Project Manager Analyst

ANNA SLAVIN

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Brooklyn, New York ***34

646-***-**** mobile

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SUMMARY OF

QUALIFICATIONS:

Professional Business Analyst / Project Manager with hands-on experience in software

design / development and QA/off shore vendor management. Experienced with extensive

client interaction in determining business, functional and system requirement

specifications. Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills, with an

attention for detail. Extensive experience and knowledge of business analysis and project

management best practices, processes & SDLC methodologies, including Waterfall and

Agile Scrum. Confident and poised in interactions with end users, team members and

managers with the ability to successfully influence and drive consensus across cross-

functional teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Access DB, DB2, SQL Server, Data Modeling,

UML, Visio, Jira, SharePoint, Cognos Power Play and Improptu, HP Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

BROWSER BASED SOLUTIONS, Brooklyn, New York

07/2007 – present

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Browser Based Solutions develops innovative websites and applications in the fields of

corporate application, mobile development, e-commerce, and content management

systems. The firm employs agile methodology (SCRUM). The software was developed

using C#.NET, XML, Microsoft SQL Server.

Major projects include:

• matter Base:

This is a highly customizable client/matter management system for medium to large law

firms. I was a Business Analyst and Project Manager on the project.

My responsibilities as a Business Analyst included:

- wrote Business requirements document and the functional spec;

- defined and maintained the content management architecture;

- created data flow diagrams;

- managed developers both in the US and overseas within multiple time zones;

- Worked with QA Manager and testing team to ensure thorough testing of

modules/application/interfaces.

- Participated in UAT.

Utilized MS Project, Visio, MS Office, Jira.

• Drop-Shipper Automation Software:

This software takes in feeds from a variety of drop-shippers, migrates the data into a data

warehouse, allows the admin to create additional custom fields, and then allows the admin

to map these fields to their other systems (Channel Advisor, NetSuite, Magento, Amazon,

EBay, Buy.com, etc).

As a Business Analyst my responsibilities included:

- wrote Business requirements document and the functional spec;

- conducted project kick-off meetings to communicate individual roles and project

expectations to ensure that all project team members have the tools and training

required to perform effectively;

- created a project plan and was tracking its execution;

- managed risks and scope of the project;

- Managed a team of developers.

Utilized MS Project, Visio, MS Office. SQL Server, Jira.

• My GYM Print/Marketing System:

This web-based software allowing the Franchise marketing team to design marketing

materials to be used by their franchisees. The franchisees can then customize the marketing

materials with their own detailed information, additional info, and photos, which generates

a print-ready PDF file.

As a Business Analyst/Project Manager my responsibilities included:

- gathered business requirements from the end–users, specifying use cases;

- wrote functional spec;

- created and tracked the project plan;

- communicating status to the senior management;

- performed walkthroughs for the development team and QA;

- reviewed QA test cases;

- ran the UAT.

Utilized MS Project, Visio, MS Office, SharePoint.

• Gastronomnadom.com:

This is an eCommerce store providing full line of grocery products for the users to order

online. This project involved a lot of features typical for a sophisticated eCommerce site:

shopping cart, three levels of product categories, order editing, ability to edit weight per

item before and after order, schedule home delivery, reminders, reward points system, etc.

The project supports two languages (English and Russian).

As a Business Analyst my responsibilities included:

- worked with the client to define process workflow and requirements for products

definition;

- defined content management architecture;

- specified usability requirements and conducted usability testing;

- created business requirements document defining the layouts, product categories, and

process flows,

- managed risks and scope of the project;

- ran the UAT and performance testing.

Utilized MS Project, My SQL, Visio, MS Office.

06/2003 –11/2005 BAY ISLANDER INC., Staten Island, NY

Owner/Manager

Manager of multiple faculties, with specific responsibilities to daily operations within a

retail environment. Extensive experience with POS, buying, and operations of multi-

faceted businesses. Preformed extensive analysis for business needs, deployment and

modification to increase productivity and performance of each entity. Developed multi-

platform infrastructure to manage information and process of the environments.

06/2001 –04/2003 HOUSEHOLD Insurance, Bridgewater, New Jersey

Business Systems Analyst /QA analyst

Responsible for gathering project requirements, writing business specification

documentation and test scripts. Took part in user acceptance testing and supported the

rollout of new applications as well as development of various systems’ enhancements in

support of the organization’s strategic initiatives for the HTS/HIG applications in the area

of Insurance Support Services. Performed analysis and prepared recommendations to

improve the system’s efficiencies. Aided in system troubleshooting and problem resolution.

Translated requirements into functional specifications for technical team and subject

experts. Served as a liaison between the system’s users and application developers.

Prepared training materials for training end users in use of new systems. Coordinated UAT

(User Acceptance Testing) for new and modified technology. Created test plans, test cases,

system and process flowcharts using VISIO. Created Project plans using Project

Management and Excel. Created Data analysis using MS Word and Excel. Used MS Power

Point to do presentations to the clients.

04/2000 – 05/2001 PAINE WEBBER, Weehawken, New Jersey

Sr. Programmer /Business Analyst

Worked in all aspects of the project life cycle from design documentation, implementation

of design in code, QA-testing, debugging and production implementation supporting CSC

Trade Processing and Trade Interfaces System. Played an active role in requirement

analysis, writing technical documentation, creating mockups and development for the

JEFFERY MATTHEWS FINANCIAL – CRI FIXED INCOME INTERFACE. This system

provides a new fixed income upload interface for Jeffrey Matthews Financial between CRI

and Correspondent Services / PaineWebber. Participated in the DCP/Correspondent profile

project. Performed ongoing application maintenance to provide for changing business

requirements. Translated business requirements into technical specifications.

10/1998 – 04/2000 MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER, New York, New York

Sr. Programmer / Analyst /QA

Responsible for the analysis, design, development, testing and production support of

Borrow Loan and Stock Record applications. Responsibilities included developing written

analysis and technical specifications, creating test plans, test cases and scripts. Interacted

with end users in order to identify or clarify business and functional requirements.

Coordinated testing efforts for various projects. All development was done utilizing

COBOL II, DB2, CICS and Easytrieve on OS/MVS. As a team member, was involved in

testing and development of packages for the Year 2000 Conversion. Tested and debugged

utilizing MICROFOCUS COBOL and Approach Database on LAN PC and FILE-AID on

OS/MVS.

02/1997 – 10/1998 CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, New York, New York

Sr. Systems Specialist / Business systems analyst

Member of the Management Information System group for Retail Banking System.

Performed analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation of the Management

Information Processes. Involved in full project life cycle of the Enhanced Banking Card

project. Developed technical design and programming specification, coded, tested and

implemented the Enhanced Banking Card Project. Participated in the development of

Jericho ATM cube. Maintained Pricing Relationship Cube using Cognos Power Play for

cubes and Cognos Impromptu as a query tool. Responsible for building Debit Card Cubes

(Card Distribution, Card Usage and Transaction Usage). Provided 24 hours production

support. All development was done utilizing COBOL II, CICS, Easytrieve and DB2/SQL

environment on the LAN PC and OS/MVS. Documentation was done using MS Office.

11/1995 – 02/1997 ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS, Bedminster, New Jersey

Programmer / Quality Assurance

Responsible for creating technical and logical specifications, development and maintenance

of the Message Processing module of Wireless Information Next Generation System

(WINGS) for EMPOWER demo cellular business. This system has provided cellular

service customers with ability to order services, access provider’s network and collect

payments for the service and products it provides. All work was done utilizing COBOL II,

CICS, Easytrieve and DB2 on the LAN PC and OS/MVS.

EDUCATION:

In-House courses:

2000 - Business writing

1998 - Introduction to ORACLE 7.0

- Introduction to Client Server Architecture Overview

1997 - MS Access

- Cognos Power Play and Impromptu

- UNIX and Shell fundamentals.

1994 THE CHUBB INSTITUTE

Diploma in Computer Programming/Business Analyst

1991 – 1993 LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY

76 credits towards Business Management B.S. Degree

1987 - 1989 GOMEL UNIVERSITY OF FRANCISCA SKARINI

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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