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Entrepreneurial Initiative for New Business OpportunitiesThis initiative focuses on identifying unmet demand in sectors like e-commerce and technology-driven services. Using market research and consulting with industry experts, we develop innovative, customer-focused businesses designed for scalability and long-term success.By targeting areas such as personalized e-commerce and data driven services, we create ventures that are adaptable to evolving trends, ensuring sustainable growth in today’s fast-changing economy.

Palm Beach County, Florida

Deliver value to product sellers, manufacturers, and service providers by performing website audits and UI/UX improvements which result in measurable increases of revenue and customer presence.Deliver significant improvements in response times through analysis of back-end databases and data repositories supplying content to web pages by recommending improvements to data structures and SQL request syntax.Create Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), functional design documents (FRDs), wireframes, etc. to ensure that website functionality meets stakeholder expectations, objectives, and requirements.

Wayne, Nj

Client: Met Life Insurance Company. Principal liaison between DXC and Met Life during the implementation phases of DXC’s Life Insurance and Annuity Platform, wmA (Wealth Management Accelerator) as a replacement system for Met Life’s current operations.Performed Gap Analysis to contrast the client’s business requirements to the standard functionality provided within DXC’s wmA platform.Generated Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs) for necessary modifications/enhancements to the base wmA system functionality.

Louisville, Ky

Performed systems analysis to identify technical and functional integrity during the development, testing and rollout of Humana’s updated Policy Administration Management System.Insured compliance to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations, HIPAA regulations, TCPA regulations, Electronic Medical Records, etc.Researched time sensitive regulatory changes to Humana’s Medicare Advantage plans and PDP insurance products; Perform gap analysis and generated functional requirements documents for implementation of the mandated requirements.Built collaborative relationships among matrixed business units, project sponsors, internal and external stakeholders, SMEs, peers, and teams.Elicited requirements from SMEs and key users for upgrading the corporate Help Desk operations; Obtained approvals, finalized requirements, and created RFPs.Researched and evaluated vendor products and vendor proposals for completeness and suitability for satisfying specific sets of requirements.Elicited requirements from all levels of project sponsors and stakeholders including management, process owners, SMEs, and users for the creation of a control and monitoring system covering all aspects of stewardship for the storage and transmission of protected medical data.Validated the feasibility of all proposed solutions within the constraints of time, cost, and risk.PMO project manager during implementation of an Asset Management System and other concurrent projects.

Bloomington, Il

Client: State Farm Insurance Company, corporate headquarters.Elicited business requirements lead Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions among key stakeholders and SMEs during the design of mobile customer and agent digital e-commerce applications having interactive interfaces with mainframe backend business systems. The applications included Life, Annuity, Liability, Underwriting, Rating, and Billing applications.Collaborated with subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify and elicit functional requirements, processes, process work flows, etc. Created functional workflows, process maps, and visual models to aid in the identification and consolidation of requirements and functionality of the mobile applications.Created web architecture design artifacts, including web services and other SOA APIs.Translate design documents into component level API modules and web services specifications.Developed test case scripts for QA testing.

IT Consultant during the architectural design and development of a cloud based high volume / high transaction web application designed to promote and increase business opportunities among companies within the state of Connecticut.Lead JAD sessions with stakeholders and SMEs to elicit and prioritize business requirements and functionality.Translate requirements into architectural artifacts, functional documents, and technical specifications.

Picatinny Arsenal, Wharton, Nj

Client: Picatinny Arsenal, the Joint Center of Excellence for Guns and Ammunition to all branches of the U.S. military. Evaluated available infrastructure, data centers, and support assets for the purpose of migrating sustainment and support of the U.S. Army’s LMP Supply Chain and Logistics Modernization Program (a customized SAP system) from a second party vendor to on-base Army and civilian personnel.Developed evaluations and recommendations to the L-3 project management team for the development of the project plan, costs, risks, and the assignment of responsibilities.

Groton, Ct

Client: General Dynamics, a large government manufacturing contractor for the U.S. Navy. Identify requirements and changes to the make-to-order manufacturing systems necessitated by the continuous improvements in component technology and to comply with updated releases of regulations in the building and maintenance of Virginia Class submarines.Lead Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with cross functional teams to elicit and identify present and future requirements, tasks, processes, solutions, and work flows.Prioritize all identified requirements in terms of degree of benefits versus costs of implementation, risk factors, and timeframes for implementation.Translate business requirements into functional specifications. Produce technical specifications and Statements of Work (SOWs).Design and implement integration processes, connectivity, and real time data transfer between Java/J2EE user interfaces and the back-end manufacturing system residing on an IBM Z Series platform. Develop test case scripts for QA testing.

Galesi Office Park, 40 Galesi Drive, Wayne, Nj 07470

An IT CONSULTING and SERVICES FIRM, consisting of up to 8 professionals, specializing in Custom and Packaged Application Systems on Large to Mid-Tier platforms.Business Support Services included Custom Software Solutions, Software Development, Packaged Software Sales, Packaged Software Modifications, Maintenance Agreements, Application and System Integrations, and General IT support.Member of the Hewlett-Packard Software Supplier Program.Major KAS Projects Include: Honeywell Corporation, Specialty Chemicals Division Lever Brothers Ricoh of America Gray Advertising Multiple other projectsSecondary Roles: Business Procurement and Technical Application Sales Support (in partnership with Hewlett-Packard).