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Detroit, Mi, Us

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Leading the Business Analyst team in working with the Product Owner for business requirements discovery and gathering. Driving the technical requirements and system design work to enable the software engineering team to deliver MVP, in accordance to defined roadmap. • Restructured business and development teams working model to achieve increased throughput and efficiencies.• Identified system requirement gaps, aligned stakeholders, gained approval for non-functional requirement implementation.• Introduced use of business intelligence reporting to make strategic decisions on work management.• Created a communication pipeline between the business and software engineer units to maximize productivity.• Owner of strategic roadmap planning and execution.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Manager of 14 direct reports responsible for deploying software to retail and commercial vehicles Owned services responsible for mass discovery of 14 million OTA capable vehicles and integration with each vehicle to consume status messages for customer and analytics reporting. Warranty cost savings achieved for the F150 program were estimated at 20 million.• Built team to support cloud services responsible for consuming data from retail/commercial vehicles.• Established team working model for day-to-day development and production support.• Redefined team production support model for OTA mass discovery to improve system availability up-time.• Led cloud migration effort for Vehicle Software Updates organization by establishing project execution plan to deliver 116 microservices, 20 databases, and 35 messaging queues to the Google Cloud Platform.

Led the strategic planning for cloud components to support transition to utilizing Google Automotive Services in-vehicle. • • Defined and prioritized planning of EV suite of products (Utility Grid/EV Charge Points/Trip Planner/Intelligent Range/Charge Angels) for retail and commercial vehicles.• Cross-team collaboration with embedded software engineering team, UI/UX designers, and Google engineers/stakeholders.• Responsible for senior executive status reporting, roadmap planning, and delivery engagement for implementation teams.

Dearborn, Michigan, United States

Direct Manager of 16 direct reports responsible for providing EV charge locations and customer charging profile functionality (User defined/Plug and Charge/Utility Tariffs (Cost efficiency), $20M annual budget.• Owned the day-to-day operations of cloud services to ensure 24/7 availability for real-time electric vehicle services.• Streamlined team efficiency by introducing strategy to collaborate with business stakeholder on a bi-weekly cadence to improve synergies.• Increased team productivity metrics by 20% with focus on improving user story throughput.

Dearborn, Mi

Led team of 6 Software Engineers, 1 Anchor Engineer, and 1 Product Designer to develop a cloud-based service providing charge locations to the customer from scratch. • Successfully launched the largest charging network (12,000 charge points and 35,000 charge plugs) in 2019.• Led team to integrate cloud services with 3rd party (Electrify America, ChargePoint, EVgo, FLO, Ionity, BP) charge location OEM’s in North America and Europe.• Designed architecture for aggregating 3rd party OEM data with PlugShare data to enrich real-time charge location data for best-in-class customer experience.

Allen Park, Michigan

Analyze business requirements and create user stories that deliver customer\business product value fast and efficiently. Collaborate with Product Manager and Product Owner on requirement definition. Work closely with product team through all Agile phases for product delivery.• Creation of product team design documentation based on analysis of business requirements.• Work with core product team on creation of user stories based on functional and non-functional requirements.• Engage product team members on progression for user story execution, facilitate dialogue, and remove impediments on development efforts.• Participate and provide input in core team discussion to drive the direction of the product teams Agile methodologies and the creation of team operational standards.• Creation of UX design using MS Visio and UX Pin applications.• Develop Splunk Dashboards for business and product team metrics and production support escalation.• Research of new technologies that would allow product team to achieve performance testing capabilities for development of new microservices and end-to-end testing strategies.

3501 W. Hamlin Auburn Hill, Mi

Provided technical support for both the data warehouse and data integration environments. Responsibilities also included the coordination and execution of system upgrades, administration of environments, and monitor data warehouse environments and production jobs. Evaluation of code, reviewing scripts, and either making suggestions or modifying, in an effort to create better system designs and affect change for cost savings. - Researched new technologies to simplify and standardize data across multiple lines of business. Key participant in identifying master data management solutions and providing gap analysis that would allow the corporation to streamline practices across multiple business units.- Conducted working sessions on the benefits of integrating data lake Hadoop into existing data warehouse that allowing a more robust processing of data for the corporations future business needs.- Provided 24/7 support to production jobs to ensure multiple business units were operational by the start of the following business day. - Experienced in installing and maintaining the Informatica environment through, applying software upgrades and troubleshooting environment issues. - Ensured development team was adhering to best practices in their development efforts through coaching and training.- Provided systems metric tracking reports to senior management, so management could make key decisions for the environments current state and propose new solutions.

3501 W. Hamlin Auburn Hills, Mi

Responsible for small and mid -scale projects fulfilling the business analyst role to define scope and drive project initiatives. Experienced ETL developer utilizing Informatica for the purpose of extracting, transforming, and loading data to specified target location. Dual roles allowed me to manage the project execution from the beginning stages to end, and put me in a position where I was recognized for my achievements.- Eliminated legacy system in one of the banks international offices by providing ETL solution. Project solution involved working with the business subject matter expert, data analysis, and creating a software solution to access the data in order to load it into the Data Warehouse. This allowed the termination of the $50,000.00 contract support agreement with the vendor.- Successfully executed a mid-sized project with major implications to our Risk and Audit business unit. Worked with client to define requirements and upgrade reporting systems by bringing in more data, where the client could assess its customer risk more effectively.- Led a project team to deliver critical customer statistics to target specific client groups. Worked with the marketing team to create to define reporting requirements and created reports, which allowed the bank to reach specific customer markets.

39200 W. Six Mile Livonia, Mi

Code and technical support for check processing business unit.• Designed user interfaces for check processing workers.• Developed code to extract data from Unysis check processing machines and transform data.• Created reports for customer and client reporting.