SUMMARY

• Working across functional lines to facilitate the design and delivery of applications and systems
• Strong Aptitude for analysis, requirements, designing, developing, testing and implementing systems and applications.
• Collaborated while building a data lake using Hadoop Hive with a team that employed the system to do NOSQL test analytics.
• Lead application support teams as well as supervised and participated in code migrations and reviews
• Strong database querying background including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL and Access.
• Intermediate Business Intelligence knowledge using Microsoft Excel, Oracles BI platform, Tableau, Spark
• Extensive experience in testing the following technologies J2EE applications, .Net applications, Ecommerce applications as well as automated and manual testing. Expertise in Quality Center 10.25/ ALM 11, QTP, QC, JIRA and Confluence.
• Very strong background in writing and executing scripts with waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Strong intermediate knowledge utilizing AWS data tools, data warehousing and web services
• Knowledge of Agile
• Intermediate knowledge of Version Control and CI, CD systems, version control and CI “Continuous Integration issue tracking including Project Change Requests (Git, Atlassian BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven)
• Strong Analytical skills in Data Management Services
• Thorough experience of leading teams through all phases of the SDLC
• Intermediate understanding of Business Intelligence (Tableau, Spark, Splunk, Urban Code)
• Strong communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Apple Lion 10.7, Mountain Lion 10.8, Mavericks 10.9, etc.
• Windows XP and 7, 8, 8.1 Pro, 10
• Microsoft NT Server; NT 4 Workstation; MS Internet Information Server 4;
• NT4 Server in the Enterprise; MS TCP/IP on MS Windows NT4
• Linux - Centos 5,6,7, Ubuntu 16.0.1, 17.0.4, Red Hat 6, Red Hat Ent 7
• Microsoft Office Suite (all versions through 2016): Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
• Microsoft Project 2007 and 2016
• Microsoft Office Visio 2016 Professional, Microsoft Visual Basic.net, SQL Server 7 - 2014
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Adobe Acrobat XI, Photoshop and Illustrator versions CS through CS6
• Tableau - Browser and Desktop, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Oracle ERP, Apache Hadoop, Hive, SparkUrban Code, Ruby on Rails, Python, Power BI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Burlington, NC

Sr. Data Analyst / Business Intelligence Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform simple & complex SQL queries on different data origination projects that I own to pull data and validate the data exists.
• Build management dashboards using Tableau, and Spark
• Collaborated on creating specifications and building a data lake using Hadoop Hive with Spark and Map-Reduce.
• Orchestrated a reporting data strategy that correlates with the reporting tools available that gave LOB’s easier ways to create different reports data existing in cached memory applications.
• Building small models of data sets within the current structure of data warehouses available by extracting, transforming, and loading the data through the hubs and pipelines available.
• Led a team of analysts that utilized AWS to create the web services data protocols that would allow for us to keep costs low during the creation of the application and data warehouse.
• Create test data sets that have been created for the use of validating data through AWS and the created resources housed there for data warehousing purposes for the EPS system.
• Created and aligned processes that would assist in the betterment of a legacy projects forward movement.
• Works well in an agile / waterfall or hybrid environment.

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Senior IT Business Analyst / Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business Requirements directly from business users
• Led a team of Automation Engineers in the processes of building different tools to move data through the applications.
• Used Ruby on Rails 5 and JavaScript to build automation scripts for a Java litigation software application.
• Built SQL queries to ensure that the data moved through the pipelines as expected.
• Persuade and influence stakeholders in other areas and occasional external parties through developed communication and negotiation skills
• Utilized Selenium for automation testing in an open technology environment.
• Architect complex solutions, manage the development of requirements and data, collaborate with other teams.

Confidential

Senior IT Business Analyst / Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Analysis of different LOB’s REMOTELY communicated findings to the interested parties.
• Used Excel to perform calculations and build pivot tables with power builder. Ported the data over to a larger data mart for tabulations at a later date.
• Performed end-user training sessions from the documentation that I had created and distributed through online presentations (WebEx, Lync, Skype for Business).
• Experienced in analyzing (XML, SQL, DB2, etc.) data across different platforms.
• Performed data mining scenarios using Microsoft Excel 2013, porting that same data in to pivot tables for the external lines of business.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Data/Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed and led processes related to testing activities for new software development systems and applications. Serve as a mentor to lower level testing analysts and may provide work direction to others in the project team(s). Ability to work independently on a future project to define, manage, and complete activities.
• Outlined potential cost/savings outcomes of adding technology to our processes going forward.
• Utilized Power BI to structure data in a format that was readily available to my direct manager and their stakeholders.

Confidential

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst/QA Automation Engineer/Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Handled customer change requests and implemented new feature suggestions.
• Contributed to the complete design, cost estimation, and execution of the new features.
• Also responsible for planning, designing and maintaining clients' database.
• Accessed clients' data and prepared various statistical, financial and marketing reports using SQL Server as a back-end database and SSIS/SSRS to make multiple statements.