AMI SONI
Tel: 848-***-****
Edison, NJ 08820
Email: *******@*****.***
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Education: Bachelor of Science in Management with specialization in
Management Information Systems
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
Graduated: May 27th 2003
Technical Microsoft Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Project, Outlook,
FrontPage, Visio, Lotus Notes,
Competencies: Informatica Powercenter, Adaytum, SharePoint, SQL Server,
Imany - GP, Citrix - CARS, SAP-Business Analyzer, WebEx, Net
Meeting, & Acrobat Adobe
Career Avaya/Ross Richard Associates LLC Basking Ridge, NJ
(05/07 - Present)
Experience: Business Analyst - Data Quality Center of Excellence
. Identify inconsistent data trends associated with a $3.5B
maintenance billing base
. Create functional specifications to define business and IT
requirements for automating manual Data Quality processes
. Conduct interviews with subject matter experts and the client
to gather and document business requirements
. Develop detailed functional requirements, use cases, and
corresponding business process flows using MS Visio and MS
Office
. Create, maintain, and track actual vs. projected revenue
realization results within an $18.1M FY project target
. Generate executive financial summary reports, trending
reports, and monthly inter-departmental status reports
. Create Pivot Tables and Waterfall reports for monthly Finance
Report
. Perform root cause analysis on failed revenue collection
efforts resulting in changes to the corporate process
. Conduct performance testing, and regression remaining testing
for current objects in production
. Develop and conduct functional acceptance testing for various
development projects
. Build ongoing client relationships with senior leaders, 20
internal business analysts, and 3 external functional teams
. Coordinate team meetings and publish meeting minutes for
workshops
Watson Pharma, Inc Morristown, NJ
Senior Business Analyst -Contract Operations
(08/06 - 03/07) Business Analyst - Consultant
(09/05 - 02/06)
. Developed and presented procedures to senior level mgmt to
demonstrate inconsistencies in data, identified areas of
improvement, maintained data accuracy, and provide
recommendations using PowerPoint and Excel
. Calculated variances between various quarters by building macros
and creating pivot tables in Excel to provide financial reports
to internal/external customers and Senior Management
. Analyzed data by creating and querying various reports using
SAP Business Analyzer and Imany
. Dedicated to implementing on-site business requirements for
application upgrades
. Worked directly with IT directors to manage site-specific
development expectations and deliverables
. Lead process improvement initiatives in the upgrade project
by creating flow/process diagrams using Visio
. Designed and created test scripts for IT/UAT testing in Excel
to support new initiatives and requirements for the Upgrade
. Submitted monthly and quarterly pricing reports and data
reports to various Government agencies
. Performed detailed, precise pricing analysis by consolidating
data from several data warehouses using v-lookups, and if
statements in Excel
. Created pricing structures and strategies to ensure maximum
financial return while satisfying customer/market competitive
needs
. Created a database in Access for the annual sales data, and
perform data analysis
United Parcel Service Morristown, NJ
(04/04 - 08/05)
Business System Analyst - Customer Information Management Application
Testing
. Defined and evaluated IT/UAT test plans and assessed
resulting data. Reviewed all phases of testing, through final
acceptance with IT developers and submitted final results to
management for production approval.
. Responsible for the reviews, analysis and evaluation of
applications to verify and improve quality of all components
of the UPS Enterprise Billing Systems
. Provided application test data and strategy to coordinate
Enterprise Release Integration and User Acceptance Test Plan.
Actively participate in both System and Integration/User
Acceptance test activities. For example: Prepare, execute,
interpret, and document test cases according to test plans to
ensure defects from occurring in production
. Multi-tasked effectively and demonstrate innovation in
problem solving techniques to clearly identify, define and
report system defect issues to developers, communicate status
and issues to management, and interact with both internal
project teams as well as application development teams
. Defect discovery and documentation during test execution and
point of contact for external system groups
. Facilitate external system meetings to discuss impacts and
cross organizational responsibilities for Releases
. Initiated and train new hires and co-workers for front and
back end software, and on the mainframe
Imclone Systems Incorporated Branchburg, NJ
(06/03 - 02/04)
SAP Technical Assistant
. Provided daily support for all SAP functions, this includes,
but not limited to ordering supplies through SAP, issuing
goods to batch records, delivering records in SAP and
confirming batch record completion by Manufacturing and
delivery to QA
. Accuracy of all data into SAP for issuing goods and delivery
of batch records / final bulk into SAP
. Managed materials supply for Manufacturing via SAP ordering
module
. Assisted Senior Management with Manufacturing and Processing
needs
. Retrieved information from SAP database to aid in controlling
costs and aid in CGMP compliance
. Tested wireless protocol in the manufacturing plant for SAP
duties
Internships: American Express World Financial Center, NY (06/02
- 08/02)
Summer Intern at Global Establishment Services Risk Management
. Created and developed reports in MS Excel by querying an
internal database
. Conducted a research and computed annual charge volume for
vendors
. Developed and present detailed research on business model for
(P2P) Product Analysis on five market leaders
. Presented data analysis for developing risk management
strategies using Macromedia Flash
. Performed research with Director, on Europe legal issues on
charge back along with internal credit card business models,
and how to utilize them in the American Express business
structure
American Express Exchange Place, NJ
(06/01 - 09/01)
Summer Intern at Global MIS (Finance)
. Reviewed and reconcile departmental monthly expenses
. Analyzed company's financial data integrity originating from
various sources including ODB (mainframe)
. Developed innovative ideas for design of a user interactive
financial intranet site
. Validated functionality of tools used in the financial self-
servicing, web enabled tool upon new releases
. Reviewed and validate non-financial information located on
the xchange self-servicing intranet site
. Managed and Operate web enabled tool to display company and
world news articles on the xchange site
. Operated Lotus notes, MS Access and MS Excel tools to
consolidate lists of current users in order to aid CRL
(Customer Relation Leader) in their operational management
sector of the business unit
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