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Lee'S Summit, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

● Lead the analysis, solutioning and delivery for Population Health products that captures member demographic data and writes to Snowflake tables for Power BI reporting.● Functioned as IT Product Owner for Finance processes to include General Ledger, Receipt Processing, and Commissions. In this role, prioritize and led over a dozen user stories from discovery to implementation.● Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Receipt Processing cross-collaborating internally with five… Show more ● Lead the analysis, solutioning and delivery for Population Health products that captures member demographic data and writes to Snowflake tables for Power BI reporting.● Functioned as IT Product Owner for Finance processes to include General Ledger, Receipt Processing, and Commissions. In this role, prioritize and led over a dozen user stories from discovery to implementation.● Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Receipt Processing cross-collaborating internally with five business units and externally with three vendors.● Cash flow data analysis to support enhancements to Finance processes and troubleshooting production issues.● Launched and lead the research efforts to reverse engineer and document legacy code to provide business transparency to stale business rules that were degrading new product solutioning and causing accounting errors for Finance. ● Worked as a solo data analyst to understand current state and then document SQL requirements to automate building vendor files that resulted in extracts create via batch jobs in minutes versus two days.● Liaison between business stakeholders and external vendors for communicating requirements through implementation.● Reverse engineer ETL in Azure and DataStage to document and communicate technical requirements.● Attend feature review meetings to help define product scope, resource needs, and requirements prioritization.● Lead requirements elicitations with business and technical stakeholders.● Document user stories that align to features and epics. Show less

Lees Summit, Missouri

● Partner with the Digital Product Owners in writing user stories for the web redesign and mobile projects. Features included comparing medical plans, member login, contact us, and marketing preference center.● Data analysis for web account restrictions by member role and updating the data warehouse for Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration.● Conduct stakeholder interviews with the Marketing and Customer Care departments to understand business problems and brainstorm… Show more ● Partner with the Digital Product Owners in writing user stories for the web redesign and mobile projects. Features included comparing medical plans, member login, contact us, and marketing preference center.● Data analysis for web account restrictions by member role and updating the data warehouse for Salesforce Marketing Cloud integration.● Conduct stakeholder interviews with the Marketing and Customer Care departments to understand business problems and brainstorm solutions.● Analyze current state and backfill missing requirements in SharePoint and Jama the company’s source of truth.● Create user/work flows as needed for visualization of current state layered with new implementation requirements.● Administer requirement reviews in Jama for product owner and stakeholder approvals.● Serve as liaison between business and development translating wording and terms that both parties can understand. ● Manage technical stories in TFS.● Lead refinement/backlog grooming sessions. Participants include product owners, architects, developers, and QA testers.● Attend other agile ceremonies. Show less

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Maintain reference tables with permitted values and work with Data Governance when changes are needed. • Maintain company identifiers and cross reference tables with various externally provided IDs mapped to ACI IDs.• Document metadata, business rules, and quality rules for assigned Business Terms.• Develop rules to match and merge external data with Warehouse data (master data management).• Requirements facilitation and documentation for the CDM data warehouse project/team… Show more • Maintain reference tables with permitted values and work with Data Governance when changes are needed. • Maintain company identifiers and cross reference tables with various externally provided IDs mapped to ACI IDs.• Document metadata, business rules, and quality rules for assigned Business Terms.• Develop rules to match and merge external data with Warehouse data (master data management).• Requirements facilitation and documentation for the CDM data warehouse project/team. • Tableau requirements for the conversion of Finance and Corporate Sales reporting.• Scrum and Agile methodologies.• Assist stakeholders in writing user stories. Show less

Assisting the startup of a new Assisted Living facility in Liberty, Mo. Researching technologies to improve quality living during retirement to include monitoring health related outcomes. Job responsibilities include:• Lead analyst for Action Pact who is opening a new Assisted Living Facility in Liberty, MO called Norterre.• Document Business Requirement Documents for the 20+ application solutions necessary for operating Norterre.• Research and discovery of clinical solutions… Show more Assisting the startup of a new Assisted Living facility in Liberty, Mo. Researching technologies to improve quality living during retirement to include monitoring health related outcomes. Job responsibilities include:• Lead analyst for Action Pact who is opening a new Assisted Living Facility in Liberty, MO called Norterre.• Document Business Requirement Documents for the 20+ application solutions necessary for operating Norterre.• Research and discovery of clinical solutions to support the Skilled Nursing Facility.• Research and discovery of enterprise fitness membership solutions for the Healthy Living Center.• Research and discovery of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions to expand the sales and marketing to reach physician referrals, corporate wellness programs, and gym membership potentials.• Visualization of requirements by creating use case diagrams for executives.• Collaboration with the CIO and Technical Project Manager for project planning.• Update Teamwork with documentation and project status for assigned tasks.• Schedule and facilitate meetings with product owners and stakeholders.• Use Microsoft OneNote for documenting and sharing meeting notes.• Capture high-level data requirements for the next Business Intelligence (BI) phase of the project. Show less

Leawood, Ks

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to document current state business processes and future enhancements. Requirements take on several forms such as Use Cases, Spreadsheets, and UML diagrams. • Transfer requirements to Jira stories in support of the Agile methodology.• Assist Product owners with discovery initiatives for upcoming projects. Current working projects include Adaptive Learning with study remediation tools.• Serve the Project Management Organization by… Show more • Collaborate with business stakeholders to document current state business processes and future enhancements. Requirements take on several forms such as Use Cases, Spreadsheets, and UML diagrams. • Transfer requirements to Jira stories in support of the Agile methodology.• Assist Product owners with discovery initiatives for upcoming projects. Current working projects include Adaptive Learning with study remediation tools.• Serve the Project Management Organization by participating in the Stage Gate progression. This could be documentation or verbal input.• Hands on research of software tools for recommending business solutions. Examples are MarkLogic NoSQL database and Alfresco Content Management.• Google research for communicating mobile search impacts across Ascend’s 500 domains. Also reviewed SEO analytics when available for anticipating revenue impacts.• Lead requirements gathering sessions for Product Hierarchy. The Product Hierarchy project is an internal taxonomy solution for describing company products.• Review requirements with off-shore consultants for transiting project to development phase.• Data modeling using Microsoft Visio as needed for application analysis, communicating high level designs, and creating and/or updating SQL database structures.• Support internal teamwork by assisting other Solution designers with soliciting and managing requirements. • Knowledge sharing with other Solution Designers on requirements engineering to include best practice deliverables. Show less

• Partner with Project Managers for documenting detailed project requirements.• Attend daily development Scrum meeting.• Assisted Project Managers with obtaining and tracking project Level of Efforts (LOEs). This includes reviewing timecards and reporting weekly actuals.• Facilitate requirement meetings which include the business stakeholders, IT, and Testing.• Elicit sign-off for the final requirement documentation from the project approvers.• Create and manage… Show more • Partner with Project Managers for documenting detailed project requirements.• Attend daily development Scrum meeting.• Assisted Project Managers with obtaining and tracking project Level of Efforts (LOEs). This includes reviewing timecards and reporting weekly actuals.• Facilitate requirement meetings which include the business stakeholders, IT, and Testing.• Elicit sign-off for the final requirement documentation from the project approvers.• Create and manage requirements traceability through the design and test phases of the project.• Utilize HP ALM Requirements module for entering requirements and creating requirements documents.• Acted as team SME for the HP ALM Requirements module.• Track and communicate HP ALM changes to Testing for the BSA team. This includes updating the team’s Best Practice document and leading team discussion to review changes.• Support new EPMO processes by attending weekly Kanban meetings and adhering to project deliverables.• Mitigate risk by communicating issues to project managers. Show less

• Analyze IT project requirements by partnering with business clients, stakeholders, and technical analysts.• Work in a team environment as a Requirements Manager for both Ericsson and Sprint projects. Ericsson’s IT manages the call network for Sprint.• Lead functional requirement meetings for Ericsson and Sprint IT applications.• Document detailed functional requirements to be turned over to the development team. • Research impacted applications and network acronyms for every… Show more • Analyze IT project requirements by partnering with business clients, stakeholders, and technical analysts.• Work in a team environment as a Requirements Manager for both Ericsson and Sprint projects. Ericsson’s IT manages the call network for Sprint.• Lead functional requirement meetings for Ericsson and Sprint IT applications.• Document detailed functional requirements to be turned over to the development team. • Research impacted applications and network acronyms for every assigned project.• Provide alternate business scenarios as needed when capturing requirements.• Assist Project Managers in finding project user contacts, scheduling requirement meetings, and obtaining user sign-offs.• Communicate Sprint requirements in the form of Use Cases.• Forecast LOE for the” Gathering Functional” requirements phase of projects.• Participate in “Requirements Evolution” team discussions. These meetings are to continuously improve our internal SDLC process. Show less

• Acted as a Business Analyst for the Hallmark Digital and United International Children’s Funds (UNICEF) websites.• Used Agile and Kanban process methodologies mainly to implement user story boards as requested by project stakeholders.• Met with clients and stakeholders regularly to document business requirements.• Created use cases, user work flows with states, and Functional Specifications Documents (FSD) to detail web project requirements.• Acted as Project Manager by… Show more • Acted as a Business Analyst for the Hallmark Digital and United International Children’s Funds (UNICEF) websites.• Used Agile and Kanban process methodologies mainly to implement user story boards as requested by project stakeholders.• Met with clients and stakeholders regularly to document business requirements.• Created use cases, user work flows with states, and Functional Specifications Documents (FSD) to detail web project requirements.• Acted as Project Manager by leading meetings with stakeholders, clients, developers, and testers.• At Hallmark Digital, teamed with the creative and business sectors to document website requirements for testers and developers.• Worked aggressively as needed to implement projects according to director timeline. This meant having conversations with UX, development, and testers individually at times.• Communicated statuses daily to project managers and other lead supervisors. Show less