SUMMARY:

• Accomplished hands on Project Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Program Manager & Sr. Analyst. Proactive and recognized for promoting teamwork and dedicated to training and mentoring colleagues.
• 12 years of experience in analysis, process and project management of enterprise wide applications.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Planning, analysis, design, testing, deployment & maintenance and retirement
• Working with PMO, PM's, Infrastructure and IT Service Delivery to establish integrated and aligned release governance and environment.
• Directly manage on - shore and off-shore teams.
• Running scrum meetings, reporting, monitoring user stories on ticketing system.
• Metric driven environment.
• Mentored junior BA’s.
• Managing offshore team,
• Multi-tasker, managing multiple projects and meeting deadlines.
• Experience working with various vendor management systems
• Waterfall, Spiral and iterative development
• Scrum Master, CSM - Certified & extreme programming and LeanIT
• Working with AGILE development framework with Scrum, AUP, XP and Six Sigma.
• Product Owner.
• Communicating with business users concerning application requests and enhancements
• Served as a liaison between business users and development in translating these requests into technical specifications.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders, developers, users, Technology team and the management team to establish the technical and business vision, determine solutions and overall project scope.
• Synchronizing with teams, managing communication and improving transparency.
• Constantly improving communication between stakeholders and delivery team, using consultative approach on high priority and issues.
• Experienced in manual and automated testing procedures, writing and executing test plans, reporting problems, implementing version controls. Adaptable to projects using new systems and tools.
• Worked with tools like Lombardi Teamwork’s, G360 Case manager, Appian Enterprise version 5.6.
• Customize, generate, monitor and administer report - Rally, JIRA and Grasshopper. Customized metrics development and designed Ad hoc reporting on MS tools.
• Creating sprints, reports, user stories and workflows. Manage user permissions. Customizing dashboards and advanced filters to provide metrics and status reports. Managing open tickets to resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA: Manual testing, HP ALM, Quality Centre.

DB & Tools: Writing SQL Queries, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL. MS EXCEL, MS Visio, Data Mining

OS: Windows, and LINUX

ERP: Worked in the capacity of Functional, Workday HCM, SAP and Confidential .

Reporting tools: SQL, JIRA, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, EDI, COGNOS and MS Project

PM Tools: MS Project, JIRA, RALLY, Grasshopper, Rational Rose, Rational Clear care, Requisite Pro, RCA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Piscataway, New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in working as Business Analyst and a project Manager.
• Wrote and developed Archive Preparation Plans and Closure Reports for GMP record preservation.
• Wrote Service Retirement documents - SRP
• Conducting JAD sessions and writing business documents (BRD).
• Assisted in writing test cases, assisting QA in performing tests on the application after iterations. Helping in the test scripts and in carrying out UAT and test scenarios validation.
• Workflow Charts using Visio.
• SQL Reporting. Familiar with SQL.
• Worked with business to prepare a process to ingest the files into Records management System
• Used DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) -tool developed by The National Archives that will help you to automatically profile a wide range of file formats, the versions you have, their age and size, and when they were last changed. It can also provide you with data to help you find duplicates.
• Used DROID to create manifest-to determine the number of files and their formats to be archived.
• Created Metadata maps of each system being retired

Environment: MS Projects, Visio, MS OFFICE, MS ACCESS, Share Point, SQL, METADATA and Documentation.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with key stakeholders to determine solutions, assess impact to existing work processes and systems, and how to manage the integration and overall project scope.
• JIRA - Administering, maintaining and managing JIRA. Customizing reports, monitoring daily activities, creating user stories to be used for the Release Planning and Sprint Planning. Assigning issues to be resolved.
• Process mapping: Perform business analysis after discussions with end users to determine any additional functional requirements.
• EDI - Assist compliance management with ensuring, reporting, reviewing, administering, and monthly management of file within EDI.
• SCRUM - Daily scrum meetings with the stakeholders, business users, QA and development management teams.
• Meetings with SME and Risk Analyst/Managers to understand the requirements to best design the functionality of the application.
• Experience in QA: Writing test cases, assisting QA in performing tests on the application after iterations. Helping in the test scripts and in carrying out UAT and test scenarios validation.
• Project Management: Adapted the established project management methodologies to in corporate implementation of the new procedures. Managing activities of projects. Ensuring delivery of projects to the business partner, meeting the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project. Managing stakeholder expectations.
• Worked in BPM tools like Appian.
• GFRC: Also supported a projects related to data warehouse and data mining tool OneSumX System (GFRC System) - Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Finance, Regulatory Reporting, Market Risk (VaR), securities, Dodd-Frank. Trained in OneSumX System similar to CCAR.
• Conducting JAD sessions and writing business documents (BRD)
• Defined functional and performance requirements, process optimization points, test, and implementation plans.
• Collaborated with business partners to understand the business requirements, developed business requirement documents and functional test plan for specific client modules
• Agile - Proposed and developed a new business processes model in the business designer to show the client where we can improve. This is delivering agile solutions adjusting priorities and delivery schedules.
• Data Analysis, Data Mining; SQL queries to perform data testing under exception conditions on and produce ad-hoc reports for the purpose of test analysis.

Environment: JIRA, MS Projects, Visio, MS ACCESS, MS EXCEL, Share Point, Visual Studio and SQL, OneSumX System (GFRC System - Data warehouse and data mining)

Confidential, New York

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is the world's leading provider of cloud-based business management software. Confidential helps companies manage core business processes with a single, fully integrated system covering ERP/financials, CRM, ecommerce, inventory and more.
• Facilitate meetings with customers to gather and document requirements and explore potential solutions. Hosted regular meetings with Sales, Finance, Marketing and Customer Support departments, redefined their process flow and identified new needs and integration.
• Plan, design, and recommend business processes to improve and support business activities. Interact with computer systems, end-users, and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoffs on business requirements.

Environment: ERP ( Confidential ), SUITE WORLD, EDI, Cloud Computing, Share Point, Visual Studio, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Requisite Pro, Clear Case, Rational. MS Excel, MS Projects, AGILE, JIRA and Visio.

Confidential, Woodbridge, NY

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed several project related to ERP implementations that involved development of project plans, managing scope and deliverables, fit gap analysis, reducing project issues, risk, documentation and presentations.
• Interacted with client to advise them on the progress and possible showstoppers related to the various PeopleSoft modules.
• BPM; Developed software specifications to automate document generation using Appian platform supporting different businesses with advanced business rules to enhance the accuracy in documentation.
• Developed queries for client based on specifications and designed instructions on the use of reports.
• Worked with SAP & PeopleSoft developers to ensure testing issues were identified, documented and resolved.
• Responsible for the business needs of stakeholders, using the discipline of business analysis to help them identify options for improving business systems and processes.

Environment: ERP (PeopleSoft & SAP HRIS), SAAS, MS Project, SQL Reporting, Crystal Reports, Windows, Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Visio, MS Visual Studio, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Customize reporting tools

Confidential, NYC, NY

Business Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, analyzed and defined business requirements for a for employee trading of company stock options
• Defined requirements for automation of payment wiring into the EOS system which eliminated manual processing and decreased payment errors
• Performed workflow analysis. Coordinated user acceptance testing by offshore testers and users
• Tracked system defects and provided test summary reports

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Co-managing projects, assist in project-related decision making including allocating people resources, setting up project timeline, and coordinating with all parties to ensure project progress meeting timelines.
• Acts as a liaison between business user groups and technical systems groups.
• Perform positions/trades data analysis/research and provide analytical responses to clients. Collaborated with QA team and off site IT departments to support the testing effort.
• Performs and coordinates the analysis and design of business systems.