SUMMARY

• Over 9 years of progressive Information Technology (IT) experience in Finance Domain with a focus on Project and Business Analysis/Data Analyst on web based and client server applications.
• Have adopted and applied sound goal oriented principles throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Proficient in RUP and Agile Methodologies of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and supporting the development and testing teams throughout the course of the SDLC and nurturing exceptionally good client relationships.
• Comprehensive experience in Project Management, including planning scope management, issue resolution, work breakdown structures, scheduling and costing, Gap analysis, cost/benefit analysis, testing, development of business requirements specifications and project planning with stakeholders.
• Highly experienced within vendor management and third party/off - the shelf products integrations
• Experience in evaluating vendors (identifying, screening, eliminating, evaluating, on-boarding etc.), attending vendor presentations and prepping users/teams for that, coordinating with third parties for issue resolutions and resource allocations, budgets etc.
• An experienced financial analyst handling documentation regarding automation of various processes handling Initial Public Offering and Corporate Actions.
• Highly experienced business analyst with extensive experience in eliciting requirements, creating documents like Business Requirement Document (BRDs), Functional Specifications (FSDs), Test Plans and Test Cases, Vendor Scorecards, Process Workflows and flow charts, Gap Analysis etc.
• Experience working on Migration project, Regulatory Project, Data warehouse Project, Building and Application Integration and Enhancement Project and on Production Support assignments
• Expertise in creating project management documents including Project Plans, Project Charter, Work Breakdown Structures, Gantt Chart, Resource Allocation, SOWs and communication plans.
• Worked as a data analyst, with experience in analyzing complex data structures, creating data mapping documents, scrubbing and analyzing data using SQL queries, MS Access and MS Excel.
• Experience working on Migration projects, Regulatory Projects, Data warehousing, Building and Application Integration and Enhancement Project and on Production Support assignments
• Defined, managed and met stakeholder expectations
• Track stakeholder expectations and refined work plan to satisfy requirements with moderate supervision
• Gathering, documenting and validating Business and Functional Design Requirements, Writing Use Cases, UML modeling using Rational Rose and Facilitating of Joint Application Design sessions (JAD).
• Experience with Agile Methodologies like Scrum, Understanding the Epics, Writing User Stories and Facilitating scrum meetings
• Following up on the project Sprints and making sure the time-lines are met.
• Developing, executing and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Creative and innovative use of IT for business processes, outstanding problem solving and analytical skills; Effective team leader and collaborator, Excellent written and verbal communication skills, self starter and integrative thinker.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Process/Model Tools: MS Visio, Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Data Mapping, SQL, MS Office

Business/Data Modeling Tools: Rational Suite Rose, Requisite Pro, MS Project, Visio

Office Automation Tools: Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook Exchange, Sharepoint.

DBMS: MS SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server 2008, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, FL

Sr. Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Dual Responsibilities of a Business Project Manager and Business Analyst.
• Involved with Project planning and Vendor Management (Vendor identification, screening, eliminating, evaluating, on-boarding etc.) for screening off-the-shelf products and integration solutions.
• Conducted white boarding sessions with the business team to understand the systems in scope and out of scope.
• Involved in preparing the documents for funding approval.
• Liaison between the Management, business & development team
• Reporting daily updates on the statuses of the projects to the management team.
• Worked with the Business and Vendor in preparing Business System Document BSD
• Understanding the data sources to suggest data mapping processes to export data from RKS to clients and Vendors.
• Coordinated with custodians and external clients for the SWIFT set up
• Understanding the Corporate Action Types and their processes and how they are processed within Confidential .
• Conducting JAD sessions to finalize requirements
• Categorizing requirement as either mandatory or nice-to-have.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst/Project Manager for the RKS Support Group
• Project managing feature requests
• Involved with Project planning and sizing activities along with the senior management.
• Prioritizing based on funding and development funnel.
• Owning deliverables & timelines.
• Managing Project plan on MS Sharepoint 2007
• Prioritizing based on funding and development funnel.
• Ensure the deadlines are met and the release activities are carried as per schedule.
• Owning deliverables & timelines
• Lynchpin between the business & development team
• Recording minutes of the meetings
• Using Case Tracker for status updates
• Reporting weekly updates on the statuses of the projects to Senior Management.
• Ensured that Project Management activities are in compliance with PMBOK
• Dual Role of a Business Analyst includes
• Created work flow diagrams using Sharepoint 7007
• Understanding of the processes and responsibilities of all those involved in the business workflow
• Understanding ofbusiness and financialmanagement processes and standards
• Preparing Business System Document BSD and Managing changes to RKS
• Understanding the data sources to suggest data mapping processes to export data from RKS to clients and Vendors.
• Closely worked with other internal departments and resources to develop workflows, quality assurance processes and product enhancements
• Responsible for providing the business with accurate and timely answers to their data related questions
• Conducting regular meetings with the business to understand requirements
• Categorizing requirement as either change to existing feature, or new enhancement
• Understanding, writing, & managing Change Management Request CMR
• Obtaining approval of business
• Documenting in standard Confidential template
• Uploading & tracking CMR in company SharePoint site
• Documenting release procedures, processes etc. for business & SA team

Confidential, NJ

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as the Project Manager to ensure smooth transition of the project from project environment to live environment
• Created project plans, managed the timelines, assigning tasks to resources for the new onboardings.
• Interacted closely with developers, stakeholders and business vendors to make sure that all milestones for Sprints are accomplished and the project dead line is met.
• Tracking the burn-downs and creating status reports at the end of each business day.
• Planned and managed release related activities, ensuring that they are aligned to the timelines of the new onboardings.
• Ensured that Project Management activities are in compliance with PMBOK
• Also worked as a Lead Business Analyst for the eDelivery group for the North America Clientele.
• Obtained detailed knowledge of the business process being followed in the project environment.
• Used SQL Server Management Studio to analyze complex customer data and customer interactions such as the number of clicks, opens, the response times, number of payments through the link provided in the emails, opt-outs and the customer behavior with respect to the emails sent out.
• Prepared and compiled data of key performance indicators and associated business metrics.
• Translated Business needs into functional requirements.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements, performed gap analysis and created mock-ups for the Graphic User Interface (GUI) and system design using Visio.
• Followed the Agile methodology (Scrum) of application development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Created User Stories from the Epics.
• Conducted Scrum meetings to walk though functional and non-functional User Stories with designers, developers and business; also conducted feasibility and adaptability studies.
• Developed business anomalies workarounds, described them in documentation and presented to upper management for review.
• Facilitated effective communication between developers and end-clients to guarantee that development efforts were within scope.
• Acted as a Scrum Master and held regular Scrum meetings with system architects, developers, database developers, and quality testers during the entire project to ensure that critical issues as well as minutiae of the project were discussed and resolved beforehand.
• Tested, Provided sign-offs and assisted end users with the application
• Conducted tests in UAT to ensure requirements are delivered as expected and to provide UAT sign-off.
• Used Quality Control tracking system to carry out defect control and change control.
• Conducted Demo and training sessions to new users of the new onboardings.

Confidential, NY

Business Analyst/ Jr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst on trading application.
• Interacted with Traders, Developers and Process Analysts to understand the business processes, identified enhancements and gathered business requirements.
• Designed use-cases and use-case models to further refine the requirements and understand the business processes. Worked extensively in Rational Requisite Pro to organize and catalog requirements, documents, and use-case documents.
• Prepared Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specification Documents (FSD)
• Performed Feasibility, Adaptability and Risk Analysis to identify business critical and high-risk areas of the application
• Created UML diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data-Flow Diagrams using MS Visio to define the Business Process and Data Process model.
• Conducted JAD sessions to discuss requirements and resolve conflicts between the teams across the project.
• Worked as a Junior Project Manager to define the scope and meet the deadlines of the project.
• Used MS Project for managing schedules, resources and collaboration
• Worked with the senior PM in Coordinating with shared/ support service providers, business groups and vendors; Communicating and reporting to project sponsors and relevant stakeholders; Team building and motivation including identifying and meeting any training requirements; Managing multiple stakeholders including offshore teams; Managing budgets and reporting project metrics; Creating WBS and assigning tasks and managing Change, Issue, Dependency and Conflict management
• Ensuring compliance with PMBOK.
• Worked in close association with the QA team to test and provide sing-offs for the project release.
• Used Rational Clear Quest to track bugs and system enhancements
• Involved with the QA team to develop and review Testing Strategies and Test Plans

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst and studied two different systems that handled client investments that were integrated.
• Attended knowledge acquisition sessions presented by business Subject Matter Experts (BSME) regarding the listed systems.
• Several sources used for this research included: the futures operations dept, product data quality group, trading desk and equity operations desk.
• Analyzed and documented business Requirements and detailed design for full understanding of the business. Converted business Requirements to the Functional Specification.
• Created listed derivatives processing model diagrams in Visio using the business process information captured in the business context analysis documents.
• Monitored client expectations through client involvement and communication throughout the lifecycle of the project, educate clients and stakeholders on the benefits and risks associated with the project.
• Worked as a Project Manager to define project plans, create milestones and timelines for successful completion of the project.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Business Analyst on application for portfolio analysis and asset management
• Conducted 1-to-1 interviews and user meetings with key users to collect Business Requirements and business process information
• Organized and Documented Business Requirement Documentations, Features Requirement Documentations, and System Specification Documentations
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOAD using UML
• Interacted with Investment professionals and Closely worked with Development Team to ensure their Understanding User Requirement
• Assisted PM in every phase of the project.
• Developed Project Plan, Tracked and Managed Project Process, Managed project and resources for successful delivery, following RUP-based SDLC methodologies
• Assisted in Testing and Implementation
• Developed QA Test Plan, and assisted QA team in System Testing to ensure the new system satisfy all User requirements
• Worked with Users and Tech team in managing and handling User Request Change and User Conflicts
• Developed User Manual and Assisted with User Training.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Junior Business Analyst in the AIG Business Analysis team.
• Assisted in building a business analysis process around Rational Unified Process (RUP) model using Rational Rose and Visio
• Studied and assessed the clients systems and business processes.
• Addressed all aspects of the claim processing lifecycle, starting from identifying a claim right up to closure.
• Researched the various steps in the lifecycle and then constructed the system in such a way that the riskier claims could be easily identified and monitored.
• Performed requirement analysis and created the use cases and workflows
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD using UML.
• Implemented Traceability Matrix and User Requirement Specification
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Used Data warehousing for the arrangement of customer data.
• Assisted the Project Manager in various phases of the Project
• Developed project plans and managed scope.
• Assisted in Testing
• Played a key role in the planning, User Accepted Testing, and implementation of system enhancements and conversions.