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Lowell, Ar, Us

Lowell, Ar, Us

Support of Shared Services - Finance: Business Analyst and Product Owner role coverage for the E&T Finance squads for majority of alignment to the area. Business Area Portfolio coverage of Corporate Accounting, Fixed Assets, Workday Finance, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Accounts Receivable, Cash Application, Credit & Collections, Imaging, Fuel, Risk Management, and Tax. Have also branched out where needed to support other Products that fall within Financials Domain. Includes collaborative support of other Business Units having implications associated to Shared Services Finance. Responsibilities include:▪ Business Strategy Definition and Alignment with Business and Relationship Leads▪ Intake Management of Business Requests▪ Business Need Identification and Request Definition▪ Identification and Evaluation of Business Value▪ Business Requirements Management, including Elicitation, Analysis, Specification/Modeling, Prioritization, Collaboration/Alignment with the Business▪ Consultant of Product Owners in Epic Definition and Refinement▪ Consultant of Product Owners in Feature Definition and Refinement▪ Collaboration between Business and Product on Scope, Size, Cost, Priority, Dependencies, Risks, Assumptions, Constraints, Design Considerations, and Timing▪ Consultant of Product Owners in Feature Roadmap Refinement and Planning▪ Business Communication to Manage Expectations and Provide Status Updates▪ Consultant of Product Owners in Feature Demos and Delivery▪ Post Delivery Evaluation of Adoption and Business ValueFocus on IT Maturity: Continue to support various Business Analyst, Product Owners, and Managers who come to me for best practices. Supported transition of full-time Finance Product Owner into the group and co-led maturity in Agile practices. Core Team Member for various maturity initiatives:▪ Pre-Product Intake and Assessment▪ Product Intake and Planning▪ BA / PO Definition Role Alignment

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Office of the CIO - Center for Excellence - Senior ManagerPlanned and led creation of Center of Excellence, providing consultation services, strategy analysis, talent development, and thought leadership in the practices of Business Analysis and Project Management.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics Distribution and Business Analysis Organization Leadership - Senior ManagerPlanned Business Analysis organizational strategy and execution. Marketed value of Business Analysis in Agile practice across the enterprise. Performed Business Analyst maturity planning and analysis, including creation of BA T-shape competency model. Promoted global community of practice in international markets, driving consistency in company Business Analysis practice. Served as training lead and course facilitator of Business Analyst professional development series. Supported international markets in effort to expand in-country self-managed training through train-the-trainer. Participated on hiring team, including strategizing on interview processes, reviewing resumes, and interviewing candidates.Performed as lead enterprise Business Analyst for supply chain domain group consisting of eight unique domains. Collaborated with customer relationship management and business directors to support enterprise analysis and intake. Provided Business Analyst leadership across three distribution portfolios consisting of approximately 42 Agile teams. Directed and supported more than 20 internal and vendor Business Analysts. Developed strategy for “Ways of Working” to ensure consistent business partner experience and Business Analysis practices. Included best practices of scope definition, decomposition, value definition, and requirements life-cycle management. Assessed staffing and product model alignment to ensure Business Analyst team coverage. Established product Business Analyst role to drive product road map planning and feature decomposition. Assisted in the transformation of legacy distribution systems to modern tech stacks, encompassing ability to provide shared capabilities worldwide.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics Distribution and Business Analysis Organization LeadershipPlanned Business Analysis organizational strategy and execution. Promoted global community of practice in international markets, driving consistency in company Business Analysis practice. Served as training lead and course facilitator of Business Analyst professional development series. Obtained certification through ASPE, Inc. to provide eight PDU/CDU accredited development courses. Managed communications, memberships, and budget for International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Walmart Corporate Memberships, including an effort to expand offerings for International associates. Co-led fixed capacity planning strategy, driving process to manage Business Analyst role coverage against supply/demand.Performed as lead enterprise Business Analyst for supply chain domain group consisting of eight unique domains. Collaborated with customer relationship management and business directors to support enterprise analysis and intake. Provided Business Analyst leadership across three distribution portfolios consisting of approximately 42 Agile teams. Directed and supported more than 20 internal and vendor Business Analysts. Developed strategy for “Ways of Working” to ensure consistent business partner experience and Business Analysis practices. Included best practices of scope definition, decomposition, value definition, and requirements life-cycle management. Assessed staffing and product model alignment to ensure Business Analyst team coverage. Established product Business Analyst role to drive product road map planning and feature decomposition. Assisted in the transformation of legacy distribution systems to modern tech stacks, encompassing ability to provide shared capabilities worldwide.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics - Distribution and Business Analysis Organization LeadershipPerformed Strategy, BA Community of Practice, and Peer Review planning and execution as a member of the Business Analysis Center of Excellence. Responsibilities also included Business Analyst mentoring across the enterprise.Assisted in the transformation of legacy distribution systems to modern tech stacks, encompassing ability to provide shared capabilities worldwide. Served as business analyst for global logistics system distribution initiative, providing analysis for multi-year effort to create single product suite to serve US and international markets. Operated as lead business analyst for US e-commerce distribution initiative, leading 15 internal and vendor Business Analysts through multi-year product development and implementation for global logistics system.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics - DistributionAssisted in the transformation of legacy distribution systems to modern tech stacks, encompassing ability to provide shared capabilities worldwide.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics - DistributionServed in multi-focused development role including practices in project management, business analysis, quality assurance, and release management roles/efforts. Developed and supported distribution systems using ESQL/C, VB 6/.NET, Topend, MQ Series, Unix Servers, Informix Databases, and Shell Scripting. Provided 24/7 support via pager duties for distribution centers to analyze, fix, and provide root cause identification on impacts. Worked on grocery distribution product suite development and support, converting away from mainframe applications to a client/server based system. Included global hauling application, the first single-source program used in multiple distribution center types. Contributed to global logistics system creation, delivery, and support for US and International grocery distribution chain.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics - DistributionServed in multi-focused development role including practices in project management, business analysis, quality assurance, and release management roles/efforts. Developed and supported distribution systems using ESQL/C, VB 6/.NET, Topend, MQ Series, Unix Servers, Informix Databases, and Shell Scripting. Provided 24/7 support via pager duties for distribution centers to analyze, fix, and provide root cause identification on impacts. Worked on grocery distribution product suite development and support, converting away from mainframe applications to a client/server based system.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Logistics - DistributionServed in multi-focused development role including practices in project management, business analysis, quality assurance, and release management roles/efforts. Developed and supported distribution systems using ESQL/C, VB 6/.NET, Topend, MQ Series, Unix Servers, Informix Databases, and Shell Scripting. Provided 24/7 support via pager duties for distribution centers to analyze, fix, and provide root cause identification on impacts. Worked on grocery distribution product suite development and support, converting away from mainframe applications to a client/server based system.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Performed assignments in sporting goods, automotive, hardware, layaway, and customer service desk areas. Responsibilities included general customer service, cashiering, product knowledge/support, federal firearm sales, state hunting/fishing license and tag sales, layaway processing, money transfers, and merchandise ordering/replenishment/returns.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science: Management Of Information Systems (Mis)

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