SUMMARY:

• To secure a full - time position as a Project Manager.
• Expert in the Business Analysis Process & Principles of Business Analysis, Agile Manifesto, Product Scope Formula, Project Scope, Requirement Development and Requirement Management Activities, Needs Assessment, BA of Planning, Elicitation of Requirement Analysis, Traceability and Monitoring, and Evaluation of the Solution, Root Cause Analysis including tools and techniques, use cases/user stories (dialog map, scenarios, actors, events, data, and business rules, pre-conditions, post-conditions, happy/alternative/exception flow, actors (external systems/user roles), and business benefits, fit criteria, and quality gateway), scope/data/interface/business rules/process models to complement requirements (business(functional/non-functional)/User/Software requirements), data flow diagram to identify the inputs/outputs from external customers over the course of a process, entity relationship diagrams to assist in capturing the data created by/consumed by/or output from the system, data dictionary, data and process modeling interdependence, elicitation techniques (prototyping, interviews, document analysis, etc etc), unit testing, integration testing, system testing, acceptance testing, Configuration Management System, Version Control System, and Atlassian work products (Jira/Confluence).

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lawrence, KS

Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst/Scrum-Master

Responsibilities:

• Utilized the Requirement Traceability Matrix in documenting and tracking requirements to support Impact Analysis, Dependency Analysis, work products for all approved requirements, used as a baseline to build feature(s) and finally linked high level requirements to low level requirements. .(Business Analyst)
• Interfacing with the Scrum team to ensure that the functionality of user story/use case in Sprint Planning(summary of Product Scope) was consistently understood to ensure that we were delivering the right solution.(Business Analyst)
• Remove impediments to ensure that scrum team is most productive (Scrum-Master )/normally encompasses setting up environments for testing (SQA)).
• Facilitate daily Scrum-Meeting, Sprint Retrospective (lessons learned, best practices, process improvements, remove process problems/bottlenecks(Scrum-Master )
• High level understanding of System requirements (SFTP (file transfer upstream/downstream, Web Services (send request, send response), APIs (general framework), listening programs within application to process, read, and store in Dbase (schedule jobs at a specific time daily/Back-End Process-NCEA(enrollments) (FEPAD).
• Interface very closely with Developer Manager to ensure Epic/Feature/Jira Tickets/Use cases are fully understood to illustrate measurability and suitability for the solution team.(Business Analyst)
• Performed Functional Testing to ensure App is functioning properly after release to ETS to fully illustrate ease of use, satisfaction of stakeholder intent, and working as expected. .(Business Analyst)
• Expert knowledge level on understanding defining requirements or how changes in requirements will impact App/component, database, back-end process, UI, business processes, business units, stakeholders, and downstream dependencies. .(Business Analyst)
• Expert knowledge level on defining software requirements which were detailed three level deep (business, user, and software requirements). .(Business Analyst)
• Understand “Downstream processes” to ensure that at all times business objectives match up with what the organization is trying to achieve(BSA )
• Create Jira tickets for Epics and all the related features that map to the individual Work Package for that Epic.
• Collaborated with Project Manager of OMS/Winsight Project to ensure that deliverables created were mapped back to objective/goals. .(Business Analyst)
• Interface with the Project Management team to determine the roadmap to building the correct solution.(Project Manager)
• Collaborated with Upper Management to ensure that the Mission, Vision, Goals, and Objectives remained the same to ensure that the project was satisfying the initial problem domain. .(Project Manager)
• Worked closely with the BA to determine how the change requirements impacted the deliverables (Project Schedule) and downstream deliverables. .(Project Manager)
• Remained steadfast in the middle of the process to ensure that I was able to communicate the glossary of technical terms to Upper Management, the business community, and the solution team. .(Project Manager)
• Used Confluence for AM meeting review (current development phase, solution design, project schedule, sprint process, blockers, and outstanding project issues) to ensure that the project was on track to satisfy the schedule constraints. .(Project Manager)
• Coordinated with the solution team and the BA to ensure that we illustrated verification techniques (Inspection, Peer Reviews) to prove to the process workers and problem stakeholder community that this problem was solved. .(Project Manager)
• Negotiated with upper management and the business community to freeze the existing sprint to ensure that we would satisfy the existing roadmap schedule to ensure that we delivered a quality product that was tested and proven. .(Project Manager)
• MS Project to track project schedule and sprint velocity and sprint burn-down to determine the teams capacity bucket moving forward as a estimating process for backlog items completed. .(Project Manager)

Confidential, Kansas City, KS

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in quality control activities such as inspection, flowcharts, and statistical sampling
• Performed quality assurance activities such as process analysis, and quality auditing
• Captured business requirements (internal Stakeholders) utilizing questionnaires, interviews, user story, JAD sessions.
• Ensured that Confidential Systems Specifications are followed throughout the SDLC (FEPAD).
• Followed the PMO model for managing projects (Initiation, planning, execution, m&c and closure.) illustrated flowcharts to capture the timing and ordering of events, illustrate an algorithm, and show how an entire systems functions according to the GMS
• Business Process Modeled validated against end-users then passed to Systems side.
• Ensured deliverables satisfied requirement specifications defined by scope
• Team-member of the Initiation/Feasibility Team (Vision, ROI, Justification, HL features/cost,Buy-build-vendor, and build roadmap.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collect project statistics, measure project performance, distribute project information
• Analyze Run charts to measure trends to improve project portfolios
• Business Case Analysis team member on existing Portfolio
• Performed QA activities such as process analysis, and quality audits
• Performed QC activities such as inspection, statistical sampling
• Assisted in scoped development
• Served as Product Owner for existing portfolio (Citibank, Barclays)
• Captured requirements/specifications thru use case/user story development in MS Visio

Confidential, Kansas City, Mo

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager Confidential: SQL-2008/Client-Server/Linux
• Project Manager Confidential: SQL-2008/Client-Server/Linux
• Assisted SDLC team in gathering requirements, and defining preliminary scope statement
• Used MS Visio software in creating/updating functional flowcharts/ Confidential
• Performed QC activities such as cause and effect diagrams, quality metrics, and quality checklist
• Utilized agile lifecycle and agile strategies in software development
• Assisted in system design (process diagrams, psuedocode, business rules, and screen layouts)
• Assisted in overall software testing emphasis on user acceptance after requirements were finalized
• Captured requirements/program specifications thru use case/user story development

Confidential, Lincoln, Ne

STATE OF NE Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in implementing in-house SDLC(Analysis, Design( Confidential: which in the end gave the end user information as to how the system will operate, what the system will accomplish, and how the system will be implemented, implementation, integration/testing, AID(acceptance, integration, and deployment)).
• Used SDLC (waterfall) and RAD(Rapid Application Design) in developing critical applications based on end-user needs/user story/use case development
• Performed QC activities such as flowcharts, inspection, cause and effect diagrams, statistical sampling, reviewed scope, objectives, and, and definition requirement document to capture requirements thru use case development
• Assisted in quality control (flowcharts, quality checklist, quality metrics) and quality assurance (process analysis, quality control measurements) activities