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position: senior business analyst (production support)location: remote east coastjob type: direct hire job descriptionthe sr. business analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. this includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. the sr. business analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. the sr. business analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support. core responsibilitiesevaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.prepare effort estimation.perform requirements analysis. document and communicate the results of the analysis.translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.collaborate with its teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.triage and analyze incidents and problems. provide clear analysis results including business impact.assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.on-call andor after-hours work required.essential competenciesprofessionalismpersonal accountability, collaboration and teamwork, communication, flexible and adapts to change, service to customers and clients skill qualificationsrequired:proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentexceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsexcellent documentation skillsfundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsexperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsexcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageexceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredability to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. makes recommendation on these upgrades.experience in in agile, waterfall, and hybrid environmentsunderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptseffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalssystemstechnical knowledge:basic technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and apisdata analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc sql queriescompetency in microsoft applications including word, excel, powerpoint visio and outlook education and experience qualifications required:bs or ba with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystpreferred:certification of competency in business analysis (ccba) andor certified business analysis professions (cbap) preferred

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<<summaryleadership-oriented certified technology professional entering a career in computer management. critical thinker who can demonstrate the ability to succeed in a high paced environment and who consistently exceeds performance standards. i am level-headed and calm in stressful situations with well-developed people skills. also can provide analysis data support in a company as a data analyst with experience using many forms of technology for data analysis. i have an attention to detail and am able to work in a deadline-oriented position with effective problem solving skills. i am looking for a company where i can expand on my skills and experience s in order to reach company's goals. highlightsscripting and databasenetwork operations system - windowsnetwork operations system - unixvoice/voip administrationdata communications and networkingcommunications systemswired, optical, and wireless communicationswireless technologyenterprise network designenterprise network managementnetwork fundamentalsdata and signal processingpc maintenancesqlmicrosoft server 2012network system administration fundamentalswindows active directorycomputer system maintenanceinstalling and uninstalling various softwarereplace, adding and removing various hardware componentsoperating systems windows java programmingjavascriptmicrosoft word, excel, accessanalytical and statistics programs: minitabas400query languageunixpresentation: microsoft powerpointwiresharkfile management education devry universityorlando,flexpected in2014––bachelor of science:network and communications management-gpa:gpa: 3.87/4.0 dean's listnetwork and communications management, magna cum laudedevry universitymiramar,flexpected in2012––associate of science:network system administration-gpa:graduated with honors, top 10 percent of my class.lake weir high schoolocala,flexpected in1996––high school diploma:general education-gpa: experience aaron's, inc- , 12/2014- 02/2016work on an as400 servers manipulate files using windows server platform using unix/microsoft to check data quality using query tab programs to ensure the data is correct maintain several databases and using sql updates to perform various duties analyzing data to ensure correctness use of salesforce platform.research disputes and other queries from clients and consumers respond to telephone and email queries, receive disputes and input for tracking follow defined dispute and/or research procedures, and produce required metrics according to defined procedures travel to different offices to train other staff members to create redundancy across the company assist in creation of new programs as well as test and deploy them.host seminars in different offices to teach updated procedures and programs.belleview pc doctor-computer techniciancity,state, 03/2010- 01/2012handle and resolve customer complaints configured and installed new microsoft systems troubleshoot and resolve desktop support issues repairing and upgrading hardware in desktops and notebooks installing, reinstalling various software packages test systems to make sure that they are properly working record and log work done specifically to each customer.logan's roadhouse-cook/waitercity,state, 06/2007- 01/2015prepare stations and provide excellent guest services.cook during lunch shifts.use excellent communication skills and work in a timely manner. skills active directory, as400, excellent communication, hardware, resolve customer complaints, clients, data communications, databases, database, desktops, email, file management, java programming, javascript, notebooks, access, excel, microsoft powerpoint, windows, microsoft word, minitab, enterprise, network management, network design, network, networking, maintenance, project management, quality, repairing, research, seminars, servers, scripting, sql, statistics, system administration, desktop support, telephone, troubleshoot, unix, upgrading, voip, windows server.