Amanda Ryan Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Consult with clients and consultants to identify technology business needs as they relate to new health and welfare administration outsourcing implementations as well as enhancements to current outsourcing services• Provide value added consulting to clients based on outsourcing implementation best practices• Translate business needs into actionable programming and process steps• Analyze, define and document project requirements and business processes• Develop systems specifications, process flow and conversion strategies• Create technical and functional user documentation• Develop comprehensive test plans• Perform unit and comprehensive testing with system developers for overall functionality and technical quality of deliverable•Provide ongoing technical support to clients: Trouble shoot technical issues and problems, partnering with developers•Define and update system tables as needed using SQL •Partner and communicate effectively in a team environment with consultants, developers and other team members•Assist in drafting project plans including objectives, timeline, deliverables, budget and quality standards•Manage client expectations and raise appropriate issues to project managers and consultants•Develop a trusted advisor relationship with clients through effective communication and efficient, quality execution of projects

West Chester, Pennsylvania

•Develop an excellent working relationship with business users, SMEs, and development resources, providing very customer focused and responsive support to their business needs. Acts as liaison between systems software development staff, management, and system end-users to determine requirements.•Translate business requirements for Global IPad enhancement project following agile methodology•Work closely with global teams to complete user story cards for development which include requirements, design details, design wireframes and core metric tagging•Work closer with IT and QA to ensure business requirements’ questions are answered during weekly development sprints•Facilitate ideation sessions with multiple teams across QVC’s business organizations for new transformational projects including new wearable technology and video consumption devices•Create personas based upon collected and analyzed data to use during ideation session around customer goals•Develop user experience flows for created personas based upon current and future state of potential offerings for the QVC business•Assist in planning and developing workshop activities based upon project goals•Coordinate project tasks with creative, developer, and user experience to finalize business requirements •Maintain knowledge of latest technology trends, market demand and new functionality through research outlets, trainings such as User Interface Conference 2014 and company distributed statistics•Monitor and analyze products and services, market trends, and customer requirements. •Assist in performing usability testing of proposed designs. Conduct competitive audits and other research.

Camp Hill

Supported and lead a specific program areas for a large scale integrated web-based system. I have been involved from the ground up in the business process re-engineering, general system design, detailed system design, development, testing and deployment of the project following a Waterfall approach. I was promoted from a business analyst to the track lead of the largest program area following the implementation phase. As track lead I was responsible for managing developers, enhancement design, client management and defect tracking.

Master Of Information System Management, Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Jumpstart (AmeriCorp)Received two certificates in foreign studies including a certificate in Latin American.

International/Global Studies

During my study abroad I completed a one month intensive course for Spanish. I also studies 4 courses in Latin American politics.