Ashley Wells, Cbap, Amsp, Certified Practitioner Cmmi Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Sr. Business Analyst / Business Architect on Conceptual Architecture workstream on mission-critical, next generation enterprise initiative for Ginnie Mae. Collaborate with business and technical partners to develop next generation business vision, core capabilities, and supporting services. Collaborate with business and technical partners to develop Business, Application, and Data Architectures for key enterprise entities, capabilities, and services. Identify business services needed to support targeted business priorities and identify impacts of proposed changes on existing policies and processes.

Mclean, Va

Senior Consultant in Project Manager and Business Analyst role at Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed Credit Union):Managed multiple mortgage division projects concurrently for strategic initiatives and purchase season projects, including regulatory compliance, targeted marketing, website products and compliance, website pricing, and mortgage website UX redesign projects. Developed project plans and weekly status reports, coordinated business area and IT resources, and tracked and managed project progress. Elicited, analyzed, and documented business requirements as lead BA for multiple projects concurrently and obtained approvals from stakeholders and sponsors. Coordinated and supported UAT and post-deployment production testing for Mortgage website changes. Primary liaison with Mortgage Project Owners and Sponsors, Secondary Mortgage SMEs, Compliance, Business Controls, IT, and DXI stakeholders and developers to coordinate requirements and UAT efforts.Senior Consultant in Business Analyst role at National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUCFC):Elicited requirements from business users and wrote user stories and acceptance criteria for COTS loan operations system implementation using Agile Scrum methodology. Liaised with development team, test team, and interfacing system and database teams to coordinate interface and data requirements and test scenarios for each sprint. Reviewed test cases for user stories. Obtained business sign off on final user stories at the close of each sprint.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Identified test data requirements for E2E UAT, coordinated identification of test data with Test Data Management Team, coordinated loading and creation of test data with business testers, TDM, and system support teams for E2E test effort across multiple client systems and applications and with third parties. Coordinated mapping and reconciliation of test data generated in testing to production data being replicated to determine expected results for test securities issuances and subsequent bond administration testing. Provided reconciled data and mapping to downstream Finance test work streams.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided Pilot UAT support for Black Knight mortgage origination system implementation, including identification of workflow paths to be tested, end-to-end business test scenarios, and the data required to trigger each workflow. Created test scenarios and test data with expected results for in-scope workflows for pilot UAT. Tracked test execution and results, compiled test evidence mapped to each test case, and coordinated defect management and retesting as needed. Identified scenarios to be re-executed to ensure business readiness for go-live.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Developed Integrated UAT (iUAT) business scenarios, test cases, test data requirements, and test data approach for Single Security Initiative across multiple projects and releases. Designed test datasets for iUAT testing, managed test data creation, migration, and synchronization for iUAT across all impacted applications and systems. Developed and maintained test execution schedule to ensure specific tests were scheduled in compliance with business rules, as well as within test cycle time constraints. Managed defect logs and resolution of defects. Coordinated end-to-end test execution with multiple business areas and hand-offs within each test case.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

E2E UAT Test Lead for initiative with over 20 applications, databases, and systems supporting the securitization processes for multiple execution paths. Managed and coordinated test data definition, creation, delivery, and synchronization across all applications and systems. Developed and managed test data delivery schedule, test execution calendar, and data delivery efforts by upstream source system teams. Analyzed business processes, systems, and data to support implementation of securitization platform, developed E2E Test Data Management Plan and test data requirements and design. Developed risk-based approach for E2E test data design to manage data volumes and testing efficiency while providing adequate coverage of approximately 30 securities products across five execution paths.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed requirements documentation and traceability for an Enterprise Significant Initiative to implement target state business processes and systems and retire legacy systems for Multi-Family line of business for the GSE. Developed and documented detailed solution requirements for COTS solution from user stories throughout sprint cycles. Ensured detailed solution requirements were synchronized with sprint outputs. Ensured end-to-end requirements traceability and auditability for project usingAgile methodology. Managed program requirements using complex custom DOORS configuration, created and managed DOORS views and documentation.Liaised with Agile scrum teams, Systems Analysts, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Business Architects, and Test teams to ensure project documentation from scope through design and UAT met governance requirements and enterprise standards. Coordinated with the Centralized Data Store work stream to ensure data requirements traceability. Reviewed functional and nonfunctional requirements to ensure requirements quality. Presented project requirements traceability methodology and results for Project Quality Office final checkpoint.

Washington, Dc Metro Area

Performed current state analysis of global back office processes for bulge bracket brokerage by region and product: created process flows and narratives for approximately 30 processes; analyzed global process metrics; identified opportunities for process improvements and constraints.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior ConsultantBusiness Analysis advisor to the Enterprise PMO Business Requirements CoE for a GSE. Developed business analysis and requirements best practice methods and framework to improve project success and adoption rates in the business analysis community. Key focus areas included Agile methodology best practice guidelines, requirements assessment framework and tool, requirements management and tools guidance, requirements best practices, standards, training, and BR Community of Interest development.- Developed and conducted brown bag learning for Business Analysis Community of Interest- Developed and documented enterprise requirements standards, templates, and assessments- Provided business analysis and requirements coaching to project teams- Drove development of enterprise requirements hierarchy and templates- Developed and documented client-specific business analysis and requirements standards based on industry best practices.

Herndon, Va

Analyzed business processes to identify business needs and developed requirements for system enhancements for Global Threat and Analysis systems and new Service Desk system.- Implemented real-time metrics dashboard to enable improved security incident queue management and rapid identification of threat trends and patterns to shorten response time.- Developed requirements to automate queue management to assign new security incidents to available analysts in real time to globally balance load.- Developed requirements for service case interface with customer portal to streamline workflow process for Global Analysis team.- Created revised process models and requirements for implementation of new ITIL-based service desk system.

Mclean, Va

Led requirements efforts for Multi-Family Portfolio Valuation system enhancements. Responsible for requirements elicitation and documentation, maintained project modules in DOORS requirements management tool as administrator for MFPV projects.Lead business analyst for implementation of COTS product to replace mortgage servicing and investor reporting system, reviewed requirements documented by consultants for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with methodology and requirements standards prior to submittal for phase gate review. Requirements elicitation and documentation, requirements baselining, maintained requirements modules and linksets in DOORS requirements management tool.Lead business analyst for the Agreements subsystem of the Single Family sourcing system. Responsible for requirements elicitation, documentation, and change management. Collaborated with architects to develop solution strategies. Reviewed requirements phase deliverables for compliance and quality. - Led SDLC requirements standards adoption effort for the Selling System.- Developed customized product solution that allowed the purchase of loans for securitization under negotiated terms outside the standard parameters for security products, enabling over $.5 billion in negotiated purchases in the first quarter following implementation.- Led requirements effort to implement bulk structured deal purchase capabilities and master commitments in the Selling System, enabling increased automation of bulk purchases.- Led requirements effort to implement automated guarantor master commitment integration with the Selling System, enabling 90% of purchases to be automated and tracked to the applicable master commitment.Developed multi-year servicing roadmap to replace and retire the legacy servicing system; including data conversion and integration strategies. Developed system profiles and current state context diagrams of servicing systems for impact analysis.

Mclean, Va

Co-authored white paper on legacy system replacement/retirement strategies for multi-year sourcing and servicing system modernization effort at a GSE. Performed initial analysis of data conversion strategies being evaluated for migration to Project Enterprise servicing system. Developed current state system profiles and context diagrams of cash and guarantor sourcing systems.

Modeled fulfillment processes for new international telecommunications products and services being prioritized for implementation in global markets. Collaborated with fulfillment organizations in the UK, Europe, and the Pacific to develop a single unified fulfillment process for each product.

Washington, Dc Metro Area

Business Analyst for investor reporting COTS implementation at a Government Sponsored Entity. Developed As-is context diagrams and flows, documented legacy functionality and interfaces for non-performing loans and loss mitigation systems to be replaced, and elicited and documented requirements for COTS replacement.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Developed data requirements for OLAP MIS and decision support subsystem for call management systems. Developed Level 4 (data attributes) requirements for interfaces between modernization components and legacy systems. Developed Level 3 requirements to support System Requirements Review. Database liaison between release requirements managers, requirements database DBA, and technical staff for modifications to requirements database structures and relationships. Performed QA review of Release Subsystem Requirements Specifications (RSRS) document; review items and responses for RSRS, Logical Data Model (LDM), and Release Interface Requirements Specifications (RIRS) documents; and Engineering Process documents. Developed CONOPS scenarios for telephone self-service applications. Liaison to Customer Service Call Routing (CSCR) National Roll-Out project for release interface requirements task.Assisted Corporate Data task in development of financial reporting components of corporate data model. Performed sequencing and dependency analysis for Financial Reporting subsystem for the Sequencing Plan in the Modernization Blueprint. Developed release strategy for Financial Reporting subsystem. Defined Configuration Items (CIs), identified logical data model relationships for CIs, allocated requirements, and defined subrelease capabilities in the Customer Service functional area for the Release Architecture Document (RAD). Defined CIs for Corporate Processing and Transition Bridge functional areas for the Technical Architecture.

Maryland Department of Transportation. Senior Analyst on COTS financial system implementation project. Team Lead for custom Cash Management Improvement Act (CMIA) project. Developed requirements and data structures for accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, and business analysis/decision support modules; designed database and program modifications; developed program specifications for module modifications and enhancements; developed program specifications for financial analysis reports; and coordinated programming and system testing for multiple MDOT implementations. Provided support for user acceptance testing and implementation. Developed training materials, trained training team, and conducted user training. Developed requirements and specifications for custom reports and coordinated programming and testing of reports.

B.A., D.A.S., Concentration In Accounting

Theatre, East Asian Studies