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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Usa

Responsibilities:• Utilize system analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software or system application requirements.• Work with programmers to develop strategies for data conversions and data integrations.• Manage mock conversion processes, including driving analysis, resolution of issues and performing functional testing of data conversions/integrations with other systems.• Independently perform data analysis for conversions and integrations across data mapping, business rules, and data quality.• Perform project management tasks such as status reporting, issue/risk management, change management, and action item tracking.• Conduct end user training and post-implementation support.Work Demonstrated – • Developed and maintained a comprehensive understanding of business processes and industry practices pertaining to Life Insurance products and services.• Implemented new products and services and supported improvement of optimization and refinement of Insurance processes aligned to the business requirements.• Worked with the cross-functional partners to support and assist in the development of long term implementation decision solutions, with technology as a key enabler.• Document and maintain all business process and workflow solutions. Documents business solutions with technology as an enablement.• Create and build SQL queries to be analyzed and generated into reports.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Erie Secure Business (ESB) program, development of a Commercial Package Product, carved out from 7 individual products encompassing multi line of business. Supporting this product with Quote and Application System (QAS) UI with real time connection to OneShield (OS) backend through an API Manager (API) is the IT objective of this project.

Erie, Pennsylvania Area

Responsibilities:• Contribute to UI/UX design methodologies such as wire framing, prototyping, Use cases, Workflow diagrams, and activity diagrams.• Identify “as is” GAP and future state of process, design and implement added value processes that eliminate waste and saves operational time.• Elicit requirements and translate system and user requirements to use cases and decompose epics to user stories for scrum teams.• Translate functional requirements documents to technical document and detailed Business Process Model Notations using Visio to depict workflow process• Leads project artifact review sessions for cross browser compatibility with project stakeholders, solicit and incorporate feedback with formal approvals• Leads work on data lineage, data flow and enterprise landscape artifacts, modeling and sourcing of disparate data into the EDW. Oversee creation and documentation of Data Transformation logic, Interface Control Documents, and Data Mapping reviews.Work Demonstrated – • Interacted and coordinated between end-users, expert team, UX team, development and QA team and suggested key enhancements and changes to business flows.• Provided input to retrospective meeting and coach teams on Agile best practices to foster team integration and cordial relationship with management.• Run and Supervise Agile Team to ensure Agile Framework implementation is in line with best agile practices.• Re-prioritize focus by obtaining constant feedback from stakeholders, develop mega scenarios test cases and managed defect life cycle.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Provide planning support for IT capabilities and enterprise technology solutions.• Provide IT-enabled business solutions across industries, platforms and/or LOBs, including insurance areas such as claims, actuarial, personal lines, direct, agency, specialty, etc.• Develop IT / business roadmaps in conjunction with multiple business and IT partners.• Develop business cases, which include hardware, software and resource estimates; identification of hard and soft benefits.• Identify continuous improvement opportunities.• Develop a planning dashboard to communicate progress and maturity. Work Demonstrated – • Meet with Key Contacts and Business Partners to understand and document business, technical strategies & objectives• Create Plan to Build artifacts and facilitate the transition to project teams• Create current state (“as is”) and future state (“to be”) process maps• Execute the BTP process to conduct strategic planning for Enterprise Information Management / Document Solutions

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Responsibilities:• As a Business Analyst Manager coordinate with offshore personnel and plan for sprints and deliverables within them.• Responsible for conducting Business Impact Analysis and Gap Analysis;• Liaise with stakeholders, business owners, end-users and develop business/system use cases.• Oversee business requirements for completeness through discussion with stakeholders and SME’s;• Determine short term and long term project goals.• Attend meetings and participate in JAD sessions to ensure that legal and compliance requirements of HIPAA and HL7 are met;• Manage Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to trace and map Business requirements, Functional requirements, and System requirements.• Analyze client needs and provide project status updates.• Provide technical assistance, post collection of requirements through JAD / brainstorming sessions;• Prepare Use Cases in accordance to the requirements which forms the basis for Functional and Technical specifications;• Analyze TRD/General Design document to support the business in ensuring that what is requested is delivered;Work Demonstrated – • Identified and resolved project issues.• Assigned and managed project activities as per client standards.• Recruited, hired and trained team staff members.• Liaise with Architects and Technical leads for Solution design exercises.• Managed project development stages including cost estimation.• Observe, Analyze and Draft existing processes for improvements.• Participate in Usability features and provide inputs in framing desired screens meeting the User needs.• Identify gaps in Use Cases by way of reviews and checklists.• Participate in Stake Holder meetings and discuss/finalize functional/non-functional requirements.

Scottsdale, Arizona

As a strategic initiative, Scottsdale Insurance Company is to streamline and automate its reinsurance processes, which currently require extensive manual intervention and potential for inaccurate data. To accomplish this initiative, Scottsdale Insurance Company is to implement the Universal Reinsurance System (URS). This system will provide Scottsdale with a solution for current and projected future reinsurance needs.Role:Translate business and system needs into solution requirements for designers, developers and testers, using requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and management techniques. Understand current application landscape and aid in solution design for future URS System implementationData Mapping and Data analysis for smooth interaction between systemsDraft Functional specifications and ensure traceability is maintained across all phases of the Software implementation.Coordinate between working groups for inputs on Data flows and Data Interactions across systems

Portland, Oregon Area

Project: Voluntary and CTA Integration Project (Standard Insurance Company)Standard Insurance wanted to introduce Voluntary Line of Business, to its existing stack of products and wanted a “Go to Market” strategy to introduce new products, customizing existing set of applications.Role:Working as a Business Analyst on the Voluntary Project, my primary role is as follows – • Elicit business requirements by organizing workshops with business users, Technical personnel.• Translate business requirements to system requirements and draft functional specifications suiting the needs of the business stake holders.• Assess the impact on existing systems with the introduction of new requirements.• Mock up Data needed for new requirements, suiting system requirements.• Map data elements aligning as per the system specifications.• Ensure end to end run of the batch jobs run successfully, without any errors.Responsibilities:• Liaison between business users and IT development teams to resolve functional and technical issues related to business applications. • Drive efficiency and operational improvement through business process definition, system alignment, and optimization of standard business application functionality.• Identify gaps between the current deployment of applications and future requirements.• Translate business requirements into system definitions and solutions.• Perform requirements gathering, development effort estimates, resource management, gap analysis, implementation configuration, scope control, testing, and training.• Work with business users to document functional test scenarios, test plans, and end-user acceptance testing criteria.• Participate in technical design sessions, working with technical resources, to provide insight during solution development.• Designing, interpreting, or using complex logical data and object models to guide technical design decisions and overall business applications strategy.

Bengaluru Area, India

Project: L&T Insurance System Integration Project (LTGICL)LTGICL is a green field project, where in L&T, a Construction conglomerate chosen to diversify into Insurance business, and has leveraged on IBM Domain experience to build on its applications, systems, Infrastructure for modeling its Insurance Business Operations, Disaster Recovery, Data Center Establishment and smooth System Integration.The project involves system integration across multiple systems with third party vendor implementation of Core Policy Administration system. The project needed expertise in Insurance industry to suggest, define, improve and implement various Processes, systems, policies and procedures for a start up Insurance companyAs a Consultant on LTGICL Project, I was performing the following activities: • Defining business, organization and data requirements for various Processes of an Insurance company• Defining business rules to support process and workflow deployment• Defining high-level functional requirements to support the functionality addressed by Business System • Conducting the process pilot/model office to illustrate impact of recommended process improvements independent of any new technology.As a Business Analyst on LTGICL Project, I was performing the following activities: • Provide project teams with process design guidance and coaching to support process-led transformation, this includes process and channel subject matter expert (SME) consultation.• Validate new process designs and design changes; identify integration opportunities across processes.• Conduct process area scans to minimize duplicate or conflicting processes, such as two or more processes spanning across systems that are changing the same process area at the same time.

Bengaluru Area, India

Project: Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company:Project is a Maintenance project for the Non –life Insurance company especially in the Property area where in Application systems with regard to Data Capture, Rating, Generation of Reports and Successful run of batch jobs are to be handled from offshore center in co-ordination with the onsite BA personnel. As a Consultant I am involved in the following activities:• Understanding various systems under the Personal Property Area required for End-to-end business processing• Analysis around the realistic requirements in terms of effort and time • Business purpose behind the requirements in relation to business• Data required for testing the new system after enhancements• Understanding variety of technologies and platforms• Assisting Project manager with new business ideas, Value – adds, and Business compliance with existing rules and regulationsProject: Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company:Project is a Maintenance project for the Non –life Insurance company especially in the Property area where in Application systems with regard to Data Capture, Rating, Generation of Reports and Successful run of batch jobs are to be handled from offshore center in co-ordination with the onsite BA personnel. As a Consultant I am involved in the following activities:• Understanding various systems under the Personal Property Area required for End-to-end business processing• Analysis around the realistic requirements in terms of effort and time • Business purpose behind the requirements in relation to business• Data required for testing the new system after enhancements• Understanding variety of technologies and platforms• Assisting Project manager with new business ideas, Value – adds, and Business compliance with existing rules and regulations

Reading, United Kingdom

Prudential Insurance Company, UKProject: Annuities Payment SystemAnnuity Payments Application, which helps in streamlining the payments of Annuities and keeps track of the Annuitants, Products and related information.Supported Development and Testing Teams with analyzing and detailing the requirements and also provided inputs for business specifications and /or requirements clearly and unambiguously.As a BA I was involved in following activities:• Define business process and Application/Module/Functional impact of change • To identify various business processes and interfaces that make up the Payment Application system • To guide the Development/Testing team in terms of functional aspects• Usage of gathered data to provide input to or write business specifications and / or requirements clearly and unambiguously.• Contribute to the production of user instructions, training manuals and appropriate supporting documentation, acting as a contact point for any technical training. • Involved in understanding the requirements using Use-cases• Involved in Detailing the scenarios for testing purpose• Functionality Testing and Regression Testing• Involved in preparing Test Cases• Identifying, reporting and Tracking bugs which involved coordination between development and support group

Kenya

Premia Insurance suite, a flagship of 3i Infotech, catering to the needs of the insurance companies for their Insurance service needs and product portfolio, Is a client server application with an end-to-end solution.Role – I had customized Premia® according to the Ken India company stakeholder requirements along with the development team meeting client needs. As an implementer I have detailed the application flows, Trained Users and have tested the package along with clients IT Department and operational users.My responsibilities were:• Implementer for 3 modules namely Individual Life, Group Life and Group Pension Modules for Ken India Assurance Company Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya• Setting up of Masters and parameters customized to suit client needs• Integration of Modules to suit the requirements of the Insurance Company.• Finalizing Acceptance Criteria for the client with regards to setups, requirements, reports and sign off.• Identifying gaps with respect to the business requirements drafted and that of the product delivered• Identifying gaps with respect to the business process and the information flow • Identifying gaps with respect to the product design, legacy system and client specifications• To liaison with the development center for customization of the product to suit the business needs of the client• To test the product and confirm the requirements been met with the client expectations• To give effective solution/work-around for additional requirements so as to suggest the best solution possible

Bengaluru Area, India

• Capture, measure, and execute business processes to ensure their effectiveness.• Responsible for complex business and/or systems process analysis, modeling.• Serve as an expert in the analysis and modeling of existing and evolving processes, procedures and methods to ensure and promote effective business and systems operations through standardization, improvement, simplification, discontinuance.• Create/promote process change by integrating new processes with existing ones within the evolving system parlance.• Update management of the “AS-IS” operational business process and “TO-BE” proposed process and the likely impacts.• Under direction from the Project Manager, coordinate and comprehend changes and to determine and understand business requirements.

• Maintenance of Systems - Write COBOL programs on UNIX environment using shell scripting for specific needs depending on the need of the business users, customers, intermediaries etc., Patch Management, Maintenance of Hardware and upgrades• Data Management - Data storage and retrieval, Data entry and maintenance of database, Back up and maintenance of the files, Disks, Tapes, Instrumental in implementing improvements to Software Development, IT, Operations and Finance.• Report Generation - Prepare weekly collection reports, Participate in monthly billing process• Security Management - Responsible for the Security and purification of the data, Conversion of data from tapes, Data backups and Maintenance

• Accounting Services - Maintenance of accounting procedures (Book keeping and Journal entries) for an Insurance branch office. Documentation of summary and posting of invoices into Ledger and generating Balance Sheet and Trial Balance Controlling budgeted and non-budgeted accounts. Preparing and submitting schedules on time• Policy Administration Services - Policy servicing aspects dealing with Loans, Surrenders, and Foreclosures, Revivals, Alterations. Settlement of Claims (Early and Non-Early) Maintenance of Speed Ratios• Commission Services - Settlement of Commissions, Bonuses, Allowances and Incentives for the agents.• Agency Services - Appointments, Terminations and Re-instatements of the Agents Enlightening agents about the new plans and their benefits• Appraisal Services - liaison between the Agents, Development Officers, and Branch Managers. Settlement of Appraisal for Development Officers

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

Graduate Diploma, Computer Applications

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General