Business Analyst/Purchasing/Supply Chain

EDUCATION

. Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; Winthrop University

Summary of Qualifications

. A highly skilled Business Analyst with over 10+ years' ERP experience

in the development of user and system requirements. Extensive

experience in the development, support, and management of multiple

system applications. Financial Business Analyst experience including

in-depth, hands-on functional expertise in the areas of accounting

systems, Procure to Pay, QA and financial reporting working on complex

IT projects small to large scale. Experienced in all phases of the

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

. Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills. Strong

interpersonal skills and the ability to interact and communicate with

all levels of management. Ability to multi-task and adjust to

changing business needs.

. Roles include subject matter expert, fit gap analyst, senior

consultant, team lead, and project lead. Experienced in gathering

business requirements(current/future state), business rules,

performing fit gap analysis, and designing processes for system

improvements to increase productivity and reduce costs, identifying

data for conversion, data mapping, system interfaces, creating test

scripts and scenarios, security, system configuration, training and

production support. Extensive experience in the implementation of

Financial Systems (PeopleSoft) Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Inventory

and system integration with General Ledger, Asset Management, Order

Management and 3rd party systems.

. Industries include but not limited to healthcare, insurance, retail,

education, telecommunications, media, manufacturing, and state

government.

. Extensive Experience with Financial and SCM systems applications

including but not limited to: PeopleSoft and mainframe custom legacy

systems, 3rd party and proprietary systems. PeopleSoft Financial

modules including but not limited to: PO, AP, Inventory, GL, and Order

Management.

. Other Areas of Knowledge: Business Objects, TOAD, SharePoint,

Requisite Pro, Cisco WebEx Connect, Bugzilla, PRISM, ITUP, Clarity,

PVCS Tracker, Remedy, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Jack Track, MS

Projects, SQL Server Management Studio, Sametime, Q Team Link

Messenger, Cisco Webex Connect, Lotus Notes, Visio, Snagit 11,

Balsamic (screen design)

. Other Applications/Product Knowledge/Methodology: PeopleSoft, Oracle,

Citrix, Unix, AS400, Waterfall, RUP

Unisource Worldwide, Inc. May 2013 - current

Norcross, GA Business Analyst - Consultant (Pyramid Consulting)

Perform business analysis, solutions design, project management, and end

user training/support for a new custom developed third party logistics

management

system. Encompasses Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management,

Logistics

Management and 3 PL Processes.

. Collaborate with business partners and the IT application development

team to develop comprehensive business requirements to deliver world

class system solutions.

. Gather requirements, design, test, train and communicate enhancements

and new functionality for wholesale distribution and 3 PL processes.

. Develop documentation to support requirements gathering and testing

processes in the Software Development Life Cycle.

. Communicate in written and verbal format to translate complex

information.

. Think strategically and analyze trends, situations, and industry

specific data in order to turn into business opportunities.

. Ensure solutions comply with Financial Internal Controls, SOX and

other regulatory policies.

. Work independently and with a team.

. Deadline driven.

. Manage multiple projects simultaneously.

. Experience working with remote teams.

AT&T/Amdocs September 2012 - April 2013

Atlanta, GA Business Analyst - Consultant (Charter Global) - BI/Data

Warehousing

. Work closely with Project Team, SME and Internal Business Partners to

gather business requirements and translate the requirements into

technical specifications

. Identify large volumes of data to be extracted from different data

sources to transform and load the data into Enterprise Consolidated

Data Warehouse (eCDW).

. Investigate and resolve data issues across platforms and applications,

including discrepancies of definition, format and function.

. Strong understanding of data quality assurance processes and

procedures.

. Facilitate large-scale Joint Requirement Development (JRD/JAD)

sessions with multiple stakeholders throughout the Software

Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to validate all requirements

. Experience in Business Intelligent (BI) Reporting tools such as

Business Objects.

. Work with the IT team to bring in the data required into Business

Objects Universe so as to make available for super users to create

adhoc reports.

. Skilled at learning new concepts quickly, can work well under pressure

and able to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.

. Experience working with remote teams

. Manage multiple projects simultaneously

. Excellent team player with an ability to perform individually, good

interpersonal and analytical skills.

. Work with team members to design and develop cross-module

functionalities.

Agilest Collections December 2008 - August 2012

Atlanta, GA Business Analyst - Consultant (Kates Consulting)

. Full life cycle development which included requirements gathering,

design review, specifications, creating test scripts and scenarios,

user acceptance testing, troubleshooting and providing production

support to the user community.

. Created functional requirements.

. Performed Fit/Gap Analysis.

. Developed a solid understanding of the client's business operations

and worked with the client and vendor to define the best practice for

their business environment.

. Demonstrated the software's delivered functionality, thereby mapping

existing processes to the delivered software.

. Created test scripts, batch processes, reporting requirements,

conversion strategy, and testing strategy.

. Recommended potential system modifications.

. Analyzed, designed, and implemented the Purchasing system.

. Identified integrated business requirements and mapped those

requirements to the client's system.

. Maintained the purchasing security requirements document.

. Provided production support.

. Provided knowledge transfer and training.

UPS July 2008 - November 2008

Alpharetta, GA Business Analyst/QA Analyst - Consultant (Pyramid

Consulting)

. Executed both BA and Quality Assurance Task.

. Documented business requirements and functional design specifications.

. Evaluated functional requirements and design, develop, and link

requirements to financial applications.

. Formulated and executed Test Plans and Scripts.

. Designed and developed user documentation.

. Interacted with all project team members, support staff,

functional/user staff, systems and applications managers, outside

consultants, vendors, and Corporate/Region/District Staff.

. Provided interface and data mapping information between systems.

. Performed SQL Queries.

ING January 2008 - April 2008

Atlanta, GA Senior Business Analyst - Consultant

. Full life cycle development which included requirements gathering,

design review, specifications, creating test scripts and scenarios,

user acceptance testing, troubleshooting and providing production

support to the user community.

AT&T March 2006 - January 2008

Atlanta, GA Business Analyst - Consultant (Matrix Resources) - Supply

Chain Logistics

. Reviewed and updated system requirement, participated in the

functional design.

. Performed research and analysis within assigned projects, created

reports utilizing Business Objects, created test scripts and

scenarios.

. Supported UAT prior to release working closely with external and

internal vendors.

. Performed regression testing, interacted with developers, end-users,

internal/external customers and all levels of management.

. Served as functionality expert while actively participating in testing

and knowledge transfer.

. Provided production support for the Order Management System and was

responsible for troubleshooting and identifying issues with the

integrating systems such as Billing and Warehouse Management (WMS).

Created requisitions in Oracle and researched PO and AP Billing issues

in Oracle.

. Created user training guide.

Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. January 2001 - March 2005

Atlanta, GA Advanced Business System Analyst,

. Subject matter expert for PeopleSoft Financial Procure to Pay (AP/PO)

for a heavily customized system. Assisted client in leveraging

delivered functionality mitigating customizations to increase

productivity for users.

. Performed initial fit/gap analysis for Procure to Pay to upgrade

system. This process resulted in business process flows, reports,

data conversion and interfaces being examined.

. Implemented PeopleSoft Purchasing for The Atlanta Hawks. Conducted

Joint Application Design Sessions (JAD), configured system, created

functional requirements, created test plan, scripts and scenarios,

developed training material, administered training to end-users, and

performed knowledge transfer.

. Created test plans, scripts and scenarios.

. Conducted analysis to identify the data for mapping and for new field

development for the Strategic Sourcing Website. Development of the

website resulted in price/cost reduction, increased asset utilization,

revenue enhancements, and productivity improvement for the purchasing

department.

. Team member assigned for the 3rd party selection of the Treasury

Workstation Cash Management System, which was integrated into

PeopleSoft General Ledger.

. As the Team Lead for the Treasury Workstation Cash Management Project

conducted the analysis to automate the cash position, bank

reconciliation and check fraud process. The analysis included the

creation and development to interface into PeopleSoft General Ledger,

PeopleSoft HR, and 3rd party system. Developed client specific

business process flows, fit/gap analysis, initial security

configuration, documented design specifications, and go live critical

tasks.

. Reduced financial errors with automated calculation process such as

journal entry creations, cash positioning reporting, etc.

. Generated significant cost savings by taking a manual process and

interfacing PeopleSoft General Ledger and HR into 3rd party system for

cash forecasting and accounting event creation of entries.

. Eliminated data redundancies by utilizing configured design elements

targeted for system generated transactions to maintain data integrity

throughout the complete lifecycle transaction.

. Worked with team members to translate customer requirements into

functional specifications for testing, training, and provided

production support.

The Hunter Group/Cedar Enterprises July 1997 - July 2001

Atlanta, GA Senior IT Consultant, PeopleSoft Financial Applications

. Some clients include but are not limited to Factory Mutual Insurance

(FMI Global, State of Georgia, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Medical

Military Research, Coventry Healthcare Systems, Payless Shoe Store,

and Sylvan Learning Systems

. Dual Lead roles for Purchasing/Accounts Payable. Responsibilities

included but were not limited to: gathered system requirements,

performed fit/gap analysis, assisted with project

planning/scope/statement of work development relative to AP/PO,

provided risk analysis and solutions to mitigate risks. Provided

business processes, performed system analysis, and identified

reporting needs. Identified approaches for vendor cleanup and the

necessary timeline for successful conversion of all active vendors.

. As The State of Georgia Project Lead for Purchasing Module assisted in

the implementation of Inventory. Heavy emphasis was placed on testing

the integrations between Purchasing, Inventory, Accounts Payable and

Order Management.

. As Functional expert for Accounts Payable provided overall Data

Cleanup Strategy. Data cleanup and reconciliation was essential due

to client's corrupt data, errors due to bugs in PeopleSoft for which

there were no fixes. SQL statements were written and applied against

transactions for correcting the Commitment Control records in error.

Many of these tasks were in the resolution of the application.

. Provided analysis and documentation for the archiving of data for

Accounts Payable.

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