SUMMARY

• Twenty six years of IT consulting experience in teh full life cycle of system development for Mainframe, Client/Server, and Web - based systems as a manager, project manager, scrum master, technical lead, business analyst, and developer using Agile, RUP and Waterfall methodology.
• Two Years of Scrum Master experience
• Ten years of Project Management experience
• Eight years of Business and Functional Analyst experience

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Producing project deliverables including SOWs
• Schedules
• RACI
• Risk Assessments
• Staffing Plans
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
• BRDs
• Functional Specifications
• Flow Diagrams
• Data Dictionaries
• Data Models
• User Stories
• Use Cases
• Wireframes
• Report Requirements
• Test Plans
• Test Cases
• Test Data
• Change Requests
• Implementation Plans
• User Guides.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Word
• MS Excel
• PowerPoint
• MS Project
• Visio
• Daptiv
• Team Foundation Server
• SQLServer
• Track IT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master and Functional Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Running daily team scrum sessions, developing user stories,
• Developing BRD and Functional Specification documents to engage outside non-Agile teams,
• Chairing in user story grooming sessions,
• Participating iteration testing review sessions,
• Chairing iteration demonstration sessions wif business users and sponsors,
• Chairing iteration retrospective sessions wif team,
• Ensuring traceability from user stories through design, testing and functional deliverables,
• Chairing UAT testing including tracking reported errors.

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Project Manager and Business Analyst role for web-based applications supporting Confidential MO, Confidential SC and Advantica Dental and Vision proposal generation through policy initiation.
• Worked as a project manager:
• Planning, coordinating and developing deliverables for future releases to define project scope, schedule, resources
• Managing work orders and change requests.
• Reporting status to stakeholders
• Facilitating stakeholder meetings on program status
• Worked as a business analyst for application releases including:
• Performing test planning and testing
• Facilitating meetings wif stakeholders to capture and clarify requirements
• Developing business requirements and functional specifications
• Developed and maintaining User Guides for each user role.
• Aided in teh development of teh ePMO by working wif team members to develop processes and documentation templates tailored to teh needs of teh business and which also industry represent best practice.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed teh Program manager role for full suite of products produced for Confidential ’s Cigna, Kaiser, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthcare clients
• Worked as a project manager planning, coordinating and developing deliverables for multiple, concurrent small to medium sized project efforts for Confidential FOS group to produce healthcare cards and correspondence for their Cigna, Kaiser, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthcare clients. Activities Include:
• Worked wif teh project stakeholders, business area SME’s and Application System Architects to define project scope, schedule, and budget.
• Prepared project documentation including: Statement of Work, Project Schedule, Resource and Staffing Plans, RACI, Risk Assessment, Change Requests, Project Status Reports, and Cost/Benefit Analysis for each project effort.
• Prepared estimates for proposed product development efforts and reviewing estimates wif clients.
• Reported weekly status, preparing metrics, managing change requests and managing UAT for all development efforts for my client group.
• Mentored new project managers on PMO requirements.

Functional Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a functional analyst on multiple multi-million dollar enterprise projects through teh Enterprise Information Technology (EIT). Activities include:
• Working wif teh project stakeholders, business area SME’s and Application System Architects to translate business requirements into functional requirements and define use cases dat fit wifin teh scope of each project.
• Preparing project documentation including: Functional Requirements documents, Use Cases, Flow Diagrams, Data dictionaries, Wireframes, Traceability Matrixes, and User Acceptance Testing Test Plans for each project effort.

Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project manager and senior business systems analyst on Corporate IT initiative to convert from Lotus Notes to SharePoint 2010 for applications, department intranet sites and email repositories. Activities included:
• Worked wif teh project stakeholders and business area SME’s to identify and capture functional and business requirements to define intranet sites and applications.
• Defined timelines, effort estimates, tracked and provided status and metrics to stakeholders.
• Defined data migration specifications to migrate data from Lotus Notes application sites to application sites. Coordinating data migration efforts wif vendor. Validating data for completeness and content post migration.
• Worked wif business users to provide training to help them use their relocated applications and improve their SharePoint knowledge.
• Produced project deliverables including: timelines and schedules, weekly reports on status, risks, and issues, Business Requirements Documents, Data and Process Flow Diagrams, Data Dictionaries, Traceability Matrixes, Use Cases, User Guides, Unit, System and User Acceptance Testing Test Plans

Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project manager/senior business systems analyst on multiple multi-million dollar enterprise projects through teh Enterprise Project Office (EPO). Activities included:
• Worked wif core project team to establish effort estimate, work breakdown, and timeline.
• Worked wif teh project stakeholders, business area SME’s and Application System Architects to identify and capture project requirements, define use cases and user stories dat fit wifin teh scope of each project.
• Prepared project documentation including: Analysis Workplans, Business Requirements documents, User Stories, Use Cases, Process Models, Data dictionaries, Traceability Matrixes, User Acceptance Testing Test Plans, Risk/Issue Assessment and Tracking, Change Requests, Communication Planning for each project effort.
• Defined and ordering testing data to meet teh testing requirements for each project
• Prepared and provided status reporting to stakeholders weekly and monthly

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project manager planning, coordinating activities, developing deliverables and providing management reporting for multiple small to medium sized project efforts for Brokerage Data Management to enhance teh Confidential Advisors Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a project manager/senior business analyst on a process re-engineering project to refine and rework teh product initiation process and redesign teh supporting applications to support teh new streamlined process flow. Activities included:
• Worked wif core project team to establish work breakdown, estimates, schedule and timeline, identify and mitigate risks and issues,
• Facilitated meetings wif teh 18 collaborating departments to capture business process and business rules for current state.
• Analyzed findings for quick wins, bottlenecks, redundancies, redesign and merger opportunities.
• Analyzed teh current data collected and purpose for each teh seven stand alone applications involved in teh process activities.
• Defined requirements for a single streamlined application merging teh functionality for several of teh existing applications.
• Developed business process model for proposed future state.
• Defined detailed use cases and data dictionary based on teh proposed future state model.
• Provided status reporting to stakeholders.