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Christin Walker

Summerville,SC

Summary

Experienced bilingual business and systems analyst with 5 years of IT experience with emphasis in application analysis in high complex environments. Demonstrated strengths include process analysis, technical troubleshooting, project leadership and communication skills.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Systems Analyst

Volvo Cars (Manufacturing Plant)
07.2021 - Current

Liaison between production and IT for production control systems (all shops) ensuring working software is matching the business needs in a scaled agile framework:

  • Performed system analysis, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support for new configurations
  • Change Management, including testing in QA environment, deployment (pipeline) and user acceptance
  • Incident management: Diagnosed, troubleshot (Openshift platform and Java based Applications) and resolved system issues.
  • Resolved or escalated problem tickets.
  • Enhanced interfaces to promote better functionality for business department
  • Participating daily scrums with international teams (using Azure), PI planning etc.
  • Gathered requirements and performed gap analysis through workshops within IT and users
  • Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps using Visio

IT Business Analyst

Mercedes Benz Vans (Manufacturing Plant)
01.2018 - 07.2021
  • Gathering requirements for interface development and enhancement for new data flows between logistics application and SAP
  • Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding (JCL & COBOL & SQL datasets) and testing
  • Maintaining complex JCL jobs/COBOL programs/DB2 SQL datasets to support business requirements
  • Problem solving, root cause analysis, and issue resolution, following our incident ticket process
  • SQL database queries for reports based on user requests
  • Single Point of Contact for Mainframe related questions and incidents for the Charleston plant
  • Axway CFT dataflow management for Logistics and Finance interfaces
  • Responsible for Incident handing
  • Visualizing Dataflow for JCL nets and datasets with Microsoft Visio
  • Generated ad-hoc reports to evaluate specific business requirements
  • Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format
  • Multi-task and work on multiple projects concurrently, successfully due to detailed business process knowhow of multiple departments and technical skills
  • Value of solved incidents and implement solutions: 20 million USD
  • Leading focus groups to improve data quality and root cause analysis what cause the poor data quality
  • Close collaboration with developers in Germany and Spain using JIRA
  • Utilized data visualization techniques to present and explain complex data and business process flows

Project Specialist

Mercedes Benz Vans
06.2017 - 01.2018
  • Launch Project Management Team
  • Monitored project milestones and adjusted scheduling to meet deadlines
  • Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution
  • Responsible for Purchase Requisitions for all IT orders in SAP
  • Close collaboration with Procurement and Finance to ensure compliance with Daimler standards
  • Use financial know how to track open POs in SAP in customized excel sheet to ensure IT is in line with the planned budget.

HR Talent Management Intern

Nestlé
03.2016 - 09.2016
  • Project Management for global employer survey
  • Ensuring project is staying in the approved Budget
  • Leading international conference calls to keep global alignment
  • Planned and conduct survey communication in the form of Power Point presentations, websites and print material
  • Coordinator for HR/IT topics (Website development, Leading new IT requests)

Purchasing and Marketing Support

Pfizer
09.2007 - 06.2012
  • Purchasing of Marketing material for business units Oncology and Primary Care
  • Worked with vendors ro have Marketing material produced according to schedule and specifications
  • Managed budget for marketing initiatives, carefully keeping spending within allocated limits
  • Collaborated with design team to create visuals for various marketing material
  • Utilized specialized software to capture and process data.

Business Administration Training

Pfizer
01.2007 - 01.2010

Common education model after highschool in Germany. It is a three year apprenticeship program, rotating between a school phase and an apprenticeship phase in different departments of Pfizer. In German: "Ausbildung zur Kauffrau fuer Buerokommunikation"

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration, Tax Law and Auditing

University of Applied Sciences
Ludwigshafen
02.2016

Semester Abroad - Business Administration

Administration College of Charleston
Charleston, SC
06.2015

Business Administration Training - Business Administration

Engelbert-Bohn-Schule
Karlsruhe, Germany
07.2010

Skills

  • Tools/Systems: SAP (cbFC), Visio, JIRA, Axway, CISM, SNOW, Openshift, Azure Pipeline Deployments, SQL - DB2 queries
  • Operation Monitoring
  • Business Process Mapping
  • UAT (based on user story)
  • Business Applications Systems
  • Judgment and Decision-Making
  • Pivot Tables
  • Process Optimization
  • Complex Problem-Solving
  • UAT Support

Certification

DevOps Fundamentals - PeopleCert - 07/2022

Agile Scrum Foundation - EXIN - 02/2022

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist - Scaled Agile Inc. - 01/2022

Lean Fundamentals - 6 Sigma US - 11/2021

ITIL 4 - AXELOS Global Best Practice - 10/2021

MVS Skill Pack for z/OS (TSO/ISPF & JCL) - ProTech - 09/2019

SQL Fundamental Training - 05/2019

Languages

German
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional

Timeline

IT Systems Analyst

Volvo Cars (Manufacturing Plant)
07.2021 - Current

IT Business Analyst

Mercedes Benz Vans (Manufacturing Plant)
01.2018 - 07.2021

Project Specialist

Mercedes Benz Vans
06.2017 - 01.2018

HR Talent Management Intern

Nestlé
03.2016 - 09.2016

Purchasing and Marketing Support

Pfizer
09.2007 - 06.2012

Business Administration Training

Pfizer
01.2007 - 01.2010

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration, Tax Law and Auditing

University of Applied Sciences

Semester Abroad - Business Administration

Administration College of Charleston

Business Administration Training - Business Administration

Engelbert-Bohn-Schule

DevOps Fundamentals - PeopleCert - 07/2022

Agile Scrum Foundation - EXIN - 02/2022

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist - Scaled Agile Inc. - 01/2022

Lean Fundamentals - 6 Sigma US - 11/2021

ITIL 4 - AXELOS Global Best Practice - 10/2021

MVS Skill Pack for z/OS (TSO/ISPF & JCL) - ProTech - 09/2019

SQL Fundamental Training - 05/2019

Christin Walker