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Springfield, Illinois Area

Springfield, Illinois Area

CLIENT: Illinois Department of Public Health – Springfield, ILROLE: Database DeveloperRESPONSIBILITIES: Migration of MS Access databases to MS SQL Server, upgrade MS Access front end to latest version of Access, and make assorted changes and enhancements to the applications.ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Analysis of the Existing Applications to determine effort involved in migration and upgrade. Planning of work, documenting the applications, and creating a backlog of requested changes. Completely responsible for delivery of all phases of the work involved per contract. This will eventually involve design of the SQL server databases, development, testing, and implementation of the updated systems.

Springfield, Illinois Area

CLIENT: Illinois Department of Transportation – Springfield, ILROLE: Senior Business AnalystRESPONSIBILITIES: Creation of Features and Stories to meet Business Needs, Product Backlog Maintenance, Testing of Stories and Features as developed. Regression testing of application.ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Delivery of features for= Communication of state permits to several thousand local jurisdictions to deliver on agreements between Agency Permit Chief and State Legislature.= Accounting enhancements to improve audit trails and identify accounting errors= Replacement of credit card and EFT processing vendor in time to meet a state wide deadline= Interface to bridge office to improve and automate workflow for permits needing structural analysis.= Supported implementation of new version of Harvest permits for grain haulers per new state law in time for 2018 harvest season.= Regression testing of .Net web based permitting system prior to several major releases

NTT Data purchased Keane Inc.Keane Inc purchased Nims AssociatesCLIENT: State Farm Insurance - Bloomington, IL ROLES: Principle Consultant, Systems Analyst, Requirements & Testing Subject Matter Expert, Team & Project Lead, Test Coordinator.RESPONSIBILITIES: Define, Develop, Test, Implement and Support Requirements and Test Management Solutions for the client’s Enterprise Claims Systems Development Program. SCRUM Master, Test Coordinator.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:= Developed an IBM DOORS based Requirements and Test Management system which was key in the delivery of State Farm's Enterprise Claims System. Supported over 400 users in 2 countries working 24x7 and managed 170,000+ requirements and over 70,000 test cases. = Designated as the client’s Claims Systems area representative in evaluation of requirements and test management tools for the enterprise. = Improved team communications, customer satisfaction, and change delivery rate by implementing Agile/SCRUM practices to manage the DOORS team development and maintenance work for a team of 6. = Delivered a major revision of the Claims DOORS Requirements and Test Management System a month early by utilizing SCRUM principles for a 4-person team. = Saved several hundred hours and delivered a Version upgrade to DOORS from 8.1 to 9.2 early by utilizing SCRUM principles to coordinate the work of 2 teams. = Provided client with on-going cost savings while procuring additional business for NTT Data by proposing and implementing a shift from a multi-vendor on-site team to a mixed on-site, off-shore single vendor team to support the IBM DOORS Based requirements and Test Management system. = Saved the client over 6 figures in support and license costs for DOORS by developing an MS Access based requirements management solution and creating a migration path to Test Link for the test cases. This involved migration of over 170,000 requirements and nearly 30,000 test cases.

Springfield, Illinois Area

Taught public courses in HTML and MS Access

Springfield, Illinois Area

Formerly American GeneralFormerly Franklin Life InsuranceROLES: Systems Analyst, Programmer/Analyst, Project Coordinator, Project LeadRESPONSIBILITIES: Needs analysis, requirements definition, application and database design, coding, testing, implementation, technical support, technical writing, training, SDLC process and tool support, QA, project coordinationACCOMPLISHMENTS:= Refactored payroll timekeeping and HR info system to separate the business logic from the GUI code to allow replacement of business rules while maintaining the existing UI to minimize training time for 200+ managers. = Designed a field associate financing system to utilize existing commission and accounting work flows with minimal changes to allow implementation in less than 4 months to meet a major marketing objective for new agent recruiting. = Reduced time to hire from weeks to days by designing a resume distribution system and interview tracking system which let the IT dept. meet staffing needs for Y2K work. = Developed calculation engine to implement a data driven system to produce company annual reports which allowed accountants to maintain the calculations and wording changes without requiring hundreds of IT hours annually. = Designed & coded a document management system for IT Standards and Procedures using MS Access, MS Word & HTML. This provided centralized, searchable access to over 1,000 documents used by the applications development & business staff. = Designed & coded an MS Access database to track Meta Data about company applications. This system was used to provide analysis support to infrastructure projects and develop a Disaster Recovery plan for the IT department. = Supported data center consolidation & outsourcing projects through impact analysis, writing test plans, performing testing, managing the project plan, coordinating technical staff work, facilitating meetings, writing documentation, and assisting with software conversions.

Bs, Information Technology

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies