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PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE EMAIL AVAILABLEOBJECTIVEA Business Analyst with ability to work in a fast-paced environment and on complex project initiatives. Looking to secure a position as a Business Analyst within an organization transitioning to efficient ways of business process managements and improvements in the web/ application utilizing various methodologies of the software development Lifecycle (SDLC) with excellent team collaboration, oral communication, writing, analytical, and critical thinking skills.EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONSMorgan State University - Masters Project Management In progressScrum.org - Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) CertifiedUniversity of Ilorin, Nigeria - BSc Computer Science Graduation: September 2010WORK EXPERIENCEBusiness Systems AnalystChange Health Systems Baltimore MD June 2017 PresentParticipate in Joint Application Development sessions with project stakeholders to elicit and document solution requirements.Facilitate release planning activities to functionally decompose stakeholder initiative/epics, features and user stories and the strategic release goals.Facilitate scrum framework ceremonies (backlog grooming/refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective) for all identified sprints/iterations.Document user stories and evaluation criteria required for the successful implementation of features required to support stakeholder initiatives.Conduct several meetings to interview end users, subject matter experts i.e. SME to gather and document business requirements and translate into functional requirement document i.e. FRD.Create end user guides/job aids illustrating step by step on how to use deployed functionalities in stakeholder solution.Conduct end user training based on deployed functionalities in stakeholder's solution.Query databases using SQL.Develop and document Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Test Plans and Test Cases.Developing use cases, workflow diagrams, sequence diagrams and other artifacts to clearly communicate system requirements to business and technical team members.Manage and track requirements changes while communicating project status to business stakeholders throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).Business Systems AnalystXCESA LLC Baltimore MD August 2016 June 2017Performed activities related and not limited to the system/software development lifecycle for complex Stakeholders processes.Created and documented full SDLC lifecycle artifacts-based project applied methodology:Agile (Scrum) Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, EPIC, User Stories and Acceptance CriteriaWaterfall/ Traditional Use Cases Documentation, Solutions Requirements Document (SRD)/ Functional Requirements Document (FRD) - Business, Stakeholder, Solutions (functional and nonfunctional), and transitional requirements in relation to overall organizational needs.Primary responsibilities include cataloguing, vetting, prioritizing, defining requirements, mapping process flows, overall end-to- end backlog management and UA for the application suiteFacilitated elicitation session to understand several inputs from stakeholder and alignments to their business goals and objectives.Promoted the institution and active adoption of Agile processes in development practices for requirement gathering in the development of web/software applicationCollaborated with the cross-functional development to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.Effectively facilitated and participated in Joint Application Development sessions with project stakeholders to gather detailed business rules and functional requirements.Facilitated structured requirements walkthrough with stakeholder and team members so as to confirm and obtain signoff on the stated requirements/ functionalities that will be deployed in the application.Developed the Epics and Themes for the Scrum Project Created and explained the User Stories to the Scrum Team and helped them design the Tasks.Documented acceptance criteria for validating the output of defined user stories for each Sprint/ Iteration.Created and revised End User Manual and Training Guides to indicate or include newly deployed feature/ functionality.Reviewed Team Velocity on a frequent basis and advised Scrum Master at various stages.Revised and fine-tuned Sprint Backlogs by conducting Backlog Grooming sessions with stakeholders during the current Sprint in preparation for the subsequent Sprint.Facilitated end user training based on their roles and user access/ security rights.SOFTWARE/ APPLICATION EXPERIENCEAgile Methodology - VersionOne, JIRA, Agile CentralProcess Modelling - Microsoft Visio, BalsamiqMicrosoft Office Suite - Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, AccessCA PPM SuiteSnagIt - Creation of MockupsMS-SharePoint - Project Artifact and documentation repositorySQLPythonHypertext Preprocessor (PHP) |