OBJECTIVES

To excel at the position of business data analyst by assisting the organization in planning development strategies based on accurate data analysis and interpretations.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience in projects, analytics and reporting.
• Excellent report making abilities with accurate detailing in form of analysis methods, interpretations, conclusions and suggestions.
• Expertise with analytical reporting using advanced Excel features like vlookup, pivot tables and charts
• Experience in writing database scripts to perform queries and build tables and procedures.
• Possess vast experience in project management and business analysis.
• Skilled at using work related analytical tools, applications and software.
• Excellent communication, organization, and presentation skills.
• Exceptional flexibility with the ability to work independently and as a team

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Microsoft Office tools: Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, Lotus Notes, SharePoint, SAP related to CRM, SQL Server , Visual Basic and Oracle.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ashburn, Virginia Senior Business Analyst 07/2010 – Present

• Advanced level Business Analyst duties
• Subject Matter Expert on over 6 financial projects worth over $80 million within the last 18 months and advised Department heads and Project Managers on analysis, progress and reviews of the projects.
• Budgeting, execution and forecasting of projects
• Create and deliver presentations on over 15 projects to stakeholders to inform on the process and progress of said projects through the use of careful research, analysis, charts and summaries
• Performing internal and competitor benchmarking analysis and identifying savings opportunities and/or possible product/service enhancements
• Provide the source of performance evaluation by preparing charts, summaries and narratives
• Establish and maintain continuous liaison with program managers, national and international clients to ensure project fulfillment
• Collaborate with SMEs of various departments, project managers, external resources where necessary to achieve project goals ad fulfill project timelines
• Produce project milestone charts to track progress and develop contingency plans for schedule set-backs
• Develop and recommend alternate and/or remedial action when necessary

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD Business Analyst 03/2009 – 06/2010

• Provided managerial support within the IT department.
• Prepare analysis reports and be responsible to answer any queries, complaints or suggestion in this regard.
• Collected and Interpreted data from databases: Oracle, SQL server, Access, and made comparisons with the planned activities. Checked for deviations or alterations and resolved discrepancies.
• Collected data in form of reports from different departments of the organization and compiled them together to prepare a summarized report.
• Prepared quarterly and annual budgets, expense analysis and interpretation.
• Interpret the terms and conditions of the contract and present them in easy-to-understand language for the recipients.
• Ensured completion of deliverables; track milestones and time lines of assigned projects.
• Maintained integrity while managing data of procuring, analyzing, interpreting, processing and storage.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD Senior Quality Assurance Analyst 04/2008- 03/2009

• Recommended program improvements and corrections to developers
• Developed and maintained test plans, manual and automated test scripts for user interface, functionality, system and "ad-hoc testing"
• Executed regression, functional and data tests with each maintenance release in each assigned area. .
• Updated regression test cases with each product enhancement.
• Documented quality assurance practices
• Reported, tracked and determined priority of reported bugs
• Produced metrics for projects as required by Project Management and/ or QA Management.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD Finance and Reporting Analyst 02/2007- 04/2008

• Ran queries on database, periodically, to retrieve data for analysis and reporting.
• Developed scripts to build tables and modify columns where necessary to update and modify database.
• Performed data compiling, mining and analysis required to evaluate given data
• Created reports based on data mining activities and presented conclusions.
• Observed market behavior and forecast the trends in market. Made judgment about organization's suitability to survive in predicted market environment.
• Conducted ad-hoc financial analysis, models, and reports upon request using Excel.
• Developed forecasting models on credit risk based on historical data from mining activities.
• Developed, collected and effectively documented business requirements on assigned projects.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD Fraud Analyst 03/2005 – 01/2007

• Developed and implemented a range of analytics to support transaction and fraud trend analysis
• Worked with fraud transaction monitoring systems and rules to mitigate the risk of fraud losses.
• Identified new fraud patterns and recommended new controls and improved monitoring.
• Developed the initiation of strategy recommendations.
• Supported and managed the Fraud Analytics tools.
• Developed and refined procedures on an ongoing basis.

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Bachelor of Science

AA Degree – General Studies

• Member of Honors Society
• Multiple accolades from Management, Peers and Clients.
• Second Quarter Silver Star Award Winner, Visa International, 2006 and 2009
• Graduated Associates Degree
• Dean’s Award Spring and Fall 2009 and Spring, Summer and Fall 2010