Cheryl Johnson Email & Phone Number

Bellevue Washington

• Lead Business Analyst responsible for coordinating the efforts of multiple business analysts on a variety of projects. Leads and influences BA efforts on projects involving planning the business analysis effort.
• Worked in a variety of businesses including technology, financial services and retail organizations
• Led analysis on a $20M project for the replacement of a legacy suite of merchandising applications with an Oracle RPAS solution.
• Delivered three enterprise projects simultaneously on time and on budget
• Revised and improved a previously rejected BRD. Project was reanimated after communication and coordination with multiple stakeholders (business and IT) to meet each one’s specific requirements
• Streamlined the execution and delivery of change of address correspondence by reducing the manual steps from 7 to 2 resulting in a savings of 3000 hours over the course of one year and improved accuracy by including.

Greater Seattle Area

• Collaborated and supported a $20m + project to replace a current suite of merchandising applications with an Oracle RPAS product
• Produced documentation to support project delivery and define information architecture. These included: technical requirements, functional specifications, data flow diagrams, test cases, requirements traceability.
• Partnered with business stakeholders to produce information that provided insight to business operations, enabling them to make data-driven decisions regarding their strategic initiatives
• Critically evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
• Used data modeling for mapping business processes and performing gap analysis
• Developed and executed functional and integration test scenarios and documenting the corresponding defects

Greater Seattle Area

• Elicited business requirements, created user stories, and facilitated user story refinement sessions to define acceptance criteria with team of analysts, business stakeholders, and technology delivery partners
• Performed and followed through independently with minimal guidance and effectively manage multiple projects at any given time, setting priorities, schedules, and meeting deadlines
• Used analytical skills to evaluate tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Lead the execution of test scripts to ensure the functional requirements have been met
• Owned the completion and quality of deliverables through delegation
• Displayed strong leadership skills, collaboration and follow through

Greater Seattle Area

• Delivered on technical analysis and planning, business performance analysis, and business process design
• Supported the adoption of the solution – Unit and System Testing, Integration Testing, identifying deployment activities, and helping to define business processes
• Acted as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Product Development Processes
• Served as an Integration Specialist during the implementation of a PLM system
• On call Production Support Analyst supporting 300+ individuals
• Produced and supported creation of user documentation, process diagrams, and training materials for a variety of systems and software