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Tia Crawford

Business Analyst/Business Systems Consultant
Jacksonville,FL
Tia Crawford

Summary

Insightful Business Analyst with experience directing and improving operations through effective employee motivational strategies and strong policy enforcement. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.

Overview

20
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Johnson And Johnson (Contractor)
Charlotte, NC

Operational Lead/Product Owner
08.2021 - 12.2023

Job overview

  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery
  • Approved UAT Tests and stories as Product Owner.
  • Enhanced operational efficiency and productivity by managing budgets, accounts, and costs.
  • Consulted with customers to assess needs and propose optimal solutions.
  • Managed day-to-day business operations.
  • Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
  • Established foundational processes for business operations.
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog

Wells Fargo, SACM Vulnerability Operations, Consequence Model Team
Charlotte, NC

Business Systems Consultant 6 - Contractor
03.2019 - 09.2020

Job overview

  • Process VIID asset escalations in the Consequence Model as required with concentrations on Server, Connectivity, Everything Else, and Personal Computing.
  • Acts as liaison between client area and technical organization by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of the most complex, strategic, corporate-wide business problems to be solved with automated systems.
  • Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements.
  • Applies knowledge of industry trends and technology to drive organizational change and position Wells Fargo for the future.
  • Works with user groups to provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs, and recommend changes.
  • Participates in transforming strategic enterprise architecture and design principles into specific system requirements and specifications.
  • Recommends and initiates systems testing.
  • Acts as the highest-level internal consultant within technology and business groups by re-engineering technical processes for greater efficiencies with significant impact to the business.
  • Directs and serves as a mentor to less experienced staff.

Charter Communications, PMO Billing Department
Charlotte, NC

Sr. Business Analyst - Contractor
08.2018 - 12.2018

Job overview

  • Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
  • Negotiate agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT and/or vendors from initial requirements to final implementation.
  • Gather, analyze, refine, validate, document and maintain business requirements for the IT organization and/or vendors for residential and commercial line of business.
  • Analyze inter-dependencies, risks, and risk mitigations that could impact or be impacted by the design and delivery of new products, services, processes and/or support technologies.
  • Analyze business processes, functions, and procedures to determine most effective business systems software to meet the needs of the Customer Operations organization.
  • Drives business requirement review sessions for tool enhancements based on business needs.
  • Develop test plans and coordinate software testing.
  • Perform analysis and follow-up of data relating to Customer Operation applications performance and adoption.
  • Assist Project Managers in development of project plans and use associated project planning tools as needed.
  • Assist in coordination and participates in activities related to Service Trouble Management, Back-office Case Management, CRM and other Non-CRM Call Center applications.
  • Assist in coordination and participates in activities related to Business Applications User Feedback Management processes.
  • Participates in tool and application standardization activities with other business stakeholders.

Wells Fargo, Enterprise Technology
Charlotte, NC

Business Systems Consultant 5 - Contractor
12.2017 - 08.2018

Job overview

  • Provided technical support within network – Directed the hand-offs of new network technologies used by the business or functional area.
  • Resolved requirements against business needs; ensuring scope and tracking deliverables.
  • Identified processes and assisted with documenting changes of processes between groups.
  • Planned and lead readiness of new emerging projects for network infrastructure installations.
  • Acted as a liaison between client areas and technical organizations by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of highly complex business problems to be solved with automated systems.
  • Provided technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet business requirements..
  • Acted as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by using quality tools and process definition/improvement to re-engineer technical processes for greater efficiencies.

Bank of America
Charlotte, United States

Business Analyst - Contractor
04.2016 - 09.2017

Job overview

  • Ensured IE, A&E, COPG understood which product and vendor to use in each situation.
  • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
  • Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
  • Managed projects with 5 or more resources through full project life-cycle.
  • Understood key project management disciplines of schedule, cost, risk and issue, and change management to effectively manage team resources and business linkages.
  • Provided feedback to product managers on gaps in product policies based on ongoing projects.
  • Supplied pricing for all projects for standard products and non-standard with low and high spend requirements.
  • Defined and launched projects to define lower targets where opportunities are identified.
  • Governance of all processes related to the circuit life-cycle, from request to payment, for groups to systems.
  • Ensured processes are defined by the relevant stakeholders, without gaps between functions (estimating, funding, ordering, paying, CMDB updates, reporting).
  • Identified process gaps - organizational & system - have defined actions and owners for resolution.

Wells Fargo
Charlotte, United States

Business Systems Consultant 3 - Contractor
12.2014 - 09.2015

Time Warner Cable
Charlotte, United States

Junior Engineer - Contractor
08.2013 - 12.2014

Windstream Communications
Charlotte, United States

CLEC Provisioning Project Manager/Specialist II
02.2004 - 02.2012

Education

Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, PMI-PBA Certification
Charlotte, NC

02.2018 - 05.2019

University Overview

Project Management Institute Professional in Business Analysis Certification

  • Completed professional development.

University of Phoenix, Charlotte, NC MBA, Masters of Business Administration
Charlotte, NC

MBA from Business Administration
02.2015 - 05.2016

Skills

Salesforce, PAC2000 (Remedy), Device Pro, HPNA, CISCO Routers and Switches, SOEG, CMP (Matrix), VOIP, COF, QVRU (Qualys), ICOMS Billing System, CSG Billing System, Monsoon, NDEX, Avaya Systems, MetaSolve, SWITCH, DCRIS, CAMS, MIROR, LQS, Keyboarding, Tableau, JIRA, Asset Management

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Timeline

Operational Lead/Product Owner

Johnson And Johnson (Contractor)
08.2021 - 12.2023

Business Systems Consultant 6 - Contractor

Wells Fargo, SACM Vulnerability Operations, Consequence Model Team
03.2019 - 09.2020

Sr. Business Analyst - Contractor

Charter Communications, PMO Billing Department
08.2018 - 12.2018

Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, PMI-PBA Certification

02.2018 - 05.2019

Business Systems Consultant 5 - Contractor

Wells Fargo, Enterprise Technology
12.2017 - 08.2018

Business Analyst - Contractor

Bank of America
04.2016 - 09.2017

University of Phoenix, Charlotte, NC MBA, Masters of Business Administration

MBA from Business Administration
02.2015 - 05.2016

Business Systems Consultant 3 - Contractor

Wells Fargo
12.2014 - 09.2015

Junior Engineer - Contractor

Time Warner Cable
08.2013 - 12.2014

CLEC Provisioning Project Manager/Specialist II

Windstream Communications
02.2004 - 02.2012
Tia CrawfordBusiness Analyst/Business Systems Consultant