SUMMARY:

• Business savvy technology/management professional with a career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with hands on expertise.
• Proven ability to contribute to company strategy, develop a solution that meets the client's needs, establish long - term relationships and grow portfolio.
• Able to prioritize and manage conflicting demands.
• To facilitate problem solving, I am able to take complex business problems and decompose them into well-organized, logical, and detailed descriptions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IDE Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Requisite, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, MS Project, MS Visio, iRise, Serena, Enterprise Architect, GIT, ARIBA, JDE, SAP

GUI Tools: Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, TOAD, XML Spy, SnagIT, Balsmiq, Aginity, AtTask

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Neeteza, MS Access

Testing Tools: Rational Test Manager, Rational Robot, Gemini, Replicon, Remedy, Fogbugzz

Operating System: Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX

Reporting Tools: Cognos, Microstrategy, Qlikview, LogiXml

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Business Consultant (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assist in providing or provide business cases for project including cost/benefit analysis
• Facilitate development of project plan including scope and deliverables, approach, timelines, resource plans, financials and governance and track to the plan
• Establish and maintain relationships with all participants in IT and across all departments within the company and third-party partners and vendors
• Manage the relationship with all stakeholders and perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Recommend strategies, policies and procedures to meet requirements to produce a satisfactory global solution for Contingent Labor Program in Europe
• Advise client on Fieldglass capabilities and how best to configure accounting data for purchase order generation in ECC
• Help client with RFP for multiple Managed Service Provides.
• Lead the implementation for European Sites Basal and Germany
• Created/maintained Global Project plan for global waves
• Help client with organizational capability for global contingent Program office

Confidential

Implementation Project Manager /Business System Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed budget and resources for deployments across enterprise
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs
• Optimize procure to pay process for Contingent Labor
• Worked closely with Program Team to create implementation strategy and roll out plans for 26 Business Units across Confidential to implement Vendor Management System (VMS) technology
• Lead alternative analysis for solution
• Guide and Oversee the implementation of VMS technology to ensure optimum, cost-effective, timely and high quality results.
• Establish, foster and maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders
• Ensure proper run and maintain processes are established between departmental SMEs, IT Help Desk team
• Ensure proper support, management of post-implementation issues including ticketing, tracking of progress and managing resolutions as they relate to enterprise applications.
• Help develop organization capability within Business by focusing on change management, training and support models
• Rationalized Implementation of Taxation business rules globally
• Worked with MSP partner to determine the market rate strategy locally and internationally
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure source system data foundational data is utilized within VMS tool
• Resolved/alleviated bottlenecks around configuration and/or integration requirements
• Managed risks and issues for each implementation and the program
• Worked with business to identify spend management reporting requirements for a single BU and across enterprise.

Skills Used

• Problem solving skills, Time management, leadership, analytical, organization, good oral and written communication, and fostering relationships

Confidential

Implementation Project Manager /Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Functional Team to decompose requirements for all stages of requisition activity thru the use of Fieldglass (VMS) technology.
• Led configuration of VMS technology working with MSP and VMS technology vendor
• Ensure usefulness of integrations with SAP and other sources records for HR
• Advised Confidential project leadership on best practices and help develop a way forward

Skills Used

• Problem solving skills, Time management, leadership, analytical, organization, good oral and written communication, and fostering relationships

Confidential

Lead Configuration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Functional Team to decompose requirements for all stages of requisition activity thru use of Fieldglass (VMS) technology.
• Led configuration of VMS technology to ensure optimum, cost-effective, timely and high quality results.
• Establish, foster and maintain positive working relationships with client.
• Built credibility, established rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels within Confidential and Confidential
• Analysis and design for Fieldglass Integration with Ariba for Service Requisition and Invoice using PIDX schema
• Integration of Fieldglass data into MDM and HR data

Skills Used

• Problem solving skills, Time management, leadership, analytical, organization, good oral and written communication, and fostering relationships

Sr. Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Help business identify key data/information objects for classifying data within Confidential Pipeline
• Lead the team to define information architecture and data governance to create rules for data integration across Confidential pipeline business irrespective of system of record
• Lead data definition initiative to categorize and define Pipeline Business domain, define data entities along with definitions, data lifecycles, data custodians, owners and data stewards
• Created consensus with custodians/owners/stewards to define data quality rules for information elements within a given entity and across entities. This effort standardized data lifecycles across the organization.
• Facilitated workshops/Interviews to generate business requirements for enterprise information data model
• Capture technical requirements to create an enterprise business architecture that manages data flow from one functional unit to another based on business rules
• Provide application rationalization and lifecycle management by working with the business technology owners to simplify and reduce application counts to reduce cost and increase agility.
• Standardize supplier agreements and ensured that the agreements were beneficial to client
• Standardize SOW process for the client and ensured that change management process, deliverable acceptance criteria and quality control criteria are standardized

Environment: MS Office, Visio, UML, Ketera, Biztalk, SAP-PM, Metegrity Visions, IMS, Fieldglass, Ariba 9r, JDE, SAP PI, PIDX

Confidential, HOUSTON

Project Manager/Lead Business Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the project plan and critical path while facilitating the issue and risk management processes.
• Facilitated the scope and change process for enterprise COTS solution implementation for water billing system.
• Worked closely with product vendor to deliver solution
• Led team of business analysts to document business processes/workflow for water, sewer, and drainage billing for 700,000 accounts with revenue exceeding one billion dollars.
• Facilitated JAD session with business users and technical staff for discovery phase of the project
• Analyzed existing processes to identify optimization opportunities for external interfaces with the new system
• Involved with WiMAX infrastructure roll out to bring 500,000 meters on automated reading network
• Scoped Microsoft BI solution platform for all report requirements for operations and management.
• Assisted in assuring the integrity and accuracy of the SharePoint site and shared drive for the project.

Environment: Enterprise Architect, MS Office, Hansen 8.x, Visio, UML, DB2, Amazon Cloud, Web services, AtTask

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Instituted a framework for Project Management employing iterative process (SCRUM) across distributed teams for global collaboration on a new product development project
• Facilitated scope definition and customer requirements analysis
• Coached team leads for Use case development, Activity diagrams, State transition diagrams using SysML and UML
• Developed templates for various artifacts within Agile methodology
• Consult with Senior VPs on best practices for Product development lifecycle vis a vis Project Life cycle.
• Guide Requirements team filter/flesh out requirements for appropriate artifacts

Environment: Enterprise Architect, MS Office, SharePoint, FogBuzz, UML, SysML, GIT, Team Center

Confidential

Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst

• Gathered requirements for an Enterprise Data Warehouse for organization’s customer reporting initiative
• Conducted workshops with Subject Matter Experts to elaborate requirements for the new environment
• Modeled & facilitated reviews of business process flow diagrams
• Created ETL Data Value Maps for source to landing, and then landing to integration hub
• Coordinated with off-shore team validating ETL mapping, requirements and facilitating workflow to deliver deliverables and meeting deadlines.

Environment: Neeteza, Oracle 10g, Visio, TOAD, UNIX, SharePoint, WinSQL, MS Office, Balsamiq

Confidential

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst, Informatics

Responsibilities:

• Identified revenue generating opportunities for the organization and implemented them in conjunction with Business Development Group
• Project managed coordination of planning meetings, determining resource requirements, and directing development efforts
• Created team of business analysts which developed deliverables based on defined tools and processes.
• Created fit for purpose business requirements process to support the development and maintenance of national cardiovascular data registries such as: ICD, CARE, CathPCI, ACTION-GWTG, etc
• Managed mapping specs for several EHRs to submit data for Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)
• Facilitated interactions with all staff members to determine product requirements and metrics Project’s for success
• Led an effort to capture requirements for enterprise data warehouse and data marts for registries to conduct analysis utilizing BI tool - Cognos
• Created and maintained Vendor functional specifications for the data registries and interacted with vendors to align with roadmaps.
• Certified vendors on data registry tools for outcomes reporting.
• Worked with Duke Clinical Research Institute and HL7 interoperability council to define Data Analysis Information Model for cardiovascular data
• Created SDTM domains for capture of data into SDTM model for FDA submissions of trial datasets

Environment: Windows, .Net, MS Visio, MS Project, SharePoint, UML, XML, SnagIT, iRise, Serena, SQL, MS SQL Server, Cognos, SSIS, HL7, CDISC, Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Montgomery, MD

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated sessions to identify business rules and requirements and document them in a format that can be reviewed and understood by both the business professionals and technical team
• Conducted milestones planning of the project through walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA and Technical Support teams
• Assisted the QA team in reviewing and writing test cases, test plans and tested the final application for usability. Coordinated and conducted testing
• Participated in the creation of test plans, test specifications and test procedures for functional, GUI and load testing
• Managed and coordinated the User Acceptance Testing and User Educational Training. Developed, and updated user manuals as needed
• Implemented business modeling using MS Visio to develop wireframes
• Used Requisite Pro to maintain requirements, ClearCase for source control, and created enhancement requests along with defect tracking in ClearQuest

Environment: Windows, .Net, MS Visio, MS Project, UML, Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, ROBOT, ReqPro, PL/SQL, TOAD, IMS, Oracle

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detail design of the software for a thorough understanding of the business.
• Gathered and documented requirements that are critical to the business mission and used those requirements to design application software using Use Cases in Rational Rose.
• Gathered and reformed Business Requirements into Functional Specification.
• Grouped requirements and legal entities to identify business functionality, requirement, process information and flow
• Documented business workflows textually as well as in UML diagrams (Use Case Diagrams).
• Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams and supporting documents containing the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze and document business data requirements.
• Created and updated functional, functional requirement specifications, requirement and logical design specifications.
• Produced conceptual design that included the creation of Entity Relationship diagrams and traceability matrices

Environment: Windows, MS Visio, MS Project, Rational ClearCase, ClearQuest, XDE, ReqPro, PL/SQL, Oracle, J2EE Web Services, BEA Weblogic, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), XML, UML

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detail design of the software for a thorough understanding of the business.
• Identified actors and use cases to create use case diagrams that described the behavior of the system
• Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and prepared business requirement documents.
• Created the Business Architecture document to provide an overview of different aspects of the application
• Followed the UML based methods using Rational Rose to create: Use Cases, and Activity Diagrams

Confidential, PA

Financial Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detail design of the software for a thorough understanding of the business.
• Reviewed the fundamental data of new and continuing international engagements to determine and identify potential tax and legal risks that may be involved for Saga and its employees
• Develop data driven models, using complex spreadsheet and database applications

Confidential

Financial Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented Business Requirements and detail design of the software for a thorough understanding of the business.
• Provided financial support and expertise to business, also involved preparing budgets, variance analysis, forecasts, spreadsheet modeling, developing reports and other financial analysis.