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Amie SIDIQUE

Clarksburg,MD

Summary

Award-winning Senior Policy Analyst with expertise in policy and business system analysis, project management, and requirements management. Proven track record in implementing complex systems with a focus on quality assurance and operational efficiency. Skilled in stakeholder engagement, aligning projects with strategic objectives to drive success.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Policy Analyst

22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
Bethesda, USA
09.2017 - Current
  • Company Overview: for National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
  • Assigned to NIH Ethics Office
  • Continued responsibilities as Lead Analyst and project manager responsible for business analysis, release planning and requirements management of the NIH Enterprise Ethics System (NEES) and Ethics Management Information System (EMIS) business systems at the NIH Ethics Office, including, but not limited to:
  • Working directly with the team of system developers at the NIH Center of Information Technology (CIT) (My former colleagues), to facilitate strategic business and technology goals on behalf of the Director of the NIH Ethics office
  • Program specific system planning
  • Management of all design and functional requirements
  • System release planning and management
  • Quality assurance management
  • Enterprise level reporting
  • For National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Senior Business/Systems Analyst

Information Gateways, LLC
Bethesda, USA
03.2006 - 09.2017
  • Company Overview: for National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
  • Assigned to the Division of Enterprise and Customs Applications (DECA) within the Center for Information Technology at NIH
  • Lead Analyst responsible for requirements analysis, release planning and development of the Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) documentation for the following Systems:
  • NIH Enterprise Ethics System (NEES) for the NIH Ethics Office, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Enterprise Ethics System (SEES) for SAMHSA, Director's Document and Records Management System (DDRMS) for the Office of the (NIH) Director, Science, Safety and Security (“S3”) Trivia Tool for HHS Science Safety Security national program
  • Duties also include:
  • System/Business Analysis:
  • Gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements from the NIH business customers
  • Managing project scope, including change requests
  • Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops
  • Developing RUP Use Cases to define the Business and Solution models
  • Developing diagrams for Technical Specification documentation
  • Developing Release Notes for system implementation
  • Developing Trace Matrix tables and diagrams to track the lifecycle of a requirement in development and implementation
  • Mentorship of fellow analysts and technical writers
  • For National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Business Analyst

TekSystems Consulting LLC
Rockville, USA
09.2005 - 02.2006
  • Company Overview: for NASD, Rockville, MD
  • Assigned to NASD’s Program Management Group within the Registration and Disclosure (RAD) division, responsible for requirements analysis and documentation through the initiation phase for the development of the Mortgage Industry (MILS) Licensing System, including:
  • Gathering and documenting business and functional requirements from the business units including representatives from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS), Mortgage Industry Regulators and Lenders
  • Developing RUP Use Cases to define the Business and Solution models
  • Writing business and high-level functional requirements
  • Coordinating with the RAD technology team to review and signoff on requirements
  • For NASD, Rockville, MD

Senior Systems Analyst/Project Manager

Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
Dulles, USA
11.2003 - 09.2005
  • Company Overview: for America Online (AOL), Dulles, VA
  • Analyzed and prepared Technical Specifications and Documentation for AOL Customer Care’s Back-end servers including:
  • Analyzing Business requirements and mapping those requirements to existing technology
  • Managing collaboration of Business Analysts in three different geographical locations
  • Developing application Use Cases for Technical Specification documentation
  • Liaising between the Business and Project groups and the Back-End Customer Care Development/Systems Management Reporting groups
  • Primary point of contact for project strategic and tactical planning communication
  • For America Online (AOL), Dulles, VA

Senior Systems Analyst

TAC Worldwide
New Carrollton, USA
06.2003 - 09.2003
  • Company Overview: for Internal Revenue Service (IRS), New Carrollton, MD
  • Responsible for a variety of financial analysis and business consulting tasks for IRS Information Technology Office including:
  • Developing and reviewing Office of Management and Budget (OMB) '300' business cases
  • Performing cost-benefit/cost-effectiveness analyses
  • Budget formulation; business process re-engineering (BPR), Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) processes and training
  • Use Case analysis and documentation for CPIC processes
  • Providing strategic business analyses and ad hoc support as required
  • For Internal Revenue Service (IRS), New Carrollton, MD

Manager, Requirements, and Implementation

American Red Cross (ARC)
Falls Church, USA
04.2001 - 05.2003
  • Company Overview: National Headquarters, Falls Church, VA
  • Responsible for the Functional Requirements development, Implementation and Maintenance of mission critical systems and applications within the ARC Growth and Integrated Development department including
  • Managing the analysis of business and functional requirements for the development of client/server and web-based systems and applications
  • Managing high visibility and costly projects through a repeatable SDLC from initiation to implementation
  • Responsible for the development of Training and Implementation Plans
  • Responsible for the development and facilitation of milestone reviews including Post-Implementation “Lessons Learned” review
  • Responsible for the development and presentation of Post-Implementation Maintenance Plans
  • Managing the maintenance of ARC and best-practice engineering methodologies, project planning, development, and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures, as well as internal and external service levels agreements
  • Managing the 'Request for Proposal' (RFP) process, including documentation, evaluation and selection of vendor resources and services
  • Performing Cost-Benefits analysis and Capital Planning for the acquisition and implementation of new technologies
  • Performing 'Buy vs
  • Build' Analysis
  • Managing Senior Requirements staff as well as contract and vendor staff
  • Providing a customer-based approach to the development and maintenance of information systems and business applications
  • Maintaining excellent relationships with executive senior management and counterparts in assigned business unit, outside vendors and throughout the IT organization
  • Providing subject matter expertise on the functionality of business-critical systems and support problem resolution
  • Managing the performance and professional development of assigned staff
  • Developing project plans, including staffing, project tasks/milestones, and budgetary plans
  • Participating in the development of technology strategies for the Growth and Integrated Development staff
  • National Headquarters, Falls Church, VA

Project Manager, Enterprise Reporting Group

Teligent, Inc.
Reston, USA
02.2000 - 03.2001
  • Company Overview: Reston, VA
  • Project scope, schedule, resources, and budget management for the development and Implementation of Teligent’s web-based Product Catalog Application initiative and Enterprise Reports development for Telegent’s Sales and Marketing Group including:
  • The development of the Enterprise Reporting group’s standard requirements documents template and processes that was adopted by other groups within the IT department
  • Gathering and managing Business and Functional Requirements for the development of customized MetaSolve’s Telecom Business Systems (TBS) reports
  • Analysis of reports that are migrated to a web-based environment for complexity, access speed and availability by querying their Informix tables or stored procedures to determine required data population support
  • Managing a team of two Requirements Analysts and four developers
  • Reston, VA

Management Consultant/Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Analyst

Soza, Inc.
Vienna, USA
01.1999 - 02.2000
  • Company Overview: Vienna, VA
  • Provided management consulting services for the technical re-engineering of the Farm Loan Compliance and Eligibility initiative at the USDA, including:
  • The development and management of project plans, project objectives, performance measures, financial feasibility and risk assessment, resource requirements and development scheduling
  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) for emerging technology and technical equipment purchases and upgrades per the Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) of 1996
  • Gathering and writing Business Rules, Functional Requirements and Use Case documents for the development of the programs’ application
  • Performing geospatial analysis for program participating farmland to be captured in application prototype
  • Developing screen designs, process flow charts and models for application prototype
  • Facilitated manual and automated Joint Application Design sessions to validate functional requirements
  • Participation in the development of systems integration strategies such as Legacy Data migration and results evaluation
  • Participated in the Implementation of a system prototype for Pilot USDA users
  • Vienna, VA

Systems Analyst

ACS Government Solutions, Inc.
06.1997 - 01.1999
  • Company Overview: Assignment: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  • Assigned to the FDIC to provide Business and Functional Requirements analysis and documentation for the development of FDIC’s Travel and Expense Reporting application including:
  • Quality Assurance testing by developing Test Plans and scenarios for user community
  • BPR and CBA of functional processes and equipment
  • Lead Point of Contact for application implementation between the business sponsors and technical/development team
  • Conducting training sessions for targeted users in controlled environments
  • Assignment: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Web Strategist

MCI
Washington, USA
01.1995 - 06.1997
  • Company Overview: Washington, DC
  • Designed developed and maintained 12 departmental Intranet sites
  • Converted WordPerfect and MS Word documents to HTML formatted document for integration into MCI intranet
  • Analysis, recommendation, and implementation of database software such as Visual Interdev and Allaire’s Cold Fusion
  • Analysis of Best Practices of databases for web-based systems
  • Washington, DC

Technical Specialist III

MCI
Washington, USA
01.1993 - 01.1995
  • Company Overview: Washington, DC
  • Troubleshooting and resolution of PC modems and modem protocols for MCI Electronic Messaging internal and external users
  • Technical support for all third-party connection gateway software programs
  • Installed, configured, and upgraded MCI Mail software on employee desktops PC’s
  • Washington, DC

Education

Master's Certificates - Managing Information Technology Projects, Scheduling and Cost Control, Risk Management

The George Washington University/ESI International
08.2002

BA - Economics and International Relations

State University of New York, New Paltz
New Paltz, NY
05.1986

Skills

  • Policy evaluation
  • Project management
  • Data analytics and stakeholder relations

Timeline

Senior Policy Analyst

22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
09.2017 - Current

Senior Business/Systems Analyst

Information Gateways, LLC
03.2006 - 09.2017

Business Analyst

TekSystems Consulting LLC
09.2005 - 02.2006

Senior Systems Analyst/Project Manager

Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
11.2003 - 09.2005

Senior Systems Analyst

TAC Worldwide
06.2003 - 09.2003

Manager, Requirements, and Implementation

American Red Cross (ARC)
04.2001 - 05.2003

Project Manager, Enterprise Reporting Group

Teligent, Inc.
02.2000 - 03.2001

Management Consultant/Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Analyst

Soza, Inc.
01.1999 - 02.2000

Systems Analyst

ACS Government Solutions, Inc.
06.1997 - 01.1999

Web Strategist

MCI
01.1995 - 06.1997

Technical Specialist III

MCI
01.1993 - 01.1995

Master's Certificates - Managing Information Technology Projects, Scheduling and Cost Control, Risk Management

The George Washington University/ESI International

BA - Economics and International Relations

State University of New York, New Paltz

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