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BusinessAnalyst
Ayse Nihsen

Ayse Nihsen

Project Manager
Tampa,FL

Summary

Talented Business Analyst with an accumulative experience exceeding 10 years within the Finance, Electronics, Telecommunication, Automotive, Medical, and Wellness fields. Exceptional organizational, project management and leadership skills. Seeking opportunities within IT organizations where extensive knowledge and skills can be applied, be inspired learning and growing new skills, and ultimately meet personal goals.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates

Work History

Project Manager

Railsr
Santa Monica, CA
03.2022 - Current
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
  • Created project plans, identified objectives, scope, and deliverables
  • Identified risks and issues that occur during the project lifecycle including strategic direction
  • Analyzed processes and implemented improvements
  • Consistently provided visibility into projects and report progress of projects to management
  • Acted as a Scrum Master to improve the efficiency of the engineering teams


Founder

Holistic Upgrading
Waukee, Iowa
02.2021 - 12.2021

Business Analyst

Wirecard
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
06.2019 - 07.2020
  • Experience in plastic card management unit in financial services.
  • Gathered, elicited, analyzed, prioritized and documented requirements for business and technical team as part of agile delivery team with focus on delivering value.
  • Created user stories, acceptance criteria and followed up tasks, took required actions for completion of tasks on timely manner.
  • Created scope, analysis and technical specification documents with UML diagrams, performed UAT and demonstrated changes to related organizations.
  • Worked closely with IT organizations, key decision makers, systems owners, end users and other IT organizations in support of core processes and critical business objectives.
  • Created/documented, traced, maintained, prioritized, assessed changes to business processes and associated requirements.
  • Ensured clear communication between business stakeholders and development team.
  • Conducted research to obtain data, analyzed problems to advise and recommend solutions.

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Sony
Istanbul, Turkey
09.2016 - 05.2019
  • Planned and managed AWS migration project that was including about 20 systems in the EMEA region
  • Assisted and supported agile delivery teams, business units, and project coordinators to ensure the completion of projects in timely manner.
  • Performed infrastructure testing, system requirements testing, and application requirements testing on applications within AWS to ensure absolute functionality, reporting defects, correcting codes on fly.
  • Gathered and analyzed requirements from business units and stakeholders. Worked with diverse business community to document as-is and to-be business processes.
  • Created scope, analysis, and technical specification documents.

Business Analyst

Turk Telekom
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2014 - 09.2016
  • Experienced on working with Kanban Agile methodology on Value Added Services (VAS), telecommunication sector.
  • Gathered, elicited, analyzed and documented requirements
    Managing and monitoring partner integration process.
  • Defined test strategies, documented, and performed functional, integration, performance and acceptance test cases.
  • Trained clients to complete integration process successfully.

Test Specialist

Vodafone
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2013 - 04.2014
  • Qualified and experienced on billing and charging service acceptance test in telecommunication sector.
  • Defined and documented test strategies and test plan, test cases and performed functional, integration, performance and acceptance test cases.

Business Analyst

Bilge Adam
Istanbul, Turkey
07.2011 - 02.2013
  • Liaised with technical leads, programmers, and stakeholders, analyzing and documenting requirements.
  • Prepared test scenarios and plans, and performed system, functional, regression and integration testing.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Statistics

YILDIZ TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
Istanbul, Turkey
09.2006 - 06.2011

Skills

Project planning and development

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Certification

Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Timeline

Project Manager

Railsr
03.2022 - Current

Founder

Holistic Upgrading
02.2021 - 12.2021

Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

11-2019

Business Analyst

Wirecard
06.2019 - 07.2020

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Sony
09.2016 - 05.2019

Business Analyst

Turk Telekom
04.2014 - 09.2016

Test Specialist

Vodafone
04.2013 - 04.2014

ISTQB Training

12-2012

CBAP Training

09-2012

Business Analyst

Bilge Adam
07.2011 - 02.2013

Bachelor of Science - Statistics

YILDIZ TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI
09.2006 - 06.2011
Ayse NihsenProject Manager