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Ste. Genevieve, MO, US

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

• Analyzed existing systems, applications, procedures, and documentation to become familiar with the business and technology to help define business requirements.
• Collaborated with Business Owners, Delivery Managers, BAs, and Designers to gather requirements and create a backlog of features and user stories in Target Process.
• Created visual screen mockups using Snagit and Balsamiq and worked with the Software Designer, Delivery Manager and Business Owner to finalize approved UI mockups.
• Participated in daily team standups to share project feature and user story status.
• Scheduled and facilitated white board sessions with the project team to brainstorm solutions to deliver high quality requirements that would also meet the Business Owner’s needs and priorities.

O'Fallon, MO

• Worked collaboratively with other IT BAs, Product Owners, Developers, Designers, and Scrum Masters to convert from Waterfall Methodology to Agile Methodology for our mortgage application.
• Created a backlog of user stories based on the priorities and needs of the business and Product Owners.
• Provided estimates on the complexity of implementing the stories via weekly Poker Planning Sessions.
• Facilitated user story sessions with the Product Owners, Business BAs, Developers and Designers on a daily basis in order to ensure the best quality and highest priority stories were available for the teams to take.
• Participated in daily stand up meetings with my team to inform them of the status of my current work.
• Researched and analyzed data in the mortgage database to create data mapping to/from our mortgage application and other applications.

Citimortgage

• Created business and functional requirements for web based mortgage applications.
• Analyzed current systems and applications to define business requirements for several mortgage projects.
• Created project deliverables using the Waterfall process (Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Business Work Plan, and Process Change Request documents.)
• Reviewed project clarification logs and worked with onshore and offshore team members to resolve any outstanding questions and issues.

St. Louis, MO

• Researched and analyzed current regional best practices to create requirements for development of a standardized Enterprise Billing application covering AT&T’s Enterprise Wide 22 State region.
• Acted as a liaison between the project team, IT and Finance groups to define business needs, enhancements and requirements for systems and business processes.
• Tracked requirements through a project requirement traceability matrix.
• Analyzed systems and applications and collaborated with IT solution architects and developers to develop system requirements.
• Actively participated in requirements reviews and approval requests to develop test strategies based on the business requirements.

• AT&T Inc. (Formerly SBC, Inc.), St. Louis, MOBusiness Manager 2000-2008
• Created business and technical requirements, tracked requirements through a project traceability matrix, and developed high level system designs for enterprise projects covering a 13 state region. Facilitated meetings.
• Coordinated development of requirements and design with clients and development teams as a Project Manager and Billing Architect on infrastructure rating projects.
• Provided estimates on client consultations for new projects. Led consultations by coordinating meetings with clients and impacted teams while documenting results in a consultation tool.
• Developed and maintained test cases for rating tables in the Common Rating GUI to test new and existing products.
• Supported resolution of assigned production and test defects.

Cape Girardeau, MO

Graduate Certificate, Web Services

Bachelor Of Science, Social Work

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