professional Summary:

• Sr. Business Analyst and Project Analyst in Banking, Financial Services, E-Commerce and Data Visualization.
• Developed Business Process flows in support of very large data application conversions.
• Led UAT efforts on the business side. Mentored other business analysts on tools, analysis techniques and quality standards.
• Experienced in data and Workflow analysis. Functional and nonfunctional requirements gathering JAD sessions , and test case planning and execution Test Director/Quality Center .
• Skilled user of MS front office tools, Visio, Project, Access and Oracle Business Suite to include HR
• Advanced in use of UML tools and techniques to communicate Business Requirements between non technical and technical team members including the use of Requisite Pro.
• Basic knowledge of Cognos, Business Objects, Peoplesoft Enterprise products.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Project Analyst Contractor

• Gathered requirements from the stakeholders, SMEs, technical managers and end users through formal JAD sessions and informal channels.
• Analyzed the requirements and recommended priorities and functional groupings
• Documented legacy source system data and business workflows. Incorporated workflow analysis into recommended conversion workflow sequence.
• Conducted daily work sessions between the Business and IT to resolve open issues.
• Partner with the business stakeholders, targeted consulting engagements, technology teams, and other project teams within the SDLC process groups.
• Created dozens of Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Interaction Diagrams and Test Cases from business requirements.
• Collaborated with the Business SMEs to develop and validate business rules for the translation, transformation or aggregation of data to a target destination.
• Develops complex Project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allotment of resources for each phase of the Project.
• Identifies and schedules Project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
• Coordinates recruitment and assignment of Project personnel, human resources management tools such as Peoplesoft and Oracle, salary processing, yearly reviews etc.
• Assigns duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority to Project personnel.
• Directs and coordinates activities of Project personnel to ensure Project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
• Manages and monitors the work of the team, to ensure that the team focuses on high priority items, while promoting teamwork.
• Coordinates and responds to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Questions designs and/or procedures to enhance the quality of the application and/or process for building the application, ecommerce, fidelity etc..
• Demonstrates accountability for the results of the team.
• Implements metrics to track team performance against schedule expectations and budget.
• Assist in the development of compliance related training materials, including administrative tasks and maintenance of the Bank's online compliance training system, BAI. Additionally, in conjunction with Compliance Officer develop In-house classroom Compliance and Fair Lending training.
• Develops and maintains technical and Project documentation.
• Prepares Project status reports and keep management, clients, and others informed of Project status and related issues.
• Ensure integrity of information supplied to Management across Financial functions.
• Management of sharepoint sites within department and projects.
• Supporting the IT department with coordination and support and identifying projects with deficient documentation.
• Following up with project managers to ensure all appropriate documentation is in place.
• Act as the liaison for Risk Analysis and business units for Corporate Commercial and Group Functions.
• Coaching to the business teams to develop their Lean capability.
• Identify, evaluate and track progress of program deliverables, escalating them appropriately.
• Assisting with the production of weekly status reports for the head of delivery and inputs into the monthly board reports, organize and run
• Supporting the SVP Head of IT Delivery where necessary and the wider IT Delivery team, coverage on a day to day basis, including preparation of presentation, business planning, market and competitor analysis and staff management matters. Working closely with Finance on pipeline reporting.
• Experience in implementation and support of Oracle Financial Applications ERP
• Support with risk assessments of business lines' HMDA CRA compliance infrastructure. Stays abreast and current with lending related laws, Dodd-Frank, UCC, and other regulations

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst Contractor

• Monitors Project results against technical specifications.
• Identifies and raises issues or deviations from the functional requirements.
• Facilitate meetings between all stakeholders and internal IT resources, to determine required tasks, deadlines, resource commitments and project gap analysis to insure successful completion of each assigned project.
• Maintaining task/milestone list and associated timeline for all assigned projects, based on review/meeting with business analysts and stakeholders in each organization.
• Track resource allocation/commitment per project assigned, by organization.
• Provide daily/weekly reporting as necessary the on status of all projects to IT management, assigned BA's, and organizational stakeholders, when appropriate and requested.
• Manage projects to achieve goals within scope, budget and on schedule.
• Lead cross-functional project teams across six departments through each software and system development lifecycle including WBS, timeline, budget estimation and resource allocation .
• Took a lead role in daily issue resolution for projects and/or enhancements in technology, communication, and end-user interface.
• Work with data management team in satisfying the data management needs of the project. e.g. development of Data Management Plan, ongoing data cleaning an auditing, and data entry activities .
• Coordinated and facilitated weekly project meetings with project team to review project plan. including timeline, identify risks and review change requests .
• Provided weekly meeting minutes and action items to all attendees.
• Updated the PMO Project Dashboard for Senior Management to include the milestones, timeline, budget, resource allocation, risks and issues for all projects.
• Standardized and maintained project documentation for project testing strategy and test cases impacting project team members.
• Implemented MS Project Server 2007 to track internal resource allocation and projects status.
• Trained nine project managers on MS Project thereby increasing organization's ability to track project progress and manage resource allocation.
• Used Agile methogologies across various projects.
• Process monthly accruals for department invoices and submit to finance at month end, track and process marketing invoices for various businesses
• Schedule meetings, conference rooms, conference calls for Project Managers and team, coordinate and attend all weekly staff meetings
• Manage execution and processing of contracts for Soldier and Vehicle Solutions division at BAE Systems Inc.
• Excellent understanding of the full project lifecycle and the different roles within a project
• Manage risks and opportunities pipeline within projects
• Coordination and oversight of designated portions of business testing
• Liaison with Group heads and product bankers on a wide ranging number of tasks to support the operation and ongoing management of their groups

Confidential

Sr. Business Financial Analyst

• Responsible for supporting President and CEO of RCS Learning Center by providing financial and monthly collection reports on business activities including A/P A/R
• Generated monthly invoices for school and consulting business in excess of 2M per quarter
• Worked closely with customers, parents and school districts to process yearly contracts between RCS and the client
• Negotiated pricing with various suppliers and vendors to ensure RCS was paying below cost on many supplies for the school and daycare.
• Financial planning to include budgets and forecasts for the businesses
• Year end reconciliatons, balance sheets and profit and loss statements

Confidential

Sr. Project Analyst

• Responsible for supporting President of Optical Technologies, V.P Financial Operations and V.P. of Marketing in all aspects of day to day business operations at the corporate level. Daily responsibilities include, participating on conference calls, processing offer and termination letters to include salaries, promotions, benefits, scheduling internal and external meetings with customers and vendors
• Additionally supported 2 Directors of Marketing as department was being built, Finance Director of Optical Technologies, V.P. of Strategy Business Development and the Manager of Financial Planning Analysis.
• Filled in for the Executive Assistants to the Chairman and President Chief Executive Officer of Thermo Electron Corporation.

Confidential

Sr. Project Analyst

• Responsible for supporting Operations Dept in all aspects of day to day business including processing of highly confidential information such as salaries, promotions, terminations, customer meeting preparation, monthly direct report meetings, etc., forecast and budgets
• Track and review all expense vouchers for accuracy and compliance.
• Review GL to audit for Consulting Services expense vouchers and check for anomalies.
• Coordinate travel arrangements and maintain all aspects of Vice President's schedule.
• Created and maintained spreadsheets for all Consulting Services meeting and training conferences, coordination of invoices, maintain lists for Directors and above.