ARPIT SHARMA

MBA (MIS Emphasis)

Charleston, SC

660-***-**** Mobile abo6ys@r.postjobfree.com

IT Strategic Planning and Business Analysis Executive

Relator, Strategic, Individualization, Futuristic, Achiever My core strengths per

Gallop s Strengths Finder 2.0 .

Well disciplined, highly accomplished and appreciated leader with successful 7 + years of

track record in implementing IT solutions/products in healthcare, banking, finance

(Mortgage) and telecommunications domains. Demonstrated exceptional performance in

collaboration, delegation, communication, team building and problem solving.

Core competencies include:

? Project coordination

? Strategic Planning

? People Management

? Opportunity Identification

? Business and Public Relations

? Business and Industry analysis

? Communication planning

? Relationship building

Professional Experience

TEJASE TECHNOLOGIES, Des Moines, IA 08/08 to 04/12 & 07/12 to PresentSr. IT Consultant (Information Technology and Strategic Planning)

? Work as senior IT consultant for business analysis, project management, strategy and

change for multimillion dollar initiatives

? Work with senior management on strategy planning for multiple business and IT products

(MORTGAGE, HEALTHCARE, FINANCE, BANKING and TELECOM)

? Conduct business analysis for IT, HR and organizational change initiatives

? Execute initiatives from planning to implementation, complete SDLC (Systems Development

Lifecycle)

? Conduct GAP analysis, work on process changes, process testing and provide project

management support

? Facilitate trainings, testings, UAT, JAD sessions and presentations

? Execute project and process standards like BPMN (BPMN Specialist), documentation

standards

? Execute relationship building, effective coordination, clear communication, working

abilities with minimal supervision and highly appreciated work ethics

Served following clientele:

Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Florida, Jacksonville FL 8/20011 - 9/2011Sr. Policy Analyst/Strategy Consultant

? Work on executing policy on IBM ILOG implementation for Guidewell (Healthcare Product)

? Work on project planning, manpower analysis, feasibility analysis and requirement

analysis

? Work directly with the management/leadership team on evaluating the timelines for ILOG

implementation

? Work on coordinating IBM ILOG architecture for the new implementation

? Work on gathering and analyzing requirements for the new project phase

? Identify high level task list, deliverables, resources and timeline to implement new

IBM ILOG architecture

State of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 9/2009 to 6/2011Sr. Business Analyst/Strategy Consultant

Project Role

1. Compensation System Integration (HR)

Project Coordinator

2.

Organizational Change Project Project Coordinator

3. Compliance Monitoring System Lead Business Analyst

4. Performance Management System (HR) Strategy Consultant

5. ILOG BRMS Management(Mortgage) Business Analyst (Mortgage)

6. Organizational Change Management Coordinator/Lead BA

? Work with the CIO and senior leadership team on various IT and organizational change

projects

? Help in creating vision and strategy planning for long term organization goals

? Work on developing organization wide process/people changes and change management

planning

? Develop standards for business requirements gathering, Use Cases, Wire Frames and

project management

? Gather and document business functional, non-functional requirements and test cases

? Involve in strategy planning, upgrade and implementation of current and future systems

? Involve in relationship building with vendors and cross teams for the assessment for

future projects and endeavors across the organization

? Standardization/documentation of business and IT processes using Project Management

standards

? Develop and recommend IT solutions for HR services (Successfactors)

? Create, register, define, classify, and manage mortgage business rules as per business

rules engine (ILOG BRMS)

? Involve in Risk analysis, GAP analysis and communication planning for mortgage products

? Coordinate trainings and project related day to day activities of multiple projects

? Develop business process modeling standards based on BPMN, create stencil for process

modeling

State of Nebraska, Department of Healthcare (DHHS), Lincoln, NE 06/2008 to 08/2009Business Process Modeling Specialist/Sr. Business Analyst

(Organizational Change Management Group)

? 70 million dollar effort of implementation and management of new MMIS system.

? Worked on gathering business requirements (Functional and Nonfunctional requirements)

and data validation/mapping for Claims process, Provider, Drug rebate business areas (.NET

3.5 Framework)

? Developed business process diagrams for as-is and to-be processes and organizational

structure

? Worked as a liaison between the technical, cross functional, Data Modeling and Client

teams.

? Worked on CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) checklist, MITA, HIPPA and

GAP analysis

? Conducted JAD sessions for requirements analysis and design documentation needs.

? Created Logical and Physical design documents & BPMN standards and stencil for the

project.

? Created/edited business rules (BizTalk). Created and maintained activities in

Sharepoint.

? Created inventory of notifications/alerts/warnings to be designed in the new system.

? Assisted Data Modeling team for gathering required data elements for the data model and

performed data model reviews using SQL

? Created requirements traceability matrix (RTM), GUIs, screen mock-ups, report

prototypes

NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, Maryville, MO 09/2006 to 04/2008Graduate Assistant & Coordinator: Computer Science and Information Services Department

? Worked directly with the chairperson

? Worked on budget evaluation

? Liaison for the chair, faculty & workers.

? Supervised 50 student workers

? Planning and organization of labs

? Scheduling and time charts

? Prepared standardized documentation on compensation and work ethics

? Conducted manpower & requirement analysis

? Coordinated hiring process and departmental projects

? Designing layouts for college station

? Developed solutions for station director

? Conducted meetings and documented policies

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, New Delhi 07/2004 to 05/2006Engineer/Business Consultant

? 300 million dollar effort for implementing new wide area network for the federal

government

? Assisted senior management in planning the course of action for the project and the

organizational changes

? Involved in making communications with the third parties, client and federal government

officials

? Involved in conducting site surveys and generating survey reports (Data analysis using

SQL)

? Created flowcharts and Business Process flow diagrams (BPD) for the flow of the data

across the network

? Created models for the deployment of the wide area network across two states

? Created models for the as-is and to-be organizational diagrams

? Worked on manpower, Financial & Technical planning for the projects and conducted

feasibility analysis

? Prepared RFP documents and worked on Bid floating and Bid evaluation

? Supervised project implementation and maintenance

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Concentration in MIS 05/2008

Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO USA

Bachelor in Engineering Electronics and Telecommunications 05/2004

North Maharashtra University, MS India

Certifications

Capability Maturity Model Training (CMMI)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

References

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