Project Manager

Saif Romani

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Experience

Wells Fargo

Business Systems Consultant

July 2009 - Present

. Responsible for delivering collaboration solutions for various

internal customers of the Wholesale Intranet Portal based on Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).

. Working directly with internal customers to define and capture

business requirements, identify business process improvements, and

delivery functional requirements and artifacts to support the

development of solutions specific to the SharePoint platform.

. Establish a custom tailored requirements gathering and analysis

methodology specific to the Wholesale Intranet Collaboration Team.

This includes defining all the required and optional delivery

artifacts and delivery processes, and implementing standards and best

practices for the delivery team.

. Working closely with the larger Wholesale Intranet Management Team to

provide strategic and operational direction for improved methods of

solution delivery and team management. This includes identifying the

core intranet competencies to focus delivery solutions around,

identify the supporting strategies such as user advocacy and feedback

programs, and defining the key delivery processes such as release

management and a delivery model based on a repeatable Software

Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

JP Morgan Chase (Formerly Washington Mutual, Inc.)

Business Systems Analyst Manager

February 2007 - January 2009

. Managed a team of five Senior Business Systems Analysts for the

wamu.net Intranet Platform Team.

. Managed requirements and system design for enterprise-wide web

applications used by 60,000 employees as part of the enterprise

intranet platform using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server technology.

This platform provided tools and services such as:

o Intranet Upgrade to MOSS 2007. This project entailed upgrading

and converting all customs applications that were developed for

the old intranet platform based on SharePoint 2003 to Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 version of the intranet.

o Home Page and Home Page Editions. This project allowed the

Corporate Communications Group to create and maintain a

corporate home page for all employees, and other business lines

to create a specific business line edition of the home page.

Employees then had the ability to choose which edition to choose

as their default, and easily view other editions as well.

o Author-It Implementation. This third-party application was

customized and integrated with the intranet platform to allow

content authors to create content and using a re-useable topic

based authoring concepts.

o Lead project kickoff sessions and JAD sessions with various team

leads and business stakeholders.

. Responsible for establishing the project scopes and timelines,

determining team capacity, and assigning other analysts to projects.

. Worked directly with project manager and team leads to establish a

consistent and repeatable release management process.

. Responsible for mentoring and coaching other analysts on the team by

consistently working with analysts to review their work, ensure high

quality of deliverables, and provide constructive feedback and

guidance.

. Established a specific requirements gathering and delivery process

around the SDLC methodology, incorporating concepts from both the

Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile techniques for effective

requirements analysis and gathering, team and customer collaboration,

project estimating and scheduling, and customer relationship

management.

. Worked directly with the JP Morgan Chase Merger & Acquisitions team to

transition WaMu processes and technology.

JP Morgan Chase (Formerly Washington Mutual, Inc.)

Business Systems Analyst Senior

August 2003 - January 2007

. Managed requirements and system design for various web-based solutions

delivered on the corporate intranet platform for different internal

business customers. These solutions ranged from complete custom

applications that integrated with the SharePoint Platform to

enhancements and modifications of the out of the box intranet platform

such as:

o Find a Person. A custom employee search application that was

developed to replace an outdated mainframe system. This

application allowed employees to search for other employees

using multiple search attributes, and became the most highly

used tool in the bank. The requirements package delivered for

this project became the standard showcased to other analysts

throughout the company.

o Find a Hierarchy. A custom developed application that allowed

users to view a hierarchy tree for any employee, displaying

direct reports, common managers, and other details related to

employee profiles.

o What's Happening Calendar. A custom application created for the

Retail Store Operations Group. This application allowed back

office users to communicate to various retail store locations

about corporate impacts and requests specific to certain

geographic locations. The application included a custom workflow

engine for processing and approving requests, and a request

management queue, and a calendar view with filtering options.

o Find a Location Web Part. A custom web part created to be used

by any user of the intranet. This web part could be placed on

any web page, and configured to display the details of retail

store locations for any given geographic area.

o Credit Card Conversion Dashboard. A custom web dashboard created

to monitor the phased credit card conversion from Visa Debit

Cards to MasterCard Debit Cards. This dashboard allowed for

customized views and reports to track and monitor the progress

of the conversion.

. Collaborated with both business and technology partners to translate

business requests into concise business requirements that drove the

functional requirements and design.

. Worked directly with user interface designers and usability experts to

develop user-friendly applications.

. Engaged the Development and Quality Assurance teams in regular

requirement and design reviews, incorporating the technical

constraints and limitations into the final requirement artifacts.

Capgemini (Formerly Cap Gemini Ernst & Young)

October 2000 - July 2003

Business Analyst Consultant

. Worked with various clients across various industries as a business

analyst consultant, driving requirements for custom web applications

using Microsoft technologies.

. Developed use case driven requirement specifications using the

Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.

. Managed a team of functional testers to execute test scripts, log bugs

encountered during release iterations, and conducted daily bug triage

meetings with the development team.

. Managed User Acceptance Test (UAT) efforts for a team of 50

participants testing worldwide in 12 different localized languages.

Expertise

Business and Systems Analysis

. 10 years experience in business analysis and requirements definition

and gathering.

. Clearly defining business requirements to drive functional design and

solution using various methodologies such as the Rational Unified

Process (RUP), and Agile techniques.

. Developing detailed requirement packages and artifacts such as

business context scenarios, system context diagrams, process diagrams,

functional use cases, interaction flow diagrams, wire frames, business

requirement catalogs, and functional specifications to support

solution development.

. Managing and maintaining traceability from business requirements to

functional and non-functional requirements.

. Managing User Acceptance Test (UAT) efforts with various business

stakeholders and customers.

. Delivering under pressure and managing multiple tasks while

consistently meeting deadlines.

. Collaborating with other teams and engaging in a more collaborative

approach to solution design.

. Incorporating business development and user research best practices

into the requirement analysis process.

. Strong understanding of Information Architecture, Content Management,

Taxonomy and Metadata Management.

Leadership and Project Management

. 2 years experience as a manager directly responsible for a team of 5

Senior Business System Analysts.

. Managing requirements for multiple projects and ensuring delivery of

high quality artifacts.

. Providing overall guidance to analyst team members and establishing

team delivery standards.

. Establishing release management and project delivery processes based

on Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) principles.

. Managing project timelines and milestones, to identify project scope,

mitigate project risks, and escalate project issues.

. Planning and allocating needed resources for multiple projects and

assignments.

. Identifying and assessing impacts and dependencies on all related

teams, processes, and systems for any needed change requests.

. Prioritizing project tasks and delegating work to appropriate

resources.

. Successfully managing business partner priorities and expectations.

. Strong leadership skills and ability to engage and motive others to

engage in collaborative approaches to solution design.

. Previous Big 5 Consulting background.

Technology and Tools

. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Over 5 years experience

building intranet collaboration solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint

platform and strong understanding of SharePoint Lists, Document

Libraries, Calendars, Sites, User Permissions and Groups, etc.

. Microsoft SharePoint Designer. Understanding of SharePoint Workflows

and customization of forms and lists.

. Microsoft Visio. Highly efficient in creating visual artifacts such as

context diagrams, process flows, wire frames, etc.

. Microsoft Project. Ability to create project plans for managing and

communicating project tasks and milestones.

. Microsoft Office Suite. Highly efficient in utilize Microsoft Office

Suite to develop and deliver requirements artifacts such as use cases,

business requirement catalogs, etc.

Education

University of Washington

September 1996 - June 2000

Bachelors in Business Administration and Information Systems

References Available Upon Request

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