SUMMARY

• Industry domain experience in Financial Budgeting, Insurance, Mortgage, Risk Management
• Investment Bank expertise includes Broker - Dealer operations, Risk Scoring, Collateral & Limits Management, Performance Measurement, and Portfolio Attribution.
• Hands on experience in creating Business Process Models, which defined the high level business activities and processes and provided a foundation for the Use Case model.
• Experienced in development methodologies including Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Rational XDE, Requisite Pro, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Agile Development, Object Modeling Technique (OMT), Extreme Programming (XP), SDLC and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) using DOORS
• Business documentation skills include Business Requirements (BRD), USE Cases, Business Process Architecture, System Requirements Specification (SRS), Data Dictionary, Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP), Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams.
• Mortgage Industry expertise includes Counterparty Credit Risk Management, Mortgage Backed Securities, Performing Loans, Credit Losses and e-Mortgages.
• Interacting with stakeholders, gathering requirements, rating them and assigning priorities to each of them.
• Elicitation techniques like interviewing, questionnaires, brainstorming, focus groups, prototyping, cost/benefit analysis and risk analysis.
• BBA degreed professional with experience in Business Strategy, Process Modeling, implementation and integration solutions, utilizing quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Extensive experience in conducting GAP analysis, SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis, NPV and ROI analysis.
• Working knowledge of SDLC and Certified as a Scrum Master
• Requirements management using tools like DOORS and Rational Requisite Pro. Extensive experience in working with metadata and analyzing it to check whether there is consistency in the expected results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Applications: Moody s Risk Calc 4.0, Moodys Credit Edge, Moody s Risk Analyst, @Risk, SNL, Bloomberg

Business & Data Modeling Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Certified in MS Access, Visio, DOORS / ERS, MS Project, @Risk, MS Project

Methodologies: RUP, Agile, SIX SIGMA, SDLC, SWOT

Reporting Tools: Tableau, Business Objects, Excel, Access, SAP Business Objects, Visual Basic

Databases: Sybase, MS Access (Certified), Oracle, SQL Server

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Business Strategy Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Re-engineered the existing Internal ratings model for each major customer type such as Banks, Credit Unions, Thrifts, MBs, MIs, Broker Dealers, HFA's and MF (Investors and Operators) that included switching from a pre-defined scale based rating system to a Probability of default based ratings system, which is more consistent with OCC standards.
• Managed Business Process Redesign using Six Sigma methodology for the Counterparty Credit Risk Management in the areas of Counterparty Eligibility Assessment, Risk Surveillance, Risk Mitigation and Corporate Governance and Audit Compliance for single family, multi-family and capital markets services.
• Domain expertise included evaluation of Internal risk Ratings, ALGO Limits and Credit Risk Exposures, Risk Exposure Modeling, REPO/ ABCP/ MABS/ MRB/ Fed Funds/ MMF/ Custodian monitoring, Rep & Warrants assignments, Deal Pipeline Management processes, Form 16, Form 1107, Form 1035 and EORM results.
• Project required extensive use of Business data reporting tools such as Micro Strategy and Business Objects.
• Devised and implemented a business solution to track counterparty risks to Confidential business.
• Re-engineered business processes to manage customer Risks and handle counterparty transactions according to the risks exposed to.
• Responsible for Conducting JAD Sessions, requirements and Change Requests (CR) meetings
• Led the team in collecting and writing the business requirements.
• Worked as a SME for the UAT.
• Collectively created prototypes to present to the business for the business requirements.
• Created Business cases and worked closely with the model governance to obtain the approval on models and their usage by the business teams.
• Created business data glossaries and worked with the system architects to create system mappings and logical data models.
• Actively created the task lists, Project plans, test plans, and updated MS Project in accordance with the business project manager.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Business Financial Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Performed Business Analysis, System Analysis and Budget Analysis
• Managed weekly and ad-hoc budget reporting for our department.
• Core team member in the Budgeting committee for the IS division. Some of my roles also included process development and process easing for the user. Primary in charge for metrics reporting with claims and insurance data
• Primary in charge for the collection of data and analyzing the same for Budget analysis.
• Performed various analyses for presentation to the budget chair. Some of the standard budget analysis includes ABC analysis, ROI analysis, Onion Analysis, and planning analysis.
• Generated reports off the data collected and entered into the budget system, on timely basis for the budgeting committee.
• Primary in charge for the documentation of process and task completion document.
• Analyzing various processes after the budget completed as lessons learned, with a motto of “How can we make it easier and better”.
• Responsible for ad-hoc reporting for the Commercial Client Management department.
• Review roles and be an intermediary between the Commercial Client Management department and other departments in the company.
• Responsible for tracking and keeping notes on number of claims with related clients.
• Tracking of burn rates, project starts, and project completions. f clients as new process are created and documented.
• Conduct review meetings between several departments.
• Reporting against MPS using MS Access, MS Excel, and Business Intelligence tools.
• Project required extensive use of Business data reporting tools such as Tableau and MS Access based VB reporting.
• Track production issues using remedy and report periodically to group charged with monitoring uptime and efficiency of production application.
• Extract data, format and run reports, or perform specific analytical functions using ITSM application modules e.g. Incident, Problem, and Asset.
• Troubleshoot more difficult or complex production slowdowns or bottlenecks and determine if application, OS environment, or network is causing problem.
• Responded with limits of the 24/7 systems service level agreement. This includes application, configuration, and monitoring requests from users.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed the project of re-engineering the entire credit sales application of CitiFinancial as a SCRUM Master using AGILE methodology with a team consisting of Product owners, BAs, Designers, Developers and Testers
• Managed all activities of weekly sprints to develop the self-service web-based oriented architecture platform that allowed customers to access their loan account information and make online payments and integrated existing Banking Data Warehouse to source from multiple internal and external source systems into a central, consolidated company-wide customer database in a timely manner.
• Reengineered business processes and managed high-level implementation plans, data models, and process models in a web-based Service Oriented Architecture to integrate cross-functional lines of business.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed and documented business requirements based on the analysis of mortgage loan processing workflow model.
• Created and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) between the requirements and other products such as design documents and test plans.
• Initiated Use Case using UML, which provided the framework for potential use case deliverables and documented BRDs, FRDs using DOORS.
• Ensured verification and sign-off of business requirements by various stakeholders/investors under SOX Compliance.
• Created Gantt chart and used them to develop project schedule, allocate resources and make cost estimates using MS Project.
• Created Test Acceptance Report and made sure all test cases have been executed and all non-deferred defects have been resolved.
• Involved in regular reports, feedback and communication with the management, coordinating the team members and maintaining the project delivery and documentation of project.
• Created UAT Test Strategy and Plan and conducted detailed walkthrough sessions with all stakeholders to communicate their responsibilities and effort requirements for the UAT.
• Lead Performance Testing during UAT, tested for Load and response time

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with cross functional teams in order to establish comprehensive business and functional requirements and then translated those requirements into software design specifications.
• Prioritized the requirements gathered from financial specialists, business users, domain experts through interviews and JAD sessions.
• Identified the deliverables at the end of the inception and elaboration phase of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) life cycle in terms of business modeling and requirements analysis.
• Conducted various meetings and interacted with the analysts, and developers to discuss Enhancement and Modification Request issues.
• Extensive experience in writing requirements for Source to Target Transformation for obtaining data from multiple data sources.
• Conducted demo sessions for database architect and ETL developers for fitting the data from the new sources.
• Version control of the artifacts generated within the life cycle using Rational Clear Case.
• Performed Functionality testing and regression testing
• Created business process workflow diagrams (Activity diagrams) for the as-is and to-be process in Rational Rose.
• Created Business Use-Case Model and Business use Case specifications after accessing the status and scope of the project and understanding the business processes.
• Created and managed use-case templates and traceability relationships in RequisitePro.
• Managed all the requirements (Business and Application use cases) in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members and to maintain traceability between requirements, design, SIT test cases and UAT test cases.
• Conducting and tracking SIT and UAT using HP Quality Test Center.
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Managed and controlled change using Clear Quest, associated requirements to specific change request/enhancements/defects and made sure that other teams were following the change requests guidelines.
• Linked business processes to organizational objectives, performed critical path analysis, and identified opportunities for business process improvement.
• Updated the issues log with all issues identified during UAT and created defect tickets in clear quest for all defects and enhancements identified during UAT.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures to test changes using the HP Quality Test Center