SUMMARY:

Information Technology (IT) professional with over 10 years experience in systems development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies. An established broad - based consultant with expertise in project management and business analysis; utilizing motivational and communication skills to provide team leadership in technical assessments.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• PMBOK
• BABOK
• ITIL
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Requirements Management
• CMMI
• RUP
• UML / Use Cases
• Agile / Scrum
• Change Management
• BPMN
• UAT

TECHNOLOGY:

Rational CLM (RTC/RRC/RQM), Rational RequisitePro, Serena Dimensions 10, Serena Dimensions RM, Serena Dimensions CM, HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM), Team Foundation Server, Telelogic DOORS, Caliber RM, Rally Software, Oracle UPK, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2013, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft InfoPath 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visual Basic 6.0, Remedy, Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0, UNIX Shell Script, C++, Hyperion System 9 BI+, HTML, Oracle11g, SQL Developer, TOAD, Windows 8, 7, XP, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Product Owners (government stakeholders) to engineer and manage requirements, epic backlogs, and user stories for major IRS systems and business processes.
• Utilize Rational CLM to develop and manage user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements.
• Provide leadership skills to expedite activities towards a well-defined set of requirements for a primarily Agile development environment utilizing the Scrum management and control process.
• Shares observations and feedback on internal business analysis practices, processes, templates, and tools.

Confidential

Advisor Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with CMS clients, subject matter experts, and system engineers to derive and map Physician Quality Reporting System ( Confidential ) business requirements to system requirements.
• Provided leadership by coordinating tasks and activities of other team members on information technology projects.
• Recommend business processes to accommodate rapidly changing business demands.
• Elicited and documented requirements utilizing components of Agile (e.g. themes, user stories, acceptance criteria).
• Met with clients to analyze and recommend appropriate business improvement solutions.
• Analyzed and documented stakeholder business requirements and processes, and communicate these requirements by constructing technical documentation, use cases, process models, and data dictionaries.
• Participated in technical reviews and inspections to verify 'intent of change' is carried out through the entire project.
• Developed business cases to outline cost/benefit, impact and risk analysis.
• Provided user training documentation and production support.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the Division Chief in developing strategies to migrate to a new cybersecurity posture to link security efforts between organizational missions and business processes.
• Created and maintained project schedules, Work Breakdown Structures ( Confidential ), and other project deliverables for several initiatives within the data protection program.
• Led the development and evolution of PMO tools and templates to ensure customer requirements are well documented, accurately align with business processes, and technically feasible.
• Facilitated the architecting of solutions by aligning customer business needs to reusable end-to-end technology solutions.
• Led IT strategic planning initiatives to ensure processes aligned with and supported the strategic goals of IRM/IA.
• Developed the change control process utilizing Microsoft InfoPath to manage changes and ensuring stakeholders kept apprised of any impacts to cost, schedule, functionality and scope.
• Collaborated with the SharePoint developer to build libraries, user interfaces, and versioning artifacts for the data loss prevention (DLP) SharePoint site.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting on best practices in software processes and procedures to provide structure and team cohesiveness, improving productivity by 60%.
• Developed and delivered business, functional, and system requirements and specifications traceability matrices, use cases, data dictionaries for various product solutions.
• Facilitated requirements gathering workshops and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to document business processes, and capture business, functional, and data requirements.
• Managed functional and systems requirements documents utilizing HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM).
• Instrumental in user acceptance testing (UAT) by implementing testing methodologies and instructional guides.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the development team to coordinate activities, artifacts, and deliverables within an Agile/Scrum environment, improving Sprint duration by 50%.
• Provided expertise in use case analysis and modeling to facilitate requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders to capture and document requirements for a logistics management system for the Contingency of Operations ( Confidential ).

Confidential

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise on requirements management using Rational RequisitePro for the Defense Health Information Management System ( Confidential ).
• Provided consulting services on multiple projects to import/export requirements, produce Software Documentation Automation ( Confidential ) Reports, Confidential, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Devised and documented the change control process.
• Revised Confidential system security requirements to automate the Certification and Accreditation process, as a result of Confidential mandates.
• Documented clinical workflows and processes, scenario based curriculum, and content development for AHLTA EMR web-based training.
• Prepared instructional and student guides for healthcare applications deployed to military hospitals worldwide.

Confidential

Project Lead/Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and documented technical requirements and use cases for a system to enable stakeholders to manage and assess risks in compliance with the Office of Management and Budget.
• Successfully trained management, functional users, and IT staff on requirements elicitation using Unified Modeling Language (UML).
• Ensured workflow activities to implement internal controls adhered to the Confidential Act of 2002.

Confidential

Senior Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led JAD sessions in an Agile environment for the development of several web-based applications for the Executive Office for Confidential .
• Provided consulting in RUP/UML, leading to the success of winning additional contracts and increasing company revenue.
• Consulted with stakeholders to model “As-Is and To-Be” processes to provide the gap analysis for core client functions (incident/event reporting, facilities management, personnel security, and federal procurement processes).
• Ensured the data warehouse and business intelligence (DW/BI) environment aligned to the business requirements for a Case Management solution.
• Documented business processes using business process modeling notation (BPMN) to transfer business knowledge and requirements into technical specifications for building and adapting systems utilizing Appian's BPM Software Suite.
• Assisted with the migration of SharePoint 2007 to automate the process of consolidating multiple content sources in to a centralized knowledge repository and collaborative workspace.

Confidential

Senior Business Requirements Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting in analysis for systems migration to elicit requirements for a web-based system using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases and workflow analysis.
• Provided requirements analysis for an image management system to facilitate the capture and processing of Service Medical Records (Form 119) of the Veterans Service Network.
• Mentored junior requirements analysis in UML and use case development.
• Prepared and delivered requirements documentation using RequisitePro.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Census stakeholders and development teams to re-engineer business processes and elicit system requirements within an Agile environment.
• Developed use cases reports, user interface prototypes, BPMN and workflow diagrams using Visio.
• Subject matter expert in business processes to support BI development for analytical reporting.
• Traced use cases to business requirements using DOORS.
• Trained systems analysts in UML and use case development.

Confidential

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided requirements analysis and documentation for financial and reporting system applications developed to collect excise taxes, and ensure federal law compliance in that alcohol beverages are labeling and advertising.
• Created and maintained project schedules using MS Project to track tasks, resources, and milestones.
• Served as project manager of the software maintenance team to collaborate with department heads, managers, and system engineers to resolve issues and risks.
• Devised the change control process, which became the model for all system maintenance projects.
• Conducted interviews with IT representatives for the development of a data warehouse solution.

Confidential

Requirements Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led several workshops to train management and IT staff on requirements elicitation using UML.
• Provided business processes reengineering modeling and analysis for an end-to-end Hyperion solution for the DW/BI reporting system.
• Managed requirements and produced SDLC artifacts using RequisitePro.
• Spearheaded UAT by preparing test plans and test documentation and training stakeholders.