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Cristina Gallagher

South Portland,ME

Summary

Hardworking and passionate about technology improvements/processes with strong organizational skills eager to secure a Business Analyst position in positive work environment. Ready to help the team achieve company goals with a willingness to contribute in multiple roles as needed. I'm a seasoned Business Analyst offering over 20 years of IT/Business Analyst experience. Expert in documenting business and systems requirements, test case and testing and data mapping.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Real Estate Agent

King + Miller Real Estate
01.2023 - Current
  • Managed contracts, negotiations, and all aspects of sales to finalize purchases and exceed customer expectations.
  • Negotiated, facilitated, and managed real estate transactions.
  • Communicated with clients to understand property needs and preferences.
  • Maintained connections with clients to encourage repeat business and referrals.
  • Advised clients on market conditions and property value for informed decision-making.
  • Presented purchase offers to sellers for consideration.
  • Developed and maintained relationships with clients through networking, postcards, and cold calling.
  • Conducted comprehensive market analysis to identify opportunities for investors.
  • Reviewed and executed confidential documents, contracts and disclosures.
  • Educated clients looking to sell or buy on current market conditions, legal requirements, pricing, and mortgages.
  • Performed home evaluations and developed competitive market analysis for individual homes.
  • Communicated with clients to understand property needs and preferences
  • Negotiated, facilitated, and managed real estate transactions
  • Presented purchase offers to sellers for consideration

Regional Vice President

Arbonne International
11.2006 - Current
  • Recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities.
  • Represented organization at industry conferences and events.
  • Planned events and train business partners to enhance sales, teams and product knowledge within our organization.
  • Tracked expenses and income for businesses while organizing and maintaining bank statements for checking accounts.
  • Established QuickBooks accounting system to reflect accurate financial records.
  • Focus on personal growth to established and maintained strong relationships with customers and business partners.

Lead Business Anaylst

DisabilityRMS (Sun Life)
06.2002 - 07.2019
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
  • Documented and facilitated working sessions for approved projects and enhancements with internal and external customers to understand business needs and translate into rules, requirements and project scope.
  • Assisted in the evaluation of project impact through consultation with the business, regulatory, Information Technology management, development, quality assurance, validation and training teams
  • Assisted with the identification and recording of detailed requirements from business users through interviews
  • Created process models based on business requirements in order to determine the completeness of the information and process components
  • Analysis and management of requirement risk, trace ability matrix and prioritizes requirements
  • Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
  • Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business requirements.
  • Production of requirement specifications and outlines solution design documents throughout the project life cycle
  • Finalized requirements documentation and obtain sign off from stakeholders, IT, business, etc
  • Obtained feedback and manage change processes while implementing the project plan(s)
  • Produced, documented, and reviewed change requests; obtain sign off from stakeholders
  • Performed quality review checks on project deliverables
  • Developed test strategies, test plan, implementation plans and training activities
  • Created user acceptance testplans and execute user acceptance testing, identify and document issues, retest fixes, perform integration testing to ensure original requirements are met
  • Performed stress testing to ensure technical supporting of multiple users
  • Supported post-implementation activities:
    Problem solving and measurement of benefits achieved; Identify, analyze, and determined root cause of issues; Independently collate and analyze data using pre-determined tools, methods, formats, and make recommendations in order to support business change

Business Analyst

Unum
04.1998 - 06.2002
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
  • Created Requirements documents
  • Created Test Plan and Test Cases
  • Executed Test Cases in UAT and documented issues, retested and signed off for implementation.
  • Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
  • Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
  • Created data models to support decision-making processes.

Education

Associate of Science - Fashion Merchandising

Fisher College
Boston, MA

Skills

  • Strong presenting, organization, written and verbal communication skills
  • Business Process Mapping
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Data Mapping
  • Project Management
  • Test Case Scenarios and User Acceptance Testing
  • Requirements management tools and techniques , such as Use Cases, Story-boarding, Scrum, Waterfall, Jira
  • Data query tools (SQL) to perform data analysis, profiling and validation
  • Experience in the LAD (Life, Absence, Disability, Long Term Care) insurance industry
  • Experience in Contracts, Billing, Underwriting and Claims systems
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Timeline

Real Estate Agent

King + Miller Real Estate
01.2023 - Current

Regional Vice President

Arbonne International
11.2006 - Current

Lead Business Anaylst

DisabilityRMS (Sun Life)
06.2002 - 07.2019

Business Analyst

Unum
04.1998 - 06.2002

Associate of Science - Fashion Merchandising

Fisher College
Cristina Gallagher