PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• A thorough professional with 12+ years of dependable expertise in Project Management & Business Analysis. Having worked across multiple domains like the Banking, Insurance & Retail Business, I have adapted various methodologies like the Waterfall, RUP, Agile etc… in the areas of Customer Master Migrations, Legacy to Active Conversions, GAP Analysis etc. and successfully executed multiple small & large projects in the roles of a Project Manager & Lead Analyst.
• Over 12 years of Professional Experience in IT with across Project Management & Business Analysis and detailed understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Business Process Flow, Business Process Modeling and Business Analysis.
• Experienced in developing Scope/Vision Documentation, Project Plan, Project Blue Prints & Scope. Assisted Program Managers in tracking Multi - Project Processes.
• Handled diverse teams & resources to ensure successful project deliveries.
• Worked with different levels of professionals across organizations.
• Comprehensive knowledge of and Solid experience in SDLC Methodologies like RUP, Waterfall & Agile Models.
• Strong knowledge base in various Process & Data Models.
• Subject Matter expertise in Banking, Mortgage Business, Retail Processing & Insurance Domains.
• Experienced in creating wireframes using MS Visio.
• Handled BA teams as a PM / Lead & Mentored Tech teams as required.
• Indepth Experience in Collection, Analyses, Documentation of User Requirements, as well as Organizing interviews, User meetings, Workshops and JAD sessions.
• Expertise in the management of User Request Change, and handle User Conflicts.
• Knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP) using Rational Rose, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Object Oriented Analysis (OOA).
• Extensive experience in documentation of business requirements and system functional specifications, including BRD, FRD, and FSD.
• Proficient in creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams etc.
• Knowledge in developing QA Test Plan, Test Conditions, and Test Cases; ensuring adequate testing on software both before and after completion; conducting and documenting UAT.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and good understanding in Database Concepts.
• Excellent Business Communication and Presentation skills. Extensive working and presentation experience with high level business users, software developers, senior management as well as business leaders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

O/S: Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Vista & Windows7.

Req. Management Tools: Rational Requisite Pro & Enterprise Architect, Together Solo & MS Project & MS Visio.

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Enterprise Architect & Rational Rose

Processes/Technologies: Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, Clear Case, Use Cases, Workflow Management and UML.

Other software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint. Working knowledge thru various projects on Web Dev. Tools like MS-Front Page, Interdev HTML, DHTML, ETL ETL tools like Informatica IDQ, Cognos & Reporting tools like OBIEE & Crystal Reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Complete Project Planning involving Resource Costing, Time & Duration Planning, Project Phasing (Module breakup & allocation) and Delivery Scheduling.
• Handled entire SAP transaction processing using LSMWs & SQVIs and ensured 98.5% accuracy.
• Liaised with top management and executives to gather business rules & requirements.
• Coordinated with ABAP Architects to get to the right LSMW combinations
• Gathered indepth business requirements and documented the same.
• Documented detailed Data Dictionaries and conducted ETL Team walkthroughs.
• Created rules & process for reusable transformations and Mapplets to use in multiple mappings. Used Data viewer every step to test the data flow and fix the mappings.
• Created mapping documents with the required Transformation logic, Sources and Targets for Facts and Dimensions.
• Designed and Created data cleansing, Writing out the files in the SAP required format giving the validation reports to business and loading the files into SAP.
• Created Process and Training Manuals for New Business Partners.
• Responsible for timely completion of migrations.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Track Manager & Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed solutions Architects for an As-Is business process understanding and created a High-level process flow diagram.
• Identified, researched, analyzed & defined opportunities for business process improvement for the Reports Migration and suggested a more efficient & fool proof report migration process.
• From the high level process understanding, created a suggestive document to prompt the users for detailed user stories.
• Consolidated the detailed user stories into various Use Cases & Use Case Narratives going into the BRDs
• Contributed to the definition of scope, performed extensive requirement analysis.
• From the Business Driven User Stories, I have been able to assimilate high level Swimlane Diagrams, Use Cases and Use case Narratives.
• Created detailed Business Requirements / System Requirement Documents for the NFT & Reporting Tracks.

Confidential, Cranston, RI

Sr.Business Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with various business users form functionally diverse departments to understand the various reports they use. Created Report Specs Inventory by mapping the data fields from the reports into spreadsheets.
• Co-Ordinated with Off Shore Development Teams building OBIEE Reports suitable for users.
• Interacted with various users of the Check Automation Team (CAT) to understand their role in the Student Loan Process. This was the most critical piece of the BRD.
• Had to liaise with the DMS Teams to understand their Scanning & Digitization process which was the second BRD required from me.
• Regularly conducted 1 on 1 meeting with Auto Loans Team to understand their requirements of the new system being purchased for Auto Loans Divisions.
• Had interaction with Middle and Top Management groups to document the Auto Gap Analysis Document.
• Successfully created the Student Loan BRD and got approvals from the users in 3 versions.
• Documented the Student Loan Digitization BRD and got it approved by the users immediately.
• Used Activity & State Diagrams & Use Cases & Use Case Narratives to document the BRDs.ries.