For the given job description <<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>> the resume: <<SummaryTo obtain employment with a company that will provide an opportunity for advancement, were I can utilized my work experience toward a rewarding career.
HighlightsMicrosoft office, MS Project 2007,2010, 2013
Experience05/2016toCurrentData analystMantech International Corporation|Omaha,NE,5 years' experience in Design, Development and Support of MS SQL Server with Specialization in MS SQL Server 2008R/2012 in Production, Analysis and Presentations.Create list reports, cross tab reports, blank reports and reports with lot of conditional formatting using Report Studio.Develop Detail and Summary reports, Drill through and Drill down reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Develop queries to retrieve and analyze data from multiple databases.Find tables using Database diagrams in SQL server, establish relationship in multiple tables using Primary and Foreign keys.Extensively use T-SQL in constructing Stored Procedures, Variables, Tables, User Define Functions, Views and triggers.Create Cross-Tab, Drill-down, and Parameterized Reports using RDL Deploy and upload SSRS reports to SharePoint Server and Report Manager for the end users and involved in enhancements and modifications Developed queries to retrieve and analyze data from multiple tables in the database.Find tables using Database diagrams in SQL server, established relationship in multiple tables using Primary and Foreign keys.Perform adhoc analytical request using SQL for internal and external parties.Explain results to QA and Operations managers using templates, graphs, charts, Power points and Pivot charts with over 98% efficiency.Analyzed and interpret data to understand business impact, correlations/discrepancies, explain variance analysis, budget analysis and propose changes and /alternate solutions resulted in cutting down project cost from $3 million to $2.4million Analyzed and mine data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse and explained trends that appeared on standard reports thus facilitates interpretation to stakeholder.Used tools (Excel and SQL) daily to analyze, query, sort and manipulate data according to defined business rules and procedures with less than 2% discrepancies.Compiled data from multiple sources, which may include simple data mining, enter or import data into Spreadsheets/ Databases Variance Analysis: Extracted data from multiple sources using SQL, exported data to excel using SQL export and import button.Analyzed data, explained findings to management.E.g.why a negative variance project should be abandoned and a positive variance project should be pursued.Retrieved and analyzed key data elements from data warehouse Performed analysis of findings and trends using statistical and/or financial analysis, modeling, process documentation, profitability analysis etc.Worked closely with Operations Managers develop graphs, reports, dashboards and presentations fraud activities, patterns, trends and operational metrics as need Created Weekly, Monthly and quarterly reports for the Operations department.03/2013to04/2016Information Technology SpecialistMastec Inc.|Manteca,CA,Managed and maintained the database, update software, grant user permission and security of the database Conducted high quality training for groups up to 5-10 employees monthly with a 100% success rate.Supervised and evaluated up to 15 employees 90% of which attained their next promotion level and also improved staff productivity and efficiency of each team member by 70%.Constructed, Edited and Tested computer programs Worked under pressure, multi-tasked, and met tight deadlines.Operated and maintain computer systems with all updates and upgrades and update maintenance officer on daily activities.01/2012to03/2013Data AnalystMantech International Corporation|Richmond,VA,Designed, wrote and maintained SQL queries from multiple data sources to support the business.Interface with LOB and MIS resources to ensure that the reports are accurate and deployed in a timely manner.Identified data process improvements and leverage technology to automate and streamlined existing processes.Produced parameter driven, matrix, sub-reports and integrated report hyperlink functionality to accessed external applications as needed.Generated matrix reports, tabular, drill-down, drill-through, sub reports, chart reports, multi parameterized reports Implemented multiple grouping into several reports using visibility and toggle options Administrated and scheduled mailing subscriptions on SSRS reporting server Analyzed and interpreted data to understand business impact, correlations/discrepancies, and to proposed changes/alternate solutions in every stage of the data process.Produced dashboard SSRS Reports under report server projects and published SSRS Reports to the reports server.Created SSRS Data Model projects using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and using Report Builder for report server to facilitate Ad-hoc reporting by the business users Analyzed and mine data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse to explained trends that appear on standard reports.Applies broad in depth retail business and technical knowledge to establish direction.
EducationExpected in2015totoMasters|Colorado Technical University,,GPA:Expected in2015totoIT and Project management, in progress
*Colaberry school of Data Analytics  in|,,GPA:Expected in2006totoCertification in Microsoft SQL Business Intelligence: Concentration in Database Development;    SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
*TRUSTECH Institute of Technology in|,,GPA:Expected intotoCertification in MS Project Professional 2007|,,GPA:Expected in2004totoBachelors|Political science and Public AdministrationUniversity of Buea,,GPA:Political science and Public Administration
SkillsAd, automate, budget analysis, Business Intelligence, charts, data mining, data warehouse, Databases, Database, Database Development, direction, documentation, financial analysis, graphs, interpretation, mailing, Excel, Microsoft office, MS Project, SharePoint, Microsoft SQL, Windows, 98, MIS, modeling, Enterprise, next, Presentations, processes, progress, Project management, promotion, quality, QA, reporting, retail, Spreadsheets, MS SQL Server, SQL, SQL Server, Tables, T-SQL, upgrades, Variance Analysis, Microsoft Visual Studio>>. The result is, Potential Fit

Fit assessment: Potential Fit