SAMUIEL MESSIHA
**** ****** *** *****. ***********, Florida 32309.
**************@*****.***
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Over 20 years successfully applying methodology improving operations efficiencies and
productivity through the use of state-of-the-art technologies.
Over 12 year Java developer.
Awarded Davis productivity award for improving the productivity in Child Support
Enforcement System (CSE).
Accomplish software engineer with extensive background in project full life cycle process
including requirement gathering, design, coding, testing, debugging and maintenance.
Developed and marketing my own small business Payroll system software.
Certified Enrolled Agent (EA) by IRS (USA).
Previously member of Canadian Banker Association.
Knowledge of Insurance industry business.
Fluent in English and Arabic also knowledgeable in French and German.
Objective:
A challenging position on the business processes as a Senior Business Analyst and provide
an effective and efficient solution which would assist organization to get the finest
solution in a business which could increase productivity.
Introduction:
Over 20 years of experience in IT. Expert in developing, implementing and maintaining
financial systems in variety of industries.
Recent EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Information Depot Of Florida; LLC.
January 2012Present. Position: The President of the company.
Dealing face to face with the clients and discover their individual needs and wants.
Helping the clients achieve their financial goal not just with web design, but also web
hosting, search engine optimization and marketing. Provide all businesses located with a
reliable, low cost entry point to the World Wide Web. Create deeply enriching, creative
fully functioning website. Design websites in a cost effective manner, whether is a simple
website with just a few pages or a full blown e-commerce shopping cart system. Graphic
Design, JavaScript, CGI, CSS, and HTML.
Department of Children and Family (DCF)Computer Consultant, Contractor
.
17 years of experience working as
computer consultant with The State of Florida,
Department of Children and Families (DCF). As a senior computer consultant, support and
significantly improving the following systems:
Child Support Enforcement (CSE),
Public Assistant (PA) and
Child in Care (CIC) systems.
Duties and Achievements
Re-engineered many of Financial Management System (FM) programs that led to reduce the
run time from around 22 hours to 2.5 hours. This was a module for other programmers to
Process Management
Development of estimates for projects.
Contribution to defining time tables and project plans.
Assisting in the definition of milestones.
Analyze business stakeholder requirements and translate into functional specifications
Develop use cases, wireframes, and UML diagrams. Advanced troubleshooting of application
and data conversion issues Support CRM integration and upgrade projects Develop test
scripts Conduct integration and functional testing Support UAT testing, verification, and
sign-off process.
Participated in meetings with managers and understood different business process, process
plans and functionality in detail. This assisted arrange Integration Test Plans which was
utilized by the functional team and the development team for performing detailed testing
on business application.
Analyze customer issues and provide recommendations to improve business performance.
Project Coordination
High level design/code/test plan reviews.
Manages and tracks changes to system requirements throughout the development, testing and
maintenance lifecycle, maintaining accurate documentation at all times.
Coordination of process improvement.
Facilitation of technical/functional/industry trainings.
Participated in groundwork of Project plans, user acceptance tests.
Involved in different activities of projects such as information meeting, analyzing it,
documenting business/functional supplies.
Involved in different activities of projects such as information meeting, analyzing it,
documenting business functional supplies.
Application Design
Design of new systems.
Analyzes manual processes and translates into automated processes, identifying necessary
triggers and dependent events. Also, recommends alternative process options that would
have advantages from a technical perspective.
Translate functional requirements into technical requirements.
Responsible for organizing Functionality Test Plans which was utilized by the testing
team during a testing process.
Responsible for recognizing new processes, finding out breaks in current processes,
organizing training sections for new process developments and completion.
Maintains continuous communication with end user and developers throughout development
and testing lifecycle to ensure final product meets requirements and expected outcomes of
the customer, to include both functionality and interface.
Application Development
Evaluates complex client area requirements and processes.
Expert in translating business requirements into specific software requirements.
Conducts analysis of organizational goals for the development implementation of
application systems.
Review and refine test cases, scenarios and scripts to ensure applications quality.
Prepare the test environment, create test transactions and run component/assembly/system
tests for conformance to standards and adherence to design specifications.
Analyze customer issues and provide recommendations to improve business performance.
Assists programmers in developing UML diagrams, prototypes and pseudo code from customer
requirement documentation.
Assists Quality Assurance team in developing and executing test plan and scripts and
establish the baseline testing.
Responsible for organizing Functionality Test Plans which was utilized by the testing
team during a testing process.
Wrote test-plans and test-cases of business procedure/application.
Documentation
Review documentation for the user describing the installation, use, and customization of
products and services as necessary.
Uses product design specifications to direct development of useful documentation, help
functions, and features.
Document customer requirements clearly using Word, Visio diagrams, and flowcharts.
Facilitates reporting and special data analysis projects.
Create and develop routine and custom reports through use of company reporting tools and
systems
Responsible for creating various daily reports which was utilized by Sr. staffs in
Organization.
Skills
Expert in translating business requirements into specific software requirements.
Expert in both technical designs and programming specifications.
Expert in relational database concepts, Client Server concepts, and Object Oriented
application.
Expert in IBM Cognos BI Report Studio.
Expert in Microsoft Office Suite including Access, Visio, Excel, Word & PowerPoint.
Expert in Quick Books.
Expert in Database design IMS, DB2, and MS ACCESS.
Knowledgeable of Agile and Scrum methodologies.Researches, evaluates and recommends technical solutions.
Achievements
Develop and maintain programs used by Florida Modules. Support the user in solving
technical problems and suggesting new improvements to reduce the run time and increase
productivity.
Worked on run time improvement for production run using productivity tools like STROB and
XPEDITER. I had reduced the run time for one of Financial Management (FM) module from 22
hours to 2.5 hours. It became a module for other to follow.
Create and standardize the checkpoints and restart procedure for batch programs. This
procedure saved a lot of time debugging the programs and data.
Create exit routine to expand the existing databases.
Preparing and Teaching complete courses in IMS DB/DC, TELON and Microsoft Office Products
(Access, Project, Excel, Power Point, and Word). Create all the courses related materials
and presentations.
Mentoring and training over 130 programmers in TELON and other technical areas.
Develop a pilot project to convert the online programs (625 screens) to internet using
Neon software, html, Java, J2EE, JavaScript.
Working with a team to immigrate CSE programs and Databases to SAP R/3.
Within the Department of Children and Family State of Florida, Tallahassee. As a senior
computer consultant contractor in (DCF) had working in different companies based on
general contractor.
WOW Global. March 2006 January 15th, 2912. Position: Senior Consultant.
Information Depot Of Florida; LLC. April 2004April 2006
. Position: The President of
the company
Systems Development Solutions Inc. April 1999April 2004. Position: Vice President
Unisys. December 1998March 1999. Position: Senior Consultant
.
Computer Horizons,
Tampa, Florida, USA. September 1994July 1998. Position: Senior
Consultant
.
Blue Cross Blue ShieldComputer Consultant, Contractor
.
Jacksonville, Florida. Maxim Group. July 1998December 1998. Position: Senior
Consultant.
Develop and Implement exit routines to convert the dates in the databases.
Get trained and develop programs using SAP FI/CO modules for Client, Billing, and
Accounting Systems.
The Bank of Nova Scotia.
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. May 1st, 1989 May 31st, 1994. Position: Senior Programmer
Analyst.
Prepare analyses on financial and expense performance.
Review expenditures of requisitioning departments to ensure conformance to budget.
Develop and implement program for Retirement Saving Plan (RSP), Registered Retirement
Income Fund (RRIF), Mutual Fund, annuity, Insurance, and VISA Card systems.
Joint the Canadian Banker Association after completing graduate financial courses in
University of Toronto. These courses include Mutual Fund, Stocks and Pound, and financing
new projects required for IPO and Communication.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor's degree (BSC.) in Industrial (production) Engineering;
Collage of Engineering, Alexandria University; Alexandria, Egypt