Deborah Lee
Verona, NJ *****
973-***-**** (h) 973-***-**** (c)
Email: deborahjude817@gmail
Summary: Information Technologies professional with experience in system
and business requirements analysis, project management,
development, design and data modeling. Skilled at communicating
IT requirements to define the most efficient systems solutions
and technology needed to meet new market-driven business needs.
Proven ability to analyze complex problems and develop
effective solutions to improve productivity and reduce cost.
Project Management certified with in-depth knowledge of
accounting, inventory management, billing, market forecasting,
commissioning and provisioning applications within the
insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing and securities
brokerage industries.
Software: Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Project,
Visio, Lotus Notes, Informatica, UNIX SQL, Quality Center
Testing Tool, COBOL II, OS/MVS JCL, TSO, Connect:Direct, FTP,
Syncsort, Panvalet, MVS Utilities, IDMS/OLQ, Capability
Maturity Model (CMM), SOX
Experience: Prudential Financial - Roseland, NJ
1999 - 06/2010
Team Lead Systems Analyst and Developer
Requirements Analyst for an innovative accounting engine
application, utilized by a multitude of product areas, in order
to generate a corporate standard accounting interface into the
General Ledger system. This table-driven accounting and
inventory management engine insulated the individual business
areas from having to implement internal application
modifications to remain in compliance with the corporate level
General Ledger when enhancements are required due to changing
marketing trends or federal regulations.
- acted as liaison between the various business area clients
and the accounting and inventory engine development area to
create and communicate Business and Systems Requirements,
incorporating new ideas and technologies into market-driven
solutions to meet business needs.
o over the course of 8 years, application successfully
expanded process functionality to integrate 27
additional separate product interfaces
o decreased the time-to-market for new products by
providing generic accounting and inventory tracking
interface to the corporate general ledger functionality
o table driven application enabled the installation of new
products as well as revisions and enhancements to
existing products to perform concurrently without
impacting the existing production schedule
o project was the first Prudential software application to
employ the Informatica Extract, Transform and Load tool.
As a result of the ground-breaking success of this
project's installation and maintainability, the
Informatica ETL tool has since been used in the
installation of multiple subsequent Prudential
applications
- decreased the estimated time to produce release related
documentation from 6 weeks to 2 weeks by implementing a
revised documentation format while still maintaining
corporate mandated processes and procedures
- created and maintained all aspects of requirements and design
documentation for an the accounting engine and inventory
tracking application including:
o tracking the progress of incoming business system
requests
o defining and distributing project plan and project
schedule
o software requirements and system design
o programming specifications for internal and partnering
systems development activity
o database design, table creation, data element
relationships
o maintaining task checklist to ensure the completion and
accuracy of all tasks required to ensure a successful
software implementation to production
- interfaced directly with internal business application
management as well as external vendors in order to confirm
business needs
o gathered, researched and analyzed business requirements
o created use cases, providing documentation verifying
both business and system teams concur on course of
action
o ensured traceability of requirements throughout system
development lifecycle
o obtained interface agreement by identifying data
elements to be shared and defining data transfer methods
via mutually approved interface control documentation
- provided ongoing support to maintain system integrity
o employed Quality Center testing tool to document testing
scenarios and track success of test cases during
development, system and user acceptance testing phases
o generated SQL queries to track data trends or
investigate unexpected results
- responsible for ensuring all system documentation was
Sarbanes Oxley compliant and met all external audit
requirements
AT&T New Jersey Locations
1991-1999
Project Manager
Managed all phases of project to implement an alternative
billing application designed to eliminate redundant manual
efforts and transition from a paper audit trail to on-line
documentation. Project was successfully installed on time and on
budget.
o single point of contact between marketing, sales clients and the
system development teams for application to provide flexibility
for fluctuating state and federal mandates
o obtained business requirements and provided alternative system
solutions to enhance processing accuracy, timeliness and
efficiency of existing application
o created business case, business requirements, project plan,
system design and system model documentation and programming
specifications to meet corporation's formal logical and
functional analysis documentation protocols
o created system and user acceptance testing, developed testing
environments and created training documentation
o managed employee budgeting
o managed resources by generating project time line and task
prioritization
PRIOR RELATED EXPERIENCE:
Shulton Group - Division of American Cyanamid, Clifton, NJ
Senior programmer analyst and project lead
- managed development staff to implement product provisioning
and inventory control applications implementing 50+ COBOL/IDMS
batch and on-line processes
Thomson McKinnon Securities, New York, NY
Progressed from programmer trainee on DOS to OS conversion to
programmer analyst for company's first IDMS database application
gaining extensive knowledge of securities industry by
documenting business requirements to provide functional analysis
and design specification
West New York Board of Education, West New York, NY
Classroom teacher in public elementary school, and assisted
Elementary Ed Teacher Supervisor in creating and demonstrating
the use of new and innovative teaching materials and techniques.
Education: ESI - Project Management Certification
CHUBB Institute of Computer Technology, Parsippany, NJ -
Programmer Certification
Rowan State University, Glassboro, NJ - BA, Education
Corporate Training: Windows 7, Informatica, Logical Analysis
and System Design, Functional Analysis, Fundamentals of Project
Management, Problem Solving and Decision-Making, UNIX Systems
for Users, SQL, WINDOWS Applications
Facilitator: Facilitated series of three day in-house Diversity
Awareness Workshops for managers at AT&T
Certified elementary school teacher with experience in public
and private school classrooms