Voices Of Africa serves as a vehicle for young African women to express their perspectives on subjects such as agriculture, architecture, the environment/climate change, healthcare/reproductive care, economics, politics, and education, etc. Young African women have not always had the opportunity to express themselves as freely and as often as they might like--or may not have had the opportunity or platforms to do so.Contact Voices Of Africa:phone: 201-303-5541 / email: bryantfrank689@gmail.com

As a Business Analyst/Project Manager for the Application Portfolio Management team, I manage, from cradle to grave, a series of enterprise-wide technology projects. From an infrastructure architecture perspective, my responsibilities include application server, database server, and workstation setup and configuration. From a network and wireless perspective, my responsibilities include setting up and configuring APs and exciters. From a project management business analyst perspective, my responsibilities include scheduling and leading project status meetings, technical and operational problem-solving, communicating with all project stakeholders, as necessary, and creating and maintaining various technical and project documentation.

Founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 epidemic Liquid Barrier is a New York area-based writing consultancy business that provides support to busy entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized companies. While Liquid Barrier is particularly focused on serving women- and minority-owned businesses, the company is open to providing services to all small, medium and large businesses. Frank Bryant, Liquid Barrier’s CEO and founder relies on his 20+ years as a professional technical writer, business analyst and project manager to power Liquid Barrier to success.Liquid Barrier proudly offers the following services: • business documents: business plan (w/marketing research) and strategy documents; proposals; business concept documents; RFIs; RFPs; KPIs; presentations; and procedural and control related documents,• technology project documents: technical concept proposals; business requirement documents (BRDs); functional requirement documents (FRDs); technical specifications; project plans; project status (RAG) reports as well as Visio diagrams. • online marketing and digital related documents: press releases, news feeds and blog posts; articles and newsletters for online publication,• literary publications: writing, editing, theme development, removing writers block,Liquid Barrier currently has US clients in California, Georgia, New York, New Jersey and in the United KindomLiquid Barrier firmly supports workforce diversity and inclusion and social and cultural respect for the following groups: persons of indigenous heritage; members of the African diaspora; persons of Latino heritage; persons with disabilities; persons identifying as LGBTQ; and persons of disparate religious backgrounds. Liquid Barrier is an earth friendly company and is committed to activities to achieve cleaner planet land, air, and seas for better harmony between humans and the natural environment. Contact Liquid Barrier:phone: 201-303-5541 / email: bryantfrank689@gmail.com

Raymond James FinancialA multinational independent investment bank and financial services companyBusiness Analyst/Project Manager (contract)As a Business Analyst (a hybrid of business and documentation technical requirement BA)/Project Manager for the IT Advisor Technology Product Management team, performed business analysis and project management tasks involving a 3rd party Online Scheduling application implementation for Firm financial advisors and sales assistants. Served as a liaison between business and technology stakeholders. Helped to leverage appropriate technical resources. Work on a small team; work independently supporting application development teams.• Created detailed business requirements for functional (e.g., business processes, rules) and non-functional (e.g., data, security); experience authoring: BRDs, FRDs, non-functional requirements; system architecture requirements, test/QA/UAT-related- documents, and delivery documentation,• Gathered and interpreted information from multiple sources (including databases, interviews, etc.) and made appropriate recommendations,• Provided support for application development teams, including documenting business processes,• Translated technical concepts to a business audience and business information to a technical audience,• Partnered with technology stakeholders to develop project schedules, reports, and documentation. Worked with user experience/design resources to help visualize requirements into prototypes as well as to create end-to-end flows,• Collaborated with design to integrate with systems, industry, and end-user requirements. Worked with user experience/design resources to help visualize requirements into prototypes,• Helped implement web services and API from an analyst perspective for communication between Online Scheduling Tool and CRM and Exchange,

As a Business Analyst/Project Manager oversee the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. Anticipate, plan, and deliver Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value. Serve as a liaison between the organization’s business and IT systems development teams to align business strategies and capability needs and to ensure IT systems achieve their desired value. Identify and analyze business needs, define requirements and objectives, and make recommendations for solutions using new and existing technologies. Research and document relationships between application system components (i.e., end-users, business processes, data, applications, and devices).

As a Business Analyst/QA Analyst served as an interface between Audit and Advisory business stakeholders and technical team members—including developers, project managers and QA analysts. Interview business stakeholders to elicit business, functional and technical requirements to be represented in a business requirements document.

As a Delivery Manager/Senior Business Analyst lead content documentation and policy management product development projects; write business cases (with feasibility analysis); business and functional requirements; and project plans. Create SharePoint structures to assist internal organizations to better collaborate and market their services, staff expertise and accomplishments to the business at large. Engage business stakeholders to identify and document product business, functional and non-functional requirements,

As an AML/KYC business analyst support in process improvement initiatives for review of AML/KYC documents including inspecting records and track the record through the lifecycle and to closure.Review compliance documents like KYC forms to review findings as defined by the job aids and checklists. Inspect KYC records, track them through the lifecycle and to closure.

As a project manager/business analyst for the Global OTC (Over the Counter) organization, update operational procedures to meet internal Bank and compliance and regulatory standards. Execute analysis to generate SLDs/SLAs to satisfy legislative and regulatory requirements.

As a project manager/business analyst for the ORION for Operational Effectiveness Team, led and coordinated efforts to integrate data from multiple source systems to a single ORION system UI. ORION is a call center system SE2 customer service representatives use to respond to customer calls involving their life and annuity policies.

As a compliance, regulatory project manager for the O&T Inter-Affiliate Services team, coordinated efforts to have ICSA (Inter-Company Service Agreements) signed by Citi legal entity service providers and recipients globally. This effort was part of a larger effort to satisfy an OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) Regulation W regulatory/compliance mandate to develop a system to create and maintain ICSAs going forward.

In conjunction with a reorganized JPMorgan Chase Global Cyber Security organization, more than several cyber security related projects were identified to better protect client data and other assets. As a project manager, engaged prospective internal clients to illicit business requirements for approved cyber related projects as well as provide management once in flight.

During a very large Greenfield server migration, as a project manager, ensured all applications and services were migrated optimally and activities required by the business analysts and testers were completed as required.

As an integration planner/project manager for the ARM (Application Remediation and Planning) program, gathered information on applications in Pearson’s North America data centers and led/supported associated migration planning and execution efforts; tasks were guided by migration life cycle phases: Assessment and Discovery, Migration Planning and Migration Execution.

As a project manager for the Data History Loads (DHL) team, supported the movement of patient data for a large application and data migration effort resulting from the merger between Express Scripts and Medco ― in a triage, command center environment.

As a project manager/business analyst for the Quality Criteria, Compliance & Risk (QCCR) PMO, performed project management business analysis/ duties for the Operational People Data Management System (OPDM) project. QCCR's charter facilitated and monitored Standard & Poor's adherence to regulatory commitments.

As a Business Analyst for the iCAPS (Corrective Action Plan System) Product Team in the Operations & Technology Risk Management (O&TRM) Department, performed business analysis, project management and documentation support for the iCAPS Risk Management System.

As a Business Analyst for New York Life's IDE Division, Frank performed business and functional analysis and prepare requirement definition documents (RDDs) for the development of internal and external facing web-based applications.

As a business analyst for AIG’s Small Business Information Systems Group, coordinated multiple project tracks across business, IS management, Quality Assurance, Systems Analyst, Software Development, and Technical Writing teams to ensure the delivery of a high-quality software application.

As a program/project manager for the Marketing Technology Department, I managed cross functional teams across varying business units for the maintenance and development for two enterprise-wide, client facing applications.

As a management analyst for the Firm documented and analyzed prescribed vs. actual application develop/maintenance processes for later recommendations on process improvement. As a business analyst for the Reinsurance Data Processing Services Rewrite Project, gathered and developed functional requirements for a redevelopment of an internet-based, reinsurance accounting application. Also, developed testing strategies and processes.As a technical writer and trainer for the ISG/DBG IT Services department, wrote end-user documentation, project life cycle, and training materials for insurance and financial applications