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United States

Define and manage recruitment process, recruit personnel, review resumes, screen and interview applicants, conduct panel interview coordination, create job description documents, evaluate employees, develop and maintain job skills matrix, on-boarding checklist, resume update coordination, complete job applicant background checks. Update and maintain careers web page. http://ansrware.com/

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Working part time for Rover.com I am an animal lover, especially dogs. I have volunteered with rescue groups for many years from helping with fundraising events, adoption events, fostering, training, walking and petting/brushing pets to serving on the Board of Directors.I am passionate yet practical. Always working toward safety, loving and training of pets.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Serve as a strategic partner between business clients and technical development staff. Collect and define requirements and translate their needs into functional design documents and solutions. Work with users and peers in planning, developing, implementing, and supporting new and existing applications. Participate in software design, construction and testing. Develop test plans, procedures and quality standards to ensure product quality.Define the requirements to resolve, track the progress, and perform testing to ensure defects have been properly remediated. Analyze and re-engineer business processes.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Sr. Business Analyst and strategic consulting, including use case and business requirements development. Advising on new businesses process for formation of system extension within the compliance framework. Comprehensive database restructuring and reporting for mutiple lines of business including commercial, retail, private, and global banking.

Facilitate Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings. Participate in emergency committee meetings and review emergency requests in the system. Filter major requests, review requests for accuracy and completeness. Act as the Change Authority and approve all requests for change (RFC) with input from the CAB, the technical subject matter experts and, when needed, upper management. Monitor approvals to ensure timely response. Identify ongoing change management process funding and resource requirements. Provide change management process awareness and orientation. Help Enforce change management policies, monitor change management process tools and review change management records for compliance. Ensure change management key performance indicators are acceptable or institute corrective action. Engage in change management process audits. Enable continuous improvement. Escalate process related issues to senior leadership within the Service Providers organization.Manage priority outages and coordinate technical resources through to resolution. Coordinate Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) for priority change incidents. - Monitor service level agreements. Actively monitor mean time to respond and resolve. Monitor and participate in escalations. Coordinate and approve proactive communication to customers and users.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

North American Regional Testing TeamPerform role of Process and Control for global testing team.Defined the Code Migration Process.Submit daily turnover test result documentation to off-shore (India) team mates.Create incident log and code promotion document daily.Schedule meetings to ensure all incidents are resolved and closed prior to start of next cycle.Meet with testing and development teams to communicate readiness for upcoming test cycles.Submit and verify data capture for each test group.Perform analysis, validation, verification and reporting as required.Business Controls TeamMaintain MS Project plan for team of 12 programmers and Analysts on Business Control Values team.Coordinate code walk-through meetings.Write technical and functional job specifications and test scripts.Conduct functional gap analysis to determine overlap/redundancy between the new system and legacy system. Accounting Rules Engine TeamDesign and implement environment management strategy for Accounting Rules Engine team to define the migration process to track components as they are migrated through the software development testing environments; SDLC.Center of Excellence for Buffalo - Testing TeamReport progress and status on unresolved issues related to phased software developmentActively participate in all phases of the development lifecycle; SDLC.Resolve technical issues pertaining to data conversion and transfer.Conduct analysis of systems, requirements, and design.Maintain Testing environment and documentation, CA7 scheduling, JCL promotions, incident log, problem resolution and execution time chart (cpu time) and volume (record counts). Collaborate with other developers, designers, analysts and stakeholders to ensure successful implementations.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Manage WEB development with 1 to 5 software developers per project. 3 or more projects run consecutively. Write and edit website projects and e-commerce sites using Web-based programming.Specification development and analysis of request for proposal documents, requirements, and design.Develop, maintain and enforce policies, practices and naming standards.Collaborate with other developers, designers, analysts and stakeholders to ensure successful implementations; Actively participate in all phases of the development lifecycleEvaluate and recommend software development tools, database management systems, file management, backup and restore procedures, website architecture, system upgrades for business owners.Debug and troubleshoot existing websites and correct errors as required for clients

Jefferson City, Missouri

Developed and documented test scripts; ran and monitored testing process.Performed model management for host and client/server development.Generated and moved modules into production.Managed transition from host to client server development platform. Lead WEB development coordination team for new e-business initiative.Delivered product evaluation reports and recommendations for purchase of software. Problem resolution for application developers; vendor contact.

Jefferson City, Missouri

Administered Oracle databases as assistant database Administrator.Installed software on NT workstations and servers.Performed Encyclopedia Administration (client/server), systems administration and software design and implementation.Maintained users’ access and authority levels.Performed SQL queries on Oracle tables.Conducted problem resolution for Oracle, Sterling and Banner applications.

Jefferson City, Missouri

• Conducted software development coordination for 15 State employees and up to 18 consultants.• Development Coordination / Model Management (Host and Client/Server). • Analyzed and converted business and system requirements into detailed system design and technical specifications.• Conducted problem resolution and developed problem resolution procedures.• Vendor contact for Software Engineering section.• Gathered project requirements and documented specifications. • Developed Model Management Strategy.• Performed Encyclopedia Administration (Host Encyclopedia).• Conducted SQL queries on DB2 and Oracle tables.Computer Programmer• Wrote and maintained programs in Administrative Programming Section• Basic, COBOL, JCL, dBase IV, Fox Pro, Lotus Notes.• Designed, developed and implemented Lotus Notes Applications.• Developed policies and procedures for programmers’ manual.• Conducted computer training.Automation Liaison Analyst• Liaison between the Fiscal Services Division and Information Systems Division.• Analyzed business and systems defined and documented business requirements• Installed hardware and software components (print drivers, modems, and applications).• Recommended technology purchases and conducted compatibility/feasibility analysis.Engineering Inspector• Developed a spreadsheet solution to compute curve and elevation data.• Developed Concrete Plant inspection Application for lap top use state-wide.• Received recognition from Governor and reward (1 day off with pay).• Maintained dbase applications and computer aided drafting, CADD applications.• Trained employees on file management and computer use.• NICET Certified (National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies)

Mpa, Public Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Business Administration