Timothy Herron Email & Phone Number

Irving, Texas

Business Analyst working in the Automobile Industry. Job description and responsibilities:* Produce efficient project definition documents, business requirements, functional specifications and test plans* Create concept models, wire-frames and task flows* Demonstrate full system development life cycle knowledge including phases, deliverable's and.

Plano, Texas

BA on the Flight Operations project for HPE Travel and Transportation Division. Responsibilities included:* Gathered and documented technical requirements through interviewing and technical discussion.* Writing user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, functional requirements and test cases.* Conduct peer reviews with technical staff, project manager.

Analyze and document the requirements and impact for moving all field applications to a new domain.

Dallas, Texas

• Interface with major stakeholders and decision makers to gather and document the requirements for each sprint cycle. BA responsible for two teams developing state of art applications and services for new Electronic.
• Gathering and documenting the requirements for web user interface screens and UI services.
• Developing the presentations for each sprint kick-off and sprint review meeting.
• QA testing and data… Show more Interface with major stakeholders and decision makers to gather and document the requirements for each sprint cycle. BA responsible for two teams developing state of art applications and.
• QA testing and data creation for testing sprint deliverable(s).
• Participating in daily sprint stand-up.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Interface with IT and Business Unit (BU) to gather and document requirements for a new insurance billing system and support existing applications. My roles and responsibilities included:
• Defining, tracking and managing project tasks and high priority production issues.
• Participate in Product Backlog Refinement meeting with IT Director (Product Owner) and IT Manager to review project status and set PBI priorities.
• QA activities included writing test plans and test cases to insure… Show more Interface with IT and Business Unit (BU) to gather and document requirements for a new insurance billing system and support existing.
• QA activities included writing test plans and test cases to insure all changes to the system were properly tested.
• Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the various Business Units.

Plano, TX.

• Identified and influenced the organization to adopt new web based application to improve Peer Reviews and Defect Containment. Managed and supported deployment of the application across the enterprise as the.
• Achieved a 50% reduction in the cycle time for conducting and completing peer reviews by recommending the organization adopt a new automated COTS tool.
• Partnered with vendor to enhance their baseline product and drive innovation by… Show more Identified and influenced the organization to adopt new web based application to improve Peer Reviews and Defect Containment..
• Partnered with vendor to enhance their baseline product and drive innovation by proposing new features for code reviews, metrics collection, licensing and QA
• Reduced the licensing cost and increased usability by working with the vendor to provide a new flexible license cost model enabling greater user accessibility per license
• Created the annual project plan and deployment schedule, including budget, roadmaps, presentations, stakeholder engagement plan and risk analysis successfully driving and delivering changes across the organization

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Identified the requirements, selected and managed a new web based.Net application to improve Peer Reviews and Defect Containment. As SME and Product Owner supported the deployment of the application across the.
• Developed the project plan, scope and defined the system and user interface requirements for a new web based.Net Peer Review tool that would support multiple work products across three major disciplines.
• Developed the project plan, scope and defined the system and user interface requirements for a new web based.Net Peer Review tool that would support multiple work products across three major disciplines.
• As Project Manager, created and maintained the annual project plan, deployment schedule, budget/cost analysis, roadmap, and stakeholder engagement plan successfully driving and delivering changes across the organization.
• As Business Analyst, gathered requirements using various techniques such as JAD sessions, requirements workshops, interviewing and observations to create the business rules and system design specification.
• As Product Owner, conducted feasibility study to identify best possible solution and ROI including: - Conducted trade study to select best in class vendor application; presented findings to stakeholders for alignment..

Irving, Texas

• Performed GAP Analysis of Verizon methodology and purposed improvements for requirements elicitations, analysis, and documentation to reduce software development cycle time and number of defects per phase.
• Developed a “Project Management Handbook” for project management and SQA standards for the organization to measure project performance and product quality.
• Gathered requirements necessary to create training material and a user manual for the network controller 'Device… Show more
• Gathered requirements necessary to create training material and a user manual for the network controller 'Device Management System' and 'On-line Diagnostic' tools. Show less

Plano, Texas

PM for automated documentation repository system which provided the technical documentation for design and development and system documentation and user manuals for the customer.

Plano, Texas

• Directed the SQA Group and Transition Team in obtaining CMM Level 3.
• Created and deployed multiple components and processes for SQA, PM and Software Development.
• Represented the SQA Team within the EDS Software Engineering Process Group.
• Conducted Defect Analysis and Tracking to obtain performance improvement in both Quality and Cost by reducing rework through implementing checklists for early defect detection.
• Provided training on Risk Management, Change… Show more Directed the SQA Group and Transition Team in obtaining CMM Level 3.
• Provided training on Risk Management, Change Management, Quality Assurance and how to conduct Peer Reviews.

Richardson, Texas

Overall Project Quality Coordinator responsible for leading and coordinating all software quality activities at four design centers in Canada, Mexico, Ireland and Texas. Supervised and tracked performance of the Quality Engineer at each site.

Richardson, Texas

• Responsible for the development and implementation of software methods and processes across 75-member division where the division achieved both CMM Level 2 & 3 assessment within 18 months and achieved greater than 50%.
• Defining and collecting metrics to measure project quality versus goals
• Performing… Show more Responsible for the development and implementation of software methods and processes across 75-member division where the division achieved both CMM Level 2 & 3 assessment within 18 months and.
• Performing Contract and Requirement reviews; conducting TQM exercises to identify and remove process defects
• Verification of project schedules and requirements, milestone reviews, and entry/exit criteria audits through each phase of development
• Provided on time monthly quality reports and balanced scorecard to management which validated the projects ability to meet Time, Quality and Cost estimates. Show less

Richardson, Texas

Managed a five member design team that developed and tested call processing requirements and features for mobile communication switching system. Gathered the requirements, designed and developed Base Station features for tuning and measuring signal gain and power output. Coded tested using Rational Rose and Soda tool set.

Boca Raton, Florida

• Created the high level and detail requirements, test plans and test cases for multiple features in PBX switching system
• Conducted module testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing

Richardson, Texas

• Created the high level and detail requirements, designed, coded and created the test plans and test cases for multiple features in Class 5 switching system (MMI/GUI's, Call Processing, Traffic Metering and Measurement.
• Conducted module testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing