PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Hardworking Senior Business Architect and certified Enterprise Architect emphasizing process improvement and organizational efficiency.
• Comprehensive background extends over 19 years and encompasses Government, private and academic sectors.
• Experience with the Confidential Architecture Framework ( Confidential ) products.
• Excels as a bridge between functional & technical communities where he translates business requirements into technical documentation including, user stories, business process diagrams, use cases, & business process modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
• Experience as an Enterprise Architect & Scrum Master utilizing Agile Methodology along with user stories, Scrum ceremonies including: sprint planning, retrospective & backlog grooming.
• Previous expertise includes website development, network administration, implementing compliance solutions and IT service design.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as a Subject Matter Expert by having a full understanding of business processes, products and operations.
• Capture As Is processes and influence To Be processes.
• Leverage standards, minimize non - standard approaches and lead efforts to identify & overcome gaps.
• Responsible for large-scale cross functional initiatives.
• Create business process models that clearly illustrate how people, products, processes and d Confidential interoperate.
• Shape ideas and requirements to achieve optimal future value, rather than simply gathering requirements.
• Create process models, workflows, and interaction diagrams that convey complex business processes.
• Assist in the scoping of prospective engagements, developing proposals

Environment: /Tools: Agile, BPMN, COBIT, ITIL, Process Modeling, Visio

Confidential

Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create business process models that clearly illustrate how people, products, processes and d Confidential interoperate.
• Shape ideas and requirements to achieve optimal future value, rather than simply gathering requirements.
• Create process models, workflows, and interaction diagrams that convey complex business processes.
• Apply insights from personas, journey maps and other human-centered design artifacts.

Environment: /Tools: Agile, Blueworks Live, BPMN, Human Centered Design, Process Modeling, Visio

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plans, analyzes, designs, implements, maintains, and controls the organization's d Confidential bases.
• Consults with and provides guidance to user while recommending tactical & strategic solutions.
• Performs moderately complex server-class d Confidential base activities across various environments.

Environment: /Tools: Agile, BPMN, Visio, Process Modeling

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated meetings and communication with users, management and technical team members
• Worked closely with System Owners and business users to determine divisional and/or organizational needs, systems and operations requirements, customer rollout requirements, legal/compliance implications
• Interviewed business users & management to understand process & requirements, consult with business to assist in understanding & identification of opportunities to use technology to improve business processes
• Developed business process and information requirements
• Designed process and information flows within and across functional areas
• Worked to identify, analyze, and gather business requirements & technical specifications

Environment: /Tools: Agile, BPMN, Process Modeling, Visio, Roundtable

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gather, refine and validate complex business requirements, interdependencies, potential risks & issues
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and manage specification change
• Develop complex business cases while facilitating project governance & corporate priorities
• Facilitate communication between business entities to align solutions with business strategies

Environment: /Tools: Agile, BPMN, Process Modeling, Visio

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and optimize business workflow process
• Performed analysis of system requirements, worked closely with developers, QA & Functional community
• Collaborated with business partners on creating & maintaining documentation for continued support

Environment: /Tools: Agile, BPMN, Jira, Process Modeling, Visio

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Identified, evaluated and developed cost-effective systems to meet Enterprise business requirements
• Helped adapt Agile Best Practices by Development Teams including Kanban board
• Acted as a lead in providing application design guidance, development and consultation utilizing a thorough understanding of BPM and business process automation
• Acted as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts

Environment: /Tools: Agile, BPMN, VersionOne, Visio, Confidential Process Designer

Confidential

Enterprise Architect / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Functional Subject Matter Experts to document "as is" manual business process
• Utilized standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to organize process activities by role or swim lane for business process improvement and automation
• Participated in regular Scrum Meetings including daily standups, retrospectives, iteration planning and functioned as Scrum Master in leading the development team
• Effective at gathering and documenting requirements utilizing Agile Methodology including user stories, utilizing a Kanban board to track user stories, maintain product backlog, held iteration planning meetings
• Utilized a majority of tools in the SoftwareAG's webMethods suite for Business Process automation, business process improvement & business process reengineering
• Produced and maintained associated process models and other Architectural documentation
• Functioned as a bridge between the functional and technical communities

Environment: Active Directory, Agile, BPMN, Visio, webMethods, Confidential Rational System Architect

Confidential

Project Manager / Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Project Management and engineering support for numerous infrastructure changes and improvements at many client locations throughout several Midwestern states
• Proposed, developed, and implemented all solutions into the existing infrastructure including in-depth documentation of infrastructure changes within the environment
• Followed Windows domain/server best practices utilizing group policies, JavaScript, or Visual Basic scripting along with permissions-based security
• Developed process improvements to streamline & organize deployment of solutions into infrastructure

Environment: Active Directory, Windows 2000/2003/2008