Jerry Ries Email & Phone Number

Nesquehoning, PA, US

Reston, VA

As the Senior Platform Manager, I work with College Board program staff to define and implement identity and access management solutions to meet the needs of students and education professionals.

Reston, VA

• Requirements Analyst for College Board Identity and Access Management (IAM), E-Commerce, Online Store (store.collegeboard.org), Product Catalog, Online Store Customer Service Tool, Institutional Ordering Tool, Payment.
• Initiated weekly meetings with E-Commerce business system owner in order to increase customer satisfaction by achieving open communication of project status, change requests, and issues.
• Initiated a ClearQuest driven process for entering, prioritizing, scheduling, resolving, and closing change requests and defects.
• Scheduled and facilitated JAD sessions with business system owners, system users, system developers, and quality assurance (QA) team members.
• Created and maintained use case surveys, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, use case specifications, user interface requirements, user interface mock-ups, nonfunctional requirements documents, and supplemental.
• Presented requirement artifacts to business system owners, system users, development team, and QA team at walkthroughs and collected sign-off from stakeholders.

Reston, VA

• System analyst for Nextel Online Store and Aisle Setup Tool (AST).
• Created system requirement documents for Nextel Online Store quarterly software releases.
• Presented systems requirement documents to the development and system test teams at walkthroughs.
• Created baseline use case documentation for Nextel Online Store and AST.
• Tested software changes prior to system test software handoff.
• Maintained AST troubleshooting guide.

Reston, VA

• Lead analyst for Concert’s primary order entry and provisioning system (ORION).
• Created high-level and low-level designs for interface between ORION and a second in-house system responsible for transmitting service orders from AT&T to Concert. Documentation included use cases, sequence diagrams.
• Produced impact statements and level of effort estimates at 100% and 30% margin of error for system changes based on user requirements.
• Created design documents for quarterly software releases. Documents included business rule changes, database schema changes, screen mock-ups (Forte and HTML), file definitions, data flow diagrams, and workflow diagrams.
• Created high-level and low-level designs for an interface between ORION and another in-house ordering and provisioning system as part of Concert Bandwidth Services product rollout.
• Participated in the creation of a high-level design for an interface between ORION and AT&T provisioning systems for frame relay, ATM, and IP products.

Reston, VA

• Lead analyst for Concert’s primary order entry and provisioning system (ORION).
• Created high-level and low-level designs for interface between ORION and a second in-house system responsible for transmitting service orders from AT&T to Concert. Documentation included use cases, sequence diagrams.
• Produced impact statements and level of effort estimates at 100% and 30% margin of error for system changes based on user requirements.
• Created design documents for quarterly software releases. Documents included business rule changes, database schema changes, screen mock-ups (Forte and HTML), file definitions, data flow diagrams, and workflow diagrams.
• Created high-level and low-level designs for an interface between ORION and another in-house ordering and provisioning system as part of Concert Bandwidth Services product rollout.
• Participated in the creation of a high-level design for an interface between ORION and AT&T provisioning systems for frame relay, ATM, and IP products.

Reston, VA

• Lead analyst for Concert’s primary order entry and provisioning system (ORION).
• Created high-level and low-level designs for interface between ORION and a second in-house system responsible for transmitting service orders from AT&T to Concert. Documentation included use cases, sequence diagrams.
• Produced impact statements and level of effort estimates at 100% and 30% margin of error for system changes based on user requirements.
• Created design documents for quarterly software releases. Documents included business rule changes, database schema changes, screen mock-ups (Forte and HTML), file definitions, data flow diagrams, and workflow diagrams.
• Created high-level and low-level designs for an interface between ORION and another in-house ordering and provisioning system as part of Concert Bandwidth Services product rollout.
• Participated in the creation of a high-level design for an interface between ORION and AT&T provisioning systems for frame relay, ATM, and IP products.

Herndon, VA

• Developer/analyst for Sprint billing, ordering, reporting, and service level agreement tracking systems.
• Created use case diagrams, object models, and collaboration diagrams in Rational Rose for service level agreement-tracking system.
• Created and tested Servlets and static HTML pages for a government service ordering system.
• Created and tested domain objects, TOPLink mappings, and Enterprise Java Beans for a Web-enabled service level agreement-tracking system.
• Created and tested domain objects and TOPLink mappings for Web-enabled frame relay reporting systems.
• Lead analyst for team responsible for implementing new bill format for IP customers.

Herndon, VA

• Developer for Virtual Telecommunications Network Service (VTNS) circuit inventory system. Developer and System Analyst for VTNS automated testing system. System Analyst for universal pricing engine and service assembly.
• Created Object Oriented analysis deliverables for the re-engineering of a telephone usage and feature rating system using the Jacobson and Booch methodologies. Deliverables included use case models, use cases, class.
• Analyzed, designed, and implemented a rules-based telephone usage-discounting system.
• Maintained circuit inventory database updated via service orders.
• Designed, coded, and tested system changes for over 30 monthly and quarterly releases in an MVS/COBOL environment.
• Analyzed, designed, coded, and tested changes for an automated system testing tool consisting of 61 REXX execs and 80 Dialog Manager panels.