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Texas, United States

Irving, Texas, Us

As an e-commerce business analyst at Michaels, the largest arts and crafts retail chain in North America with various digital platforms and over 1200 stores, I worked on multiple projects in the ecommerce and digital space.Accomplishments include:• Successfully collaborated across multiple stakeholders and departments to deliver upgrades that improved labor efficiencies, conversions rates, customer journey, process flows, access to key analytics/information, and rewards program.• Gathering and documenting business cases, scope, user stories, workflows, wireframes, story map, and mockups for multiple major project releases.• Collaborating with product owner, business teams, end users, developers, and quality analysts to successfully implement new product features, enhancements, and performance to Michael’s digital assets (ecommerce and mobile). Launched record number of enhancements during COVID-19 that helped move Michaels to top 20 online retailers.• Incorporating Agile Scrum into the development lifecycle to deliver new functionality including product backlog lists, user story creation/prioritization, sprint planning, scrum meetings, sprint testing, and production rollouts.• Facilitating workshops to explore technical system enhancements, failures, risk management and vendor management. Creating vendor matrix and score cards to choose a web personalization platform. Taking full ownership of business analysis component to deliver quality product.Project work:Ecommerce EnhancementsWeb PersonalizationTax ExemptMichaels ProBundlesCurbside pickupShip from StoreExpress CheckoutADA/ComplianceSEOAPP

Dallas, Tx, Us

As an e-commerce business analyst at LiveArea, a leading digital commerce agency, consultancy, and systems integrator of digital strategy, design, technology and marketing, I worked on multiple projects including an ecommerce strategy assessment, Hybris implementation, and process project discovery methodology.Accomplishments include:• Successfully collaborated to build, and define a new Process/Project Discovery Methodology.• Earned and awarded a Hybris E-Commerce Business Analyst (SAP) certification.Client work:International Paper: Ecommerce Strategy Assessment• Effectively worked across multiple brand owners and departments to deliver e-commerce current state assessment, future state vision, gap analysis, and roadmap.William Medical Supplies: Full Hybris Implementation• Transformed detailed Waterfall business requirements and functional requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.Discount School Supplies (Excelligence): Full Hybris (vs.1808) Implementation• Collaborating across internal teams (solution architects, creative, project manager, business analysts) in discovery and definition workshops with client for an end-to-end Hybris e-commerce B2B/B2C implementation. • Working in an Agile Scrum environment to deliver, and validate requirements, functionality, features, and design with client and internal teams, developers, and quality analysts to ensure successful development of the ecommerce site.

Westchester, Illinois, Us

As a business systems analyst at Follett, a leading provider of education technology, services, content, and campus stores, I worked on multiple projects including inventory management system (IMS), point of sales system (POS), open education resource (OER), and Agile transformation.Accomplishments include:• Successfully collaborated across multiple stakeholders and departments to deliver IMS upgrades that improved labor efficiencies, process flows, access to key data and information (real-time updates versus overnight), and search functionality to help ‘save the sale’. • Gathering and documenting business cases, scope, user stories, FRDs, workflows, wireframes, story map, and mockups for a major project release (IMS), Shop by Author shelf tags, and OER.• Collaborating with product owner, business teams, end users, developers, and quality analysts to successfully implement new product modules, and enhancements to the IMS portal. This involved gathering and validating requirements, improving user workflows, and training users.• Incorporating Agile Scrum into the development lifecycle to deliver new functionality including product backlog lists, user story creation/prioritization, sprint planning, Scrum meetings, sprint testing, and production rollouts. Successfully moved team from Waterfall to Scrum.• Facilitating workshops to explore technical system enhancements, failures, and risk management. Resolving issues, creating solutions, and fixing configuration bugs reported by quality analysts, UAT, and business team. Taking full ownership of business analysis component to deliver quality product.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As a senior product analyst at 1WorldSync, a leading product information network and data pool solutions provider, I worked on multiple projects including requirements gathering and review, quarterly configurations, audits, and product issue resolutions for several fortune 100 clients.Accomplishments include:• Gathering and documenting business cases, business rules & data mapping documents, workflows, wireframes, and mockups for major project release (MjR3), quarterly change requests (CR), and new client portals.• Collaborating with business team, developers, and quality analysts to successfully implement quarterly change requests for a strategic module (SDL) of the product introduction portal. This involved validating requirements, setting up configurations, coordinating change loads, and auditing data.• Incorporating Agile methodology into the development lifecycle to effectively deliver new defined functionality including product backlog lists, user story creation and prioritization, sprint planning, daily Scrum meetings, sprint testing, and iterative production rollouts.• Facilitating workshops to investigate technical system failures and conduct audits. Trouble shooting, maintaining, and fixing configuration bugs reported by quality analysts, UAT, and business team. Taking full ownership of SDL component to deliver quality product.

Addison, Il, Us

As a senior business analyst at The Pampered Chef, a premier direct seller of high-quality kitchen tools and part of Berkshire Hathaway, I worked on multiple projects including data integration, process reengineering, and automation.Accomplishments include:• Creating detail workflows for product lifecycles, promotions, and legacy systems processes based off workshops, surveys, and interviews. Successfully identified inefficiencies, prioritized and initiated system upgrades and enhancements based off future workflows.• Collaborating with stakeholders, and developers to successfully launch and create a roadmap for automation enhancements to Hybris (hMC). This involved gathering & documenting user stories, user acceptance criteria, low-fidelity wireframes, and design mockups.• Incorporating Agile methodology into the development lifecycle including product backlog lists, user story creation and prioritization, sprint planning, daily Scrum meetings, sprint testing, and iterative production rollouts. • Facilitating workshops to create a data details deliverable for a service oriented architecture (SOA) data integration project. Involved in creating workflows, and documenting data elements for systems to automate data feeds between product inventory management (PIM) and master data management (MDM) for the e-commerce client.

Master'S Degree, Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

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