SUMMARY

• Senior Consultant with over 15 years of experience in business analysis, business intelligence, and digital and Agile transformations, working with teams on requirements and translating them into deliverable technical documentation.
• Most recently, worked with large organizations on supporting IT and business leadership through their Agile and digital transformations.
• He has authored BA Methodologies and Signature Service offerings for multiple organizations, along with blogs and case studies.
• Supported multiple large data conversion projects converting legacy reporting systems to current ones.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Requirement Session Leading
• SDLC (Software Development)
• Agile / Waterfall Methodologies
• SAFe Agile Methodology
• Request for Pricing / Info processes (RFI/RFP)
• SDLC / IDLC (Infrastructure)
• KanBan Methodologies
• Gap Analysis
• Business Workflow Analysis
• Use Case Modeling
• Agile Health Assessment
• UI Design
• Learning Management Systems
• IT Strategy Formulation
• Enterprise Collaboration
• Content Management
• Data Analysis
• Scrum
• Agile Transformation
• Product Ownership
• Salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported product ownership and management in Salesforce - driven initiative, aimed at improving agent retention through technology modernization and integration
• Create product roadmaps for Agency and Learning Management Groups on behalf of the product owner and managers
• Lead RFP / RFI vendor selection efforts on multiple vendors and products for Learning Management Systems, Middleware, Video Hosting Solutions, and mobile development platforms
• Prepare team for Program Increment planning sessions in several areas
• Tasked with building out detail for User Stories within the Product Backlog, as well as Feature and MBI development
• User story creation and maintenance (Rally)
• Responsible for running several Agile ceremonies, specifically backlog refinement, task creation, and dev planning sessions with dev team
• Create and maintain knowledge repository processes for all project documentation
• Support general transition team knowledge transfer
• All Requirement sessions
• Business requirement and future reporting documentation
• Creation and management of all supporting QA test cases for each project release
• Project related Internal and Client facing proposal presentations and documentation
• Client communication and relationship management
• Business Data mapping documentation
• User Interface mock-ups and reports
• Issue and change control tickets
• Supported senior leadership, project and technical teams with the supporting areas:
• Creation of a new signature service for the company, the Agile Health Assessment
• Statement of Work and Project Charter creation
• JIRA ticket creation and maintenance
• Data Architecture diagraming
• Supported the internal management and team in the following capacities:
• Learning and development committee
• Internal SharePoint development

Confidential

Lead Business Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead CT office Agile Transformation by aligning current processes with Agile methodologies, artifacts, and ceremonies
• Large Scale Big Data (Hadoop / Hortonworks) discovery / requirements gathering project
• Large scale proposal and requirements for forecasting / BI / analytics
• Internal Enhancement project on a SharePoint Content / Task Module driven system
• Mobile Interface application, aimed at allowing users to access a native proprietary application on their phone or tablet
• Coordinate with technical and QA teams in order to make sure requirements were met, tested, and delivered to end client
• Responsible for the completion of Detailed Software Requirements Specification documentation for all projects, which included, but was not limited to business process, business, functional, and non-functional requirements, assumptions / constraints, scope (in/out), and use case documentation, and UI design
• Worked with senior management on the creation and inception of a Business and System Analysis Center of Excellence by proposing standardized templates and procedures, building a collaborative space via internal SharePoint usage, and fostering user adoption with the Project Management, QA, and Architecture units.
• Responsible for creation and delivery of client project and work proposals for presenting future work to be completed by Virtusa with the end client

Confidential

BUSINESS SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Author OAI-sys (enterprise engineering) Business Analyst discipline and practices for Waterfall, and Agile methodologies.
• Introduce best practices and templates for securing of business requirement documentation
• Key partner on several enterprise initiatives supporting Engineering & PMO initiatives including:
• Conversion project from existing, out of date process project intake system (Juno) to new tool (HP-PPM).
• Mass migration of >500 communities from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
• Design, construction, testing and release of a Rollout Scheduling and Planning Tool aimed at enterprise rollout of Windows 7 to all machines (over 33k users).
• Mass migration of >500 communities from SharePoint WSS to SharePoint 2010.
• Create and implement design of enterprise IT Collaboration use case design, partnering with the Enterprise Capabilities Office management.