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Lone Tree, Colorado, Us

Responsible for leading business system analysis work for McKesson’s Horizon and Paragon clinical applications.Manage and coach a team of BAs and product owners working on EHR, ARRA, and Meaningful Use products.Drive business and functional requirement work for teams using Scrum and Kanban methodologies.o Responsible for staff assignments and hiring employees.o Responsible for on-boarding and training new business analysts.o Facilitate weekly one-on-one and team meetings with employees.o Conduct yearly and mid-year performance assessments and merit increases.o Coach business analysts and product owners on requirement elicitation, user story and use case writing, release planning, sprint planning.Partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams and leaders form the product management, development, quality QA, support and services organizations.Continually look for opportunities to improve processes within the SDLC. Areas of focus include requirements analysis, estimation, user story grooming, use case development and communication between BAs, product manager, development and QA teams.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Supervised team of business analysts.Led business and functional requirements elicitation for software enhancement projects. Gathered requirements from subject matter experts and customers through workshop meetings, interviews, surveys and analysis of industry related materials.Facilitated requirement reviews and signoff with cross functional teams such as Software Development, Quality Assurance, Product Management, Support and Services. Reviewed test cases and provided feedback to QC.Performed acceptance testing and technical trouble shooting.Trained internal team on new enhancements.Served as operational product owner to prioritize and plan agile iterations.Led internal teams on process improvements. Served as business analyst on HOCS, HMR, HEO, HWF and the Automated TIE Checklist.Performed analysis, testing and trouble shooting on software change requests.Facilitated monthly analyst meetings with system, clinical and business analysts.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Project Manager / Solutions AnalystManaged large scale systems conversion project for a top 100 credit union.Reported project status directly to executive staff members.Led multiple teams of application developers, system/network administrators and customer support specialists.Interacted with external software vendors.Produced and wrote software requirements for an online banking system.Gathered and analyzed stakeholder needs into use cases and functional requirements. Verified and reviewed requirements with customers, developers and QA.Created Software Development Department lifecycle procedures. Led ISO 17799 certification initiative.Quality Assurance Analyst - LeadLed quality assurance validation testing of online banking system. Wrote test cases, facilitated test case reviews, executed test cases and load testing.Authored and reviewed testing processes focusing on unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, smoke testing and regression testing.

Senior Engineer – Project LeadProvided project management and team leadership for numerous software enhancement projects.Completed thorough business analysis and research for requirement specifications.Created detailed functional and technical design documentation.Coordinated design information among teams, such as Software Development, Quality Assurance and Product Management. Mentored less experienced developers and new employees on development processes, standards and overall functionality.Programmed software applications, reports and integration flows. - J.D. Edwards OneWorld Workforce Management SoftwarePerformed and wrote unit tests on enhancements and software defects changes.Presented enhancements to the executive leadership team, Software Development team, Documentation team, Quality Assurance team, Product Management team, and Customer Support team.Analyst / Programmer Completed analysis, coding, testing and implementation of J.D. Edwards software. Researched and implemented timely resolutions for software defects.Contributed as a team member to software enhancement projects.

Edited and updated European Counsel 3000 Legal Dictionary.Developed relations with corporations throughout Europe.Performed quality assurance tests on Microsoft SQL database.