Supporting a long-term Re-Platforming project of a 30-year-old application.
Work with 2 teams of developers, architects and other business analysts on story creation and Agile development activities.
Activities include daily scrum meetings, daily ad-hoc meetings, collaboration and research with team members and customer SMEs regarding but not limited to the following:
Business Analyst for Data migration/Backend scrum team.
Daily and as needed communications, collaboration and research regarding application features, Jira story creation, grooming and refinement activities.
Scheduled, prepared and interviewed Stakeholders on business requirements/rules/enhancements for a multitude of features for the new application on a weekly basis.
Scheduled, prepared, researched and refined stories with Architects and developers based on business requirements/rules/enhancements for a multitude of features for current and future development Sprints.
Independent research with customer system matter experts, SME, for technical requirements, Jira story development and Jira story refinement.
Collaborate and coordinate with Scrum Masters and other Business Analysts on required Jira stories and weekly grooming sessions for 2/3 weeks sprint cycles, based on feature priority.
Collaborate and work directly with developers on any clarifications needed for development with respect to Jira stories/tickets.
Participate and collaborate with Scrum Masters and Business Analysts on PI planning and preparation.
Hitachi Senior Operations Specialist
T-Mobile
07.2022 - 09.2023
Supporting a billing system consolidation of systems after an acquisition.
Work with leadership teams.
Activities include daily leadership meetings/updates, daily internal team migration communications but not limited to the following:
Communications Lead.
Daily and as needed communications with all issues regarding daily conversion activities.
As needed conference call setup/initiation, liaison activities for impacting conversion activities with various operation Domain teams.
Provide daily and weekly updates to business stakeholders via Daily and Weekly Conversion PowerPoint read-outs.
As needed analysis and reporting with regards to Incident trending and incident reporting.
When required, provided support for all phases of Incident Management.
Hitachi Senior Operations Specialist
T-Mobile
01.2022 - 07.2022
Supporting Migration/Divestiture of customers to a competitor.
Work with Product Owners, business liaisons, and Agile Scrum teams.
Activities include, but not limited to the following:
Team Lead for Triage group during support of migration of customers’ accounts as part of Divestiture.
Participate and assist on processes and documentation for monitoring of systems involved in migration life cycle.
Provide daily and weekly updates to business stakeholders on major accomplishments and activities.
Hitachi Business Analyst
Toyota Motors of North America
04.2021 - 12.2021
Supporting 5 different web site initiatives for the major global automotive manufacturer.
Work with Product Owners, business liaisons, and Agile Scrum teams.
Activities include, but not limited to the following:
Collaborate with Developers, Architects and Product Owners on new features, updates, enhancements, and fixes for 5 different web sites.
Create and craft stories with functional, technical, and business requirements along with acceptance criteria based on Product Owners needs to support and enhance web sites.
Coordinate and prioritize Jira stories, new features, enhancements, and defects for Production release for developers.
Onboard all new developers and assist in knowledge transfer for sites/code they will support.
QA Support for 2 specific applications/websites developed and supported by Hitachi Vantara.
Provide weekly updates to business stakeholders on major accomplishments and activities.
Hitachi Integration Analyst
Spectrum/Charter Communications
01.2018 - 02.2021
Integration Analyst for Field Operations, Device Mgmt., and Web Services teams.
Experienced Integration Analyst providing portal design and development activities support.
Work with multiple design and development stakeholders to create and maintain a detailed data map for UI to/from web services.
Activities include, but are not limited to the following:
Create and update high level API design documents.
Identify and validate Gateway User Interface (“UI”) Service request and response data element mapping.
Provide high level / functional translation and orchestration rules for Gateway UI Services.
Gateway UI Services to/from Enterprise Service request and response element mapping.
Source/target field to Enterprise Service mapping where applicable.
Consult and collaborate on UI and API service design efforts to clarify JIRA data needs and existing capabilities.
Identify data, translation, and/or service orchestration gaps.
Document API service data mappings, orchestration, and transformation for developers.
Validate and test new services as needed for various downstream services for the Field Ops, Device Management and Web services groups.
Hitachi Integration Analyst Manager
Hitachi
10.2017 - 12.2017
Team Lead for initial Caribou, new initiative, integration effort.
Primary liaison to Management for blockers and all related issues for the team.
Provide work assignments and initial issue assignments to the team members.
Provide 2nd level of internal QA of design documentation prior to acceptance.
Provide logistical support for the 10-member team.
Deployment/Implementation/Systems Engineer
ARRIS Solution, Inc.
08.2003 - 07.2017
On-site project management, installation, configuration, training, and support of WorkAssure Field Service Management products (ICOMS, CSG and custom billing systems specifically for Latin America).
On-site Professional Services projects including but not limited to dispatcher training, routing analysis, routing troubleshooting, backend server reconfigurations, core application upgrades and patching.
Systems Integration to customized billing system, Siebel, Oracle, NETSMS, which includes but not limited to Interface testing, field mapping and application feature validation.
Integration with third party vendors including SageQuest, Unify, SkyCreek and PeakView Solutions.
Lead Implementation Engineer on 15 plus U.S. based MSO Field Service Management implementations for Time Warner, RCN Cable, Insight Communications, Oceanic Cable in Hawaii and Charter Communications, multiple sites.
Lead Implementation Engineer on 2 leading Mexican MSO Field Service Management implementations for MultiMedios in Monterrey Mexico and Cablevision in Mexico City now known as Izzi.
Lead Implementation Engineer on addition and integration of CableMas Cable into existing Izzi WorkAssure Field Service Management platform with Siebel.
Lead Implementation Engineer for NET Brazil in Sao Paulo on multiple upgrade projects and a major migration initiative to the AMDOCS billing platform.
Deployment Engineer Manager
Melard Technologies, Inc.
01.1996 - 07.2003
Managed team of 6 Deployment Engineers throughout the United States.
Dotted line reporting to VP of Operations and Director of Support.
Sales Engineering support for sales opportunities in the Telecommunication and Cable Industries.
Designed, customized, tested, demonstrated, and implemented solutions for large Telco enterprises, small businesses for a multitude of sales opportunities and field implementations.
Managed in house network with over 100 users on Novell and Microsoft networks.
Supported MS Office Suite of applications for in-house users.
Novell Network Administrator
A. Uzzo and Company, C.P.A.’s P.C.
10.1989 - 12.1995
Network maintenance and support for a Novell BNC topology network.
Supported 30 Windows PC’s connected to AS400 and Novell Network.
Maintained, supported, data entry for Time and Billing system for creating WIP reports for all client accounts.
Maintained Accounts Receivable ledger for all client accounts.
Maintained, supported, data entry for over 500 Corporate and Individual tax returns on tax return software.
Supported customized accounting/reporting software located on 25 PC/workstations for accounting staff.
Supported secretarial staff on word processing application and documents related to all customer correspondence and documentation.