Frank Walker Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Az, Us

United States

Data wrangling clinical trial studies in R for Quantitative Analysis/Data Models and Pharmaceutical/Disease research.

Business Analyst for Pima County IT supporting Justice and Law Enforcement entitiesGather new and existing system requirements for software systems used by the Courts, Public Defender, Constables and Sheriffs department.Create work order requirements (project plans) for small and large projects for the Strategic Initiative Council to review, determine value, and schedule for production.Review process and create documentation (work instructions) of current and new systems and features.

Tucson, Az

The American Board of Radiology (ABR), Tucson AZ ~ 1/2014 – PresentTechnical Project Manager, Agile Coach, Scrum MasterPlan and manage the responsibilities of the IT development group for web and custom applications. Introduced and incorporated Agile methodologies for all software development projects for the IT development team. Implemented and manage the development service ticket system through a Kanban framework. Coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values. Perform the role of Scrum Master on continual basis. Proactively manage project iterations, deliverables and priorities to successfully implement short and long term projects on time and on budget. Define goals and user stories for projects to deliver value upon every iteration. Communicate delivery and status reports with end users and stakeholders. Mitigate risk, remove impediments and provide solutions to address business goals. Ensure development practices and standards are adhered within the SDLC. Participate in continuous process improvement (Plan, Do, Check, Act) via Andon practice and through retrospectives.

Tucson, Arizona

Also employed under i2 and Knowledge Computing Corporation as prior companies acquired by IBM.Managed the product life cycle of a commercial solution for the law enforcement market. Duties included: Gather and manage user stories from both internal and external sources. Manage the software development release schedules and associated product content. Conduct customer requirements gathering through customer visits, round tables, workshops and surveys. Prior positions include Business Analyst, Software Assurance Manager, DBA Manager and Database Developer.Business Analyst responsibilities included working within an agile development team creating user stories that drive software iterations of feature development. This included creating the stories and business acceptance criteria, scheduling the stories for sprint iterations, and sign off of stories through showcase reviews.Managed an internal initiative of quality management as the Software Assurance Manager, where process flows and business procedures were reviewed and redesigned to improve product quality and delivery schedules.DBA Manager responsibilities included managing a database development team, delivering the database server component to the client server architecture. This included the database architecture, stored procedure functional processing, and data exports to external products. Prior to managing, I was a database developer and DBA on the same team.

Tucson, Arizona

Also employed Avalon Software from 1991-1996 which was acquired by IFSAdditional positions include Business Analyst, Database Developer/DBADuties included design and implementation of ERP manufacturing solutions using object oriented methodology in the Manufacturing and Production Scheduling marketplace. Software development resources include rational rose for CASE design and engineering used for implementation of the server and middle ware application development. Centura/C++ used to develop heavy client user interface. Use of Microsoft web development tools to create web portals. Business analysis of work flow and business modeling of customer business functions; associated data mapping to support customer data within product data repositories.

Performed Business Analysis and Modeling for integration of Constraint Based Scheduling (CBS) engine developed by Red Pepper Software. Created and supported product interface for CBS engine integrated to Oracle Manufacturing product.Architected, engineered and supported the database ETL solution supporting Oracle Manufacturing with Red Pepper constraint based scheduling product.