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Minneapolis, MN Street Address PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE EMAIL AVAILABLE LinkedIn
Motivated Business Analysts with 10 years experience in developing roadmaps, OKR s, improving processes, soliciting requirements and Agile story mapping. Strong communication skills in defining project benefits, risks, and opportunities with business users, key stakeholders and senior leadership. Proven problem solving skills with legacy dependencies, system limitations, and competing resources.
Skills & Abilities
Road-mapping / Release Planning / Project Plans / Timeline Updates
Requirements Soliciting / Definition / Goal Mapping / Traceability to Testing
Idea Generating thru Six Sigma, Lean Value Streams, Process Mapping, and Scrum Story Mapping
Value definition with Wireframing and Prototyping
Build vs Buy, RFI (Request for Information), RFI Scoring, RFP (Request for Product)
Experience
Store Design Sr Business Analyst (2015-2016)
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Created end-to-end process map detailing gaps in the development of new smaller city store formats. Created objectives and key results (0KRs) for new product strategies. Defined functional understanding of user needs and prioritized backlog.
Managed multiple business areas input and developed end-to-end story map of business processes.
Quantified business process with value stream adding obtainable OKRs.
Recoded existing Excel-VBA program to include new critical data for forecasting and budget.
Generated working wireframe, demonstrating automation options available which were previously deemed unattainable. New automation generated floor plans within minutes versus existing manual process taking hours.
Developed prioritized Jira backlog for future sprint planning and enhanced team knowledge with business articles in Confluence, expanding Jira backlogs understanding.
Merchandise Presentation Sr Business Analyst (2014-2015)
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Documented voice of business area for product update on a suite of application coming to end of lifecycle. Utilized industry knowledge to accomplish business needs with existing third-party application suite. Managed development team progress to ensure business needs were met and previous systems issues were resolved.
Updated development team with end-to-end stories of user needs while creating examples of previous systems issues for development testing.
Created short sprints, giving quick feedback to users of what system opportunities were available.
Replaced 3 custom applications by configuring existing third-party application already widely used.
Stabilized systems, reducing issues 50% and decreasing system implementation time by 3 weeks.
Rewrote custom application to on screen reporting, allowing more user interaction and reporting that increased system usage from 20% to 100%.
Merchandise Presentation Portfolio Business Analyst (2010 2014)
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Developed project team responsible for replacing 39 custom applications with third-party solution. Executed request for info (RFI) and request for product (RFP) evaluating all industry leaders and quantifying each product solution benefits to organizational needs. Generated small independent working team goals while managing communication and dependencies between teams. On-boarded and trained 6 new business analysts.
Rolled out program with dramatic decrease in user issues, process times, and custom code, allowing future upgrades to be completed within 2-3 weeks versus previous 9-month process.
Wrote RFI and RFP and SQL scoring system, meeting management, architecture, security, and engineering concerns by giving weighted score by subject area and total recommendation.
Developed Y to X goal statement, enabling successful independent teams with alignment to business objectives and project goals.
Established multi-level process flow, linking to highest level down to individual user inputs which allowed requirements a framework in dependencies and highlighting gaps with new system development planning.
Implemented Agile process of requirements review, ensuring consistent updating of user stories requirements through documentation, non-functional requirements (NFRs) and technical design allowing opportunities to enhance the product. New process identified opportunities combining many smaller applications together while reducing over-all coding time and effort.
Managed 6 business analysts through requirements and use cases, change management, development reviews, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and test cases. Reduced custom code from 39 applications to 6 custom applications with easier updatable third-party application.
Generated brainstorming sessions to resolve implementation issues, syncing old database with new database that prevented staged rollout. Defined business needs and system checks and implemented process to transfer data as needed, avoiding big bang release process.
Supply Chain Forecasting Senior Business Analyst (2008 2010)
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Documented detailed requirements for coding, testing, training, and support operations. Defined and managed scope to update forecasting tool to deliver key business goals while addressing existing production issues.
Improved forecasting and planning abilities from manufacturer to store by including vendor lead times.
Created 4 supply chain reports, improving visibility to vendor lead times.
Challenged corporate architecture standards in reporting platform and implemented software platform, minimizing existing production issues.
Redefined how project teams worked together, resolving several systems issues caused from poor communication between teams.
Received Supply Chain VP Award in Excellence for Greatest improvement on a development team.
Supply Chain Forecasting Business Analyst (2006 2008)
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Developed requirements for 12 reports detailing product shipments from create date and country of origins to the physical store. Integrated shipping with inventory to allow for forecasting of inventory.
Developed requirements for assortment forecasting application allowing Merchants to plan their assortments down to a store cluster level replacing previous company level planning
Managed several smaller enhancements such as store label updates due to state laws, scoping efforts in system impacts due to 3-5-year growth expectations of data, and customized JDA software to improve product placements in planograms.
Senior Product Support Representative (2000 2006)
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Directed a cross-functional team, involving organizations both vertically and horizontally to achieve improved system capacity and monitoring, communication and a reduction of overall issues across technical areas during critical peak business periods.
Subject matter expert and key liaison between business and IT pyramid.
Managed incident recovery for suite of Merchant and Supply Chain applications
Led SWAT efforts to improve stability of applications
Managed change management processes for Merchant and Supply Chain applications
EDUCATION / ASSOCIATIONS
Bachelors of Arts (BA) Business Administration UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS, St. Paul, MN
Mini (MBA) Lean Enterprise Management UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS, St. Paul, MN
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Agile Alliance, 2016
SYSTEMS
Microsoft Office, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, VersionOne, JIRA, Confluence, Axure Wireframing,
Excel with VBA, Access with SQL, Tableau |
