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: <<SummaryHighly motivated Sales Associate with extensive customer service and sales experience. Outgoing sales professional with track record of driving increased sales, improving buying experience and elevating company profile with target market.
HighlightsSTATA programming, R programming, SAS programming, GIS, NVIVO, Microsoft Office
ExperienceData Analyst Consultant,09/2014-01/2015C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.–,,Conducting research and assisting with technical analyses of continued issues related to human exposure to contaminants in the environment; researching and understanding pollution control operations, and assessing the risks to human health and the environment from the application of wastewater effluent in wetland areas; conducting human bio-assays and other laboratory bench work to determine the estrogenicity of wastewater effluent; evaluating pollution control technologies; evaluating alternatives to wastewater chlorination; and overseeing the training of other laboratory assistants.Primary duties included: Provided analytical research and technical support for the Zimbabwe Health Results Based Financing Project Impact Evaluation.Duties include: Management of data received in the field, building statistical models from the data, and assisting with preparation.EXPERIENCES of summary reports and working papers.Research Assistant,06/2014-PresentSt. Joseph's Healthcare System–Paramus,NJ,Primary duties include: Applying epidemiologic methods to understand DNA abnormalities in male reproductive health using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) techniques in the GW Men's Health Study (MHS) population; Evaluating data collection, conducting data quality control, and utilizing statistical methods to study epidemiological problems in reproductive public health; Applying epidemiologic methods to identify and interpret associations between FISH data, urinary bio-marker data, and self-reported questionnaire data from the MHS population; sample collection and analysis; critically reviewing, abstracting environmental health research; Overseeing research proposals, grants, and manuscript preparation; Designing, planning and initiating epidemiologic studies using available sources of public health data; Overseeing the recruitment of study participants and data collection in the MHS; and managing lab associates and graduate students in epidemiologic study protocols and laboratory experiment protocols.Environmental Health and Safety Intern,06/2013-08/2013Alamo Group–,,Primary duties included: Critically reviewed environmental safety and health regulations; devel- oped Board procedural programs and operating guidance on health/environmental risks assessment; reviewing workplace projects and providing training in health and safety procedures to Federal Reserve Board employees; reviewing and interpreting federal hazard communication legislation to assure Board compliance; wrote evaluation reports documenting compliance and recommendations; writing program documents identifying roles and responsibilities in areas such as hearing conserva- tion, respiratory protection, etc.Graduate Teaching Assistant,08/2012-12/2015Ohsu–,,Primary duties included: Assisting with various environmental and occupational health courses, including "Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology" and "Toxicology: Implications for Public Health Policy"; managing students over multiple courses; leading organized classroom discussions; serving as liaison between instructors and students; and grading of assignments and exams.
EducationDoctor of Public Health:,Expected inPresent-George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health-,Washington DCGPA:Status-Master of Science:Public Health,Expected inMay 2012-Tulane University School of Public Health-New Orleans,LAGPA:Status-Public HealthBachelor of Science:Biology,Expected inMay 2010-Tougaloo College-,GPA:Status-Biology:Health Science,Expected inMay 2012-Tulane University School of Public Health-,GPA:Status-Health Science
Skillsdata collection, Designing, DNA, environmental health, Epidemiology, experiment, Financing, GIS, grants, managing, Microsoft Office, occupational health, programming, proposals, protocols, Public Health, quality control, recruitment, researching, research, safety, sample collection, SAS, STATA, technical support>>. The result is, Potential Fit

Fit assessment: Potential Fit