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Education
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Derek Miranda

Baltimore,MD

Summary

Results-oriented Business Analyst proficient in agile methodologies, dedicated to auditing and enhancing business processes. Demonstrated project management skills with a strong focus on stakeholder satisfaction, leading productive meetings that drive collaboration. Bilingual in English and Spanish, leveraging communication and adaptability to foster innovative solutions in dynamic environments. Committed to process optimization and operational efficacy, consistently exceeding expectations through data interpretation and predictive modeling.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Seasonal Fleet Maintenance Analyst

Hertz
Baltimore, MD
12.2024 - Current
  • Utilized Tableau to measure revenue targets, mechanic productivity and fleet availability to compare month over month performance
  • Established a new hire playbook and accompanying PowerPoint presentation to streamline the onboarding process for new technicians
  • Developed digital platform for parts management, transforming a paper-based processes into a transparent and widely used database
  • Led comprehensive mechanic productivity analysis, identifying bottlenecks; optimizing repair schedules to meet fleet availability targets
  • Employed cost effective procurement methods by comparing vendors, availability and negotiating favorable payment terms
  • Created an audit system including vendor charge structure to avoid duplicate invoice payment and overbilling
  • Prepare work schedules to ensure adequate staffing to coincide with productivity goals
  • Team member in conducting candidate interviews and providing hiring recommendations
  • Facilitated team building initiatives by collaborating with shift mechanic leads to prioritize work and develop best practices

Technical Business Analyst II Sapiens Delivery Project

H.W. Kaufman
Farmington Hills, MI
05.2023 - 10.2024
  • Successfully drafted core system functionality requirements for admitted and non-admitted commercial business lines
  • Audited accounting transactions during UAT, ensuring accurate ledger postings and financial integrity
  • Collaborated with UX/UI design developers, aligning with business requirements for optimal user visibility
  • Created detailed process flow diagrams utilizing Lucidchart software, publishing to Confluence, optimizing system change management
  • Managed Jira-driven projects, achieving timely sprint deliverables designed to improve software quality
  • Led user role management and drafted UAT scenarios for commercial and excess business lines ensuring full testing and compliance
  • Developed and implemented a triage process for UAT, effectively capturing and resolving user errors and system issues
  • Provided legacy systems ticketing support working closely with end users and weekend smoke testing priorities for patch releases

Senior Software Analyst Billing Systems

GEICO
Chevy Chase, MD
09.2016 - 12.2022
  • Leveraged Azure DevOps to efficiently manage and prioritize the daily technical bug queue, ensuring timely resolution
  • Utilized SQL to identify billing issues, prioritizing state compliance and moratorium data fixes, ensuring immediate resolution
  • Streamlined critical data-fix prioritization and immediate handling to maintain operational integrity and minimize downtime
  • Expanded the utilization of Quantum Metric and Splunk, delivering real-time feedback to counselors to resolve reported system bugs
  • Facilitated software release notes management, ensuring effective communication and adaption for the related business units
  • Provided comprehensive on-site support for release coordination, and production support to ensure successful rollouts
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by addressing feedback in biweekly calls, improving self-service billing functionality
  • Analyzed Quantum Metric customer interaction sessions, identifying UX pain points to implement targeted system improvements

Education

B.S. - Accounting

Cambridge College
Cambridge, MA
05.2013

A.S. - Business Administration

Johnson & Wales University
Providence, RI
05.2003

Skills

  • Accounting
  • Requirement drafting
  • UAT
  • SQL
  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Duck Creek
  • Atlas
  • Personal and Commercial insurance
  • Workday
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Financial accountability
  • System analysis
  • Database management
  • Tableau software
  • Presentation building
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Azure DevOps
  • Quantum Metric
  • Splunk
  • Salesforce
  • Palantir Foundry
  • Enterprise Asset Management
  • Process enhancement
  • KPI analysis
  • Trend modeling
  • Issue identification
  • BI dashboards
  • Cost control programs
  • Strategic planning
  • Microsoft office
  • Project management

Certification

Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Lean Six Sigma Institute, 05/01/21

Notable Accomplishments

  • Identified SharePoint security and fraud gaps with a corporate card request process and drafted a business plan to highlight a use case to transition into a secured platform that was later implemented into Workday.
  • Key analyst in facilitating a conversion project leading to a migration from a mainframe system to a cloud-based system.
  • Developed a customer journey project to seamlessly capture client life cycle events and increase policy holder retention during renewal.

Accomplishments

  • Identified SharePoint security and fraud gaps with a corporate card request process, and drafted a business plan to highlight a use case to transition into a secured platform that was later implemented in Workday.
  • Key analyst in facilitating a conversion project, leading to a migration from a mainframe system to a cloud-based system.
  • Developed a customer journey project to seamlessly capture client lifecycle events and increase policyholder retention during renewal.

Timeline

Seasonal Fleet Maintenance Analyst

Hertz
12.2024 - Current

Technical Business Analyst II Sapiens Delivery Project

H.W. Kaufman
05.2023 - 10.2024

Senior Software Analyst Billing Systems

GEICO
09.2016 - 12.2022

B.S. - Accounting

Cambridge College

A.S. - Business Administration

Johnson & Wales University
Derek Miranda