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Plano, Texas, United States

Plano, Texas, United States

Plano, Texas

Amelia, Oh

Manage complex IT infrastructure and business initiated projects using Waterfall/Agile project methodology with responsibility for multiple concurrent projects budgeted up to $2 million.• Ensure compliance with SDLC processes.• Direct the work of associate / consultant java developers, business subject matter experts, and System Testers to ensure quality, timeliness, and conformance to functional requirements.• Determine technical impact and complexity of new project requests for management prioritization process.• “Go to” person to consult on struggling projects.• Lead and negotiate vendor statements of work.Accomplishments:• Upgraded and re-architected Cognos system that eliminated an existing 10% nightly fail rate and created additional fail-over options resulting in a less than .01% bringing SLA within customer acceptance level.• Re-platformed business from antiquated client installed software to vendor hosted web-based platform for an annual maintenance savings of $150,000, 20% increase in staff productivity, and an administration system poised to support projected business growth of 6%.

Amelia, Oh

Collaborated with IT professionals and business subject matter experts to develop requirements for both business and infrastructure projects.• Managed and prioritized system support work for team of five application developers on a critical path production platform.• Volunteered to fill in as Project Manager to alleviate resource constraints. • Conducted root-cause analysis workshops with production support developers.• Led functional requirement peer review process for team of eight colleagues.• Mentored entry level analysts.Accomplishments:• Managed legacy mainframe storage of and online use of encrypted PCI information.• Analyzed and assigned production support tickets related to proprietary authorization system.• Validated System Test plans/cases to ensure coverage in alignment with project requirements.

Amelia, Oh

• Programmed in COBOL development language for companywide legacy print system.• Developed using C++ like scripting language in an ETL tool to support new print system. Accomplishments• Wrote proprietary ETL scripting language that supported an insurance print initiative resulting in an enterprise policy print solution with external print feeds to a direct marketing company resulting in postage savings.

Amelia, Oh

Developed billing system requirements. Managed testing efforts for radical change in existing billing system.

Worked in a Commercial Product Department managing several state's auto and BOP products. Worked as a business analyst supporting a Commercial technical team within IT .