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Toronto, Canada Area

📚 Scrum Master Leadership & Team Management: Currently leading an eight-member Scrum team as Scrum Master, driving Agile methodology to ensure efficient project delivery. Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, while keeping the team aligned with project goals and timelines.📚 Business Requirements Documentation & Automation: Spearheaded the writing of business requirement documents for internal solutions, ensuring clear communication between technical and non-technical teams. Additionally, developed automated QA test scripts using TestComplete, improving software testing efficiency and accuracy.📚 Data Analysis & System Administration: Created ad hoc SQL reports to support financial analysis, delivering valuable insights for decision-making. Also shared an administrator role for the bank’s mortgage system (LMS360), ensuring smooth system operations and resolving technical issues as needed.💠 Key Skills: Scrum Master, Agile Methodology, Team Leadership, Project Management, Collaboration SQL Reporting, Data Analysis, System Administration, Financial Analysis, Troubleshooting, Business Requirement Documentation, Test Automation, QA Testing, Process Improvement, Technical Writing.

📚 Requirement Gathering & Systems Integration: Gathered and documented requirements for a third-party underwriting and funding system, ensuring precise alignment between business needs and technical solutions. This streamlined system integration and enhanced overall operational efficiency.📚 Led Key Bank Projects as BA/QA Analyst: Led the business analysis and quality assurance efforts for critical projects, including selling a portion of the bank’s portfolio and building a web-based client portal. These initiatives improved client access and contributed to the bank’s strategic growth.💠 Key Skills: Test Automation, QA Testing, TestComplete, Application Support, Troubleshooting, Project Leadership, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Portfolio Management, Web Portal Development, Requirement Gathering, Systems Integration, Business Analysis, Technical Documentation, Underwriting Systems.

Toronto, Canada Area

📚 Requirement Gathering & Documentation for System Integration: Led the collection and documentation of requirements for a third-party underwriting and funding system. This work ensured that internal and external systems aligned seamlessly, optimizing underwriting processes and enhancing operational efficiency.📚 Financial Tools Development for Cost Evaluation: Designed and implemented an Excel-based tool that evaluated the cost of borrowing for internal departments. This tool provided critical insights, helping departments make informed financial decisions and improve overall cost management strategies.📚 QA Tools Evaluation for Testing Improvement: Conducted a comprehensive evaluation of automated QA tools to enhance testing efficiency. This initiative resulted in the selection of the most effective tools for internal processes, leading to improved software quality and testing automation.💠 Key Skills: QA Testing, Tool Evaluation, Automation, Process Optimization, Quality Assurance, Financial Analysis, Excel, Cost Evaluation, Data Analytics, Tool Development, Requirement Gathering, System Integration, Business Analysis, Technical Documentation, Underwriting Systems.

📚 Comprehensive Documentation Development: Spearheaded the creation of business requirement and external design documents, ensuring clear communication of project goals and technical specifications. Developed the Ontario Disclosure to Borrower (Line of Credit) document based on FSCO legislation, enhancing compliance and transparency in lending processes.📚 Project Leadership & Collaboration: Led small-scale projects (under $50,000) in collaboration with development and QA teams, effectively managing resources and timelines to achieve project milestones. Conducted requirement gathering sessions for lender integrations with major financial institutions, including ING and TD Canada Trust, fostering strong partnerships and ensuring alignment with client needs. 📚 Technical Support & Systems Integration: Provided second-level support for two SaaS systems, addressing technical challenges related to SQL query design, VB code analysis, and XML/XSL/XSD troubleshooting. Defined data mapping between products and backend underwriting systems, contributing to enhanced system interoperability and user experience.💠 Key Skills: Documentation Development, Regulatory Compliance, Business Analysis, Requirement Gathering Technical Support, Systems Integration, SQL, Troubleshooting, SaaS Solutions, Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Team Collaboration, Requirement Analysis.

📚 Led Technical Writing Team & Developed System Documentation: Managed a team of two technical writers to plan, create, and deliver a comprehensive documentation set for a joint development project with CIBC. This included system documentation and user manuals, ensuring both technical and non-technical stakeholders had the resources they needed to succeed.📚 Established Documentation Processes & Integrated Client Feedback: Implemented standardized project documentation processes and guidelines. Captured and integrated client feedback during requirement gathering sessions, acting as a scribe in business requirement meetings to create end-user documents that precisely addressed client needs.📚 Training Course Creation & Recruitment Leadership: Developed and led training courses for client contractors on using a client/server configuration tool, ensuring comprehensive understanding of the system. Additionally, interviewed and made hiring decisions for over 10 contract technical writers, building a highly skilled documentation team.💠 Key Skills: Training Course Creation, Leading Training Sessions, Client Training, Recruitment, Hiring Decisions, Process Improvement, Client Requirement Gathering, Documentation Development, Meeting Scribing, Attention to Detail, Technical Writing, System Documentation, Team Leadership, User Manual Development, Collaboration.

📚 Updating existing user guides, creating new material for a new release.

📚 User Manual Development for Compliance Software: Authored the comprehensive user manual for the "Tracker" insurance compliance software, ensuring clear, user-friendly documentation to support end users in navigating and utilizing the system effectively. This contributed to streamlined compliance and operational efficiency.📚 Limited QA Testing on Software Builds: Performed limited quality assurance (QA) testing on new builds of the "Tracker" software, identifying potential issues and ensuring the stability and functionality of the software before deployment.📚 Documentation Reformatting & Migration: Imported and reformatted existing documentation from Word into FrameMaker, ensuring consistency and professional formatting. Collaborated with internal experts to update and refine content, making the documentation comprehensive and aligned with the latest software updates.💠 Key Skills: Documentation Management, FrameMaker, Word to FrameMaker Conversion, Content Reformatting, Collaboration, Quality Assurance, Software Testing, QA Testing, Troubleshooting, Software Validation, Technical Writing, User Manual Development, Compliance Software, Documentation, User Experience.

📚 Led international team to determine online authoring standards, developed and maintained single sourcing templates for Web Works Publisher, technical contact for all technical writers at multinational organization