Information Technology Strengths and Experience

¨ Requirements Development ¨ Strong SDLC Proponent ¨ Effective Client/IT Liaison
¨ Project Planning ¨ Project Time Line Estimating ¨ Resource Estimating
¨ Project Cost Estimating ¨ Excellent Communication Skills ¨ Team Player

Solutions-focused IT Professional able to contribute expertise as a Business Analysis/SQA Tester in the areas of Requirements Development and all levels of testing

• ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board), CTFL (Certified Tester Foundation Level) – 11/2010
• Skilled in the development of Business Requirements from customer desired functionality.
• Offer solid ability to gather business requirements, develop high level designs and create user, technical and functional documentation.
• Skilled in both formal & informal inspection & review procedures
• Skilled in Test Planning & Control, Test Analysis & Design, Test Implementation and Execution and Test Evaluation & Closure.
• Offer solid ability to test at all levels including: Unit, Integration, System, UAT both Functional and Non-Functional.
• Thoroughly evaluate potential risks and develops comprehensive risk mitigation strategies.
• Strong proponent of SDLC Methodologies, capable of implementing RUP, Waterfall and XP.
• Dynamic communication, presentation, relationship building and problem-solving abilities.
• Excel at interacting with diverse business communities including senior management, staff, clients and external contractors and vendors.
• Promotes a collaborative work environment conducive to achieving a high level of productivity and job satisfaction
• Highly versatile; quick to master new roles, responsibilities, technologies, and environments.
• Responsible for overseeing and delivering multi-million-dollar projects.
• Successfully meets all milestones and deliverables on time and within budget

Confidential, 1999 – 2001

Senior Process Engineer & Principal SQA Analyst

• Developed and implemented new procedures using the Rational Unified Process (RUP) software development methodology
• Developed test procedures incorporating: requirement reviews, use case reviews, architectural and design documentation reviews
• Formulated of test strategies
• Determined what level of testing should be performed (i.e. Unit, Integration, System, etc)
• Determined the types of testing to be performed (i.e. Functional, Non-Functional, Regression)
• Developed risk and traceability matrix templates for testing
• Responsible for testing applications developed to interface with the company’s mainframe customer service and billing system.
• Developed test plans, cases and scripts based on business requirements.
• Performed user validation testing with end users

Confidential, 1997 – 1999

Principal Consultant – Project Manager

• Developed and maintained project plans in MS Project
• Identified and managed project risks utilizing Keane’s risk management tool (PRAM)
• Developed contingency plans to mitigate potential risks
• Prepared and implemented a configuration management process
• Responsible for resource allocation
• Responsible for meeting milestones
• Held daily and weekly staff meeting to discuss schedules, tasks, existing and potential issues
• Responsible for providing status reports to the client and Keane management
• Attended formal reviews of all project deliverables
• Reviewed all documentation developed by project staff
• Monitored change management documentation as part of daily and weekly staff meetings
• Responsible for staff performance reviews and continuing education

Confidential, 1990 – 1995

Business Analyst

• Primary contact with business users
• Acted as liaison between business user groups and IT development
• Facilitated requirement gathering meetings and JAD sessions to develop Business and System Requirements
• Wrote Business Requirements to add functionality the business users were looking to add to the system
• Prepared scope documents defining the effort required to produce requirements.
• Created time, cost and staffing estimates to develop requirements
• Developed high level designs used by the system architects in creating the detail designs
• Analyzed the impact of system changes on system performance, on interfacing systems and on shared resources
• Documented requirements, high level designs and test plans
• Responsible for managing requirements from creation through design, development and test
• Worked with business users on usability issues
• Worked with system architects to creation the detail designs from the requirements and high level designs
• Reviewed all test scenarios, test plans, test cases and test scripts prior to execution and all results prior to signing off on code movement
• Worked with the Change Management team to ensure that code moved from the development to test to production environments correctly

• Successfully passed the Series 3, 6, 7, and 63 licensing exam
• Successfully passed the life and health insurance licensing exams in Florida
• Worked with clients to identify their financial planning need and help develop an investment plan to meet their financial goals
• Researched investment instruments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds and insurance as the solution to reaching clients investment objectives

Money Market and Treasury Broker

• Worked with banks and institutional portfolio managers to invest funds in money market and fixed income assets based on their asset allocation strategies.
• Recommending investment opportunities appropriate for clients allocation strategies and investment policies
• Studied Fed policy and Monetary Policy under one of this country’s leading economist, Elliot Platt, who was frequently quoted in the Credit Market columns in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times

Confidential, 1977 – 1979
Assistant Money Market Trader

• Responsible for financing the second largest US Treasury portfolio in the world at the time ($1.75 Billion) in the Repurchase Agreement (REPO) market
• Assisted in trading the banks fed funds position to meet Federal Reserve, reserve requirements
• Sold money market instruments such as CD’s and Bankers Acceptances to fund the banks loans

• Assisted banks, corporations and institutional portfolio managers purchase and sell short term investment instruments to fulfill their liquidity requirements

DEGREE: Bachelors of Arts
MAJOR: Finance

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING

• Keane’s Productivity Management Course
• Project Management Course
• Project Time and Resource Estimating
• Project Risk Management Course (PRAM)
• Requirements Gathering Techniques (RGT)
• Joint Application Design (JAD)
• Structured Testing Methodologies
• Formal Inspection and Quality Assurance Methodologies
• TSO/ISPF
• DB2/SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Project, Access, Visio, HP Change Management Software and Tracking (Caliber RM) tool set, Mercury testing tool set, Endeavor mainframe change management, CICS
• SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Agile, XP
• OS: Windows 2000/NT 4.0, Unix, AS/400, CL, Robot, IBM ES9000 MVS/ESA, MVS/OS
• Languages: COBOL II, UML, HTML, C++, Visual Basic