Work experience

Confidential

HP Business Lead / Sr. Consultant

• NJ CASS Consolidated Assistance Support System project for the State of New Jersey, Division of Family Development implementing the Curam COTS solution. Project supported the Child Care, Food Stamps, General Assistance, TANF, Medicaid and SCHIP programs. 90 million dollar project impacting over 4,000,000 million clients.
• Coordinating requirements project staff and activities for HP teams covering the areas of Conversion, Interfaces, Notices, Quality Control, Purging and Archive and Reporting.
• Oversee production support of core projects, including gathering and documenting requirements, translating functional requirements to technical requirements, define use cases, high level test scenarios, preparing and managing the project plan, and recommending solutions.
• Key business point of contact with client and liason to the Technical Teams. Emphasis on identifying and resolving complex business processes such as Mass Update, COLA, Income and Earning Verification, Bank Reconcilliation and Fiscal Reporting.
• Tools utilized included Rational ReqPro, MS Project, Excel, MS Word, Visio, Outlook and MS Sharepoint.

Confidential

Sr. Policy Specialist

• Tracks supported includes Application Registration, Interactive Interview, Eligibility, Authorization, Wrap-Up and Interfaces.
• Conducted JAD sessions for CBMS requirements definition, requirements mapping to CalWIN Transfer system, application design/modification, application testing and production support.
• Additional support provided to MMIS Medicaid Interfaces, SSA Interfaces SOLQ, Numident, SVES, BENDEX and SDX , COLA Processing, and Change Request Analysis/Definition.
• Partner with business users and act as a liaison between business and technical teams. Participated in Code Walkthroughs with the development team.
• Conducted testing and implementation of solutions for System Testing and User Acceptance Testing utilizing both White Box and Black Box testing approaches. Wrote, configured and executed Test Scenarios using SQL.
• Tools utilized included Rational ReqPro, MS Project, Excel, MS Word, Visio, Outlook and MS Sharepoint.
• Confidential
• Chief Technology Officer
• Launched start-up business to compete with LendingTree for the automated mortgage pricing engine services. Within 3-years had acquired 15 of LendingTree's clients.
• Designed, developed and marketed LoanXEngine - a multi-channel mortgage product qualification and pricing engine for use by Mortgage Brokers and Bankers.
• LoanXEngine is a web application developed using ColdFusion CFMX , SQLServer, Microsoft IIS, Java and XML technologies. Key features includes fully qualified pricing, user-enterable business rules for pricing adjustments, Contact Management features including automated Task and Email generation based upon user-enterable business rules, Excel Pricesheet Imports, APR calculation and automated XML interfaces to LendingTree, GetSmart, LowerMyBills, Nextag and LendSelect lead providers.

Confidential

Coldfusion Developer

• Confidential Project Lead team of six to design and develop workflows and activities to automate development of co-branded partner websites utilizing Allaire's Spectra and Cold Fusion. By abstracting web design elements into Allaire's Spectra database and through the use of its Content Management software, the site was developed and deployed in under 45 days. Rhythms realized a reduction in its development time of partner websites from 60 man-days to 2 man-days.
• WebXchange Order Entry System Designed, developed and deployed new front-end to the Rhythm's Network Now system using Cold Fusion, HTML, JavaScript, WDDX, CFObject, COM objects, Java Applications and Oracle 8I database. The new system enabled Rhythms to process over 2200 DSL orders per week during the month of November and December 2000 to meet its financial targets.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

• 4th largest Internet Mortgage Lender later acquired by LendingTree . Assisted in the re-design and expansion of the mortgage website as a Sr. Business Analyst. Efforts resulted in enabling scaling of the existing business, increased services and capabilities as well as cost reduction in call center staffing.
• Designed workflows and activities using SilkNet eService Customer Relationship Management CRM software.
• Initiated business intelligence by using website tracking to tie marketing expenditures to resulting customer expenditures resulting in ROI definitions and conversion rates.
• Designed mortgage rate shopping process using Internet Shopping Robots bots to parse competitor's websites for rate, apr and closing cost information.
• Designed Recommend A Loan using Ilog to capture mortgage program eligibility resulting in the recommendation of the appropriate loan category and product.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst / Consultant

• Directed the development of the technical architecture design during the Feasibility Study. Analyzed Internet based and Client/Server architectures, provided costing alternatives of selected development methodologies. Facilitated discussions with network staff for network topologies and costing impacts of proposed alternatives. Developed and presented Risk Analysis data based on the SA-CMM model from the Software Engineering Institute SEI .
• Directed development teams for the areas of Data Modeling, Data Warehouse and Interface areas. Responsible for the development of detail design specifications consisting of process models, GUI Screens, Entity Relation Diagram ERD and a Data Dictionary. Conducted JAD Sessions as the facilitator for all subject area discussions and moderator for issue resolution.

Confidential

Sr. Team Leader

• Directed three development teams consisting of 17 staff. Responsible for the development and delivery of specifications and programs for the Application Registration, Caseload Assignment, Group Composition, Interfaces and Common Module areas during the System Internal Specifications and Program Development Phases.
• Delivered the development methodology guide based upon Yourdon and firstCASE methodologies utilizing the Excelerator CASE tool. Defined the White and Black Box Testing methodology practices for use in Unit and Link Testing Phases.
• Project Leader
• Confidential

Systems Manager

Confidential

Systems Manager