Beth Tracey, Mba Email & Phone Number

United States

Princeton, New Jersey

• Managed and prioritized Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog using Team Foundation Server.• Gathered requirements and created user stories in order to build a custom application to receive and review claims for an Asbestos Class Action Lawsuit. • Researched and assisted in resolving production issues.• Gathered requirements and wrote user stories in order to a build a custom application to receive and review claims for a 3M Earplug Mass Tort.• Created user stories for enhancements to a custom Time Reporting application as well as a custom Asbestos Claim Services application.• Facilitated grooming sessions.

Greater New York City Area

• Gathered, prioritized and documented user requirements for two web based applications for Scholastic Book Fairs: The Chairpersons Toolkit and the Volunteer Management Service.• Created user stories, managed Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog using JIRA.• Facilitated grooming sessions and Sprint planning sessions.• Supported development and quality assurance teams.• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing sessions.• Participated in daily scrums, sprint demos and retrospectives.• Documented a detailed functional specification to be used by the technology team as a guideline for the application and also included documentation for messaging, webservices, database views and tagging for online analytics• Maintained content for legacy pages of the web based applications utilizing Teamsite Content Management software.• Coordinated efforts with AEM developers to define templates and components for new pages of the web based applications so that the business could easily author/ edit content as needed.

Lakewood, Nj

• Gathered requirements and developed functional specifications for client specific sampling applications.• Coordinated efforts for multiple implementations of internal applications.• Assisted with the design and implementation of a practitioner response tracking database.

Greater New York City Area

• Managed day-to-day operational aspects of a web based project for Scholastic Books Fairs with an annual budget of $400,000.• Created and executed project work plans and revised as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements. • Identified resources needed and assigned individual responsibilities. • Gathered, prioritized and documented user requirements for a web based application for Scholastic Book Fairs.• Documented functional specification to be used by the technology team as a guideline for the development of web based application.• Facilitated functional specification walk-throughs.• Supported development and quality assurance teams during development and test phases. • Coordinated efforts across quality assurance and development teams to ensure user requirements were properly met.

Bridgewater, Nj

• Participated in the implementation of a wholesale management information system, ACS, for Bass Footwear and Calvin Klein.• Utilized knowledge of the wholesale business and the wholesale management information system to accurately evaluate requirements, ascertain criteria for program intent, output requirements, and recommend functional designs.• Served as informational resource between software developers, other business analysts, and users in facilitating communications, resolving issues, and promoting progress towards common goals. • Guided creation of sample input to test program adequacy and participate in devising program modifications in accordance with test results, client feedback, and changing client requirements.

Greater New York City Area

• Participated in an initiative to identify both the technology and business metrics which drive technology volumes and enable technology costs to be reduced.• Responsible for all team leadership activities for the Customer Interface Team which includes, but but not limited to: coordinating interactions with the business partners to identify and validate recommended business metrics, communications planning, activity assignment and tracking via Microsoft Project, issues tracking and status reporting.• Structured and organized the project by designing a Lotus Notes Database to utilize as a collaboration and tracking tool as well as to develop guidelines.

Raritan, Nj

• Gathered and maintained information on process flows, entities and applications for four key functional business areas: Finance, Human Resources, Drug Safety & Surveillance and Global Information Systems.• Participated as a business architect resource on an SAP Financials implementation.• Utilized Oracle Designer to perform architectural analysis to identify where information is duplicated, where there are information gaps and where information is of poor “quality”.• Utilized Visio, iGrafx, and Oracle Designer to provide feedback to the business in the form of entity relationship diagrams, application blueprints and process flows in order to identify areas where improvements could be made.• Utilized ERwin to design and maintain a data model for a new Global Human Resource database.

Edison, Nj

• Participated in the implementation of a POS Retail system, STS, at The Wiz.• Managed a team of people for the financial implementation of the system which encompassed a Sales Audit module (Sales Audit, Customer Liability, Accounting, Store Performance, Tax Tables), a Flash Sales Module, a Loss Prevention module and a Reporting module. • Acted as a liaison between the Finance business users and the vendor to define system parameters, history retention periods and security for the Sales Audit, Flash Sales and Loss Prevention modules.• Assisted Finance and Store Operations in identifying gaps in the new POS Retail system and proposed alternative solutions to the business. • Managed and tracked daily activities, deliverables and milestones utilizing both Microsoft Project and ABT Project Workbench.• Managed and tracked issues and risks utilizing PVCS tracker.• Assisted the technical team in identifying data integrity issues and resolving data mismatch issues for interfaces.

Greater New York City Area

• Conducted business analysis to develop requirements specifications for software solutions. • Interfaced with customers, software designers and developers to ensure business requirements were accurately identified and defined. • Developed Use Case scenarios to facilitate application design. • Supported the requirements analysis, workflow and business process design for e-business initiatives.• Assisted with the development of project management and business analysis policies and procedures.• Performed project management activities for e-business initiatives

Union Beach, Nj

• Assisted with the establishment of a Program Management Office.• Managed the design, development and deployment process of a new Lotus Notes project request center.• Managed the design, development and deployment process for IMS’s Project Exchange project repository, a Sybase based application.• Supported project teams in creating comprehensive project plans in MS Project for information technology and business initiatives.• Developed project plan templates in MS Project and form templates in MS Word & MS Excel to be utilized by project managers throughout all phases of a project.• Developed and administered training programs for the Program Management Office’s processes and tools.• Assisted with maintaining an information technology project and resource portfolio utilizing both MS Project and IMS Project Exchange.

Bridgewater, Nj

• Developed Year 2000 Testing Standards for all application systems across Phillips-Van Heusen Corp.• Participated in the implementation of a wholesale management information system, Richter Management Systems.• Adapted Microsoft Project to plan and track divisional implementation.• Utilized knowledge of the wholesale business and the wholesale management information system to accurately evaluate requirements, ascertain criteria for program intent, output requirements, and recommend functional designs.• Served as informational resource between software developers, other business analysts, and end users in facilitating communications, resolving issues, and promoting progress towards common goals. • Assisted with the development of training protocol, authored manuals and trained the users in order to facilitate the use of the wholesale management information system.

Bs, Business Administration

Mba, International Business

Education record

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Master Of Business Administration - Mba