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Jovan Bernard

Covington,GA

Summary

Seasoned Business Analyst with over 7 years of successful experience in eliciting, analyzing, and documenting requirements for business processes and information systems. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Expert at delivering exceptional artifacts such as RMP (Requirement Management Plan), User stories, use cases, process flow diagrams and mockups with in-depth technical knowledge of the software development lifecycle. And leading effort to effectively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to analyze information needs.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Business Analyst /Scrum Master

Kapstack, Maryland (Remote)
05.2021 - Current

• Works cross-functionally across client business units, program and product management, and development

teams.

• Facilitates Joint Application Development (JAD) and

Requirements Gathering sessions with Stakeholders,

SMEs, and System Owners to capture business rules,

processes, and system requirements for various

projects.

• Works independently with users to define concepts

and clarify Functional and Non-functional

requirements daily.

• Monitors projects through the SDLC process using

Agile methodology.

• Conducts user interviews, gathered requirements,

and analyzed the requirements for upgrading an

existing application.

• Lead the effort to effectively communicate and

collaborate with external and internal customers to

analyze information needs and functional

requirements and deliver the following artifacts as

needed:Functional Requirements Document,

Business Requirements Document, Use Cases,

Process Flow Diagrams, GUI Interface designs

(Mock-up screens).

• Elicit, identify, and document requirements for all

assigned project, while being collaborative and

passionate.

• Ensures that requirements are validated by

stakeholders during requirements review sessions.

• Documents stakeholder requirements in a Business

Requirement Document (BRD) stating client’s needs

in clear and concise manner.

• Model the as-is and to-be process flows for existing

business processes.

• Using Power Apps to provide rich business logic and

workflow capabilities to transform manual business

operations into digital, automated processes.

• Identified gaps, pain points and opportunities for

improvement, provides functional expertise, project

coordination and overall advice on financial and

operations for best business practices for Oracle

Cloud ERP & SAP.

• Writing SQL queries and procedures, create custom

reports, and modify ERP user forms to enhance

organizational productivity.

• Using SQL to query&retrieve information from

relational databases and ensuring their stability,

reliability and performance.

• Work with client teams to design and implement

modern, scalable data solutions that business

process and application requirements using a range

of new and emerging technologies from the Google

Cloud Platform.

• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching,

conflict management, for a high-performance team.

• Diverse business process understanding, including

either finance, manufacturing supply chain, sales, and

e- commerce.

• Building, deployment, and migration of Microsoft

Dynamics F&O solutions across development, test,

pre-production, and production environments.

• Act as a servant leader for your teams by facilitating

the Agile process with clear communication.

• Proactively solve problems for teams to succeed

across scope, time, and cost dimensions, while being

open, passionate and approachable.

• Drive the Agile framework for ensuring high quality

product delivery and continuous improvement.

• Remove impediments that hinder team goals and

enable the team to rapidly respond to changes.

Business Analyst

Stack IT Solutions
11.2018 - 05.2021

• Provided technical support for all business needs and priorities.

• Generated requirements based on stakeholders need and request.

• Collaborated and facilitated communication with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Provided recommendations for possible solutions to business issues.

• Worked with business users and SDLC team to drive decision making for application development.

• Completed documentation for business requirement to guide development effort.

• Assisted in the development and maintenance of business requirements process for projects.

• Analyzed opportunities to improve and enhance applications service delivery.

• Provided recommendations for enhancements.

• Supported internal and external audit related activities.

• Validated test cases against application performance.

• Participated in the facilitation of Joint Application Development session (JAD).

• Communicated and collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to analyze information needs.

• Worked with quality assurance to record and/to review test plans, test scenarios and cases result in preparation for regression testing and product validation.

• Translated stakeholder requirements into different tangible deliverables.

• Helped the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.

• In charge of business analysis, requirement gathering, documentation, implementation, and project management.

• Worked closely with a variety of internal and external business partners to ensure that all business requirements are understood, documented, and met.

• Oversaw and maintained project from conception through execution.

• Designed and developed to-be processes and technical solutions to meet business needs.

Skills

    Agile Framework Requirement Elicitation

    Microsoft Office Suite

    Data Modeling & Analytics

    Mockups

    AWS- Amazon Web Services

    Process Improvement/ Process Mapping

    SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

    Process Flows

    UML Diagramming via Lucid Charts

    Power Automate

    Acceptance Criteria

    Facilitation

    Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    Jira/Confluence

    QA Testing

    Traceability Matrix

    Decision Making

    Wire framing

    Scrum Methodology

    Backlog Management

    ITIL Framework

    User Stories & Epics

    Team Management

    Dynamics 365(CRM/ERP)

    Change Management

    User Acceptance Testing

    SQL Scripting

    JavaScript Object Notation (Json) Scripting

    Python Code Testing

    CI/CD-Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/

    Deployment

    Azure Infrastructure Stack

    ▪ Verbal and Written Communication

Timeline

Senior Business Analyst /Scrum Master

Kapstack, Maryland (Remote)
05.2021 - Current

Business Analyst

Stack IT Solutions
11.2018 - 05.2021
Jovan Bernard