers in doing the same Test and validation
• Changes, enhancements, and modifications of requirements according to the established process.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for all strategy, product design & development deliverables including overall customer satisfaction.
• Review the analysis and interpretation of others work
• Balance priorities and work as an individual contributor and leader of people
• Develop and implement effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes
• Develops innovative approaches identify opportunities for improvements to team processes and take action to implement
• Solve complex problems / conceptual analysis and develop innovative solutions
• Present analysis and interpretation for operational and business review and planning
• Created and designed wireframes for proof of concept
• Leveraged agile software development methodologies throughout product lifecycle with the development team.
• Conducted market research and created an in-depth competitive analysis.
• Worked with developers, to develop a series of lightning analysis related software using php laravel, CSS, JavaScript, Android & IOS developers.
• Designed wireframes for the mobile app
• Implementation of AWS cloud solutions technology
• Wrote technical specifications and maintained all reports pertaining to application development process