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Life Insurance Quality Assurance

Location:
8816
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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EMILIYA REVICH

East Brunswick, NJ *****

908-***-****

********@*******.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/emiliyarevich

SUMMARY: Senior Business Systems and Quality Assurance Analyst with

over 10 years experience in investment transaction processing, life

insurance, annuities, and corporate services. Expertise in: Business

Analysis, Software Specification and Testing Large Merger

Application Software Integration. Strong technical and problem-

solving skills with expert eye for detail.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

CANON BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, Jamesburg, NJ 2009 – Present

Business Analyst, Business Process Reengineering

Working in the area of Canon Sales and Incentive Compensations

• Responsible for daily support of Canon Oracle applications.

• Work closely with sales support group to understand the business requirements and

translate them into IT Functional Design in order to expand Canon Business Acumen

Create and perform functional testing of all system defects modifications as well as system

enhancements.

Work closely with Oracle development resources to insure proper communication of Canon

business requirements.

Review technical documents to insure cross application integrity is considered.

• Assist with routine testing and upgrades, and overseeing the conversion of data and

testing of interfaces/extensions.

• Recommend business procedures improvements

• Provide functional analysis of legacy system decommission and required

customizations to the new SFA tool – Salesforce.com. As part of this project’s

functional team, participate in data conversions from Oracle to Salesforce.com.

BLACKROCK SOLUTIONS, Plainsboro, NJ 2006-2008

Senior Business Systems Analyst (AVP) – Client Data Interfaces

Responsible for over 15 interfaces built for the Merrill Lynch Investment Managers - Blackrock

integration.

• Successfully specified, built, and deployed significant number of key interfaces into

and out of the Blackrock Aladdin application in order to successfully integrate the

two infrastructures. This was accomplished within 10 months of the merger

announcement to the public.

• Gathered client business and systems requirements for client data interfaces.

Authored detailed and effective business systems specifications in order to resolve issues

and recommend effective solutions that meet client requirements.

Analyzed data quality in order to reduce data related production issues and improve

overall interface performance.

Provided development teams with full interface documentation including the interface overview,

data mapping, jobs setup, timing, test cases, and support and troubleshooting steps.

Worked with project management, business unit, and development teams to insure that all the

requirements are met.

Supported full product lifecycle for instruments traded in Domestic and Foreign Equities, Bonds,

MBS/TBA, Options, and Futures.

Prepared use cases for system and user acceptance testing of the upcoming releases.

Constructed and coordinated execution of system, regression, and user acceptance testing.

Wrote internal and external product release documentation.

Coordinated and led Client Data Interfaces team efforts at the annual Russell Rebalance event in

2008.

CHENOA INFORMATION SERVICES, Edison, NJ 2002-2006

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Life Insurance and Immediate Annuities Payout Project for AIG SunAmerica Financial.

• Played a key role in conversion of legacy Vantage system to the Navisys Home

office (PowerBuilder/C application), Front office (WEB interface), and Oracle

DBMS.

Worked with AIG business analysts and systems users on business and systems requirements

gathering.

Created process flows, charts, and diagrams of Navisys user interface and database schema that

helped AIG client business unit in planning of conversion from legacy Vantage to new Navisys

system.

• Wrote Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and System Requirements

Documents (SRD). These documents outlined enhancements to Front Office (Policy

Administration module) and Home Office (Account Management, Product

Specifications, and Supervisor modules).

• Led the group of 4 QA analysts in System, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing.

This resulted in bug-free system that is running successfully for over 3 years.

Created and executed test scripts for system testing of the Payout functionality.

Validated expected testing results using both front end and database schema.

Ran SQL queries to validate changes in the database.

Analyzed issues and worked with developers to resolve them quickly and efficiently.

• Participated in data conversion and data stability projects.

NAVISYS ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS, Edison, NJ 1998-2002 Senior

Programmer/Analyst

Led a development team of 5 responsible for implementation and customizations of the

company’s main product LifeCAD/MP, a package of multi-tier insurance applications supporting

administration of universal life insurance and annuity product lines, for some of the largest

insurance companies. Over years developed an understanding of various insurance products such

as Variable Universal Life, Deferred Annuities, Term Life, Single and Joint Life products.

For CNA Life Insurance Company, Prudential and Allmerica Financial:

• Designed and programmed various enhancements to LifeCAD/MP which include modifications

to immediate and deferred annuity, single and joint life functionality.

• Conducted design and implementation of Payout Project (immediate annuities).

• Coordinated walkthroughs of Functional Specifications, database design, code reviews, and man-

hours estimates needed for client requested enhancements.

• Developed in PowerBuilder and created stored procedures, packages, and triggers in Oracle and

Sybase databases.

• Facilitated client production meetings and supported system tests.

Accounts

OGILVY, ADAMS & RINEHART, New York City 1993-1998

Payable Supervisor

Wrote and implemented accounting control procedures resulting in more effective time

management and reduction of production issues. Managed processing of vendor invoices,

expense reports, and wire transfers. Supervised Accounts Payable month closings, assisted

controller with General Ledger closing. Communicated with all levels of employees and vendors,

managed trouble shooting.

LANGUAGES: SQL, PL SQL, PowerBuilder (7.3, 6.5, 5.0), HTML, Java Script,

XML

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000), Oracle (8, 8i, 9, 11i), Sybase, MS

SQL, HP UNIX

SOFTWARE: Salesforce.com, PAM, APEX Data Loader, Oracle Financials, Oracle Forms,

Visio, TOAD, SQL Plus, PVCS, VSS, SQA Suite, PR Tracker, LifeCAD/MP, Aladdin, Microsoft

Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Project, SharePoint, WIKI pages

HARDWARE: IBM PC and compatibles, SUN UNIX Servers

EDUCATION:

B. S. in Accounting, Academy of Technology,

o

Kharkiv, Ukraine

• Effective Business Writing and Communications Class, BlackRock Education

Course

• Associate, Annuity Products and Administration (AAPA), LOMA Education

Programs Designation

Oracle DBA Course, Comet Technology, Edison, NJ

o PowerBuilder Development

and Oracle Programming

Course,

Cope Institute, New York, NY

• Computerized Accounting and Business Communication Course,

Syrit Computer Schools System, Brooklyn, NY

• Application Design and Database Development Classes,

Institute of Advanced Programming, Kiev, Ukraine



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