SUMMARY

• A proficient professional who has over 5 years experience utilizing the workings of a Business System Analyst in requirements gathering, designing, building, workflow preparation, process re - engineering, process mapping, scheduling, capacity planning and implementing business solutions using information technology on various projects.
• A highly accomplished and a results-driven software professional management and technical areas.
• Have experience in diverse areas, including, Systems architecture, Systems Analysis and Design, Product Conceptualization, Development and Testing, Database Management, Production Support and Full Life Cycle Testing (Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing).
• Experienced in RUP Methodologies, UML.
• Can leverage on and utilize an excellent background comprising of a solid grasp of Business and Management issues as well as a hands-on industry experience in the Information Technology arena to contribute to and share, for organizational and individual betterment.
• Experienced in Requirements Gathering, Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation of Information Systems, and has been highly effective at achieving objectives of the project and the organization.
• Possess excellent consulting, interpersonal, communications/presentation skills and project management knowledge.
• Possess excellent analytical, teaching and coordinating/interfacing, technical writing skills and can relate to clients and development personnel equally well.
• Have adequate experience in project management, time and budget scheduling and resource allocation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirements Mgmt Tools: Rational RequisitePro, Microsoft Office

Data Bases: Oracle, SQL server, MS Access, MS Excel

Programming Languages: JAVA, SQL

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Director, Rational Clear Quest

Version Control Tools: PVCS, Rational Clear case

Web Development: HTML, Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, MS-FrontPage

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, Windows Server 2003

Other Skills: Microsoft PowerPoint, • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Photo Shop •

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Data system analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed data collection instruments; developed and utilized instruments and methods for the evaluation and quality control of research or operational data.
• Collected, analyzed, interpreted, and summarized data in preparation for generation of statistical and analytical reports.
• Maintained computerized collection and tracking of relevant data.
• Utilized specified statistical software to analyze and interpret research data, as appropriate to the individual position.
• Maintained appropriate records of research methods and results.
• Designed and/or develops specific databases for collection, tracking, and reporting of research data, as appropriate to the position.
• Identified issues and developed creative solutions.
• Communicated in a timely manner status, resolution and impact to business partners or project team regarding solutions identified.
• Kept current on issues affecting the business areas.
• Facilitated effective and efficient meetings with business partners, project teams, and other resources.
• Developed test plans to ensure that appropriate testing is planned and conducted to demonstrate that the software satisfies its requirements.
• Document and execute test scenarios and test scripts. Facilitate successful completion of the user acceptance testing process.
• Worked closely with the product specialists and internal sales teams to gather, analyzed and communicated product information.
• Analyzed the impact of a requirement on other products and functions and maintain a feature/function comparison with key competitors ensuring that the product meets/exceeds the needs of the customers.
• Liaised with other project areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
• Liaised with various business units to gather requirements and resolve issues

ENVIRONMENT: Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Oracle, PL/SQL, Windows

Confidential, Savannah, GA

BUSINESS SYSTEM ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Created Risk Management Plans that included documenting contingency plans, risk mitigation and transference of secondary risks.
• Documenting the objectives, constraints and scope of the system.
• Identified critical Failure points in technical architecture to design and test for fail over.
• Validation and Verification accountability for all the deliverables of s/w development projects.
• Conducted functional walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, and supervised the development of User Manuals for customers.
• Involved in analysis of Test Plans and Test cases, detecting bugs in the system, preparing the Defect reports using Test Director and interacted with developers for Debugging.
• Wrote SQL statements to extract data from the Tables.
• Performed defect tracking using Test Director, casual analysis of defects and provided feedback to the developers.
• Involved in defect review meeting and wrote product documentation.
• Involved in writing Test Cases, procedures, reports and approval of software release.
• Translated end-user data and reported requirements to system requirements.
• Understood and translated business needs into business requirements.
• Identified issues and developed creative solutions.
• Communicated in a timely manner status, resolution and impact to business partners or project team regarding solutions identified.
• Kept current on issues affecting the business areas.
• Facilitated effective and efficient meetings with business partners, project teams, and other resources.
• Developed test plans to ensure that appropriate testing is planned and conducted to demonstrate that the software satisfies its requirements.
• Document and execute test scenarios and test scripts. Facilitate successful completion of the user acceptance testing process.
• Conduct feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis and workflow analysis
• Worked closely with the product specialists and internal sales teams to gather, analyzed and communicated product information.
• Analyzed the impact of a requirement on other products and functions and maintain a feature/function comparison with key competitors ensuring that the product meets/exceeds the needs of the customers.
• Liaised with other project areas to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues
• Liaised with various business units to gather requirements and resolve issues

ENVIRONMENT: RUP, UML, Rational RequisitePro Oracle, PL/SQL, Windows

Confidential, Newark, NJ

BUSINESS SYSTEM/DATA ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understood and translated business needs into business requirements.
• Identified issues and developed creative solutions.
• Communicated in a timely manner status, resolution and impact to business partners or project team regarding solutions identified.
• Prepared analysis plans, Data analysis and Statistical analysis report writing.
• Defined the Change Management approval procedures to control the scope of the order management requirements. Actively engaged various partners from the client team to monitor and control the risk associated with changing scope.
• Created Risk Management Plans that included documenting contingency plans, risk mitigation and transference of secondary risks.
• Documenting the objectives, constraints and scope of the system.
• Identified critical Failure points in technical architecture to design and test for fail over.
• Kept current on issues affecting the business requirements
• Facilitated effective and efficient meetings with business partners, project teams, and other resources.
• Developed test plans to ensure that appropriate testing is planned and conducted to demonstrate that the software satisfies its requirements.
• Document and execute test scenarios and test scripts. Facilitate successful completion of the user acceptance testing process.
• Conduct feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis and workflow analysis
• Worked closely with the product specialists and internal sales teams to gather, analyzed and communicated product information.
• Analyzed the impact of a requirement on other products and functions and maintain a feature/function comparison with key competitors ensuring that the product meets/exceeds the needs of the customers.

ENVIRONMENT: RUP, UML, Rational RequisitePro Oracle, PL/SQL, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Rational ClearQuest, Test Director, Windows and UNIX

Confidential, Newark, NJ

BUSINESS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained standardized reports for use by management.
• Supported ad-hoc reports and analyzed requests from senior management.
• Conducted research associated with potential product concepts and forecasts viability.
• Merged and compiled large volumes of data using various data and file formats
• Contribute to data-quality improvement and reconciliation efforts.
• Understand and translated business needs into business requirements.
• Identified issues and developed creative solutions. Communicated in a timely manner status, resolution and impacted to business partners or project team regarding solutions identified.
• Kept current on issues affecting the business areas.
• Facilitated effective and efficient meetings with business partners, project teams, and other resources.
• Developed test plans to ensure that appropriate testing is planned and conducted Interfaced between client-side representatives and users on the one side and the development team on the other to facilitate requirement-gathering process as well as issue management process.
• Helped other support members gain deeper understanding of user issues by facilitating proper training of future support personnel.
• Was responsible to ensure smooth transition of the system use in the client company through workshops, trainings and presentations.
• Was part of the user support and access control group that provided post-production support to users of these applications to demonstrate that the software satisfies its requirements. Documented and executed test scenarios and test scripts. Facilitated successful completion of the user acceptance testing process.
• Conducted feasibility studies, cost benefit analysis and workflow analysis

ENVIRONMENT: RUP, Rational RequisitePro Oracle, SQL, PowerPoint, Windows and UNIX

Confidential, Farmingdale, NJ

DATA ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed data collection instruments; developed and utilized instruments and methods for the evaluation and quality control of research or operational data.
• Collected, analyzed, interpreted, and summarized data in preparation for generation of statistical and analytical reports.
• Maintained computerized collection and tracking of relevant data.
• Utilized specified statistical software to analyze and interpret research data, as appropriate to the individual position.
• Maintained appropriate records of research methods and results.
• Designed and/or develops specific databases for collection, tracking, and reporting of research data, as appropriate to the position.
• Participated in or initiate proposal writing and funding searches; may develop and/or present training programs in field of expertise.
• Provided a variety of professional, fiscal, administrative, and/or clerical services to department.
• Executed and documented test results as well as revised and changed documentation.
• Prepared and implemented data verification and testing methods for the Data Warehouse as well as to design and implement data staging methods and stress testing of ETL routines to make sure that they don’t break on heavy loads.
• Performance tuning for Data warehouse and creating ETL Scripts & Procedures to extract data and populate the data warehouse.
• Responsible for technical documentation of database schema and reports.
• Lead, guided, and train staff/student employees, interns, and/or volunteers performing related work;
• Performed miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned

Confidential, Camden, NJ

DATA ANALYST

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Developed data collection instruments; developed and utilized instruments and methods for the evaluation and quality control of research or operational data.
• Collected, analyzed, interpreted, and summarized data in preparation for generation of statistical and analytical reports.
• Maintained computerized collection and tracking of relevant data.
• Utilized specified statistical software to analyze and interpret research data, as appropriate to the individual position.
• Maintained appropriate records of research methods and results.
• Designed and/or develops specific databases for collection, tracking, and reporting of research data, as appropriate to the position.
• Participated in or initiate proposal writing and funding searches; may develop and/or present training programs in field of expertise.
• Provided a variety of professional, fiscal, administrative, and/or clerical services to department.
• Lead, guided, and train staff/student employees, interns, and/or volunteers performing related work;
• Performed miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

ENVIRONMENT: Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Oracle, PL/SQL, UNIX, Windows