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Columbia, Maryland, United States

Windsor Mill, Maryland

I am working as a subcontractor with Northrop Grumman on a Social Security Administration (SSA) contract for the new Disability Case Processing System (DCPS). Job responsibilities include: gathering and documenting business requirements, performing gap analysis of the current individual states legacy systems and the DCPS core functionality, attending requirements review meetings with SSA and performing team lead duties.

Owings Mills, Maryland

An organized and intuitive Senior Business Analyst with a history of detailed and well researched business and technical project documentation for all sizes of application development projects. Ensures project documentation complies with the employers Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) policy and any other auditing standards. Works with the project team to ensure the project is completed within the established timeframe and budget.Work with system users, business owners, application developers and management to gather and document business and technical requirements for application system updates, major upgrades or system replacement.Create/update technical documentation of application system components and user documentation and perform user training on application system changes.Create implementation plans and coordinate with server and DBA personnel to implement system updates/upgrades.Project leader of the development team to keep the project plan up-to-date and ensure tasks are completed in a timely manner and assist with any coordination with other departments.

Owings Mills, Maryland

Oracle Database Administrator with extensive experience in relationship building, project management and the software development life cycle (SDLC) across diverse industries. Has proven abilities in quality assurance and database development, performance optimization and integrity resulting in business continuity. Expertise in database design, operations and security policies for continuous improvement. Implemented project changes to the database for structure, performance and process updates. Adept at acting as a team lead and team collaboration for deliverables. Provides excellent leadership, communication, problem resolution and analytical skills.Maintained database structure, configuration, connectivity, data integrity, security, user accounts, database backups, and monitoring processes. Maintaining the database structure with table structure changes, maintaining indexes and tablespace storage usage, package/procedure/function changes and monitoring rollback segment usage and archive log usage. Maintaining database configuration by changing settings to improve database performance, such as adjusting memory pools or rollback segments.Maintaining data integrity by changing data for maintenance purposes, process failure, or user error.Maintaining user accounts and security includes creating/updating/deleting accounts for users and processes with the appropriate access level and reviewing quarterly to comply with auditing standards. Maintaining the profile settings to comply with the company’s security policy.Maintain database backups by reviewing logs to ensure successful completion and restoring data when necessary.Monitored processes by reviewing logs and e-mails to ensure successful completion. Also reviewed results of data loaded into the database and files transmitted and received successfully.Assist in projects that impact the database, which required reviewing structure and process changes.

Owings Mills, Maryland

Annapolis, Maryland

Washington D.C. Metro Area