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Abdul Mohammed

Naperville,IL
Abdul Mohammed

Summary

Versatile Business Analyst with around 19 years of extensive experience in SDLC, Business process design, and object-oriented analysis, in various domains, but not limited to Health Care and Life Sciences, Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Trading, Variable Income Equities and Fixed Income securities like Bonds & Mortgage Business. In-depth knowledge of Health Care and Life Sciences domains. Hands on knowledge on Web-Based Health Care and Life Sciences Solutions. Excellent understanding of Electronic Health Record Solutions and Physician Practice Management Solutions. Experienced in managing and development of Hospital Care Management Solutions. In-Depth Knowledge of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Experienced in managing the development of Portfolio Risk Management applications dealing with various investment banking instruments for portfolio management. Significant knowledge of Risk Management, Fixed Income Securities and Swap Markets. Adept in Equities, Bonds, Asset Backed Securities (ABS), Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Collateralized mortgage Obligations (CMO), and Interest Rate Swaps. Experience in Portfolio Performance Measurement - NAV, P&L, computing portfolio returns. Skilled in writing Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Use Cases, and Functional Specifications; well versed in designing various Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams using UML modeling tools such as MS Visio and Rational Rose. Extensive experience in documenting existing processes, analyzing Business Requirements, working with Requirements Traceability Matrix, re-engineering business processes, and designing. Facilitated JRP and JAD sessions with the Business User community and the technical team to facilitate the project development process. Project experience includes Project Management, customer interaction, and leadership responsibilities. Experienced in change management/ continuous process improvement, business transformation modeling, and customer relationship management. Skilled in working with all phases of SDLC throughout the project life cycle in a Rational Unified Process (RUP) environment and other software methodologies. Good experience using Mercury Interactive Automated Tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP), WinRunner, LoadRunner, and Test Director for Web-based and Client/Server Applications. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable speaking to large groups and wide audiences, preparing written communications, and developing presentation material. Flexible & Quick learner, who can adapt and execute in any fast-paced environment.

Overview

24
years of professional experience

Work History

7-Eleven
Indianapolis, IN

Business Analyst
07.2019 - 08.2024

Job overview

  • Company Overview: 7-Eleven is a chain of convenience stores, with thousands of stores across the globe
  • Conduct JADs with product owners, stakeholders, and SMEs to determine the business requirements
  • Conduct brainstorming sessions with the IT team and SMEs to determine technical feasibility
  • Study various security protocols involved in banking transactions and whether they can be conducted through the POS terminal
  • Led and mentored a team of 5 system engineers to create mock-up screens and a partial working prototype
  • Author product marketing and technical documents used by internal teams and external clients
  • Created Use cases, activity, and class diagrams that explained the process flow, workflow, and functionality that the system should achieve
  • Assisted the development team with data modeling, and logical and physical models using ER diagrams (entity relationship diagrams)
  • Formulated and defined systems scopes and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of information technology, business processes, and industry requirements
  • Applied extensive knowledge of the business and industry to develop project specifications and management
  • Interacted with customers to analyze, define, test, and implement business systems
  • Delivered product presentations, drive customer insights, and analyze client-issued RFP
  • 7-Eleven is a chain of convenience stores, with thousands of stores across the globe
  • Environment: Rational Suite, SQL, MS Office Suite, Windows XP/2000/NT, Rational Clear Case, JavaScript, HTML, XML, ASP, VB.NET, Win Runner

University of Minnesota Physicians
Minneapolis, MN

Business Analyst
07.2016 - 05.2019

Job overview

  • Company Overview: University of Minnesota Physicians is a premier multi-specialty physician organization that provides quality patient-focused care
  • Articulated business requirements from user interviews and then converted requirements into technical specifications
  • Identified client requirements and defined the business solution and scope of the project based on RUP methodology
  • Prepared and presented these findings using MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Access) and Rational Tools to the client for decisions on which options to pursue
  • Analysis of HIPAA compliance and took part in discussions for designing the transactions
  • Reviewed business functional requirements with staff in JAD sessions
  • Created Use cases, activity, and class diagrams that explained the process flow, workflow, and functionality that the system should achieve
  • Assisted the development team with data modeling, and logical and physical models using ER diagrams (entity relationship diagrams)
  • Formulated and defined systems scopes and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of information technology, business processes, and industry requirements
  • Applied extensive knowledge of the business and industry to develop project specifications and management
  • Interacted with customers to analyze, define, test, and implement business systems
  • University of Minnesota Physicians is a premier multi-specialty physician organization that provides quality patient-focused care
  • Environment: Rational Suite, SQL, MS Office Suite, Windows XP/2000/NT, Rational Clear Case, JavaScript, HTML, XML, ASP, VB.NET, Win Runner

University of Pennsylvania Health System
Philadelphia, PA

Business Analyst
06.2010 - 07.2016

Job overview

  • Company Overview: The University of Pennsylvania Health System is dedicated to high-quality patient care and service, advancing medical science through research and educating the next generation of leaders in medicine
  • Facilitated meetings with clients, brokers, and a group of business partners to identify the needs and requirements of the new system, prioritized and organized these requirements systematically, and evaluated and compared potential solutions
  • Participated in the identification, understanding, and documentation of business requirements including the applications capable of supporting those requirements
  • Collected and documented business processes as well as business rules
  • Comprehensively worked with Users for Requirement Gathering for all the modules of Hospital Care Management Solution and produced initial requirement data to produce User Interface and Business Process Requirements
  • Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the project scope and documented the same in the Business Requirement Document (BRD)
  • Extensively used wireframing to design several UI Screens for the Physicians, Surgeons, and Management Staff of the hospital
  • The University of Pennsylvania Health System is dedicated to high-quality patient care and service, advancing medical science through research and educating the next generation of leaders in medicine
  • Environment: Java, J2EE, Java Swing, Servlets, JavaScript, JSP, Oracle, UML, Windows NT, WinRunner, TestDirector, Rational Suite, MS Office, MS Visio

Marsh Insurance
Hoboken, NJ

Business Analyst
01.2005 - 06.2010

Job overview

  • Company Overview: The application deals with Homeowners, Condominiums, Rentals, and Automobile Insurance of All-State
  • Created functional and non-functional requirement documents and technical specification documents and delivered within project timelines by conducting user interviews for requirements gathering, analysis, and design
  • Used MS Visio to create use case diagrams, conceptual models, and behavioral diagrams (sequence, collaboration, Activity)
  • Conducted JRP and JAM sessions with the stakeholders of the project for requirements analysis and timely status reporting on the project
  • Facilitated application development sessions and walkthroughs between technical and regulatory teams for meeting requirements as well as solving problems daily such as, but not limited to, classifying and documenting new change requirements, dealing with multiple product teams, researching delays, documenting errors and incorporating software enhancements into design documents
  • Interacted with system developers to resolve questions and discrepancies in Business Requirement Documents
  • The application deals with Homeowners, Condominiums, Rentals, and Automobile Insurance of All-State
  • Environment: Windows 2000, Java/J2EE, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP.NET, MS-Project, MS Office Suite, MS Visio, MS Visual Source Safe

AG Edwards
St Louis, MO

Business Analyst
08.2002 - 01.2005

Job overview

  • Company Overview: The Company offers products across the full spectrum of investment classes, ranging from equities, fixed income, and multiple-asset class products
  • Interacted with the Business Owners and SMEs along with Risk Managers and Project Architects, to gather client-specific business requirements and translate them into various business artifacts for the technical team
  • Conducted user interviews and facilitated JRP and JAD sessions to better understand the business domain, requirements, and project scope
  • Created UML diagrams such as Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, and State Chart Diagrams using MS Visio
  • Implemented RUP and followed iterative use case-driven process for requirement documentation and deployment
  • Conducted walk-through sessions with the business users and the stakeholders of the project to facilitate the BRD sign-off process
  • The Company offers products across the full spectrum of investment classes, ranging from equities, fixed income, and multiple-asset class products
  • Environment: Windows 98/NT/2000 Server, MS Office Suite, Oracle, JAVA, J2EE, JavaScript, WebSphere, WinRunner, LoadRunner, HP UX

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA

Business Analyst
01.2001 - 08.2002

Job overview

  • Company Overview: Freddie Mac is a company that provides solutions to low and medium-income group people to fulfill their dream of home ownership
  • Gathered business requirements from various Subject Matter Experts from the Accounts Department, Loan Managers, Attorneys, and Financial Analysts for a better understanding of the business and IT processes of the current system and the infrastructure needs
  • Authored Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), and User Requirement Specification (URS) for application development
  • Performed Requirement Analysis by gathering both functional and non-functional requirements based on interactions with the process owners & stakeholders and document analysis, representing them in the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
  • Created and maintained Narrative Use Cases (Business Use Cases, System Use Cases) and modeled Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams using MS Visio
  • Provided support for the development of a solution utilizing the Rational Unified Process (RUP)
  • Freddie Mac is a company that provides solutions to low and medium-income group people to fulfill their dream of home ownership
  • Environment: Rational Suite, SQL, MS Office Suite, Windows XP/2000/NT, Rational Clear Case, JavaScript, HTML, XML, ASP, VB.NET, Win Runner

Education

Chemical Engineering

Bachelor's

Computer Science

Bachelor's

Skills

  • C
  • SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • VB6
  • Oracle 7x/8i/9i
  • MS SQL Server 2000/2005
  • MS Access 2000
  • HTML
  • ASP
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Windows NT
  • MS-DOS v22
  • UNIX (SVR4)
  • LINUX 6x/7x
  • OOAD and UML
  • RUP
  • BPR (Business Process Reengineering)
  • Rational RequisitePro 2000
  • Rational Rose 2000
  • MS Project
  • MS Visio2000
  • Mercury tools
  • WinRunner
  • LoadRunner
  • Test Director
  • QTP
  • MS Office Suite
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • CorelDraw

Technicalcompetencies

C, SQL, PL/SQL, VB6, Oracle 7.x/8i/9i, MS SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access 2000, HTML, ASP, Microsoft Windows (all versions), Windows NT, MS-DOS v.22, UNIX (SVR4), LINUX 6.x/7.x, OOAD and UML, RUP, BPR (Business Process Reengineering), Rational RequisitePro 2000, Rational Rose 2000, MS Project, MS Visio2000, Mercury tools (WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, QTP), MS Office Suite, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw

Timeline

Business Analyst

7-Eleven
07.2019 - 08.2024

Business Analyst

University of Minnesota Physicians
07.2016 - 05.2019

Business Analyst

University of Pennsylvania Health System
06.2010 - 07.2016

Business Analyst

Marsh Insurance
01.2005 - 06.2010

Business Analyst

AG Edwards
08.2002 - 01.2005

Business Analyst

Freddie Mac
01.2001 - 08.2002

Chemical Engineering

Bachelor's

Computer Science

Bachelor's
Abdul Mohammed