Position: Business Analyst
Category: Business Analyst
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 0

In the course of the business analysis mentoring program I acquired and practiced a set of soft skills, which will help me bring more value to the company and the team, namely:
- analytical thinking
- systems thinking
- negotiating techniques and activities
- presentation skills
- proactiveness

Weekly meetings with mentors and the capstone project creation and presentation allowed me to put the learned skills into practice resulting in 90% final test grade and 96.6% average grade for the whole program. The work done for my capstone project and the project itself were noted by the mentors as comprehensive, deep and hitting the bull's-eye. 

Currently I am involved in mastering SQL. I have already finished an entry-level course on Coursera held by the University of Michigan, for which I received financial aid. After the course I have continued to study SQL on my own through open sources, focusing on PostgreSQL.
I have recently finished a business analysis mentoring program held by EPAM Systems. I am now seeking entry-level opportunities in the field of business analysis. 

During the program I acquired a set of skills necessary to start the career in business analysis, such as 
- Needs Assessment
- Business Process Modeling
- Requirements Elicitation
- Requirements Documenting
- Requirements Modeling
- Requirements Management, 
as well as supplementary business analysis activities to support the work of other team members: 
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Backlog Management
- Market Research
- Competitor Analysis
- creating Product Vision and Positioning Statement
- Prototyping
- creating User Personas and User Journey.

The program culminated with the capstone project.  I've created a vision of a new product related to bike-sharing (Airbnb-like) and the solution for its realization. The project includes competitive analysis matrix, user personas, user journey, story map, a sample of user stories and clickable wireframe prototype.