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Responsibilities• Serve as a team member on one or more corporate projects and complete a variety of complex assignments related to project work/business functions• Analyze the impact of the proposed project/ on processes, systems, product lines, and staff personnel• Participate in the research and design of various phases of department/company projects/business functions and prepare detailed reports, summaries, and analyses• Secure information, study market trends, and develops recommendations that will align with the scope of the project• Analyze existing business/system functionally and activity and presents new methods/processes/procedures (i.e. business re-engineering) to affected business units• Develop innovative and effective solutions and coordinate the completion of specific tasks and assignments that are part of the project/business plan• Act as liaison between the Project, Information Systems, Business Lines, and any assigned external clients and assist management with the development of project/business plans, schedules, budgets, and progress reports• Provide support to the implementation of new products and systems as to existing products and systems• Develop communication, training materials, and testing and implementation plans for projects, systems, processes, and/or product lines• Develop and conduct training programs/sessions on implemented systems for business units• Provide/participate in the preparation of reports for all levels of management and outside organizations (e.g., Request for Information, Request of Proposals, milestone deliverable, etc.). May analyze business needs in order to develop project value proposition estimates• Developing and presenting complex reports• Representing the operational requirements of one or more business units

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Scrum Master who understands how the Scrum framework can enable agility within a team, is passionate about Agile, has the right mindset and is interested in helping to transform IT service areas to a new way of partnering with their customers and delivering value quicker. • Facilitate and lead Agile events with the goal of delivering customer value and fostering continuous improvement amongst the team and the department. • Promote communication and collaboration to build consensus for achievement.• Identify and help remove impediments / distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver the sprint goal. • Empower teams and facilitate creativity while guarding quality and monitoring progress. • Provide teams with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software, systems and capabilities to customers. • Organize and facilitate backlog grooming (product backlog refinement), sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

Fremont, California, Us

• Created scope statement and project plan.• Interacted with business team in gathering requirements and documenting them in the form of business requirements document.• Evaluated and provided inputs to business team in selecting a fulfillment house.• Cultivated additional business by developing a warehouse, distribution, transportation and order management solution.• Developed project plans, status reports, scorecards, performance metrics and monitoring, benchmarking, process mapping, change management, controls, issue logs, communication plans and training to ensure flawless execution.• Conducted weekly status meeting.• Ensured that the modifications suggested by the users were incorporated into the Application.• Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) requirements gathering sessions.• Performed GAP analysis and SWOT Analysis.• Also provided support to back end order processing team by enhancing existing order processing module.• Prepared graphical depictions of use cases via activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, use case diagrams, wire frames, etc.• Work closely with user interface web designers to create screen layouts with emphasis on user friendliness, clarity and consistency with applications and standards.• Also assisted with developing new standards.• Familiar with SEO techniques and ecommerce fulfillment models.Environment: Scrum, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint & Outlook), JAD, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint, UML, SQL, Oracle, HP ALM

Dublin, Ca, Us

• Performed feasibility analysis, scopes projects, and works with the project management team to prioritizes deliverables, and negotiate on product functionalities.• Tracked, analyzed, and present important revenue metrics to the team and company leaders.• Partnered with the Business Intelligence team to create efficient, scalable processes for producing monthly, quarterly, and yearly revenue numbers.• Involved in analyzing requirements for data migration, data reconciliation, mapping rules, staging rules and transformation rules for the ETL processes.• Performed a variety of project related activities, including analysis or preparation of documentation and presentations. • Ensured timely execution of the documentation procedures of writing, editing, reviewing and approving the data • Research, analyze and recommend process and configuration changes relating to project and program management, project accounting and other functionality• Bridged business users and the technology organizations. • Lead collaborations and discussions among cross-functional teams for effective solution building or issue-resolutions. • Streamline the process of gathering and compiling data, drafting the documents, editing, submission and record keeping of the documentations • Evaluated requirements from multiple stakeholders to reconcile conflicts, identify potential risks, and translate requirements into actionable documentation.• Conducted JAD sessions with Business Directors, IT Directors, and Business& IT Project managers, Developers and Testing Teams and other SMEs.• Managed requirement gathering and JAD sessions and participatory Design Sessions.• Signed off business requirements and Use Cases based on the requirements.

New York City, New York, Us

• Coordinated participation and sign-off of various business partners and customers.• Involved in the analysis of the existing credit card processing system, mapping phase according to functionality and data conversion procedure.• Develop modification for in store systems, including POS system, merchandising reports and price file database.• Accumulated system requirements from various departments through surveys and interviews.• Involved in prioritizing the defects and writing business requirements to resolve them.• Conducted JAD sessions with management, SME, vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues.• Create system test plan, strategy, and metrics and track the testing activities for all phases of Clarity testing• Also used MS excel for data mining, data cleansing, data mapping, data dictionary and data analysis.• Develop test plans in conjunction with team leads and business personnel and perform unit, integration, regression testing.• Understand the business and number of transactions per day and Design and ease the POS interface screen for quicker sales transaction• Used MS Visio for Process modeling and Business Process flow diagrams.• Made sure the test cases and test process guarantee accountability to business and systems requirements.• Involved in the testing phase right from the Unit testing to the User Acceptance testing.• Used SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) methodologies like the RUP and the waterfall.• Use Cases and other Process Flow Models were designed using Visio and Rational Rose.Environment: Rational Rose and Requisite Pro, Omniture, MS Visio, MS Project, UML, XML, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, RUP, Agile, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point.

• Involved in Inception Phase and prepared vision statement and initial data models that contain Business Requirement Documents and supporting documents that contain the essential business elements and detailed definitions.• Helped the client decide on the best vendor solution• Worked with clients to better understand their needs and present solutions using structured SDLC approach.• Documented the user requirements Analyzed and prioritized them and converted them as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.• Created Mock-up forms in MS word for better visualization and understanding of the software solution.• Involved in Inception Phase and prepared vision statement and initial data models that contain Business Requirement Documents and supporting documents that contain the essential business elements and detailed definitions. • Responsible for giving Knowledge Transfer (KT) sessions of the project to the Production Support Team. Gap analysis, specific brand requirements and full POS integration • Analyzed Business Requirements and segregated them into high level and low-level Use Cases, Activity Diagrams / State Chart Diagrams using Rational Rose according to UML methodology thus defining the Business Process Models. • Developed function specifications for modifications of POS system for multiple chains. • Conducted JAD sessions with IT groups. Identified the Key Changes, and participated in Stakeholder Management to communicate effectively with them.