Samresh Naik

Irving, Texas

Ph: 812-***-**** Email: l70crl@r.postjobfree.com

Result oriented Business Analyst with 10 years of experience in information technology, including 6 years of extensive practice as a Business/System Analyst and Project Manager with fortune 100/500 companies.

Summary of qualifications

 Solution-oriented professional Business Analyst who excels at collaborating with various project teams and interfacing with end customer/business teams to build successful solutions for clients.

 Extensive experience in web technology, infrastructure, content management systems (CMS), business process automation (BPA) and data warehousing environment.

 Extensive knowledge of working with marketing, sales, human resources, resource management, manufacturing, purchasing, finance (business) groups.

 Excellent analytical skills for understanding business requirements, system requirements, data related requirements, business rules/processes, and detailed design of the application

 Expertise in software development life cycle (SDLC), requirement gathering, business analysis, system analysis, data analysis, risk analysis, feasibility analysis, impact analysis, gap analysis and process improvements, data modeling and mapping.

 Expertise in Waterfall, RUP and Agile (Scrum, XP programming) methodologies. In-depth knowledge of designs using UML, Rational Rose, and Visio.

 Experience in writing non-functional requirements, process flows, work flow diagrams, UML modeling, including use case designs, sequence, state and activity diagrams.

 Extensive experience in object-oriented designs, functional designs and database designs.

 Proficient in Relational databases (Oracle 9i/10g, MS-SQL) including database design, data massaging and mining, SQL querying and programming.

 Mastery in (functional/unit) test cases and test plan preparation, manual testing and automated testing tools like load runner and conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) with the business Users.

 Skilled at project planning, quality controls, scheduling, tracking of results, action logs, risk logs, meeting minutes.

 Experienced in onshore-offshore business model and exposure to CMM, Six Sigma and SOX.

 Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, Proven track record in troubleshooting and problem solving and working on multiple projects.

 Strong technical knowledge and hands on experience in technical architecture, N tier web architecture, developing, testing, debugging, deploying and configuring various software applications using web technologies, Java, J2EE, WebSphere application server, EJB (2.0 Specifications), single sign on, LDAP, Siteminder, XML, SQL, Oracle, Content Management and Teamsite6.5, BMS remedy system.

Technical Skills

Tools Microsoft Projects 2003, Visio 2000, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Rational Clearcase, Teamsite, Mercury Load Runner, Toad, MS Sharepoint, Business Object, Crystal Reports, BMS Remedy System

Methodology Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Extreme programming, OOP and OOAD using UML, RUP

Software J2EE , Java 2 , JSP , Servlets 2.0, EJB , JDBC 2.0, XML , MS-SQL Server (6.5), Oracle 9.0/10g, C, C++, HTML, JavaScript 4.0 , WebSphere application server , Interwoven Teamsite 6.5 (Content Management System), Sun One directory, Siteminder(Single Sign one) , ETL, LDAP

Platforms Windows Vista,XP/NT/2000/98, Sun Solaris, Unix, Linux

Training and Certification

 Certificate in Information Technology Project Management (ITPM) by Cummins Inc.

 Scrum Master Training from Scrum Alliance Partner.

Professional Experience

Client: EDS a HP Company (Fortune 100 company with over $100 billion turnover) April. 2009 – Nov 2009

Plano, Texas

Role: Business Analyst

Role involved studying the existing EDS (HR and Resource management) Applications Services, ITO and BPO organization data so as to migrate the EDS data (from data warehouse) into the HP Data warehouse and reporting interfaces.

Project required shutting down the legacy EDS BI data marts and designing a robust reporting zone to incorporate data from the legacy EDS Source Systems as well as HP source systems which would replace the legacy EDS BI applications.

 Studied the existing EDS data warehouse and source systems and their data elements. Made extensive use of SQL querying and data mining to analyze the system.

 Conducted meeting/ JAD sessions with Business representatives to gather new business requirements, descriptions of the data elements, reporting requirements for HP’s proprietary reporting tool Yotta.

 Meetings with the security experts to understand the data access to define the data security rules.

 Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) with extensive details based on the requirement gathered. Based on BRDs wrote clear, concise Report Format Specification (RFS) documents and user documentation in accordance with HP guidelines and standards.

 Conducted sessions with developers to relay the requirements.

 Verified the functional aspect as per the business process and validated the interfaces with other systems.

 Involved in gathering and analyzing HR and financial data requirements in support of business cases with Subject matter experts.

 Analyzed data management systems and sub-system applications studied data elements/information flows and data import strategies to meet end user requirements.

 Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions with release management team and business users.

Environment: Microsoft project, Sharepoint, Microsoft project Plan, ETL, MS Word, MS Excel, Yotta reporting, HP Neoview, Oracle 10g, HP Quality Center.

Client: Cummins Inc (Fortune 500 company with $11 billion Turnover) Sept. 2002 – Mar 2009

Columbus, Indiana

Role: Business Analyst/Project Manager

Role involved business/system analysis, business process improvements, business process automation, requirement gathering and documenting the requirements using the use cases, user stories for various projects, creating functional designs, interacting with the customers, acting as IT representative (Customer facing) to the business units, business presentations, managing various projects processes and development of functional test cases. Role involved working on multiple projects simultaneously.

 Successfully completed various web-based projects with extensive database components in the different business units of the Cummins Inc as listed below.

 Engine Business Unit (2007 – 2009)

 Successfully implemented critical projects like Part Receivable and Tracking, Reporting for Purchasing dept, Manufacturing Portal and was done in collaboration with Manufacturing, Purchasing, Warranty, EBU Quality, and Supply Chain departments.

 Worked as a lead business analyst for the part receivable project that tracked the parts from warehouse to the dealer/distributor and in case of failures from distributor/dealer to the warehouse. Worked extensively with business/technical contacts from multiple subsystems as it involved integrating with various existing systems like warranty, rapid problem solving and supply chain management systems. Also gathered and documented the requirements for purchasing department to track the recovery of warranty cost by comparing the parts failure with cost recovered under warranty from the suppliers (This involved working and integration with supply chain management group/system). Worked on financial analysis report for the purchasing department. Did extensive data querying, data messaging for requirement analyzing and updating the system master data. Defined complex business rules for web site access and data access.

 Implemented the Part Receivable project using the Scrum (Agile) methodologies. Also acted as system analyst to define the architecture for integrating with different subsystems (around six).

 Project resulted in the huge cost saving due to the business process automation (BPA), better tracking of components and cost recovery from the suppliers.

 Worked as lead business analyst for emission analysis system that analyzed the various data from engines under development and compared them to emission regulations of various countries/states. Also did requirement gathering and analysis for the module that was used to capture the testing and quality related data of the production engines. Worked with six-sigma project group to transform six-sigma project output into a technical IT project. Defined the complex business rules for data access as this project involved working with confidential data. Project was critical for the company to meet the emission norms for 2010. This Project involved working in highly data centric and workflow kind of environment.

 Acted as business system analyst for the manufacturing portal (Teamsite based content management system). Designed wireframes, prototypes and menu subsystem for the portal. Conducted JAD sessions with multiple business groups’ for requirement gathering and requirement signoffs.

 Worked with technical and business people from Purchasing, EBU Marketing, After Market (Parts and Services), supply chain IT departments for the Business /System analysis and the project implementations.

 Cummins Business Services unit– Human Resources (2005-2007)

 Project included various projects in the field of Human Resources including HR Portal, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Health Benefits, Employee Skills Management etc.

 Acted as lead business system analyst for tuition reimbursement, training website, health benefits portal, benefits financial reporting system, new hire, starter websites. Requirement gathering was done using UML and use cases.

 Represented IT group in valuation, purchase, implementation, customization and support of third party tool (employee skills management).

 Acted as technical business expert in defining various rules for authentication and authorization of the websites.

 Handled project planning, unit testing, functional testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

 Cummins Business Service Unit– Corporate (2002 – 2005)

 Handled projects for new implementation as well as the change requests to the existing applications.

 Acted as lead business analyst for Content management (CMS: Teamsite) projects like corporate global website, internal employee websites. Acted as business and system analyst for infrastructrural projects like single sign on and LDAP cleanup. This involved defining different business processes and mapping them to the technical data flow and technical architecture. Handled multiple change requests related to the corporate, internal employee sites.

 Common Tasks under all the business unites are listed below.

 Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, creating of SRS documents, design of web based applications that used technologies like J2EE, Java, JDBC, J SP, Servlet, XML, Oracle 9i/10g, Teamsite, LDAP, and Siteminder.

 Served as a liaison between business team/users and the project team by assisting in identifying, understanding, and documenting their business needs.

 Conducted JAD sessions with the stakeholders to collect the requirements and further documented BRD's and then validated the requirements from the business users.

 Created "As is" and "To be" system documents to show the current and proposed functionality of the system. Then did Gap Analysis by brainstorming with Developers, Architects and Business users to get the low level 'To Be' / proposed environment.

 Involved in extensive data querying/mining to do the data analysis and derived the requirements depending on the existing data present in the database.

 Managed Cummins’s ITPM/ ITSPM project methodologies for the Web based, infrastructure, and Content Management based projects.

 Project /requirement review with customer.

 Create project charter, project definition, detailed business requirement documents and functional test cases.

 Review high level design, test plans and assist Technical Architects during the design phase.

 Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT).

 Exposure to CMM, SOX and Six Sigma standards.

 Role also involved managing requirement gathering tasks for Change requests

Environment: Microsoft Projects 2003, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Visio 2000, Access, Word, Excel, Rational Clearcase, Teamsite, Mercury Load Runner, Sun Solaris, J2EE, JAVA, WebSphere Application Server, Siteminder, LDAP, Business Object XI, Crystal Reports, Interwoven Team site content management, Oracle 9i/10g, BMS Remedy System.

Client: ICOM, UK June 2002 – Sept. 2002

Software Engineer

A Telecom project was implemented using the Agile (XP: extreme Programming) methodologies. Role involved analysis, development, coding and testing of various J2EE modules

 Review of requirements and test plans.

 Involved in J2EE message beans, Database and UML design of transactional modules using TogetherJ as the tool for representation.

 Development using J2EE technology with use of Extreme programming (Agile) methodologies.

Environment: Windows NT, J2EE (Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB2.0), BEA Web logic Server, Junit, Oracle.

Client: Midas, India Jan. 2002 – Jun. 2002

Software Engineer

This was a multi level marketing/sales project. Role involved requirement gathering, analysis, and development for a multi-level marketing concept.

 Gathered and analyzed requirements for the project, estimations and project plans.

 High level and low level design work.

 Created JSP pages involved in website including but not limited to database connection, registration, modifying profile, catalogue, shopping cart etc.

 Developed module to transfer data (communication) between different application modules with use of XML, DOM based XML parsers, servlet to servlet communication.

Environment: J2EE (Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JAXP), Java Script, HTML, Tomcat Apache Server, MySQL, UML, XML, Win NTv4.0, Linux.

Client: Mahindra Automobile Ltd, India Apr. 2000 – Dec. 2001

Software Engineer

Role involved working on various projects required by leading Indian automobile company Mahindra Automobiles and its dealers. It also included work on B2B / B2C (E-Commerce) portals like Steel Mart and Design a Car.

 Designed document workflow related to auto distributor network. Worked on module to track parts/autos from warehouse to the distributor/dealer.

 Designed and created database tables in SQL v7.0 for various websites.

 Worked on steel bidding module, catalogue module and payment gateway.

 Worked on module to customize cars, creating catalogues, transaction processing etc.

 Various development work with use of J2EE technologies like JSPs, Servlets, JDBC, HTML, JavaScript, etc.

 Prepared the unit test specification, performed the unit test and accordingly made the unit test reports.

Environnent: UML, Rational Rose, JSP, JDBC, JAVA, Servlets, Java beans, Java script, HTML, Iplanet Server, MSSQL.

Client: Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Company (Utility Company), India Sept. 1999 – Mar. 2000

Software Engineer

Project involved working on Scada system, which is about remote controlling and monitoring of digital and analog parameters for all electric receiving stations in Mumbai.

 Evaluated different databases for real time operating system QNX and selected Empress RDBMS for use.

 Studied the existing system and designed the database considering existing system and future needs.

 Converted flat file database into Empress RDBMS.

 Involved with reading and writing content from shared memory, which was dumped by other applications. Shared memory content was read and stored in Empress using C Language.

Environnent : C, Empress, QNX.

Client: State Land Records (Government) Department, India Jan. 1999 - Aug. 1999

Software Engineer

This role involved meeting business owners for requirement gathering, functional design, development and testing of the application.

 Analyzed and designed system after studying existing manual system.

 Designed database and created tables in FoxPro 2.5.

 Coded and development using Java 1.1.

Environnent : Java 1.1.5, JDBC, MS-FoxPro v2,5.

Education

 Master of Computer Application (1999) from Goa University, India.

 Bachelor of Computer Application (1996) from Goa University, India.

Work Status

 Does not need a sponsorship.

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