SUMMARY:

• I am a self - starter, who works with limited supervision, and I have the necessary skills required to manage a project.
• I have experience in project planning and adapt well to changing priorities and timelines.
• I always focus on customer satisfaction, data driven decisions, and identifying the optimum solution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Extensive experience in waterfall and scrum methodologies
• Knowledge of SDLC for project management
• Experience in scope planning and schedule development
• Managing cross-functional and geographically diverse teams
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with peers on tasks as well as delegate tasks
• PMP and CSM certifications Microsoft Project
• MS Office suite, SharePoint, Visio, IBM Rational tools, and agile tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Convened project meetings with stakeholders and planned the agenda for the meetings.
• Created, updated, and modified excel-based charts to track utilization rates of resources.
• Participated in and facilitated scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning meetings, review meetings, retrospectives, and daily standups for agile projects.
• Created features and user stories in the agile tool Rally.
• Elicited and documented acceptance criteria based on feedback from technical leads and product owners.
• Acted as main point of contact for stakeholders.
• Prepared and presented project progress reports to the customer.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Senior Project Manager in managing scrum activities for multiple projects.
• Conducted weekly status meetings to track project status and resolve issues.
• Documented risks, actions, issues, and lessons learned in the project SharePoint site.
• Participated in and facilitated sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, daily standups, and retrospectives for agile projects.
• Created features and user stories in the agile tool Agilo.
• Elicited and documented acceptance criteria from product owners.
• Tracked sprint progress using task boards and an agile tool.
• Worked with scrum team members to remove impediments.
• Monitored sprint data and reviewed burn-down chart with the scrum team.
• Prepared and presented training materials and briefings on scrum methodology to the scrum team and product owners.
• Coached and mentored fellow scrum masters, scrum team, and product owners in scrum principles.
• Elicited system requirements and documented use case models, use case specifications/user stories, and non-functional requirements for waterfall projects.
• Conducted stakeholder and peer review meetings to present and obtain approval of project requirements.
• Conducted meetings to discuss and analyze business requirements with FEMA functional analysts.
• Participated in weekly project status meetings and reviewed project issues, risks, and progress.
• Generated functional requirements and use case specifications for the interfaces between a disaster assistance application and external agencies.
• Generated activity diagrams, use case diagrams, and process flows for the requirements document
• Created requirements documents including functional, non-functional, and security requirements.

Confidential, Hillsboro, OR

Subcontractor Planning

Responsibilities:

• Managed a cross-functional and geographically diverse 20 member team.
• Generated project justification, resource estimates, and timeline for the web tool
• Analyzed and presented data to senior management.
• Communicated extensively with clients, sub-contractors and vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationships.
• Ensured timely completion of project in 9 months, resulting in productivity improvements of 21 hours/week.
• Assisted in development of training materials and conducted training for multiple tool users and subcontractors.
• Provided mid-range and long-range demand forecasts and scenario analyses.
• Negotiated the chipset package manufacturing volume with suppliers based on optimum price and capacity.
• Evaluated and documented improvements in the process for disbursing excess piece-part inventory payments to subcontractors.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Project Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Served as the main point-of-contact to resolve day-to-day resource allocation and scheduling conflicts for statistical data collection at worldwide Intel assembly factories.
• Conducted regular data reviews to assess technology maturity using the Intel process maturity table.
• Processed purchase requisitions using Microsoft Access database.
• Communicated and resolved issues with processing of purchase requisitions by interfacing with site requestors and financial analysts.
• Recommended improvements to streamline the purchase requisition generation and tracking process.
• Managed multi-disciplinary engineering teams to design, manufacture, install, and test hazardous waste incineration systems for chemical plants.
• Ensured cost effective and timely delivery of piece parts by closely addressing any issues with purchasing, accounting, transportation, and quality.