SUMMARY
- Senior Applications Developer/Business Analyst with 20 years of success in business analysis and project leadership in the analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of large automated systems.
- Fields of expertise include analysis, quality assurance and development in state government, distribution and sales in the manufacturing industries.
- Proven track record in: requirements definition, integrated solution development, procurement procedures, systems assurance, project management, customer satisfaction and procedure development and implementation
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Project and team leadership
- Liaison between technical and functional disciplines
- Employee mentoring and motivation
- Coordinate, and prioritize multiple activities
- Effective communications
- Write and interpret technical design
- Conduct peer reviews
- Sales team leader
- Ability to demonstrate and apply trouble shooting and problem - solving techniques to application, environment and data issues
- Ability to maintain customer service and quality focus at all times
- Lead procurement process for purchasing numerous software packages and ensured successful implementation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Senior Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Customize Drupal websites, modifying themes and content to help clients improve search engine rankings.
- Create and maintain content using Drupal, Wordpress, and custom CMS solutions to ensure complete client satisfaction.
- Implement affiliate marketing solutions on custom websites; searching for offers that match the target website.
Confidential
Web Analyst and Developer
Responsibilities:
- Leverage Drupal, an open source CMS (content management system) to design, develop, deploy, and maintain the The Ozone web properties
- Develop components using PHP, HTML, and Javascript. These components are bottled into different nodes, blocks, and blogs
- Ensure that site content is fresh and engaging by publishing multimedia assets to create imagery for the site
- Maintain all navigation for the system and menus
- Utilize Google to create calendars and import them into the site functionality which is used for scheduling
Confidential
Senior Business Systems Analyst/Quality Assurance Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed Quality assurance personnel to complete test scripts and all required documentation to successfully implement enhancements for the current functionality to Florida Child Support Enforcement program
- Lead the effort to add additional CSENET(Child Support Enforcement Network) functionality to the Florida system
- Provided data analysis for needed changes to the existing CSENET file structures
- Lead discussions with other states to ensure we followed Federal Guidelines for the CSENET
- Provided upper management with progress reports and deliverable dates
- Conducted informative sessions with district offices to explain benefits of the new functionality
- Lead team discussions in conjunction with other teams on how to manage the conversion efforts to the SAP system
Confidential
Senior Programmer/Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Conducted JAD sessions and gathered requirements for analysis
- Provided GAP and RISK Analysis for the stakeholders
- Provided analysis, technical and test support for an IMS to DB2 conversion project
- Developed and implemented an automated testing process using AutoTester for an IMS to DB2 conversion project
- Participated in an evaluation team doing analysis and review of multiple vendors offering solutions to convert the mainframe document generation process to desktop publishing
- Defined process and procedures for migrating systems into production
- Performed automated and manual testing and trained employees on Auto-Tester
- Debugged programs and served as the on-line specialist for 870 programs
- Served as lead analyst for on-line development implementations. Maintained and implemented all navigation and security changes for the on-line system
- Participated in staff interviews, evaluations and assignments
- Coordinated efforts with functional staff to make necessary system modifications to accommodate the relocation of local, district and/or regional offices
- Provided after hours on-call support