LARRY L. ADAMS
**** **** ******* **., **********, MO 63033
Phone: 314-***-**** Email:
*******@****.***
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SUMMARY
Business Analyst with exceptional leadership skills, communications skills,
and interpersonal skills. Ability to facilitate requirements gathering
sessions across multiple groups and document clear, accurate, and testable
requirements. Proficient in gathering and writing business and technical
requirements documents. Strengths in developing functional requirements,
as well as providing options and solutions. Strong organizational skills
and ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously.
Project Managements skills, cost and time estimating skills, able to
organize, manage and conduct meetings, keep interaction with business on
track to ensure projects move at appropriate pace.
Professional Experience
Jacobson Staffing, Inc - St. Louis, MO 63141 Oct, 2009 -
Present
Business Analyst
. Working a project to replace 6500 AMS pagers with a Sprint wireless
solution, to eliminate the problem with 'dead zones' on the BJC
campus.
. Interviewing 300 departments to determine how pages are initiated,
tracked, and managed in the current environment to ensure no loss of
functionality with the implementation of the text messaging devices.
. Maintaining a spreadsheet and diagram flow for every type of page
using Sharepoint and Visio.
AT&T - St. Louis, MO 63101
Sept. 2000-Nov. 2008
Business Analyst
. Two years experience as a Business Analyst responsible for
accumulating estimates for projects coming into the Call Center
Technology application 'front door'.
o Identified the impacted teams and led client/developer meetings
to estimate the project.
o Maintained RTM (Resource Traceability Matrix)
o Researched data fields necessary for conversion from Express One
to PRISM (Primary Repository for Information Systems
Management). This tool was to replace the PMO tool used to
gather and report time and cost for projects.
. Acted as SME for the Call Center Technology group to gather
requirements for the Express One to PRISM conversion.
. Worked with PM's to identify issues regarding necessary
data fields missing in PRISM and data that PRISM required
that Express One didn't have.
. Gathered requirements and wrote CR (Change Requests) for
PRISM.
. Worked with PRISM support to develop work-arounds, either
temporary or permanent for CR's which could not be
incorporated.
o Responsible for document storage on Panagon.
o Responsible for Wikipedia intranet application for the Call
Center Technologies group. Consisted of updating team
information, adding documents to Wiki, and maintaining group
directory
. Two years experience as a Business Analyst coordinating and leading
meetings with Business Owners and IT to gather business requirements
for the EMS system (Error Management System).
o Responsible for problem tracking for EMS Oracle databases.
o Responsible for writing detailed business requirements to be
used in system design for the EMS system.
o Conducted formal documentation walkthroughs at each stage in the
life cycle of the project.
o Responsible for document storage on Panagon.
. Four years experience as a Business Analyst coordinating and leading
meetings with Business Owners and IT to gather business requirements
for Usage Processing System.
o Responsible for writing detailed business requirements to be
used in system design for the UPS system.
o Responsible for writing the technical requirements for the UPS
system.
o Conducted formal documentation walkthroughs at each stage in the
life cycle of the project.
o Responsible for document storage on Panagon.
o Coordinated and led meetings with IT to develop business
requirements for Southwestern Bell/Pacific merger activities.
o Responsible for developing system, integration, and regression
testing for merger activities.
o Responsible for building and maintaining a stable test bed for
merger activities.
Alliance Systems and Programming - Fenton, MO
Nov. 1997-Aug. 2000
Consultant
Coded, tested, and coordinated the implementation of Year 2000 changes for
the financial systems at Peabody Holding Company.
. Data conversion for Y2K on DB2 tables through SQL queries.
. Cobol code conversions.
. Unit and regression testing.
Education:
Electronic Computer Programming Institute Peoria, IL. Certificate of
completion.
Illinois State University, Normal, IL Completed 18 hours in business.
Additional
Key Experience: TSO/ISPF VSAM
OS/MVS JCL SQL
Windows/NT Windows
MS WORD MS EXCEL
LOTUS 1-2-3 DB2
Workplan 2000 Wikipedia
SDMP ExpressWorks
PRISM VPMO
Oracle CICS
CM/PM Cobol
Sharepoint Visio