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Ricardo Nevarez Jr

System Analyst
Round Rock,TX

Summary

Systems Analyst skilled in engaging with stakeholders of all levels to facilitate requirements gathering and document as-is and to-be processes with over 8 years of experience in IT. Experienced in design, developing use cases, defect resolution and implementation of technical solutions that deliver key initiatives. Skillful in weighing crucial business and IT needs against software systems to assess and optimize portfolio roadmaps.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Systems Analyst

General Motors IT
Austin, Tx
08.2019 - Current
  • Roles: Systems Analyst and product owner of IT used applications. Documentation of technical solutions based on customer needs and business processes. Team lead aiding in driving project planning, solution direction and cross-functional collaboration. Team scrum SME driving adoption of SAFe best practices and grooming team scrum masters.
  • Responsibilities include: Portfolio planning and prioritization across teams, defining system requirements, documenting mock ups and process flows. Reporting out to key stakeholders and senior leadership on status, trends and deliverables. Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production support and collaborating on IT application direction.
  • Accomplishments: Facilitated dev lead role while in between dev leads during active project.
  • Accomplishments: Documented and designed technical solution to be able to track execution of production roll out of application releases at plants.

Business Analyst

General Motors IT
Austin, Tx
07.2014 - 08.2019
  • Role: Logistics BA and core SME on containerization applications, Domestic Inbound South & North America adoptions of the COTS Oracle OTM application.
  • Responsibilities included: Requirements elicitation, creation of design and process flow diagrams diagrams, facilitating workshops with customers to gain insight into how they operate, documentation of User Acceptance Tests and coordinating UAT efforts with different business groups on global scale.
  • Accomplishments: Established recognition as trusted BA amongst every IT and business group I worked with. Multiple requests from various project teams across organizations to become their lead BA.

System Test Analyst

General Motors IT
Austin, Tx
06.2013 - 07.2014
  • Role: Primary tester and test lead for application that was insourced from original team of 8 testers.
  • Responsibilities included: elicitation of all test artifacts including creation of SIT test cases, mapping to requirements and defects, defect triage across all phases in project lifecycle.
  • Accomplishments: Established relationships with business facing team and end customers to ensure accurate test coverage and user adoption throughout continuous releases.
  • Accomplishments: Independently supported over 13 production releases which included over 120 enhancements and bug fixes.

Education

Bachelor's - Computer Science

University of Texas
08.2007 - 12.2012

Skills

    Agile and Scrum

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Accomplishments

Accomplishment: Recognized as a key SAFe SME for PI Team (08-2021 - Present)

  • Drove adoption towards scaled agile processes and ceremonies for planning increment team's first SAFe project. Facilitated scrum lead activities including: backlog refinement, pi & sprint planning, retrospective, daily stand ups, story pointing.

Accomplishment: Committee stakeholder in driving TFS standardization & best practices for organization (05-2021 - 11-2021)

  • Aided in determining best practices for manufacturing organization to utilize TFS across the space consistently.


Timeline

Systems Analyst

General Motors IT
08.2019 - Current

Business Analyst

General Motors IT
07.2014 - 08.2019

System Test Analyst

General Motors IT
06.2013 - 07.2014

Bachelor's - Computer Science

University of Texas
08.2007 - 12.2012

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