Engineer Software

MICHAEL DECURTIS

***-* ****** ******, *** Francisco, CA 94103

M: 415-***-**** *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE: A Business/System Analyst Position

PROFILE:

•Exceptional combination of business analysis, technical expertise, project management and business

development.

•Track record of effective communication among key stakeholders including Subject Matter Experts,

Engineering, Business Teams, Sales and Marketing and end-users.

•Successfully prioritized issues and facilitated business and technical decisions to move projects through

SLDC on time and budget.

•Personable and flexible, yet goal focused and solutions oriented.

•B.S., Computer Science & Mathematics double major, Physics minor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Analysis Requisite Pro Rational Unified Process RUP

Unified Modeling Language UML JAVA/J2EE DOORS

UNIX Windows SaaS

TIBCO Vitria SiteMinder/LDAP

ACH Processing SDLC

EXPERIENCE:

System Analyst Yodlee Redwood City, CA June 2009- October 2009

Summary

System Analyst for an expedited payment product and an electronic bill presentment product

Facilitated JAD sessions with both Technical and Business representatives

Worked with Subject Matter Experts to create Requirement Specifications for various business services.

Relevant Experience

•Acted as an internal consultant within technology and business groups to define requirements, create

Use Cases and software specifications for a new reporting platform and for web services to integrate

with business partner’s applications.

•Interfaced with offshore analysts, developers and QA.

• Mentored new employees on the process for projects and document control system.

• Completed customer facing Technical Documents for products managed.

• Interfaced with QA to define test plans and validate test cases and performed QA.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Business Analyst Wireless Matrix San Francisco, CA July 2008-

June 2009

Summary

Created product roadmap document

Worked with sales team to meet client’s requirements

Facilitated JAD sessions with both Technical and Business representatives

Worked with Subject Matter Experts to create Requirement Specifications for various business services.

Relevant Experience

•Acted as an internal consultant within technology and business groups to define requirements, create

Use Cases and software specifications for a new reporting platform and for web services to integrate

with business partner’s applications.

• Worked with sales to define customer requirements and roll out new features to demo environment

• Created document templates for requirements, Use Cases and software specifications that could be

reused in multiple projects.

• Interfaced with QA to define test plans and validate test cases

Senior Business Analyst Wells Fargo San Francisco, CA December 2004- October 2007

Summary

Business Analyst lead for Enterprise Business Activity Management (EBAM)

Business Analyst for Enterprise Customer Business Services (ECBS),

Business Analyst for Business Infrastructure Services (BIS)

Worked with Subject Matter Experts to create Requirement Specifications and Use Cases for various

business services.

Relevant Experience

• Defined requirements and created Use Cases for EBAM and application which tracked the Service

Level Agreement for various bank processes such as Check Order.

•Defined requirements and created Use Cases for "Dashboard" application which was a web based

showing the progress of the bank processes being tracked by the EBAM system

• Researched existing web services from APS and ECBS in order to enrich data about the process

being monitored in order to send to other systems.

• Coordinated developers and QA to ensure requirements were accomplished.

• Defined User Acceptence Tests (UAT) and worked with both business and QA to ensure all goals

were met.

• Created XML Schemas and WSDLs for a Service Oriented Architecture using WFXML 2.1.

• Performed data validation to ensure tracking of business systems was correct.

• Defined requirements and created Use Cases to integrate an intranet application with Netegrity's

SiteMinder for enterprise Single Sign-On.

• Mentored new employees.

Business Analyst Deltanet San Francisco, CA May 2002-November

2004

Summary

Worked with Subject Matter Experts to perform software assessment and recommendations for

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Extract, Transformation & Load (ETL) and Rules Engine

software. Reviewed and provided recommendations for the software architecture of an enterprise dental

insurance application.

Relevant Experience

• Using the RUP worked as part of a team to perform business analysis for dental claims adjudication,

documenting requirements and creating use cases to produce a business model which was then

mapped onto a technical architecture, managed change requests and created test cases/data.

• Worked with Business/System Analysts and overseas outsourcing firm to assess the software

architecture.

• Coordinated software assessments across five geographically disperse business units in order to

obtain feedback and agreement.

• Managed a team to create an Information Technology Plan for the enterprise.

• Using RUP, defined requirements and created Use Cases to integrate Internet applications with

Netegrity's SiteMinder for enterprise Single Sign-On.

Business Analyst EDS San Francisco, CA December 1999- November

2001

Summary

As EDS E.solutions Team Leader/Technical Architect, defined requirement and Use Cases which drove

EAI projects to facilitate b2b and b2c e-commerce for businesses transitioning to the Internet

Relevant Experience

• Managed projects and worked with clients to create requirements, Use Cases and develop software

architectures for e-commerce solutions using RUP.

• Created and managed partner relationships with external companies, including IBM and iPlanet.

• Released and participated in the entire life cycle of successful products, from business plan through

subsequent versions.

• Managed cross-functional teams within an organization. Contributed to the overall product group

strategy and marketing plans with clients.

• Created presentations, product demos, competitive materials, and pricing analysis, in strategic and

tactical sales situations.

• Performed business development through meetings with prospects and writing proposals. Clients

included Bell of Canada, la Caxia a major bank in Spain and Corbis.

Senior System Engineer Content Group San Francisco, CA August 1998–

December 1999

Summary

Provided content management solutions for major corporate prospects, such as ABC, Disney and

Bechtel.

Relevant Experience

• Interfaced with business prospects to understand and map their content management requirements,

including files, images, audio and video onto a solution.

• Demonstrated and educated various content management software to prospects.

• Coordinated with account managers to create business cases for clients on how content

management would generate new streams of revenue.

Senior System Engineer Tom Sawyer Software Berkeley, CA December 1997– August

1998

Summary

Provided graph layout solutions to clients including SAP, British Telcom, SUN and Baan.

Relevant Experience

• Coordinated with clients to model and create working prototypes for their problem domain using Tom

Sawyer Software libraries.

• Performed numerous demonstrations of Tom Sawyer Software.

• Interacted with marketing to obtain competitive information on software for graph layout.

• Assisted clients on-site with special needs such as performance tuning, accessing third party

software, and updating to the latest version of Tom Sawyer Software.

Business Analyst KPMG Consulting Palo Alto, CA April 1996–December

1997

Summary

Provided Business Analysis and Design as team member of Object Oriented Practice

Relevant Experience

• Assisted Quality Assurance division of Wells Fargo Bank in modeling their testing process in order to

develop a way to generate test data that simulated production data for use in integration testing of

bank systems. The project was full life cycle.

• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts to define the "as-is" state and to produce the "to-be" state.

• Created Use Cases, Object Relation Diagrams and Event Traces in UML, Unified Modeling

Language, which were used in the creation of an Application Architecture.

• Assisted in the implementation of the Production Quality Lab (PQL) application. The PQL application

generated test data that simulates bank production data. Implemented Neuron Data’s Elements

Environment (both the GUI Builder and Rules Engine), C++ and an Informix database as the

repository.

• Performed a Suitability Assessment report on the use of ORB (Object Request Broker)

technology within the bank. Developed and administered a survey and performed interviews with bank

personnel from VP’s to IT staff, to elicit technical and business perspectives and provide feedback on

ORB technology.

Staff Consultant CSC San Francisco, CA February 1995– April

1996

Summary

Provided object oriented solutions to For the U.S. Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Center, and two

insurance companies

Relevant Experience

• Examined the Expert System for Provisioning (ESP), a large, complex object oriented system with

embedded intelligence, to provide performance tuning.

• Implemented a drop-in Object Oriented infrastructure using Forte at one insurance company and

Dynasty at the other.

• Mentored client technical staff in both Object Oriented modeling and programming.

Trainer/System Engineer IntelliCorp Mountain View, CA July 1994– February

1995

Summary

Provided both technical sales support and training to clients.

Relevant Experience

• Provided training on both the Live Model and Power Model products. Live Model is a design and

analysis tool using the Martin/Odell Object Oriented Information Engineering methodology, and

Power Model is an object oriented development tool.

• As a System Engineer worked with clients to create working prototypes of their problem domain

in Live Model. Performed numerous demonstrations of Live/Power Model and gave presentations at

seminars. Worked at client sites to aid them with special needs such as performance tuning, accessing

third party software and updating to latest version of Live/Power Model.

Support Engineer Procase San Jose, CA May 1993– July

1994

Summary

Provided technical phone support to customers.

Relevant Experience

• Provided both training and technical support for Procase, a reverse engineering tool for the C

programming language.

Software Engineer Locus Inc. Alexandria VA September 1989–December

1992

Summary

Subcontracted to U.S. Navy, Naval Research Lab

Relevant Experience

• Maintained and enhanced a discrete event simulator, written in C++ on a MIMD (Multiple Instruction

Multiple Data) computer. Ported discreet event simulator to run completely on a UNIX workstation,

which involved converting parallel code to scalar.

• Implemented a distributed application that linked several executables in a pipeline, enabling data to

pass between the processes via UNIX sockets. Each process ran on a UNIX workstation or a co-

processor board written in C, C++ or FORTRAN.

• Implemented memory management functions and reverse engineered a C program that had been

ported from FORTRAN for a program that calculated the orbits of satellites. The changes increased

performance in both running time and in the number of satellite orbits that could be calculated.

EDUCATION

B.S., Computer Science & Mathematics double major, Physics Minor, 1989

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania

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