SUMMARY

• Worked as the Business Analyst on an award winning project: PCS NAO - won the first place in ‘Business Process Improvement’ by techforums.
• Business Analyst with 6 years of diverse experience, understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• New Product Development (NPD) in IT to include a specialization in Product development and data analysis for web-based and client/server applications.
• Successfully executed projects under the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model.
• Peak performance in waterfall, prototyping and agile methodologies
• Expertise in creating wireframes and prototypes using Axure RP/ iRise / Dreamweaver.
• Experience in defining business user requirements, managing requirements, analyzing requirements, changing requirements etc.
• Proficient in conducting JAD sessions, interviews to attain a complete set of business Requirements.
• Ability to mold the business requirements into functional and technical requirements.
• Strong experience in data mapping, data validation, database querying to supplement business analysis
• Experience in facilitating functional, integration, regression, back-end, compatibility, acceptance, stress, load and system testing using Black Box methods.
• Adept in querying databases to include DB2, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase and MS Access.
• Proficient in conducting data analysis
• Strong communication, business understanding, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Strong leadership skills and flexible in work schedules

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Internet: HTML, XML, VB Script, JavaScript, Web 2.0

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, Sybase, MS Access

OS: Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX

Tools: TOAD, RapidSQL, DB Visualizer, JIRA, Drools, Rally

Software Tools: Visual Basic, Visual C++, Crystal Reports, Business Objects

Prototyping Tools: Axure RP, iRise, Dreamweaver, Balsamiq Other Tools MS Office for Documentation, SharePoint Version Control PVCS Tracker, CVS

BPM Tools: TIBCO

Requirements Tool: Contour, Doors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Reston

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining and managing agile team to complete the project schedule on behalf of the project manager
• Implemented Scrum and JIRA to increase the team's velocity and bring about the changes needed to deliver function product on a two-week schedule.
• Responsible for reporting logistics and statistics of project variables to determine the risks associated to the project
• Responsible for understanding the current business processes, workflows and functionalities of the system developed by Confidential for the US Government for data analytics.
• Recommending the streamlining of various processes across roles through the use of effective workflows.
• Upgrading the current User Interface of the existing system for the Clients.
• Ensuring the 508 Compliance is met while upgrading the UI of the system.
• Ensuring that the functionality of the new system remains intact and in sync with the old system.

Environment: Contour, SharePoint, Agile, Scrum, Dreamweaver, Balsamiq, JIRA, SQL Server 2007, Sales Force, SQL Server Management Studio

Confidential, Baltimore

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Pershing in setting up the API for transmitting the new account opening data via XML.
• Optimized and brandized the current forms for barcode scanning and linking them back to the client and financial accounts.
• Worked extensively on drools to define the acceptable values for the business rules.
• Conducted extensive JAD sessions with the stakeholders to detail the flow and the requirements of the system.
• Gathered requirements so that retail, retirement, COD and managed accounts could be opened at Pershing.
• The project won the 1st place in techforum’s ‘Best Business Process Improvement’ Award - for the year 2010.
• Satisfied the Associate Project Manager / Business Analyst role for Account Purge
• Was responsible for gathering requirements and maintaining a rigid timeline for Account Purge. This entailed doing a system impact analysis of all the Confidential applications.
• This project resulted in erasing about 60% of the nonfunctional accounts from the daily feeds from Pershing, thereby reducing the load and the processing time significantly.
• Responsible for writing the Project Charter, Proof of Concept and the functional requirements for the Sales Assistance Maintenance project
• This project helped link all the sales assistants to their respective brokers
• With the Many to many relationships it was possible to able to a single SA to many brokers and vice versa.
• Assisted in writing test cases and testing once the code was in place in the QA environment.
• Responsible for completing and submitting the dbRAMMs for the various applications in Confidential . dbRAMMs are the audit documentations required for the applications.
• Required extensive meetings with the application owners, technical teams and the external third party vendors of the applications.
• Information required varied from the business use of the application to the encryption methods used to make sure that the information was secure from unwanted sources.

Environment: PVCS Tracker, JIRA, DbVisualizer, Oracle 10g, Toad, Windows 2000/ NT/98, MS Office 2000, MS Access, MS-Visio, Drools, Axure RP, Agile, Scrum, TIBCO.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed initial drafts for Financial Reporting Data Storage Systems.
• Successfully used Agile/Scrum method using JIRA for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop.
• Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications
• Maintained constant interaction and communication with business users, developers and testers to ensure all data related business requirements were met.
• Participated in the transition and transfer of data from the source to an auditable database through which the reports were produced.
• Analyzed and formulated the test cases and scripts for testing the servicing fees used at the security level.
• Regularly conducted data analysis with the ETL team.
• Performed data validation using generated Business Objects XI to ensure data accuracy.
• Used SQL queries extensively for back - end testing.
• Heavily assisted in the User Acceptance Testing of the securities data mart.
• Ensured a traceability and drill down capability for the 10K reports were implemented for the Financial Reporting System.
• Manually checked numbers in the General ledger with the Reporting data mart and other EUC to verify the Portfolio and Omnibus accounts.
• Facilitated and coordinated the new builds and releases.

Environment: JIRA, Quality Centre 8.1, Hyperion Essbase, Business Objects XI, Oracle 10g, ETL- Ab Initio, Sybase, Toad, Rapid SQL, Windows 2000/NT/98, MS Office 2000, MS Access