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15+ years’ experience in Business Analyst role with excellent communication, relationship management and technical skills, working on enterprise, cross-functional, complex IT projects. Lead analyst for functional area(s) on $1M+ software upgrades. Strong project management, presentations and internal sales. Implements requirements while setting realistic expectations for management and customers.Accomplishments• Decision Support — Data Analysis: Reported on portfolio of diverse IT projects to IT Management and business stakeholders, facilitating timely, informed decisions. Projects were fast tracked or deprioritized based on presentations, allowing most strategic projects to proceed. • Efficiency — Business Analysis: Saved average of 100 man hours per month on Logistics Execution release items, e.g. Shipping Container Report, automating a largely manual process, and reducing shipping staff hours spent on container management by 100 man hours per month.• Cost Avoidance — Problem Solving: Triaged and drove to resolution a printing incident which halted shipping of commercial and clinical products. Cost of not shipping 500k per day.• Efficiency — Business Analysis: Developed virtual collaboration spaces for technical transfer information between parent company and contract manufacturers, saved 200 man hours per month.• System Compliance — Software Upgrade: Led $3M project to upgrade enterprise maintenance management system on time and to budget, bringing system into full compliance & supportability.Experienced in all phases system of development, including RFPs, RFQs, requirements, design, development, testing, project plans, support, business process analysis & disaster recovery planning.

Listed skills include Change Control, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Validation, and 46 others.