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Christopher  Tolulope

Christopher Tolulope

Austin,United States

Summary

Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst

Emerald Medals Group
03.2020 - 01.2023

The project was to enhance an existing Lending system and to fully automate and increase productivity through
breakthroughs in the automation of work plans, document processing, compliance, and other time-consuming tasks that
previously plagued the Loan origination process.

Responsibilities:
● Gathered and documented requirements from SMEs and users, performed business requirement analysis,
and categorized requirements into requirement types, sub-requirements, assigned prioritization, and Level of
Effort (LOE).
● Analyzed various data elements of the mortgage from the Servicing System and identified any gaps in the
hand-offs between Loss Mitigation, Bankruptcy, Collections, and Foreclosure, which would delay the final
disposition of the property and increase the risk of loss and turn any gaps into projects.
● Collaborate with the Enterprise Policy Governance Officers and Corporate Compliance to respond to
regulatory effectively and efficiently and industry changes that impact mortgage policy.
● Derived Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) based on User Requirement Specifications URS.
Understand and articulate business requirements from user interviews and then convert requirements into
technical specifications.
● Worked with the product owner to prioritize user stories during the product backlog grooming meetings.
● Interact with various departments throughout MLA in developing standards, guidelines, and procedures
consistent with the governing Bank policies.
● Created mapping documents from the database to the Calyx point and did unit testing to ensure the mappings
were correct.
● Data validation using SQL and performed data mapping from source system to target system.
● Coordinated with scrum team members in defining various business rules to validate multiple business
transactions for pre-qualification, underwriting, document verification, and approval process transactions.
● Developed User stories, business flow diagrams, Activity/State diagrams, Swim Lane, missing GAP and risk
analysis, daily scrum meeting, sprint review and retrospective, sprint grooming sessions, sprint release
planning, etc.
● Worked with cross-functional application development teams and stakeholders with organizational goals and
objectives to understand and interpret complex requirements. Also, with defect and change management,
production support, and functional and integration test execution on JIRA.
● Executed UAT, developed and maintained quality procedures, and ensured that appropriate documentation is
in place.
● Worked with user groups to assess user needs, resolve questions, and recommend changes.

  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.

Business Analyst

Barnkforte Technologies (Global)
01.2019 - 03.2020

The project enhances account verification by adding a stronger layer of protection for a customer’s Discover card account
when attempted to be used to log in to an account from an unfamiliar device or if the customer is performing certain
activities such as updating their profile, switching, or changing browser settings, deleting cookies, or modifying software
settings. The new enhancement gave rise to an increase in customer satisfaction.
The project followed Agile Scrum SDLC Methodology.
Responsibilities:
● Involved in analyzing the existing system and the current business process and methods to identify deficiencies
and areas for improvement and enhancement.
● Liaison between stakeholders' system users, clients and managers, the software development team and the QA
team to gather requirements.
● Participated in scrum methodology by giving insights into prioritizing User Stories.
● Attended daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, and sprint review meetings.
● Analyzed e-commerce-specific Business Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, and Activity
Diagrams using MS Visio.
● Conducted walk-through sessions for Use Cases to discuss specific issues with stakeholders, Architecture and
Design & development teams.
● Excellent knowledge of analyzing requirements for data migration, reconciliation, mapping, staging and
transformation for the ETL processes.
● Good experience in Data Mapping, Data Validation, and verifications using various SQL queries.
● Prepared Business Process Models that include modeling all business activities from the conceptual to procedural
level. Followed top-down, leveled technique for building Business Process Models
● Provided senior executives with key findings and results to analyze and upgrade existing customers.
● Prepare Wireframes, Prototypes, and Mockup screens for different web pages.
● Performed data integration, data mapping,, and data extraction management along with data cleansing while
migrating data from an existing system to a new application.
● Assisted UAT project planning creating testing scenarios, test plans, test scripts, and test summary reports.
● Coordinated with the test team to check the weekly status and report the same to the project manager

Business Analyst

Xenuis Global LLC
02.2017 - 02.2019

User Analytics Project involved developing a software application to gather relevant data (tweets) and summarize overall
sentiment from Twitter. This application obtains a large amount of data from Twitter with the help of various API and
analyses can help in a better understanding of future marketing and development of other products.
.Responsibilities:
● Requirement elicitation was done by facilitating story authoring sessions and several other meetings and
workshops also participated in Agile Poker to quantify User Stories and Epic.
● Worked in compliance with scrum-master in creating Product Backlog and populating Release Backlog for
effective sprint organization.
● Helped the Scrum Master to implement and educate business stakeholders about agile ceremonies.
● Participated actively on a regular basis in focus groups and steering committees.
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● Worked in Scrum flavor of agile development framework, ensuring incremental development within short
iterations while focusing on Highest Business Value.
● Participated in daily scrum calls, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospective meetings.
● Worked closely with the product owner and scrum master to prioritize the features
● Compiled and consolidated user stories based on user requirements and use cases for the front-end GUI.
● Stakeholder Management right from Stakeholder Identification, Analysis, Communication, and Engagement
based on power and interest.
● Created stakeholder register to ensure efficient management of stakeholders.
● Performed Gap analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility studies, and performed impact
analysis for proposed enhancements.
● Created URD comprising user stories, Use Cases, Wireframes, Data Models, and UML diagrams in MS Visio.
● Created mockup screens, prototyping storyboards, and UI/UX with MS Visio.
● better interface design, creating wireframes, and reviewing the prototype design.
● Worked on analyzing social media monitoring by using API for Twitter like Twitter4J for extracting tweets.
● Used SoapUI to validate the web services.
● Involved in UAT and followed up with Business Users for sign-off.
● Supported the Production Support team, performed root cause analysis of bugs, and followed up on quick
resolution

Skills

  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Project Management
  • Data and Analytics
  • Agile and Scrum Environments
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Test Plans and Cases
  • Stakeholder Support
  • Communication
  • Project Management
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Project Artifacts
  • Change Management
  • Leadership
  • Operations & Maintenance

Certification

  • CBAP - Certified Business Analysis Professional (IIBA)
  • PMP- Project Management Professional
  • PSPO - Professional Scrum Product Owner
  • PSM - Professional Scrum Master
  • CompTIA Project+ - CompTIA
  • Agile Project Leadership - LinkedIn

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Ogun State University

Associate of Science - Business Administration And Management

National Open University
04.2017

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Quote

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin

Timeline

Business Analyst

Emerald Medals Group
03.2020 - 01.2023

Business Analyst

Barnkforte Technologies (Global)
01.2019 - 03.2020

Business Analyst

Xenuis Global LLC
02.2017 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Ogun State University

Associate of Science - Business Administration And Management

National Open University
Christopher Tolulope