PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Energetic Project Management, Business Analysis & Technology professional with 9 year experience.
• Lean Six Sigma Certified Professional with extensive experience in process assessment, documentation and improvement
• Customer oriented approach with extensive experience in analyzing customer requirements and developing customer/client relationships in a multi - vendor environment; respected by others for my ability to lead meetings and work sessions.
• Work effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget
• Certified Actimize RCM and AIS implementation specialist
• Rich experience working on Strategy formulation and execution leveraging onsite-offshore model
• Expertise in collaboration, system thinking and communicating status to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Excellent oral and written communication in fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Outstanding team player, extremely responsible, self-starter and fast learner. Viewed by others as having a consistent, positive can-do attitude
• Ability to leverage strong analytical and problem solving skills to break complex problems into manageable steps

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Actimize ERCM, SunGard Ambit(Bancware), SunGard Adaptiv, MS Office, MS Project, Skysparc Skyreports, OneData, Modellio, Viso, Cognos BI, Version One, HPSM, Atlassian JIRA, SAS Dataflux, MS Sharepoint. Oracle Flexcube, TIBCO Spotfire

Database: MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, TOAD, Oracle 11i, Hadoop, Cassendra

Languages: C, C+, JAVA

Trading Systems/ Market Data: Wallstreet Systems, FXPress, Bloomberg Data License, Reuters, Markit, Global Insights

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Sunnyvale CA

• Business process mapping to identify As-Is process. Create opportunities for optimization of To-Be process
• Vendor solution assessment to identify the best fit solution for TMS implementation
• Identify gaps in vendor solutions, suggest best practices for implementation and create implementation roadmap
• Create resource, budget and requirement needs to prioritize work

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Confidential, Richmond VA

• Capture and analyze business cycles to identify bottlenecks and suggest process improvement plans- one such initiative led to identification of CWI and GetNext Delivery.
• Understand business strategies and create IT requirements to support enablement of the business objectives. Provide thought leadership by identifying and implementing improvements to the business and IT processes
• Prepare solution options, effort estimates, risk identification and mitigation
• Conduct financial analysis such as cost benefit analysis, ROI and buy v/s build
• Manage agile ceremonies, lead Agile Release Trains and document, groom and plan stories/tasks in sprint. Conduct prioritization based on capacity planning
• Lead vendor and release teams by scheduling work, managing resources and collaborating with teams to deliver on time and within budget.
• Work with agile teams for creating minimum viable product and elicit requirements from business users for iterative improvement
• Work with Product owner for prioritization/resourcing and product vision
• Lead delivery of Consolidated Work Items(CWI) and Alert Assignment(Get Next) features for Actimize RCM to increase investigator and supervisor efficiency by 20%. Saved 200 person hours per month from this
• Analysis of raw data, product db schema and solution architecture to identify opportunities for in-sourcing and extending vendor product features thereby reducing customizations to product
• Data analysis and data mapping for AML data. Utilize external systems for cross reference for missing data.
• Leverage complex SQL queries for data issues analysis and remediation as well as to create requirements for system enhancements using legacy data.
• Creating and designing reports on the AML Data based on business needs.
• Prepare High Level Logical Data Models and BRD documents- Metadata design and management
• Utilize version one for agile delivery cadence tracking and reporting effort
• Identify and raise impediments early to ensure project stays on track
• Implemented automated CIP regulatory reporting program tied to KYC/customer onboarding which was to remediate a security waiver leading to potential OCC finding
• Implemented new suspicious activity alerts using profile and transaction monitoring for SAM /CDD and ingested alert types in Actimize ERCM
• Designed and maintained Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Business Information Models and Canonical Data Models. Mastery in using MS Visio and UML based tools like Modelio
• Carried out impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis and Process Change. Created Test scenarios, Requirements Traceability Matrix(RTM), RACI and performed UAT Testing
• Identified and remediated risks due to customization incompatibility while implementation early in planning of the CWI implementation
• Demonstrations of New Process, functionalities and enhancements and acting as the frontline project support, client interaction and problem resolution. Identify baseline and industry standard and suggest emerging technologies
• Work with agile teams for creating minimum viable product and elicit requirements from business users for iterative improvement
• Work with Product owner for prioritization/resourcing and product vision
• Created and administered training on new processes to approximately 100 users spread across 4 locations. Identified Process champions for new processes

Lead Business Data Analyst

Confidential, Stamford, CT

• Understand the end to end business process to create and present value proposition. Respond to client RFP/RFI.
• Prepared High Level Logical Data Models and BRD documents- Metadata design and management
• Formulate and document IT strategies to enable execution of business strategies/objectives.
• Coordinate work scheduling and team management with cross functional team across geographies.
• Requirements management for Enterprise limits and collateral management system using oracle flexcube
• Identify and work with project team to suggest workarounds to impediments
• Facilitate stand-up, sprint planning, sprint estimation, sprint review, and sprint retrospective sessions
• Prepare solution options, effort estimates, risk identification and mitigation
• Conduct financial analysis such as cost benefit analysis, ROI and buy v/s build
• Created business process maps and swim lane diagrams to identify path of least resistance for process/solution design and reengineering
• Pattern analysis on data using queries to identify aberrations. Utilizing these aberrations to identify requirements and issues
• Utilized Six Sigma methodology to identify and improve process efficiency by 8%
• Designed Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams in UML methodology
• Manage agile ceremonies, lead Agile Release Trains and document, groom and plan stories/tasks in sprint. Conduct prioritization based on capacity planning
• Manage data dictionary. Coordinate for data model management. Integrate data from internal and external systems
• Created business rules for assessing and improving data quality from source systems using DataFlux thereby leading to decreasing time to prepare regulatory reports by 12%
• Responsible for Data Analysis on the source systems and market data providers including reuters, Bloomberg, market, IDC and global insights
• Assist in reporting requirements and configuration of reports in Cognos BI
• Lead and influence multiple stakeholders to align on common objectives
• Carried out impact analysis, cost-benefit analysis and Process Change. Created Test scenarios, Requirements Traceability Matrix(RTM), RACI and performed UAT Testing
• Demonstrated the new system to approx. 20 Process Champions

Lead Business Data Analyst

Confidential, Stamford, CT

• Lead pre-sales activities for project bidding and RFP/RFI response. Co-ordinate with SME’s to create and present value proposition.
• Implementation of Netting pair for end of day settlement as per DTCC mandate-BRD, RTM, RACI and Functional Design
• Managed data analysis for surveillance and AML systems to provide analysis on OCC findings thereby saving potential fines imposed
• Provide thought leadership by identifying and implementing improvements to the business and IT processes
• Manage a team of 3 business analysts based out of US and India
• Lead agile teams for agile ceremonies- Facilitate stand-up, sprint planning, sprint estimation, sprint review, and sprint retrospective sessions
• Backup Product Owner and Scrum Master.
• Conduct prioritization based on capacity planning
• Work with Product owner for prioritization/resourcing and product vision
• Utilize Atlassian JIRA for agile delivery cadence tracking and reporting
• Create reporting requirements for implementation in Tibco spotfire and cognos BI
• Federal reporting of OTC trades using GMEI Legal Entity Identifier.
• Designed Use Cases, Use Case diagrams, Class diagrams, Activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams in UML methodology
• Manage data dictionary. Coordinate for data model management
• Created Business Information Models(BIM) and Canonical Data Model- Metadata Design and Management
• Lead and influence multiple stakeholders to align on common objectives
• Creation of standardized schema for distribution of data
• Created business rule for data quality checks for files from GMEI for legal entity identifier using DataFlux
• Created Test scenarios and performed UAT Testing
• Conducted KT sessions for business and IT users on the new functionality

Lead Business Analyst

Confidential, Stamford, CT

• Analysis and documentation of requirements, business processes and backlogs to identify process improvement opportunities
• Automated cash management workflow to decrease FBAR report preparation time by over 50% saving ~$15K for client
• Manage agile ceremonies, lead Agile Release Trains and document, groom and plan stories/tasks in sprint. Conduct prioritization based on capacity planning
• Back up Scrum Master and Product Owner for Product iteration planning and release scheduling. Enforce Agile Processes for prototyping and iterative development
• Architected standardized data services for multiple funding & trading applications
• Created enterprise information architecture models like Business Information Model and Canonical Data Model using MS VISIO and Modelio
• Develop requirements and configure in-house BI tool developed for cash forecasting reports
• Complex analysis on heterogeneous data to create interfaces for data integration over disparate internal and external systems
• Prepare business process maps and conduct business process reengineering
• Prepare solution options, effort estimates, risk identification and mitigation
• Conduct financial analysis such as cost benefit analysis, ROI and buy v/s build
• Utilize Sharepoint for document and workflow management
• Manage data dictionary. Coordinate for data model management
• Managed analysis for Data Quality Frameworks including Data Reconciliation Framework and Data Monitoring Framework using DataFlux
• Lead and influence multiple stakeholders to align on common objectives. Provide thought leadership by identifying and implementing improvements to the business and IT processes
• Created DMS for Informatica ETL
• Metadata Management and creation of standardized schema for data distribution
• Created strategy for centralization and standardization of reference/ static data, Bank/Account, Counterparty, Trade and Market Data(retuers, Bloomberg and IDC)

Lead Business Analyst

Confidential, Stamford, CT

• Coordinated schedule and tasks required when dealing with global teams.
• Extensive use of complex SQL queries to understand the data, data structures and data patterns to model migration requirements.
• Led data analysis and migration, architected strategy to migrate legacy trades, static data and market data.
• Lead project team with 3 business analysts and 2 developers. Utilize agile cadence for delivery
• Manage data dictionary. Coordinate for data model management
• Migration from client server model to web based solution architecture.
• Architected intricate ETL logic for transforming data into target fulfilling business requirements using data mapping and conversion paradigms using Informatica
• Managed reconciliation of the migrated data keeping in mind the Data Quality paradigms using DataFlux
• Configure and manage reports in WSS for open positions and mark to market
• Created process validation routines to identify and resolve issues. Trained users to utilize these routines.
• Co-ordinated the use and distribution of market data in trading systems.

Project Leader

Confidential, Stamford, CT

• Led risk application support team for SunGard Ambit (Bancware) and Adaptiv application suite for GE Treasury
• Lead 4 member team by coordinating their deliverables and scheduling activities.
• Analysis of raw data, product db schema and solution architecture to identify opportunities for in-sourcing and extending vendor product features.
• Influence leadership for continued sponsorship of process improvement intiatives.
• Worked with cross-functional teams including product vendor to create upgrade roadmap & upgrade plan in accordance to the change management processes
• Align Business, IT and Vendor teams for agile releases.
• Utilize Sharepoint for document and workflow management
• Utilized in-depth domain knowledge to provide consultation to client for improving internal process from business and technology standpoint using best practices
• Created visibility for the client as well as internal organization by publishing dashboard and stoplight charts about project health

Lead- Finance and Accounting Business Analyst

Confidential

• Project Lead for F & A Module of integrated cloud based ERP product. Work involved end to end activity: Requirements Gathering, Use case definition, Design, Functional Specification and Functional Testing along with Quality Assurance.
• Co-ordinated and managed integration of ERP modules.
• Utilize Sharepoint for document and workflow management
• Prepare solution options, effort estimates, risk identification and mitigation
• Conduct financial analysis such as cost benefit analysis, ROI and buy v/s build
• Created Data Flows as well as Business Process Flows to provide end-to-end visibility on source to target transformations for definition of requirements
• Architect reports to drive single version of truth across business processes.
• Trained and supported Sales and Marketing Team by system selection and implementation support

Project Leader

Confidential

• Led the Office of Strategy Management for TCS-iON to build, manage, evolve and execute the business strategy of the unit & coordinate with other functions to ensure strategy execution
• Lead 2 member team for business process and strategy formulation.
• Utilize Sharepoint for document and workflow management
• Train users on implementation of newly documented business processes
• Program/project management and implementation planning. The work included organization structure, process maps and process definition. Coordinated with different Business Units and prepared Master Schedule to scale up TCS SMB associate strength twenty fold over 12 months
• Implemented org wide metrics for unit using balance scorecard approach