Gathered and documented requirements for a world-wide tax tool in a SCRUM method team. Fast pace software project involving international business users and an off-shore development team.

• Documented the AS-IS for many MS Access database applications and recommended re-engineered TO-BE data architectures for Prudential’s Human Resources Compensation Corporate department. • Solicited business rules from domain specialists and program code: Visual Basic and SQL. • Analyzed business requirements and created narratives and models like UML Use Cases and Activity Diagrams.• Created documents and models (data and process) for a PeopleSoft upgrade and switch in vendor interfaces.Environments: Microsoft Windows 10; Access; Visio; Word; Excel; and Notes

The goal of Models and More is to engage in short-term assignments to provide project assessment, expert task completion and / or knowledge transfer of one or more Business Systems Analytical deliverables and techniques. A start-up consulting and freelance firm based on my trademarks values of client focus, operational excellence, service quality, and IT efficiency. Extensive and varied career has allowed me to conceptualize the big picture, analyze the details, and present it in a lucid and comprehensible fashion - usually with graphics and models. In previous positions, I always sought ways to provide knowledge transfers through mentoring and presentations. • I have taught hundreds of Business Analysts at corporate and governmental IT sites: methodology, modeling, prioritizing requirements, data normalization, and conducting JAD sessions.• I have master process and data modeler competency in structural and object methods, like Use Cases, Data Flow Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, BPML, logical and physical ERDs, Class Diagrams, among others.• I have created or repaired essential project lifecycle deliverables involving: project conception and initiation, logical analysis, and physical design phases that produce artifacts like: Project Scope, Stakeholders Responsibilities, Project Plan and Budget, Business Rules, Functional Requirements, Design Specifications, and Test Plans and Scripts.• Models and More is ready to put years of diverse accomplishments to work with assessments, project deliverables, and staff skill development. Based in Northern New Jersey / New York City metropolitan area; will travel.

• Developed enterprise-wide corporate standards in an Enterprise Architecture department.• Introduced Business Analysis and Process Best Practices and wrote corporate Unified Modeling Language and the Business Process Modeling Method user manuals.• Designed new applications to deploy architectural standards, complete with simulations.• Determined and defined business cases and system scopes.• Originated as-is and to-be logical and physical data models (Class Diagrams and Entity Relationship Diagrams).Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / Borland Software Requirement Definition and Management tools CaliberRM, Caliber DefineIT and Together; iRise Visualization (simulation tool) / MVS / DB2 / Remedy / Homegrown Content Management tools and SharePoint

• Customized, coached, and taught IBM’s RUP methodology and UML Use Cases; created Project, Metrics, and Audit Plans for CMM process improvement.• Conducted business and IT JAD sessions; software demonstrations and executive technology briefings.• Wrote corporate guides to Metrics, Measurements, and Process Improvement.Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / AS2. Technics: Product Development Life Cycles, Work Breakdown Structures; ISO 9003, LBMS, Microsoft Solutions Framework, IBM’s Rational Unified Process, Zachman's Enterprise Architecture, and Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model

• Analyzed and re-engineered a City of New York Department of Health’s applicant verification application from mainframe to local servers. • Conducting fact-finding and analysis of business needs and documented software requirements with functional specifications.Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / MVS DB2 / ASP/.NET Technics: RUP Vision Document / UML Use Cases / Activity Charts / Sequence Diagrams / Class Diagrams / Data Flow Diagrams / Functional Hierarchies / Module Structures / CRUD Function matrixes.

• Responsible for ground floor Data Warehouse (Data Mart) developments involving business case justification, subject area selection, project definition, effort estimation, planning, and budgeting. Created star schemas, decision tables, business meta data, test plans and test scripts and performed quality assurance testing for web-based applications.• Managed the analysis and design of incrementally developed enterprise-level Human Resources Data Marts. Obtained and documented business rules, business processes, and software requirements that lead to successful implementations. • Documented user requirements to transform complex legacy mainframe infrastructure systems to web-based applications. • Designed system specifications, proof of concepts, and prototypes that created new applications or modified existing ones.• Evaluated software vendors, tools, and products; generated white papers, RFPs, effort estimations, budgets, time and cost studies, resource allocations, performance and salary reviews, PERT charts, Gantt charts, flow charts, and HIPOs• Wrote test plans and test scripts; performed unit tests, integration tests, and user acceptance tests.Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / ABS’s Project Workbench / PowerDesigner Warehouse Architect / ClearQuest, ClearCase and PVCS / Informatica’s PowerBuilder (ETL) / Cognos’s Impromptu and PowerPlay / MVS / DB2 / Oracle / PeopleSoft

Methodology and CASE Tool Vendor• Consultant and platform instructor in project and process management, business analysis, process and data modeling, system scope definition, methodologies, and GUI design at Fortune 500 corporate accounts.• Conducted on-site formal training classes, provided JAD facilitations, and coached clients for the successful deployment of vendor’s process management, CASE, and object oriented tools.• Facilitated Joint Application Development / Design sessions. • Designed and delivered formal training units in process improvement, methodology, business analysis techniques, modeling, and design via client site platform instructions and in-house seminars.• Originated data normalizations, knowledge management, business intelligence, and business rules.Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / LBMS Process Engineer (now CA’s All Fusion Process Engineer) and LBMS System Engineer / PowerBuilder

• Conducted fact-finding and built process and data models for a pharmaceutical firm’s packaged LIMS implementation involving two divergent quality control laboratories.• Maintained strong relationships with client’s senior managers, their teams, and Cap Gemini’s associates and management.

• Led as the chief designer and development project manager a staff of nine employees and consultants in building financial software products that provided batch and GUI processing.• Presented demonstrations, logical prototypes and led conferences with clients’ and prospects’ senior managers and staffs.

• Managed a team of nineteen employee and consultant application developers engaged in developing a total production support application.• Responsible for all activities related to staffing, project planning, system architecture, management reporting, and vendor contacts.

• Systems architect, logical and physical data and process modeler, and code writer for two multi-million dollar product development projects on a three-tiered architecture.• Conducted JAD sessions with external clients' technology and business teams to document business rules. Constructed decisional support knowledge bases, led clients’ knowledge engineering sessions, and trained staff in Expert Systems.

• Demonstrated the skills and accomplishments to be promoted twice in a large corporate IT environment. • Multi-tasked in projects involving relationships with hardware and software vendors, industry best practices, and evaluating purchases; became a change-agent for adopting leading-edge software applications.

• Analyst, designer, and tester for a corporate-wide production document printing reengineering innovation that was accorded praise from the user community.• Tested and managed the resolution of production systems’ errors and malfunctions by tailoring collaborations with users and programmers.

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company• Determined acceptance to standards, coverages, limits, deductibles, wordings and ratings for boiler and machinery insurance quotes and policies requested by Independent Brokers and Agents.• Called-on Manhattan B&M Insurance Brokers and Agents to solicit and maintain business book.