SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented, seasoned technology professional seeks to apply and expand over ten years of progressive business and technical solution experience in business analysis.
• Able to communicate with a wide variety of audiences from executive management to technical groups. Successful in gathering, capturing and communicating requirements.
• Highly developed business acumen skills with demonstrated strengths in establishing rapport and focusing on delivery excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - New York, New York

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate meetings with clients where requirements are gathered into user stories and acceptance criteria created.
• Manage the test procedures for the client application releases.
• Responsible for SCRUM meetings as SCRUM master and the successful the Agile releases and managing the sprints and backlog.

Confidential - Iselin, New Jersey

Sr. Systems Analyst / Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented automated regression testing by working the QA automation team.
• Responsible for the transition of the Advisor Portal project from waterfall to Agile and manage the backlog by spearheading weekly and ad-hoc meetings with business stakeholders and SMEs.
• Facilitated and managed daily SCRUM meetings as SCRUM master with the vendor development team.
• Worked with business and effectively communicate requirements to a technical audience.
• Produced Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) and POC documentation to support the project and able to communicate effectively with targeted parties.
• Worked with line of business and SMEs on acceptance criteria.
• Provided input to, reviewed and approved test plans to ensure expected results gathered from requirements and business expectations.
• Provided guidance for Integration Testing (IT) and ensure testing follows compliance approved test plan and expected results with RITQA team and business stakeholders.
• Participated in delivery of fully tested Brokerage application (Brokerage Front End) and Advisor Portal for System and Acceptance Testing.
• Created and modified technical processes, designs, and solutions as required based on the requirements gathered from the business owners.
• Provided production support for the initial and subsequent releases since production release in June 2013.
• Managed vendors to achieve business goals of seamless integration and effective on going product support.

Confidential - Jersey City, New Jersey

Sr. Manager, Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Scoped, implemented and delivered the company’s first Standard Investor5 implementation on time and on budget.
• Scoped, implemented and delivered a custom trading solution that uses Webservers and Middleware of Confidential Investor5 trading platform.
• Created Change Request documents to manage cost.
• Worked with project champions to initiate the start of projects.
• Worked with the business clients to refine the project requirements.
• Created requirement documentation.
• Developed and instituted new business processes.
• Worked with the technology groups to determine the technological solution for the various projects.
• Created low level design documents for various projects.
• Facilitated and managed daily SCRUM meetings as SCRUM master and managed sprint cycles and backlog.
• Created acceptance criteria for QA.

Confidential - New York, New York

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform analysis to determine the possibilities and viability of products for online retail brokerage applications.
• Worked with project champions to initiate the start of projects.
• Worked with the business clients to refine the project requirements.
• Created requirement documentation including LLDs and task lists from which programmers develop the applications
• Created test plans, scripts and acceptance criteria for QA.
• Documented, investigated and managed application defects
• Provided production support for various releases

Confidential - New Jersey

Licensed Financial Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Strengthened and developed new business with existing small business and retail customers.
• Worked with internal business units to provide financial solutions for new and existing customers.
• Provided solutions to business banking clients to save on monthly fees and use commercial products to increase cash flow.

Confidential - New Jersey

Associate Financial Planner

Responsibilities:

• Participated in “ Confidential Advice” program to help employees who are recently separated from service to purchase investment and protection products.
• Created and charged for fee-based financial plans with new and existing Confidential clients.
• Provided businesses with group products including but not limited to health insurance, retirement solutions and funding solutions for “Buy-Sell” agreements.

Confidential - New Jersey

Agent Representative

Responsibilities:

• Performed field with new agents.
• Sold multiple life and health insurance products within the same household.
• Helped seek out new alliances with health organizations to benefit both customers and the company.

Confidential

IT CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Performed computer and networking setup and support for startup organizations.

Confidential - New York, New York

SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Created detailed system and user requirements documentation.
• Created acceptance criteria for QA.
• Coordinated beta testing schedule and set criteria for early release customers.
• Coordinated release schedule with installation group and the release manager.
• Performed life cycle activities on older products.

Confidential - New York, New York

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created requirement documentation the Fulfillment process.
• Developed and instituted new business processes.
• Created functional specifications for products based in industries best practices.
• Developed test cases, courseware and white papers.
• Created QA acceptance criteria and testing procedures.

Confidential - Weehawken, New Jersey

IT Director/IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with executive management within the various business groups to determine requirements for products/projects.
• Created requirement documentation through customer interaction for new versions of products during lifecycles.
• Managed the QA process for the testing of newly created and upgraded applications.
• Gathered requirements, designed and delivered application for various projects
• Performed user analysis to help determine requirements for interface designs.
• Set beta testing and product release schedules.
• Coordinated product documentation creation with release schedule.
• Formulated user acceptance criteria.
• Performed life cycle activities on internally created products.