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Boston, Ma, Us

Deal Tech

Boston, Ma, Us

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Technology, Strategy and Architecture practitioner

Addison, Tx, Us

Responsible for assisting clients in optimizing their Business Processes via Oracle BPM 11g Suite and complimentary technologies, as well as assist in business development.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led a 12 member team through the 8 month long waterfall service delivery of Escrow Accounting centralization aimed at automating EFT info processing, payment automation, escheating, and 1099 reporting business functions by implementing Wireless Info Protocol, Secure Pay, Tracker, and Convey. This resulted in the centralization of the escrow accounting functions, roles and responsibilities. Leading the delivery of the nationwide Lawson ERP office rollout as part of the StewartNext centralization initiative.Led a 15 member team through the 12 month long successful agile based proof of concept effort to enhance the processes, information, visibility and systems that support the electronic policy register and reporting portions of the Agency Reporting Solutions Optimization initiative targeted to reduce costs by $1.36 million by implementing BizTalk. This resulted tangible in improvements in underwriter business transaction accuracy, downstream transactional linkage, in-process transaction information visibility and transaction completion speed.

Paris, France, Fr

*Midstream Gas Company, Denver, CO Defined the quality assurance strategy and led a 10 member team of client and two 3rd party vendors through its execution aimed at satisfying the business objective of a centralized human resources application portal leveraging an ADP portal solution. Resulted in an on-time successful human resources centralized business applications transformation that met the business objective.Led the effort to separate the client’s external and internal business applications from its parent company as part of its legal day separation initiative. Required leading two 3rd party vendors and the client’s business application services group to ensure 16 business applications and 264 external reports were aligned with the separation initiative and SOX compliance concerns, as well as PMO fuctions. Resulted in a successful separation over a six month period at a dollar figure twenty percent less than estimated and budgeted.Led the application migration effort involving SOX and non-SOX compliance applications as part of its IT transformation initiative. Managed the SOX compliance definition and validation efforts as well as PMO functions. Managed the 3rd party vendor’s involvement in the migration of those SOX and non-SOX compliance applications under my domain. Resulted in a successful migration of the application within budget.*Home Hardware Retail Company, North Wilkesboro, NC Served as Sr. Business Analyst on the business development effort focused on Canadian and US specific Marketing, Merchandising, Pricing and Product Content Management business domains. Led the SLIM estimate development and heavily involved in client feedback workshops, staffing matrix, and Statement of Work development for all aforementioned domains. Resulted in the $4.5 million sale of the engagement leveraging a distributed delivery approach.

Involved in developing all aspects of the Enterprise Application Architecture strategic framework, its work products, supporting mechanisms, and integration with Capability Maturity Model Level II.Served as Lead Analyst for a large Market, customer pre-enrollment initiative. Facilitated client led activities used to define the current state and future state scenarios for the large market and small-medium market business customer's pre-enrollment business processes via the Enterprise Application Architecture Framework.Served as Lead Analyst for testing activities of the Shadow Settlements Solution engagement through the design, construction and testing phases of the Capability Maturity Model Level I Development Lifecycle. Managed the integration of the ShadowSettlements outputs with the Executive Dashboard Portal application.

Naperville, Il, Us

Served as a Business Analyst Lead for the first release of an e-commerce initiative aimed at synergizing product reviews with subscription based product placements and advertising. Involved in scope management, identifying add on work opportunities, and partial client management. Presented solutions to sister companies located in other countries and identified additional opportunities. Facilitated business requirements gathering, storyboarding, information architecture mapping and client centric testing sessions. Led the design of use-case diagrams and documents utilizing RUP methodology.

London, Gb

Practice BuildingServed as Lead Analyst on a web based global program management tool to be leveraged across multiple practices. Involved in building the test server for the initial deployment of the proof of concept. Led the initial and subsequent sales presentations to management teams and the partner level. Gathered feedback regarding improving the tool's capabilities in its future use. Performed as a quality assurance resource for the additional project management tools. Utilized Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft IIS and Microsoft SQL Server.Consultant, Williams Energy, Houston, TXServed as an Analyst and Developer on a web-based service delivery engagement. Involved in facilitating requirements gathering sessions, creating work-plans for both the design and development team activities for the invoicing subsystem. Led the design of use case diagrams and documents, event-action matrices, object model designs, and sequence diagrams utilizing RUP methodology. Developed primary and secondary invoicing application components utilizing enterprise Java-beans. Managed team efforts around key milestones, deliverable dates and communication points used for direct-line reporting with Functional Area Leads. Utilized Rational Rose, Sun Microsystems NetDynamics, and Microsoft Visio.

Mba, Strategic Leadership, Finance, Supply Chain Management

B.S.B.A., Finance And Management Info Systems

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