SUMMARY:

• I work in the Financial Technology Services Industry; more specifically, automotive finance and commercial lending. As a Product Owner and Business Systems Analyst, I have vast knowledge of soliciting client business requirements and defining business specifications into software functional requirements and integration mapping documents
• I have the ability to establish rapport and credibility with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders ranging from entry - level members to senior executives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Product Owner of an internally developed reporting software platform that utilizes automotive loan deal data to generate reports that log sale statistics and personnel performance
• Facilitate sprint planning and back-log grooming sessions for a 4-person development team
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine valuable product features
• Manage product backlog and evaluate team velocity to prioritize user stories for implementation within a 2-week sprint
• Provide descriptive functional, architectural, and data requirements for development team
• Assist in the monthly release management process to meet client deliverables
• Development delivered ranges from U.I. Development, External Data Mapping Integrations, Bulk Load/Batch Processing, to Back End Design

Confidential, PA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulted financial banking institutions to analyze their business processes and credit practices to implement a cohesive end to end loan origination software solution
• Elicited requirements from banking officers in JAD sessions to facilitate software design
• Utilized Salesforce Web Development Application to configure client specific validations
• Wrote Functional Requirement documents to support development and testing teams
• Assisted test case management during System Integration and Business Acceptance Testing
• Extensive Travel - 80%

Confidential, PA

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a client liaison for multiple automotive financial companies to design a pricing system that systematically computed a consumer’s loan payment schedule
• Created story boards to simulate the user experience and define U.I. requirements
• Defined SQL data modelling while understanding dependencies and constraints of the database system to write complex queries used for data validation, extraction, and injection
• Completed XML Integration Mapping Documentation for back-end loan account servicing system
• Participated in Sprint Planning, Back-Log Grooming, Sprint Review, and Retrospective sessions
• Conducted on-site sessions and provided client support during User Acceptance Testing
• Assisted QA test case writing by defining business scenarios

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst & Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported a regional bank’s loan division to synchronize multiple lines of business into one cohesive loan origination software system
• Wrote Functional Requirement Documents for technical teams to facilitate discussion on design, layout, and behavior of the software
• Worked in tandem with software developers and quality assurance team to ensure project deadlines were met and a quality product was delivered
• Led a team of two junior testing analysts by them on company supported standardized testing practices and managing their workload to meet client deliverables
• Tested JAVA developed commercial loan origination, lender servicing, business banking, and loan administration software
• Generated test scripts, test case scenarios, test plans, and workflow impact documents