SUMMARY

• Over eighteen years of experience in the development of business application systems with exposure to all phases of the system development lifecycle. Over 10 years of IT experience from a business system analyst with proven experience in functional requirement gathering, user interviews, database design and development and application development.
• PMP certified Senior Business Analyst with strong management and interpersonal skills.
• Extensive knowledge on Common Securitization business process and integration with Common Securitization Platform (CSP) .
• Domain knowledge on Mortgage Backed Security (MBS) business process.
• Business process knowledge on Mortgage Backed Securitization process - Broadcast, Disclosure, Issuance, Collapse and Dissolve
• Experience in functional requirement gathering, user interviews, business requirement gathering, acceptance testing, process flow diagram, data flow diagram, data analysis, risk mitigation and testing strategy discussions.
• Strong background in Data Warehousing, ETL Process and Reporting.
• Worked on implementation of Data Warehouse, BI solutions, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Data Modeling, Business Process Analysis, Dimensional Data Modeling, FACT & Dimensions tables, Physical & Logical Data Modeling
• Strong experience with Agile methodology process - daily scrum, product grooming, sizing and tasking.
• Experience in conducting product grooming sessions with product owner, business SMEs, project team and developing user stories.
• Very good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• Extensive experience in creating Use Case diagram, UML diagram, Activity Diagram, Work Flow diagram, Process Flow diagram, Entity Relationship diagram, Data Flow diagrams.
• Experience with black box testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect tracking, Quality Center etc.
• Experience in writing SQL queries/scripts for data analysis and QA report testing.
• Strong background with system analysis and application development.
• Experience in Application Development Management, Scheduling of Activities, Estimation, Resource Leveling, Task Allocation and Tracking, Client Management, Training, Recruitment, Business Development Initiatives, Production support.
• Leadership and team-building skills
• Excellent project methodology and process background
• Experience in leading teams in new development, maintenance, integration, and system testing
• Performed Business planning, consolidation, forecasting, budgeting, dashboards, predictive analytics and reporting
• Excellent written, oral, analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal communication skills
• Last 13 years working in US with leading clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Management: Rational DOORS, Version One

Business Modeling: MS Visio, Rational Rose

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest

Database: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MS Access

Languages: COBOL, JAVA, C, C++, SQL, HTML, UNIX Shell Scripting.

Operating Systems: Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT, UNIX, DOS, MVS

Other Tool/ Technologies: MS Office, MS Project, Version One, Sharepoint site, IBM Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Unisys Mainframes, COBOL, TIP, DPS, FORMGEN, SFS, COOL GEN (4.1&6.0), Report Composer, Tuxedo

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tysons Corner

Senior Business Analyst & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As a business analyst, responsible for analyzing and writing detailed business requirements necessary for single family mortgage securitization.
• Analyzed and developed user stories for Cash, Multi Lender (ML), Multi Lender Giant (MLG) securitization.
• Analyzed and documented Broadcast, Disclosure, Issuance and Collapse processes.
• As a business analyst, responsible for conducting requirement gathering sessions with business SMEs, business users and developing user stories.
• As a data analyst, responsible for analyzing data elements send with each business process and finding source to populate it.
• Responsible for creating test plan, test strategy document for source system and integration testing strategy with other 9 systems.
• Responsible for coordinating with immediate downstream, upstream systems and conducting sys to sys integration testing.
• Responsible for coordinating with all source systems and conduct business process flow testing with CSS.
• Analyzing defects found during integration testing, assigning the defect to right source system, retesting the defects and close it.
• Creating UAT test cases and conduct user acceptance testing after iteration end.
• As a scrum master responsible for Iteration planning, grooming iteration stories and conduct story sizing meeting.
• Responsible for conducting daily scrum and status reporting to management.
• Conduct iteration demo to product owner and other stake holders. Receive the acceptance of user stories and close the iteration.
• Conduct retrospective meeting with all team members, document the outcome, monitor and improve.

Confidential, Philadelphia

Senior Business Analyst/UAT Testing

Responsibilities:

• As a business analyst, responsible for analyzing and writing detailed business requirements necessary for complete consumer data warehouse build.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gather requirements, facilitated user stories workshop and documented User Stories.
• Worked with product owner to maintain product backlog and prioritizing it.
• Analyze Everyday Health activity data, raise questions and gap around the data. Get answers from Everyday Health and develop detailed business requirements for file load process.
• Report mock-up necessary to satisfy Everyday Health campaign monitoring and pre-sales reporting.
• Analyze the report mock-up and create presentation layer requirements for report metrics, dimensions and filters.
• Analyze prescription (RX), Diagnosis (DX), Specialty (LRX) data and develop detailed IMS data requirements.
• Analyze Confidential t bridge process and create functional requirements to bridge Everyday Health data and IMS data.
• Analyze Experian extended attributes and, develop functional and data requirements to load Confidential t extended attributes.
• Analyze market definition process and create functional requirements to support Everyday Health campaign monitoring and pre-sales reports.
• Analyze Advanced Analyst’s incremental and final ROI study process, and write functional requirement to support these activities
• Participated and contributed in daily scrum, sprint meeting and spring review meeting.
• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan, Test Cases for the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and validation.
• Attend daily system test meetings, analyze test findings and answer questions.
• Create operational support procedures and conduct review, and training meetings.

Environment: UNIX, Oracle, PL/SQL, DM Express, Appature Nexus, Tableau, HP Quality Center, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Rational Clear Quest, Agile/Scrum

Confidential, Chicago

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and executing 408b2 regulatory project, Fee accrual project and others within the group.
• Responsible for end to end project delivery from Initiation through Delivery
• Prepare project governance structure by assigning roles and responsibility to various team members. This includes identification of steering group, project sponsor, stake holders, business analyst etc.
• Preparation of project management plan by defining communication plan, requirement management process, change control process, quality management, resource management etc.
• Creation of project plan and milestone deliverables
• Project estimation and resource planning
• Receive Scope document from business and develop High Level Business Requirement by working with business analyst
• Conduct JAD session to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspective, resolve issues and reach agreement.
• Facilitate design review meeting and assist the technology architect to develop Detail Design document
• Conduct weekly status meeting and review design, construction and testing progress.
• Status reporting to all stake holders by conducting monthly steering committee meeting
• Project presentation to senior management team
• Review documents, get sign-off and close different phase of the project
• Post implementation reviews and lessons learned preparation.
• Responsible for organizing Quality Analyst(QA) walk through to explain proposed changes.
• Review and approve test documentation including QA Project Plan, Test Script, RTM and Test summary/results etc
• Assist the project quality review process

Environment: IBM Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, DB2, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Version One, HP Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Agile(Scrum)

Confidential, Washington DC

Business Analyst/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the SME’s, and identified, analyzed the core requirements and key features of the system.
• Facilitated user interviews and workshop to gather requirement.
• Key responsibility to analyze loan acquisition, Asset, Delinquency modules.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meeting, weekly status meeting with all stake holders, reviews, release planning etc
• Monitor and communicate team velocity and sprint deliverables
• Scheduled Business review meetings, provide high level business plans/updates/changes to technical teams and maintain/control project issue logs.
• Work with team, stakeholders and management to identify issues, escalate unresolved issues and communicate to stakeholders.
• Facilitate removing barriers that impact the team’s ability to meet goals/objectives and ensure cooperation across all roles and functions to prevent barriers from occurring.
• Make the sprint deliverables on time within budget
• Lead the QA team and perform system testing
• Authored and managed test documentation including QA Project Plan, Test Script,RTM and Test summary/results

Environment: Ab Initio,Informatica IDQ, Oracle 9.5, IBM Rational DOORS 9.5,HP Quality Center 10.0,MS Office,MS Project, Agile(Scrum)

Confidential, Eagan

Project Manager/BA/Senior Analyst/On-site manager

Responsibilities:

• Started here as an onsite coordinator, gradually became application owner for multiple application within flight crew and a project manager.
• Project manager and business analyst for CENTRY conversion project with 14 people for 7 months.
• Project manager and business analyst for Crew pairing optimization(CPO) conversion project with 7 people for 6 months.
• Project manager and business analyst for Service order system conversion project with 5 people for 6 months.
• Scheduled Business review meetings, provide high level business plans/updates/changes to technical teams and maintain/control project issues logs
• Work with team, stakeholders and management to identify issues, escalate unresolved issues and communicate to stakeholders
• Led the integration work between pre-merger NWA and DELTA crew systems for CENTRY/PENTRY,Hotel Service Orders, Flight Crew Planning, Crew pairing optimization.
• Manage change request, production support, coverage
• Designed and developed many schedule adjustment transactions -One Way Trade, Mutual Trip Trade, Reserve Will Fly requests, Reserve Increase Adjustment etc
• Designed and developed many crew transactions - Vacation Shift, Split lines, Satellite base preference, Vacation processing etc
• Pre Sales Support for Employer - System study and solution design for CENTRY Rewrite, Crew Pairing Optimization(CPO) Rewrite, Hotel Service Order Rewrite

Environment: IBM Mainframes,COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM; Unisys 2200 mainframes, COBOL, TIP, DPS, FORMGEN, SFS, RDMS, Mapper, Tuxedo; Java,J2EE