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Maple Grove, Mn, Us

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Served as lead Business Solution Architect focused on supply chain and operations. Integral to initiatives in financial forecasting, demand planning, supply planning, transportation management, and manufacturing. Defined and documented business capabilities, processes, data flows, and solution integrations. Spearheaded initiatives, overseeing integration of planning systems with financial forecasting system through common data integration hub. Ensured alignment between business needs and IT solutions, working closely with business stakeholders, IT architects, and Agile teams.

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

Played critical role in organization’s digital transformation initiative, providing essential analysis of business needs, strategies, and technological context, and guiding the development of solutions. Led development of business architecture model for industry platform, facilitating prioritization and planning of work and creation of end-to-end product roadmap. Contributed to organization’s Agile adoption by providing expertise in Agile analysis and assisting in development of Agile methodology for analyzing business needs.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Employed capability-based planning approach to analyze existing processes and tools, identifying improvements needed for target state delivery of each capability. Collaborated with enterprise and solution architects to validate and analyze affected capabilities, identify interdependencies, and develop roadmaps reflecting both business priorities and system development needs. Led initiatives to assess and vet ideas for strategic funding and product development, utilizing business architecture methods to identify, prioritize, and describe business needs and contexts before project scoping and funding.Led large-scale digital transformation initiative involving four Agile programs and multiple products. Studied organization’s vision for initiative, managing team of six business analysts, developing business architecture and analysis artifacts to model and communicate reengineered value chains effectively. Facilitated problem analysis and decision-making sessions for significant issues and dependencies to ensure initiative’s smooth progression. Oversaw development and adherence to standards for documenting stories, epics, and capabilities within Jira and Confluence.Facilitated design and development of new biotherapy products, conducting thorough analysis of organization’s existing capabilities and defining those needed for new products. Developed deliverables showcasing gap analysis between current and required capabilities with business process models defining roles and activities necessary for product delivery.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Conducted enterprise-wide assessment of business needs for development and implementation of new private healthcare exchange. Delivered comprehensive assessment, identifying all applicable use cases, defining necessary business and IT capabilities, and providing prioritization matrix of system features. Analyzed potential impact on existing systems and business processes, described key integration points, and provided list of important decisions and actions required before launching new exchange.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led development of two large and complex projects, addressing intractable case issues and enabling clients to meet regulatory requirements for tracking and reporting customer complaints. Re-engineered project requirements, rescuing troubled project and accelerating schedule for successful release. Engineered creation of system development framework focusing on elicitation, analysis, documentation, and dissemination of business and solution requirements. Assessed client’s BA methods, tools, and personnel, delivering assessment report with actionable recommendations to executive leadership.

Sacramento, California, Us

Established a BA practice at a large governmental insurance agency. Conducted baseline assessment of BA’s skills and current methods. Developed and delivered personalized curriculum of BA training to 12 BAs, their supervisors, and some PMs. Developed and implemented BA processes and policies to standardize and govern requirements activities. Mentored BAs and PMs on the new processes and how to incorporate them into their current projects. Coordinated with PM, IT, and QA capabilities to ensure the BA processes and policies were integrated into the overall solution delivery lifecycle. Member of a team assigned to develop an enterprise project management office (EPMO). Provided the definition of all BA related roles, activities, and deliverables. Also led development and definition of pre-project activities needed to ensure project proposals are all adequately vetted, analyzed, and prioritized before resources get assigned to project teams. Assessed and provided recommendations for improving user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.

Toronto, On, Ca

Rochester, Mn, Us

Develop and deliver business analysis curriculum for Mayo Clinic Business Analysts. Lead the development of 16-hour modules for each of the following knowledge areas: i) Enterprise Analysis, ii) Elicitation, iii) Requirements Analysis, and iv) Solution Assessment & Validation. Also led development and delivery of CBAP Prep course.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Led development of a business analysis practice and its incorporation into a project management office (PMO) framework. Worked with executives and business analysis stakeholders to identify business analysis tasks, techniques, and methods that the client needed to adapt. Developed a model of the BA practice components so that the client was better positioned to teach, advocate, and manage their new BA practices. Was also lead BA for an enterprise wide SharePoint implementation. Elicited business requirements from a large and diverse group of business stakeholder groups including the PMO, information and user security, records management, corporate communication, and the intranet portal team. Aggregated the diverse needs of these groups and developed requirement deliverables that enabled the business sponsor and project team to effectively focus on meeting the highest priority needs.

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Lead consultant for an enterprise-wide business process management (BPM) program. Developed a process modeling framework for the client that utilized the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard. Mentored both analysts and the client on how to properly use BPMN modeling best practices. Facilitated process modeling workshops. Developed enterprise process models that included dozens of intelligible process diagrams. Designed a SharePoint document repository structure. Established document management process and governance policies.

Maple Grove, Mn, Us

Led development of a business architecture knowledge base. Elicited and documented high-level business capability maps, business process diagrams, and a model for the organizational strategies and goals. Conducted pre-project feasibility assessments for an automated time and attendance solution and an enterprise email archive application. Assessments included conducting a survey of ‘as-is’ processes, systems, and stakeholders. Deliverables for each of assessment was a Findings Document that included an executive summary, process diagrams, data flow diagrams, and an organized description of the issues, risks, and stakeholder needs that subsequent projects will have to address.

Little Rock, Arkansas, Us

Lead requirements development for a multi-million dollar program at a Regional Transmission Organization. Mentor a team of seven Business Analysts and assist in the establishment of a new requirements practice.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Brought in as a requirements expert for projects involving Smart Grid (smart meters, home area network [HAN], demand response, time of use pricing), Customer Portal, Vegetation Management, Geospatial Technology (ESRI, GE SmallWorld, SpidaCalc), Digital Forms (RoverINK), Business Process Management (analysis, modeling, and implementation).

Reading, Ma, Us

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Munich, De

Mba, Finance

Graduate Certificate, Enterprise Architecture And Business Architecture

Ba, Political Science