Da'Von Mims
Plano,TX
Summary
United States Army Veteran available for 100% of traveling
Seasoned Risk Analyst with 8 years of comprehensive experience identifying and analyzing areas of potential risk threatening success of investment and commerical banks. Methodical and meticulous professional polished in projecting potential losses and making recommendations to limit risk through diversification and currency exchanges. Excellent quantitative and critical thinking abilities paired with basic knowledge of SQL and Python. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
On-Site QA Lead Business Analyst
Facebook
Dallas, TX
05.2021 - Current
- Developed short-term goals and long-term strategic plans to improve risk control and mitigation.
- Advised senior managers on policy strategies for reducing liability and preventing losses.
- Developed and controlled execution of reporting and analytics for multiple operations departments.
- Reviewed contracts and agreements to identify potential risks and ideal mitigation strategies.
- Investigated allegations to check validity and recommend actions to minimize risk.
- Built and harmonized operations reports for team leaders, senior managers and executives, supervising automation of reports and data sources to eliminate errors.
- Kept operations in compliance with OSHA, state and federal regulations through regular safety inspections and hazards management strategies.
- Promoted enterprise-level risk management practices and helped instill strong culture focused on protective policies and procedures.
- Taught employees how to control risks at front line.
- Analyzed portfolios and identified risk factors, facilitating reduction of delinquencies on new volumes and recommending risk-adverse underwriting strategies.
- Defined and led strategies to reduce delinquent accounts, analyzing written-off accounts to drive additional recovery and introducing settlement and hardship programs to increase delinquent customer response rates.
- Trained and mentored analysts on SAS programming, analytics and influential communication.
- Working with Facebook I over see testing of various technological products and a team of 30 employees
- In between my duties and running the site I also lead and handle international as well as domestic meetings and issues
- From pushing firmware running automated test cases to handling on-site problems are all apart of my everyday work scope
Robotics Deployment Engineer
Amazon
Traveling Position, All Over The World
03.2021 - 12.2021
- Engineers at Amazon get a lot of work done in a short amount of time
- Our innovative Engineering departments design, implement, and maintain our fulfillment centers.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
- Developed software for both desktop and mobile operating systems.
- Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
- Participated in cross-functional projects while working in lean development environments.
- Designed and maintained streamlined, reusable and reliable code for use within distributed cloud environments.
- Translated verbal customer requirements into written use cases and testable development stories.
- Introduced agile methodologies and development best practices to division to enhance product development.
- Trained and managed team of developers and discussed issues in order to provide resolution and apply best practices.
- Assisted in business acquisition efforts by designing customized solutions for proposals to potential customers.
- Led version control efforts for organization, employing GitHub and other public and open source repositories.
- Architected data engineering pipelines to support analysis of machine learning performance.
- Implemented target tracking to research prototypes over large data sets.
Autonomous Robot, QA Tester
NURO
Houston, TX
04.2019 - 01.2021
- Writing test plan and test scripts from scratch
- Creating SQL queries to extract necessary data and flagging bugs and defects and relaying issues to the software engineers
- Developing test plans, cases, and reports on multiple projects
- Validating that user's expectations and achievements during the testing process
- Improve quality through root cause analysis and prevention, track and monitor change induced incidents and make recommendations toward continual improvement
- Provide formal and informal mentoring to assist in the technical and business development of other associates and end users
- Assists users and IT personnel with training and development of user documentation
- Provide effective functions for end users by creating or modifying applications using,
- PeopleTools, and other development tools and testing tools
- Write new or modify existing batch programs using a variety of computer languages and file access methods including SQR/SQL
- Confirm accuracy of software by testing new and modified programs and by coordinating end user system testing
- Developing test plans while assisting in test and quality assurance process
- Create and modify technical documentation by writing and updating program, operations, and other system documentation
- Support the development, testing, debugging and documentation of PeopleSoft applications in accordance with standard development practices
- Complete coding on new, complex and involved systems; conduct code reviews.
- Tailored testing procedures to obtain data most relevant to understanding underlying causes of production limitations.
- Evaluated data sets from multiple test implementations to determine and account for standard variance in test results.
- Reviewed standard product applications to identify part characteristics relevant to real-world applications in preparation for test design.
Mobile Application Tester
Innovaum
Houston, TX
02.2013 - 03.2015
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
- Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Identified and tracked defects with Test Studio and Loadrunner and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 2 to 3 weeks and well-organized sprints.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Houston
Houston08.2021
Skills
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- PeopleSoft
- Linux
- HP Performance Center
- Microsoft Excel
- Test Cases
- Test Automation
- SQL
- Scripting
- Time management
- Technical support
- Military
- Active Directory
- Selenium
- Software testing
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Business Requirements
- Business Tracking
- BI Tool and System Design
Timeline
On-Site QA Lead Business Analyst
Facebook
05.2021 - Current
Robotics Deployment Engineer
Amazon
03.2021 - 12.2021
Autonomous Robot, QA Tester
NURO
04.2019 - 01.2021
Mobile Application Tester
Innovaum
02.2013 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Houston