Lauretta Scimone
********@*******.*** (W)248-***-****
Director/Owner of Ident-A-Kid Franchise
Business/Test Analyst
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
. Self-starter with 6 years of experience as office manager, customer
service, B2B sales, marketing, managing and producing topnotch quality
emergency response cards for children
. Highly motivated BA/QA analyst with 7 years experience including
facilitating meetings, gathering requirements, troubleshooting,
testing, and implementing code releases
. Superior analytical and communication skills
. Great collaboration skills working with all stakeholders in the
business computing environment
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ident-A-Kid Franchise
2005 - Present
Rochester Hills, MI
Director/Owner
. Office manager
. Prepare marketing materials for presentation
. 10 plus years of data entry
. Full profit & loss responsibility for franchise operation
. Build and manage relationships via direct sales to school Principals
and Daycare owners
. Market the emergency response cards and campus security software
. Implement campus security software
. Train personnel to use and modify the software as required
. Fully responsible for the timely production and distribution of
materials necessary for the Ident-A-Kid program to be successful
. Very well organized and extremely detailed oriented
. Maintain schedule
. Responsible for all customer intersaction
Sun Life Trust Ltd. (Banking) 1989 - 1995
Toronto, Ontario
Business/Test Analyst
. Organized and facilitated meetings between the business stakeholders
and the IT department
. Liaised with business users to determine their business requirements
and develop proposals to meet expectations
. Analyzed, verified and validated the business requirements and
developed functional requirements to code and test
. Employed the Agile Approach to respond to critical requirement changes
late in the development process and to deliver frequent code changes
. Very proficient writing queries to analyze data
. Adept at performing Black Box, Unit, Integration, Functional, System,
Regression, User Acceptance, and Usability testing
. Analyzed errors and escalated issues to developers and verified fixes
. Partnered with controller to maintain 3 - 5 active test environments
. Coordinated with controller to flawlessly execute new code into
production
. Trained Business Users before code implementation
. Provided on-call support for Overnight Operators
. Part of a team that moved IT operations cross country from Winnipeg to
Toronto
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Platforms: Windows XP/2000, AS400, Datapoint
Languages: Query/400, SQL, Fortran, Pascal,
Assembler
Software: Microsoft Office Suite, PowerPoint,
Excel
EDUCATION
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Degree: Bachelor of Computer Science (completed 2.5 years of a 4 year
program)
Discipline: Business Option
SEMINARS ATTENDED
. Software Testing & Quality Assurance - Effective Strategies &
Techniques
. Scenario-Based Development and Testing
. GUI Testing Introduction
. Disciplined Software Testing Practices
. Improving Your Test Process with Measurements
VOLUNTEER WORK
. Certified catechist teacher for the past 10 years
. PTO Treasurer
. PTO Secretary