SUMMARY

• Innovative technical leader, automated testing specialist and solution architect wif project management experience.
• More than 24 years of business and technical leadership experience focused on integrating emerging technology and big data analytics, modelling and data platforms. Passionate, visionary, strategic thought leader combining business and technical aspects into cost effective alternatives, halping teams understand the full impact of specific decisions, and enabling achievement of near and long - term organizational goals.
• Dedicated, collaborative leader who creates client focused solutions using proven technology as well as bleeding edge technology solutions.
• Focused software quality assurance professional wif in depth experience wif IT Project Management, Software Systems and Process, Data Platforms including data management, infrastructure and governance, Test Engineering, Business & Management Analyst/Architect; Principal Business Reengineering Specialist, and Software Quality Assurance (SQA).
• Specialization in a wide range of disciplines including functional analysis, business process "as-is" and "to-be" Modelling, functional requirements solicitation, systems and data quality assurance, forward engineering, and information engineering expertise. Experienced in data Modelling methodologies including IDEF, James Martin and others.
• Recognized for comprehensive and innovative approaches to problem solving, bringing new concepts, emerging technology/products, and fully informed solutions to the clients and to my teams.
• Highly skilled in program management, enterprise/business architecture, systems development, strategic planning, process analysis and reengineering.
• Experience is built around studying and decomposing business processes and analysing and reengineering those processes using improved business processes and information technology solutions which increase productivity, streamline processes to reduce overall resource costs in man hours and technology, improve quality and recommends solutions that coincides wif organizations vision and future goals.
• Built and mentored teams of automated test engineers focused on PHP, microservices, Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI), front-end, middle-tier, and back-end systems using Acceptance Driven Development (ATDD) testing, Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) methods around Gherkin using a Cucumber framework.
• Manages testing in Agile, DevOps and DevSecOps as well as hybrid and traditional SDLC models
• Works wif DevOps using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
• Redesigned business processes integrating multiple legacy systems for a large Federal Government Agency to a customised knowledge management and workload tracking system on a Livelink Opentext ECM platform. Accomplished the redesign by analysing the systems to determine business processes (existing and identifying gaps), functional and technical requirements, and to reverse engineer the systems to their basic functions. Supported business-reengineering efforts analysing requirements, developing software tools conforming to specific requirements. Served on several teams that forward engineered these components, facilitated UAT and customer acceptance, promoting systems into production environments and end-user training and support.
• Managed highly technical projects wif multidisciplinary teams wif dozens of resources on highly visible projects for business and systems redesign, software development, IV&V and IT governance and oversight and projects designing, deploying, and maintaining unified data management platforms (UDMP).
• Developed over 2,000 business use cases and approximately 200 functional specification documents (unique documents not versions of the same), nearly 800 process models over 35 projects and over 5000 test cases over the last 8 years focusing on Agile projects (approx. 5X as many throughout the last 25 years in various SDLC(Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) frameworks).
• Create business use cases (more than 2k in my career) from SME/end-user and client input and created prioritized Product Backlogs wif User Stories and Acceptance Criteria (done over 12 times for medium to large scale projects.).
• Authored and contributed to project management documents; CONOPS, Charters, organizational structures, RACI charts, project/program management plans, reporting and schedules, ect
• Expert in coordinating functional tasking of project resources and fostering cross-team collaboration
• Managed and builds cross functional relationships across business and technical stake-holders and staff; liaison between bringing them together to work in a collaborative manor
• Experienced problem solver and issue fixer for highly complex problems using imaginative and practical solutions based on professional concepts, industry best practices and emerging methods and technologies
• Expert in prioritizing tasks for self, projects members, and teams; conforms to shifting priorities and timelines through expert analysis, situational awareness, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Provides technical direction across Agile technology projects and team members
• Integrated project management; Agile scrum methodologies to projects including the development and maintenance to project schedules, product backlog creation, revisions, and grooming.
• Understands complex problems and ill-defined requirements and takes them to senior leaders wif actionable recommendations; identification, tracking, and risk mitigation
• Devised and implemented a PM governance frameworks, standards and practices for projects based on best practices across teams and functions; tracking of key milestones, development and tracking of project metrics, and KPIs.
• Experienced through hands-on work in data modelling, reporting and analytical solutioning and data analytics
• Managed software releases through coordination wif business stake holders, developers and testing teams, through production and post-production support to end-user support.
• Expertise in quality review of deliverable including business, functional and technical requirements, security plans, technical design, data models, quality assurance, and more; provided red-line written comments, feedback, and recommendations
• Managed and mitigated risks, improved processes based on lessons learned and maintained risk registers
• Development of, implementation, and execution of test strategies for complex systems
• Test automation and acceptance test driven development; white-box, black-box and experience based testing
• Perform Independent Verification and Validations (IV&V) for processes and systems.
• Systems Quality Assurance (QA) Testing (white/ black-box, manual and automated testing frameworks)
• Software Quality Assurance (SQA)
• Experienced in Agile software development, Behavioural driven Development and Test-Driven Development
• Specializes in Business Process Reengineering and Quality Assurance Practices
• Use Case development, Business and Functional Requirements elicitation.
• Workflow: analysis, development, testing and implementation
• Specializes in Full SDLC projects, Quality Assurance, BPMN, RUP, and BPR
• Facilitates JAD and RAD sessions for systems development and design, including front and back end web based applications.
• Performs "as-is" and "to-be" process and data Modelling, conceptual database design, data standardization, predictive modelling, and data model integration.
• Facilitate workshops to rapidly model data and processes as part of larger systems analysis projects.
• Experience entails use of the Integrated Computer-Aided Definition Language (IDEF).
• Lead analyst on projects to document and analyse systems to develop functional and technical requirements.
• Analysis of “as-is” enterprise wide business processes and reengineer the process to meet business needs, including software applications and performing gap analysis between as-is systems requirements and business model to the future state “to-be” model and requirements and is experienced in analysing COTS applications against business and functional requirements and objectively document the results and recommend the business solutions that will meet the enterprise wide business needs.
• COTS Implementation Expertise

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile, SAFE, Kanban, Waterfall, SCRUM
• Selenium; Test Automation; Test Driven Development (TDD); Behaviour Driven Development (BDD); Acceptance Driven Development (ADD); GHERKIN; Cucumber; UFT; RFT; SmartBear; Ranorex; others
• C (Novice), C# (Novice), HTML (Intermediate), Java (Intermediate), Java Script (Intermediate), Ruby, RSpec
• YAML, Groovy, Griddle,
• Application Software - Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Docker
• Use Case SME; Functional Design Specifications; Design Specifications; UAT;
• Production Deployment and Support.
• MS Project; Visio; Rational Rose; Requisite Pro; Rational Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Independent Consultant

• Performed work for various clients supporting Software Quality Assurance programs, IT Governance, Business Process Management, systems design and development. Selected accomplishments:
• For Red Team Consulting provide technical guidance and proposal technical writing support for clients pursuing large scale federal contracts.
• For Compass Point Consulting supported technical responses to requests for bids and consulted on a wide range of issues including PMO frameworks for DevOps, Software Quality Assurance, and focus on strategic initiatives for growth.
• For Alligar directly supported the State of Virginia, County of Fairfax on a software data strategy and development project. Planned, managed, conducted in-depth interviews wif stakeholders to reverse engineer the legacy systems and tan built solutions to replace legacy applications wif a modernized platform to support the OpenText AppWorks framework. Included were robust test suites for automated testing frameworks.
• For Data2Design assisted wif strategic vision for growth and capture; technical writing focusing on Responses for Proposals (RFP) and Requests for Information (RFI).

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Executive Offices of the President (EOP) of the United States; Office of Administration; Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) Directorate; Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) Branch
• As a sub-contractor working at the Office of Administration, Eddie supported the IS&T Directorate while providing services through the SDI Branch of the EOP.
• The services provided are software evaluations (commercial COTS and Government owned), business and functional requirements solicitation, business process improvement, operational assessments and feasibility studies researching and documenting standard operating procedures (SOP) and validating standard installation procedure (SIP) documents, research, develop, document, implement and train branches in best practices for document management and business process improvements on a variety of operational and managerial subject areas.
• Duties also included documenting Business Case Studies, Concepts of Operations, Project Charters, assessments and other project artefacts and documentation to include use cases, requirement specifications and definition of project scope and planning.
• Provided project management expertise to other EOP OA, IS&T staff as well as reviewing contractor deliverables for completeness and ensuring that the quality is acceptable to the EOP.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed research and provided recommendations for key methodologies to improve IT processes to support CMMI Level 2 compliance efforts including authoring CMMI PPQA, Measurements and Analysis plans, and project costing methodologies and project management practices. Authored and maintained a Concept of Operations for HUD PIH-IT’s implementation of the Asset Management Protocols.
• Supported PIH-IT wif Exhibit 300 submissions and provided OMB300 training.
• Provided specialized support to PIH-IT project teams to include independent assessments and recommendations to support and mitigate potential issues that may arise, as well as to independently analyse events and make recommendations for improvements.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to TRPIT in defining, developing, testing and implementing a large-scale marketing and investment data repository by defining business and functional design requirements through documenting functional design specifications, use cases, process and state diagrams while working closely wif the business owners, end users, and TRPIT technical teams.
• dis repository consolidates data from numerous information providers for stocks, bonds and other investment vehicles and market measures.
• Primary responsibilities were to interface directly wif vendors to ensure timely delivery of data, creating and verifying data specifications, creation and execution of test plans as well as facilitating requirements sessions, documentation and serving as a liaison between the Confidential Price business units, data providers (vendors) and development groups.
• dis project required the use of requirements analysis, information engineering, and facilitation between internal and external resources in the organization as well as test planning, test case execution, defect tracking, documentation and Verification and Validation.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included facilitating meetings and workshops to gather, document and present business and functional requirements to support a full life cycle development project, detailed design and facilitated the execution of systems, functional and User Acceptance (UAT) testing.
• The documentation included investigation documents, use cases, process, and flow and data models.
• Supported the project wif project management responsibilities in managing resources, budgeting, and project planning and cost control.
• Documented full business and functional design specifications, use cases, process and state diagrams, design specifications through UST and post implementation artefacts.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed analysis on project definition documents to decompose the business need and provided estimates for the scope of the projects.
• Performed analysis of the initiatives to define business requirements and the scope of the business need.
• Provided a complete analysis of the functional impacts to the shipping systems the initiative impacted.
• As a part of performing the analysis of the functional impacts to systems, wrote functional design documentation which includes use cases, use case diagrams, process and data flow diagrams, and functional design specifications.
• Coordinated and facilitated meetings between different business units across the organizations to support the functional analysis process.
• These meetings were attended by project stake holders from development teams, quality assurance and test groups, user groups and up to system level managers.