SUMMARY:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Deputy Project Manager with extensive SAP Business Objects development and business analysis skills.
• Lifetime learner continuing to pursue certifications and take online courses. Currently hold PublicTrust Clearance.
• Actively drove the collaboration between geographically distributed technical and non - technical teams to facilitate timely project deliverables utilizing Agile Scrum methodology.
• Designed and developed reports together with the extraction, cleansing, manipulation, and testing of data derived from various databases.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst Team Lead/Deputy Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the geographically dispersed scrum team consisting of business analysts, developers and product owners charged with the migration of Lotus Notes databases (applications) off the Lotus Notes server to SharePoint 2013, Salesforce, MySQL tables or other suitable new solutions
• Designated Acting PM during the disability and recovery of the principal PM. Received quarterly performance bonus
• Coached the team to self-organize by promoting discussions, decision making and conflict resolution within the team
• Facilitated testing, data reviews and project deliverable demonstrations with stakeholders to ensure cohesive communication of the data migration progress throughout the project, resulting in 100% stakeholder satisfaction
• Demonstrated standard functionality in SharePoint 2013, e.g. filtering, group by, setting permissions and alerts
• Assisted business analysts with user story creation and maintenance of the product backlog in JIRA
• Created dashboards in JIRA to highlight status of sprint progress
• Ran sprint planning and grooming sessions to coincide with 3-week sprint iterations
• Conducted daily scrum stand-up meetings and weekly full team meetings that promoted a consistently high level of collaboration leading to an exceptional final business product
• Escalated significant issues to Project Manager that might impact delivery schedule
• Conducted new resource interviews and made recommendations to Project Manager
• Prepared weekly presentation of burndown metrics and projections for the Confidential

Sr. Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Development scrum team member for the automation of the Gap Monitoring Tool (GMT) project in Oracle Application Express (APEX) which tracked project financials for CSC NPS executive management.
• Actively participated in daily Agile scrum meetings contributing insight into discussions spanning application and database design, data migration, data cleansing and application testing and deployment
• Assisted the Database Architect with the design of the data warehouse and initiated and devised the cleansing and verification process of the data for ETL migrations
• Developed and maintained the Business Objects universe on an Oracle 11 data mart and the complex financial reports created in Web Intelligence
• Created Web Intelligence reports as Business Objects developer for Westinghouse and Logistics Modernization Progam (LMP)
• Conceived, designed and developed interactive SAP Dashboards to assist management with gap analysis
• Tested the GMT application, uncovering anomalies and made suggestions to further enhance the integrity and usability of the application
• Exported and downloaded batch emails as part of email migration process from Confidential Outlook to Office365 for the state of Confidential Project

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and deciphered requirements from end users and state reporting agencies for new or revised reports, ensuring data integrity
• Created training materials; performed second level training of internal and external end users
• Responsible for analysis, testing and generation of client, management and insurance carrier regulatory reporting on Oracle transactional database using Business Objects Web Intelligence, PL/SQL, Oracle SQL, Crystal Reports and advanced functions in Excel
• Created complex and creatively formatted, ad hoc and scheduled reports and KPIs using descriptive statistics in Web Intelligence by writing variables and contexts and employing multiple queries, rankings, filters, sections, drill down and graphing capabilities, etc
• Optimized report performance by tweaking the SQL generated by Business Objects
• Discussed alternate query construction for client created reports with end users based on SQL viewed in TOAD
• Monitored database load in TOAD by reviewing Explain Plan
• Enhanced Business Objects client restricted universes (views), performing peer code review and regression testing
• Maintained user security in Confidential

Confidential

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated new report production in ABAP by analyzing user needs and translating User Requirements into Functional Specifications for the ABAP programmer including the SAP tables and fields necessary to generate useful SAP reports
• Constructed SAP Material Master loading tool in Excel by identifying relationships between fields of data file and wrote Logical, Lookup, and Text functions and macros to greatly expedite speed and accuracy of data conversion and transfer
• Created financial executive reports that collected and analyzed vendor spend, forecasts and rebate details on monthly and year-to-date basis by using Excel Statistical functions, Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. Developed reports using Crystal Reports 9 for executive presentation
• Developed and coded an intricate application in Excel using VBA Active-X controls