Kenneth M. May

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Ringwood, NJ 07456

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BUSINESS ANALYSIS, APPLICATION DESIGN, MANAGEMENT, AND TRAINING EXPERIENCES

Data Architect 7/11 – 2/13 / Senior Business Analyst 3/13 – 10/13

Prudential Financial (Newark, NJ)

• Documented the AS-IS for many MS Access database applications and recommended re-engineered

TO-BE data architectures for Prudential’s Corporate Human Resources Compensation department.

• Solicited business rules from domain specialists and program code: Visual Basic and SQL.

• Analyzed business requirements and created narratives and models like UML Use Cases and Activity

Diagrams.

• Created documents and models (data and process) for a PeopleSoft upgrade and switch in vendor

interfaces.

Environments: Microsoft Windows 10; Access; Visio; Word; Excel; and Notes

Principal 1/10 – 6/11

Models-and-More (Ringwood, NJ) http://www.linkedin.com/in/modelsandmore

Senior Business Systems Analyst 11/03 - 12/09

United Parcel Service (Mahwah, NJ)

• Developed enterprise-wide corporate standards in an Enterprise Architecture department.

• Introduced Business Analysis and Process Best Practices and wrote corporate Unified Modeling

Language and the Business Process Modeling Method user manuals.

• Designed new applications to deploy architectural standards, complete with simulations.

• Determined and defined business cases and system scopes.

• Originated as-is and to-be logical and physical data models (Class Diagrams and Entity Relationship

Diagrams).

Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / Borland Software Requirement

Definition and Management tools CaliberRM, Caliber DefineIT and Together; iRise Visualization (simulation tool) / MVS / DB2 / Remedy /

Homegrown Content Management tools and SharePoint

Program Management Office and RUP Implementer 6/03 -10/03

AEGIS Insurance (Jersey City, NJ)

• Customized, coached, and taught IBM’s RUP methodology and UML Use Cases; created Project,

Metrics, and Audit Plans for CMM process improvement.

• Conducted business and IT JAD sessions; software demonstrations and executive technology briefings.

• Wrote corporate guides to Metrics, Measurements, and Process Improvement.

Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / AS2. Technics: Product

Development Life Cycles, Work Breakdown Structures; ISO 9003, LBMS, Microsoft Solutions Framework, IBM’s Rational Unified Process,

Zachman's Enterprise Architecture, and Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model

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Senior Business Analyst 2/03 - 6/03

Computer Horizons Corporation (Assigned to City of New York Department of Health)

• Analyzed and re-engineered a City of New York Department of Health’s applicant verification application

from mainframe to local servers.

• Conducting fact-finding and analysis of business needs and documented software requirements with

functional specifications.

Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / MVS DB2 / ASP/.NET Technics:

RUP Vision Document / UML Use Cases / Activity Charts / Sequence Diagrams / Class Diagrams / Data Flow Diagrams / Functional

Hierarchies / Module Structures / CRUD Function matrixes.

Project Leader / Business Analyst 11/96 - 12/02

Assistant Vice President, Merrill Lynch (New York City)

• Responsible for ground floor Data Warehouse (Data Mart) developments involving business case

justification, subject area selection, project definition, effort estimation, planning, and budgeting. Created

star schemas, decision tables, business meta data, test plans and test scripts and performed quality

assurance testing for web-based applications.

• Managed the analysis and design of incrementally developed enterprise-level Human Resources Data

Marts. Obtained and documented business rules, business processes, and software requirements that

lead to successful implementations.

• Documented user requirements to transform complex legacy mainframe infrastructure systems to web-

based applications.

• Designed system specifications, proof of concepts, and prototypes that created new applications or

modified existing ones.

• Evaluated software vendors, tools, and products; generated white papers, RFPs, effort estimations,

budgets, time and cost studies, resource allocations, performance and salary reviews, PERT charts,

Gantt charts, flow charts, and HIPOs

• Wrote test plans and test scripts; performed unit tests, integration tests, and user acceptance tests.

Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / ABS’s Project Workbench /

PowerDesigner Warehouse Architect / ClearQuest, ClearCase and PVCS / Informatica’s PowerBuilder (ETL) / Cognos’s Impromptu and

PowerPlay / MVS / DB2 / Oracle / PeopleSoft

Senior Product Specialist 8/95 - 11/96

LBMS (Learmonth and Burchett Management Systems, a methodology and CASE tool vendor)

• Consultant and platform instructor in project and process management, business analysis, process and

data modeling, system scope definition, methodologies, and GUI design at Fortune 500 corporate

accounts.

• Conducted on-site formal training classes, provided JAD facilitations, and coached clients for the

successful deployment of vendor’s process management, CASE, and object oriented tools.

• Facilitated Joint Application Development / Design sessions.

• Designed and delivered formal training units in process improvement, methodology, business analysis

techniques, modeling, and design via client site platform instructions and in-house seminars.

• Originated data normalizations, knowledge management, business intelligence, and business rules.

Environments: Microsoft Windows and Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project and Access) / LBMS Process Engineer (now

CA’s All Fusion Process Engineer) and LBMS System Engineer / PowerBuilder

EDUCATION

Master of Arts: University of Wisconsin

Bachelor of Arts: University of Colorado

Post Graduate Study: California State University (24 graduate semester hours)

Professional Designations:

• Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU)

• Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU)

• Associate in Risk Management (ARM)

• Certified Data Processor (CDP)

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