Project Manager Quality Assurance

BRAD SIGISMONDI

Sr. Business Systems Analyst, MBA

Baltimore/ Washington, D.C. 410-***-**** (cell)

Metro area *********@*****.***

Senior-level Information Technology Analyst with extensive experience in

Business/Systems/Data Analysis, Project Management, and Project

Engineering. Expertise in full systems lifecycle support of information

systems in industries including Healthcare, Finance, Telecommunications,

eCommerce, U.S. Government, and Manufacturing. Solid background in

programs to implement enterprise-wide systems and web-based business

applications. Proven ability to bridge business goals and technology to

provide tactical and strategic solutions. Demonstrated success leading

cross-functional teams and building strong client and systems support and

development relationships.

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS / YRS. EXPERIENCE

Business Systems Analysis and 17 ERP, Enterprise Architecture 8

Solution Design, CRM, Analysis, Systems Integration

eCommerce, Finance

Requirements Gathering, and 15 Data Analysis, Logical/Physical 8

Management, JAD Facilitation, Data Modeling, Conversion

Technical Specification Requirements/ETL, Interface

Development Design

Full Systems Development 12 Testing/Quality Assurance, 8

Lifecycle Support, SDLC Production Support

Methodologies

Business Process Modeling, 10 Rational Unified Process 5

Process Improvement (RUP)/Unified Modeling Language

(UML)

Project Management/ 8 Extensive Tool Usage and Modeling 15

Cross-Functional Project Lead, including Use Cases, Structured

Estimating, Project Plan and OO Models, Design Artifacts

Development,Scheduling, and

Execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

National Committee for Quality Assurance - Washington, DC

Business Process Engineer (Healthcare) - 08/09 - 5/10

Managed efforts to analyze business processes, modeled current and future

process flows, and provided tactical and strategic project recommendations

for a leading organization of national healthcare quality measurement.

Process efficiencies included enhanced system support and reductions in

cycle time for product delivery of key healthcare quality data. Key

technologies: AllFusion Process Modeler, Metafuse Project Insight (PM),

SharePoint, Enterprise Architect, and MS Visio. Responsibilities:

. Managed enterprise-wide process improvement initiatives by engaging

business stakeholders, SMEs, and external consultants under the

direction of the company's Project Management Office (PMO).

. Interviewed operational process owners, scientists and other

stakeholders to build and validate current process models and future

state models using IDEF and UML conventions.

. Developed documentation including metadata dictionaries, architecture

solutions, project estimates and plans, and evaluated modeling tools.

. Presented business process perspectives, considerations, and business

and technical recommendations to the organization's Enterprise

Architecture Committee.

CUE Inc. - Annapolis, MD, Contract

Project Lead - 05/08 - 06/09

Provided Project Lead support to team for functional updates and testing of

CRM Customer Service, Order Entry, Sales, and Accounting system supporting

a multi-million dollar international manufacturing company. Key

technologies: Symix, MS Project, MS Office, Visio

. Managed the full SDLC efforts of a project team, coordinated the

project schedules and met all milestones and cost savings objectives

of multiple successful product upgrades.

. Led Product and Software Engineering staff to define the business

requirements and functional specifications in sufficient detail to

elaborate into technical specifications and design.

. Captured and managed requirements and built requirements traceability

matrices, design artifacts and test plans/scripts for release system

and UAT testing.

Pinnacle Resources, Client: AT&T - Oakton, VA

Solutions Architect - 04/07 - 04/08

Provided architecture and IT impact solutions for multiple AT&T network

infrastructure initiatives by working with network engineering SME groups

across multiple environments. Key Technologies: MS Office, Visio

. Analyzed current business state and gathered product and business

requirements, identified efficiencies and developed Business Process

Reengineering models as a basis for improvements to functional

requirements and design.

. Specified Impact Assessments to include proposed business and

functional solutions and identified workflow efficiencies using Visio

for targeted upgrades to AT&T's Network Operational Support Systems.

. Worked with system engineers during the design/development phase to to

ensure smooth transition of detailed system requirements and technical

design artifacts.

Matrix, Client: Fannie Mae - Reston, VA

Project Manager/Sr. Business Systems Analyst - 03/06 - 10/06

Performed project management duties and business process reengineering for

an online technical support software platform migration that was

successfully deployed in 2006 and attained targeted operational savings.

Environment: Java/J2EE, WebLogic, SQL Server; Key Technologies: Visio, MS

Office, Requisite Pro and Rose/UML

* Led diverse, cross-functional teams in the fulfillment of corporate

productivity, quality and bottom-line objectives. Coordinated all SDLC

phase and release activities with other project teams and managed MS

Project schedules.

* Facilitated JAD sessions and captured/managed requirements in Rational

Requisite Pro. Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and Sequence

Diagrams using Rational Rose/UML.

* Established project management, change management, configuration, and

test plans that were used for the current project and as a basis for

best practice templates for future departmental projects.

SRA International, Inc. - Fairfax, VA

Project Manager / Sr. Analyst - 01/05 - 03/06

Provided project management and business/systems analysis leadership for

several government projects supporting the U.S. Mint and the U.S. Internal

Revenue Service. Environment: Java/J2EE, Websphere, Oracle/UNIX;

Technologies: Visio, MS Office

* Led JAD sessions and the development effort of a web-based Time to

Market application for U.S. Mint commemorative coin products. This

product was used by managers and information analysts for reporting

and analysis of order and delivery process.

* Interviewed key stakeholders for business requirements, developed

technical specifications and improved process flows and delivered

professional presentations of the application to top executives.

* Built and maintained project schedules and acted as liaison and

coordinator between client and development teams to ensure product

delivery met all project milestones and budget.

* Identified security issues and developed security plans for the

certification of multiple IRS systems.

Keane Incorporated, Client: Freddie Mac - McLean, VA

Senior Data Analyst Consultant - 02/04 - 10/04

Performed data analysis and data modeling activities for Freddie Mac's

Investments & Cash Management and Pricing work streams and Freddie Mac's

2003 Restatement project. Product deliverables included data process

flows, logical/physical data models and a data dictionary for a securities

pricing system to support the price identification and verification of

Freddie Mac's financial product offerings. Environments: Java/J2EE,

Sybase/NT, UDB/UNIX; Key Technologies: ERP, Visio, MS Office, ETL, SQL,

Erwin, DB Artisan

. Analyzed detailed business requirements and interviewed subject matter

experts and end-users to document use cases, process and data flows.

. Coordinated and integrated project level data definitions and designs

with the enterprise level models utilizing the corporate metadata

repository and DB Artisan to query existing databases.

. Designed logical and physical data models in ERwin, generated UDB and

Sybase DDL and DLL scripts, and coordinated with DBAs to deploy new

database schema changes across all environments.

Keane Incorporated, Client: Nextel/Sprint - Reston, VA

Senior Business/Systems Analyst - 04/03 - 2/04

Provided lead analysis and JAD session support for a series of

application development eCommerce initiatives targeting a

Java/J2EE/Websphere/Oracle/UNIX environment for a global wireless

company. The main deliverable was the successful implementation of the

Wireless Number Portability module accessing an enterprise wide system

launched on Nextel.com in Nov. 2003. Technologies: MS Office, Visio,

Rational Requisite Pro and Rose/UML

* Defined business and detailed functional requirements by facilitating

JAD sessions with stakeholders and managed requirements using

Requisite Pro.

* Reengineered existing website shopping and ordering processes using

Visio and Rose/UML to realize time to market and usability

efficiencies and cost savings.

Established test plans and managed functional and user interface using Test

Director to meet quality assurance objectives.

Performed a detailed gap analysis and developed requirements for an API

leveraging effort to minimize 3rd party software reliance saving the

company over $200k in projected software costs.

Volt Technical Services, Client: Hewlett-Packard - Atlanta, GA

Senior Business Analyst - 11/01 - 2/03

Lead Analyst for legacy application enhancements and a large-scale data

migration project for HP's enterprise-wide E-Learning system supporting all

HP/Compaq users (successful migration of over 200,000 users and related

training data from multiple E-Learning systems into an ERP system).

Environment: HTML/Java/Oracle/NT; Key Technologies: ETL,XML, Excelon Stylus

Studio, Visio, MS Project, SQL, Requisite Pro, Crystal Reports

Other Experience as a Business/Systems Analyst - 1993 - 2001

. Comsys, Inc., Client: Cable & Wireless - Washington, DC

. Volt Technical Services, Client: Hewlett-Packard - Atlanta, GA

. Crossroads Consulting Group, Client: Bass Hotels & Resorts - Atlanta,

GA

. Matrix, Inc., Client: Delta Airlines, Inc. - Atlanta, GA

. Fiserv, Inc. - Pittsburgh, PA

. CACI, Inc., Client: Department of Defense (DoD) - Washington, DC

EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS

University of Pittsburgh: Masters in Business Administration

Pennsylvania State University: Bachelor of Science in MIS

Project Management Institute Member

Unified Modeling Language Training

Rational Analyst Studio/Rational Unified Process Training

Oracle Data Modeling and Database Design

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