Lead Business Analyst in the development of websites for use by insurance agents and policyholders.

Illicit, document, and test business requirements as it pertains to The Hartford's Procurement systems.

• Documentation of business requirements for production support and project work.• Perform business requirements elicitation and business analysis through stakeholder interviews, system and user documentation reviews, business rules, and data gathering.• Work closely with the Project Manager as a liaison between the customer community and the software development team.

Four month consulting engagement through AVIT to the XL Group. Responsibilities included:• Provide enterprise analytics and reporting to support the IT budget and planning tool, a software application designed using the requirements/results of interviews, and gathering requirements with business line process analysts• Develop flowcharts in Visio based on organization processes and procedures logic • Utilize Visio and other diagramming tools to create flowcharts, design ERD (entity-relationship diagrams), DFD (data-flow diagrams) and schemas• Create reporting tools utilizing VLOOKUPs and pivot tables within Excel• Documented, analyzed and designed business requirements and software requirements specifications (SRS)• Recommend process improvement within the IT Insurance Administration department• Translate and validated requirements and wrote use case scenario’s for quality center• Conducted User Acceptance Testing to ensure the viability of the application• Lead program-level business analysis projects, feasibility studies, competitive analysis and business cases• Develop a formal Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application as a result of requirements gathering, use case development and work flow design in the HP Project and Portfolio Management application

Seven month consulting engagement through TEKsystems on Phoenix's Alternate Service Delivery (ASD) project. The project scope includes the conversion of active life policies on three administrative platforms to one Infosys platform. This project is part of the company's strategy to reduce overall cost structure and simplify the technology footprint, giving added flexibility to support future growth, gain additional operational efficiencies and provide long-term value to shareholders.

1 Year Consulting assignment through Atlantic Partners.• Instrumental to the Pru-Inside project, a hybrid annuity product development within the Information Management and Business Intelligence area of Annuity Information Technologies.• Drove business requirements identification and scope as it related to the definition of deliverables within the business environment by facilitating JAR sessions, requiring coordination of multiple functional areas.• Collaborated closely with clients to identify and understand business requirements including the exploration of viable options and alternatives for delivering business and technical solutions utilizing context modeling, work flows and use cases.• Developed business requirements documents, functional specifications, requirements traceability matrix, context diagrams, use cases, wireframes, and user acceptance test plans in close collaboration with the business client and AIT peers.• Documented “as is” and “to be” business process flows using standard process modeling tools.• Responsible for consistent on-time delivery of quality deliverables in accordance with agreed upon plans.• Developed expertise to navigate and engage the V-Model SDLC methodology within a plan/deliver/QA/operate model.

Ten Month Consulting assignment through Tryton Solutions at The Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, CT

3 Month Consulting assignment through Apex Systems.

Various consulting engagements with Insurance and Financial Services companies.

• Responsible for analysis of current systems, the development of business requirements, and for the creation of Requests for Proposals for the replacement of current systems. • Also responsible for the project management of the implementation of new systems for Performance Measurement Reporting and Statements of Investments via the creation of project plans, management of inside and outside business consultants and vendors.

Various consulting engagements with Life Insurance and Financial Services companies.