Business Analyst Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Seasoned healthcare, Certified Scrum Master and Project Management Professional with 8 years' hands - on experience managing complex projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all client expectations.
Advanced cross-functional leader and collaborator within waterfall, agile, and hybrid environments.
Expert translator of written/verbal material throughout cross-cultural and multi-level audience.
Full project life cycle manager to include risk, budget, schedule, resources, and procurement.Relentless self-learner with intense passion for technology & disruptive value innovation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Provide a team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software.
Facilitated: Daily scrum (stand-up), release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review (demo) and Sprint retrospective- ensure all participants understand the ceremony's purpose and keep to the time-box.
Identified and removed impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
Worked to remove impediments to decision-making and be able to allocate personnel to problems while providing guidance.Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them.
Supported Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

PROJECT MANAGER/ SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

Strong experience in implementing end-to-end applications in Waterfall and AGILE methodology (Scrum, KANBAN).
Manage expectations of internal and external stakeholders around product roadmap, releases and priorities.
Worked with CRM salesforce, SQL server, JIRA, MS Projects, Confluence, TFC, Lean software development, SDLC and other project management tools.
Applied Risk Management methodologies to assess technology risks and ensures all identified project risks have been mitigated Presented weekly/monthly reports, that reflect the status and health of the projects to the senior Management and stakeholders.
Participated in PM forums and contributed to Best Practices as part of the Project Management OfficeConducted a strategic audit and provide appropriate recommendations given the organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats using critical thinking and analytica l skills.
Developed a working understanding of healthcare nature, types, causes and management of project risk to the extent that they can contribute effectively to identifying, mitigating and managing project risk both in public and private.
Assessed the risk/return trade off using the Securities Market Line diagram, healthcare payer management and digital transformation projects.
Facilitated communication and collaboration between project team members and consultants.

Confidential, southfield, MI

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

Handling multiple projects portfolios implementing Cloud methodology using story card management in JIRA.
Standardizing dashboards for estimation, burndown defect management metrics, overall project progress using JIRA x-ray reports and JIRA dashboards, JIRA Kanban views.
Tracking external vendor dependencies within JIRA leveraging pre-requisite and post-requisite dependencies.
Creating weekly status reports (WSR's) in PowerPoint.
Running defect trending analysis and quality checks and balances leveraging Microsoft Excel and JIRA better excel plug-ins.
Developing and maintaining PMO processes, procedures, and support department initiatives for continuous process improvements using tools like Teams, SharePoint, MS Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint
Handling project budgeting and finances including accruals, invoice tracking, financial reports to accounts payable department, invoice approval for projects in Kimble (Project management tool embedded within Salesforce)