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Colorado

Arizona, United States

Greater Denver Area

Greater Denver Area

• Worked on a Business Intelligence application that takes hospital data and presents it back to the hospitals. Allowing them to look for cost savings and quality improvements at their hospital.• Responsible for driving requirements for a new mobile (iPad) analytic application.• Both the desktop and mobile versions of the analytic tool are built using MicroStrategy.

Greater Denver Area

Business Intelligence Business Analyst • Worked on large effort to identify and document ePHI data across all Business Intelligence warehouses for implementation of Informatica’s TDM tool.• Worked on effort to identify sensitive patient information that could be filtered or masked in production systems.• Provided support for two clinical support applications. One that scored patient level treatment information and one that scored overall facility health information.• Analysis was performed across multiple database environments: Netezza, Oracle and SQL Server.• Worked directly with the BI Director to assist with managing of the BI’s delivery organization. Including monitoring project status and managing the Business Analyst’s workload.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Served as a Business Analyst and Project Coordinator. The project is to allow a single intake point for a document that needed to be submitted to both the Secretary Of State and County Recorders Offices.• Acted as Project Coordinator on a project to manage software enhancements with several of the County Recorders software providers.• Analyzed data to create a report for the Governing Board on how to best link documents between systems.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Authored Business Needs and Features, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Technical Specifications (SRS) for an innovative internet grain trading application, mobile website tools, mobile apps and data upload projects. Including creating and executing QA and regression test cases.• Acted as Project Manager for several small projects.• Collaborated with internal business partners, external business partners and an entrepreneurial third party offsite development staff.• Analyzed existing Web applications for Requirement and Specification changes due to a CRM system conversion.• Worked as part of a remote Scrumban team which utilized TFS for Business Acceptance Criteria and Telerik’s Work Item Manger for a virtual scrum board.• Partnered with the business to help refine business process. • Worked remotely for three and a half years.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Managed a tier 2 project to upgrade both the hardware and software of a fixed asset application.• Authored Business and Functional Specifications, including Prototypes, for the Treasury Departments quarterly release. • Authored Business and Functional Specifications for several PeopleSoft GL initiatives.• Contributed in the prioritization meetings to determine the priority and scope of the work in the quarterly releases.• Developed a solution to eliminate duplicate data entry by using Microsoft Excel to auto populate data. The solution saved hours of processing time each month.• Created a summary report of financial data across all business lines to be used by executive level management.• Developed standards and procedures for the release process.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Initiated and managed an effort to create a standards and procedures document for our data mapping team.• Reviewed Use Cases, Detailed Design Specs, BAC, Prototypes and other requirements documents for possible new elements and changes to existing elements.• Mapped the UI screen elements to the various services and databases.• Used Data Models to map elements to the physical databases.• Lead data analyst; responsible for knowing all data elements and corresponding inter-dependencies.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Managed small to midsized projects. • Gathered requirements, created test plans, and completed the testing.• Provided technical assistance in identifying and evaluating systems and procedures that meet the business requirements.• Built use case models and other less structured methods of requirements documentation.• Re-defined the business process for two business areas to help in the creation of the requirements for a system conversion.• Completed necessary requirements analysis for small projects, large projects, small system enhancements, reporting, ad-hoc queries and system bugs.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Acted as liaison between client areas and the technology organization.• Facilitated face to face, teleconference and web-conference meetings for requirement gathering and discussions. • Wrote business acceptance criteria, user stories and story boarding for CORE Customer Facing.• Led functionality demos and requirement review sessions for groups of up to 75 people.• Provided technical assistance to identify and evaluate the systems and procedures needed to meet the business requirements.• Provided direction and guidance to team members.• Partnered with business and technical teams and departments on a daily basis.• Participated in different capacities of testing.• Tracked and resolved issues from the issue management software.