Innovative Business Analyst and Project Management Leader offering more than 10 years of progressive Information Technology expertise with background in design, development, and deployment of global solutions. Extensive expertise developing and implementing cross-functional department processes and methodologies, with specialized expertise creating and managing program level business requirements, performing gap and impact analysis, and designing process and system improvements. ServiceNow and JIRA experience. Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into tangible business outcomes. Product Owner experience. Accomplished leader bringing clarity, direction, and execution to project teams by bridging specialized expertise in strategic planning using Agile Methodology.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Systems Analyst
Sedgwick USA
05.2022 - Current
Working as a Senior Analyst for global Walmart Absent Management Systems
Creating and delivering end to end business and technical requirements
Creating traceability, process flows, system diagrams, rapid prototypes, and screen mock ups
Extensively worked on Business Process Re-Engineering and IT process streamlining
Performing system analyses on software programs, applications, and web services
Determining system efficiency and functionality by maintain liaison between the internal departments and the end-users
Reporting to Management and obtaining approval for system development projects
Efficiently integrating new systems, programs, and applications with business operations and services
Promoting system efficiency and security by integrating performance metrics
Implementing new upgrades and advancements of application systems and enterprise architecture
Produce data maps between source and target system
Communicate with 3rd party and partners to address technical issues and or change requests
Schedule plan and lead requirement gathering and review meetings
Communicate key decisions and action items
Analyze existing software applications and document all functionalities
Work closely with product owner and Scrum Master for Story boarding and Sprint planning
Design and development to convert business requirements into a developer friendly specification.
Sr. Systems Analyst
America Electric Power (AEP)
02.2020 - 11.2021
Worked as part of an Agile Scrum team to deliver high quality, secure, robust and scalable solutions that align with stakeholder expectations
Engaged with domain and subject matter experts to identify, develop, document, validate and endorse the requirements of their unit, demonstrating Agile behaviors that emphasize collaboration, delivery, reflection and improvement
Understanding AEP’s key business lines/processes (Generation, Transmission and Distribution) translating them into clear and structured requirements by conducting various elicitation techniques (such as, Brainstorming, Story mapping, Business process mapping, Interviewing, Focus Group Workshops, Interface Analysis, and Prototyping)
Facilitated and participated in relevant Scrum ceremonies and rituals (Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Iteration / Release Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective, etc.)
Actively collaborated with other teams and cost centers to manage cross-functional dependencies and align the strategic goals for AEP’s Distribution division
Traced and catalogued data processes, transformation logic and manual adjustments to identify data governance issues
Highlighted Data Quality issues and areas of system control gaps
Defined and maintained effective communication (may it be face to face or on-line meetings) for concerned stakeholders (such as sponsors, departmental managers, architects, implementation group/partners, and quality assurance teams) to keep them aware of the project progress or roadblocks, if any
Extensively used JIRA and Service Now to manage, monitor and track story cards progress in the backlog and within sprints
Manage Change Control process and defect mitigation plans by providing guidelines for regression testing (RT) and user acceptance testing (UAT).
IT Analysis Sr. Consultant
Nationwide Insurance
Columbus, OH
06.2014 - 10.2019
Developed delivered end to end business and technical requirements for small projects to large programs for Property and Casualty side of Businesses / insurances
Created documents that may define, formulate, initiate and implement project/program requirements for the technical team to understand, develop, test and implement
Created requirements management plans and facilitate workshops to align responsibilities and scope of work for IT and business throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Created stakeholder requirements, functional and non-functional requirements, information management documents and align these to conform the decisions and objectives of the projects and or programs
Created traceability, process flows, system diagrams leveraging visual graphics such as Microsoft Visio
Reviewed and analyzed business and system processes, identify bottlenecks and redundancies and provide recommendations based on facts
Performed Gap Analysis between complex business processes and IT interfaces to understand and formulate the mitigation process
Facilitated, trained, guided and mentored junior analysts, team members and “Development Lines” (that may include Line Analysts, Developers and QA Analysts) in Agile environment
Provided guidelines to QA analysts, and tech leads in bug fixing by creating defect mitigation plan
Helped creating Business Process Modelling and Rapid Prototypes, Screen Mock Ups, UI and UX Designs
Worked on projects on Service Now, Clarity, SAS Grid (Cloud Technology), Click to Chat, Co Browse, Electronic Communication Archival (ECA)
Created User Cases, Story Cards Story mapping and store in RRC, RTC and JIRA
Extensively worked on Business Process Re-Engineering and IT processes, such as Operations Decision Management (ODM), Rapid Prototype and Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
Business Analyst / Project Portfolio Manager
State Auto Insurance
Columbus, OH
04.2009 - 06.2014
Performs responsibilities of a Project Portfolio Manager for SA Finance, Actuarial and Reinsurance Divisions
Actively manage the portfolio and prepare complex reinsurance financial, management and regulatory reports for the senior management
Interprets and validates applicability of reinsurance treaties
Identifies and gathers final bid information to update the portfolio database
Exhibits solid understanding of key regulatory implications on reinsurance processes to ensure compliance
Administers complex reinsurance processes, routine claims and update database with validated data through batch processing methods
Develop and track performance metrics; schedule risk and financial performance of assigned portfolio of programs/projects
Prepare and analyze business, technical and functional documents for SA Finance and Actuarial Division
Update project development matrix and monitor milestone project performance, facilitate meetings with lines of businesses, project team, QA testers and other stakeholders
Create and maintain General Accounting, Reinsurance and Accounts Payable departments’ crystal reports.
Business Analyst / Project Portfolio Manager
Consulting Firm
Columbus, OH
02.2006 - 03.2009
Client: Cardinal Health
Created functional documents for ADP data warehouse
Worked closely with Data architect to create mapping documents and ETL specifications
Worked in a team to create the semantic layer of Business Object universe for Info View reporting
Developed Pro Clarity visualization using SSIS cubes
Normalize and streamline IT and complex business process flows
Client: Office of Treasurer State of Ohio (TOS)
Developed reporting Use Cases detailing various enhancements for GrowNOW website following RUP methodology
Facilitated training session for Investment department stuff on Recon Processes and reporting
Completed detailed analysis of the website functionality to determine gaps between user interfaces and the application and analyzed data from the MS Visual.net server
Merged, consolidated and integrated Linked Deposit previously found in three different MS Access databases into one master database, including creating tables, queries, forms and macros
Set up new reconciliation process between QED Applications for investments and GrowNOW data and paper applications
Documented the analysis results of GrowNOW website after searching on various criteria, creating custom and ad hoc reports, and identifying process gaps, inefficiencies in functionality, improvement leads, and ways to fix bugs
Interviewed departmental SMEs and assessed data quality and data management
Audited the existing MS Access database of Investment Department where all tables of Linked Deposit/GrowNOW, Agriculture, and Flood Relief for Ohio reside
Client: Nationwide Bank – Bank Data Mart
Design, map, and create requirement documents of all financial data tables (including general ledger, deposits, and investment) that correlate to business processes
Provide source data files for bank data mart (Oracle) staging tables to upload target tables to the data store
Automate financial reporting in Business Objects (BO) which includes complex querying from Access, Oracle and BO Universe to feed Thrift Financial Reporting (TFR) Schedules
Created and formulated Derivation Rules for Deposits, Office of Investments and Loans (Mortgage, Consumer and Commercial) to specify particular source fields that may be derived and transformed to target tables in bank data mart
Created comprehensive user manual documenting business processes and functionalities of the newly created BO Universe
Customize managerial, financial and regulatory reports on Business Objects for Nationwide Bank’s Controller and CFO
Conduct BO Web Intelligence XI.2 training for Nationwide Bank Finance Group.
Project Tools: JIRA, Service Now, Project Portfolio Server (PPS), TOAD, Business Objects, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Altova MLSpy,2016, RRC, Splunk, ODM Cloud, Crystal Reporting, Business Objects (BO), Pro Clarity, Consensus, SQL, SAP, Vision Data Warehouse (VDW), SAS Grid, Power BI