Business Analyst, Project Manager Management
Resume:
DAVID E. DARRELL, MBA, PMP, CBAP
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Madison, Fl 32340 ac0wxe@r.postjobfree.com
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Business Analyst and Project Manager successful in all project areas from project inception through closeout. Experienced in manufacturing, governmental, investment, financial, retail,entetrtainment, and insurance industries. Skilled in business owner relationships, eliciting requirements, working with programmers, business areas, quality assurance, and onshore /onshore personnel.
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP)
Project BA for local and global Cross-functional Teams
Business and Technical Specifications Writer
Create Process, and project documentation for Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile Methodologies on multiple platforms
Research and Define Business Best Practices
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Business Analyst Oct 2016 – January 2017
Ciber Orlando, FL
Senior Business Analyst responsible for defining, elicitating new and existing business and technical requirements for a .net, java, and cloud based project using Agile methodology. Created project documentation for a major entertainment company client using Jira.
Senior Consultant Nov 2015 – July 2016
Mindtree Gainesville delivery Center, FL
Senior Business Analyst responsible for defining, elicitating new and existing business and technical requirements. Created project documentation for major insurance company client and trained company personnel on Agile methodology.
Business Analyst May 2011- Dec 2015
Walmart Information Service Division, Bentonville, AR
Business Analyst responsible for defining, elicitating new and existing business and technical requirements. Created project documentation for benefits, backroom, stock, compliance, finance, point of sale, and mobility, for project teams located in US, Latin America, Canada, China, United Kingdom and India using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
Project BA worked with four business stakeholders to create user stories for MC40 mobile handheld device system utilizing Java, and Cloud. Wrote the user stories necessary to deliver the backroom and manager functionality and capabilities on time.
Served as Scrum Master and project BA to create a third party alcohol system to reduce vendor waiting time and process in compliance with all state’s rules on alcohol sales. This resulted in a vendor time savings of four hours per delivery, tighter financial controls, increased on shelf availability, and over 500 million dollars savings. .
Assisted business owners to define and translate business needs and requirements into requirements for development by programmers.
Served as BA for platforms that ranged from Mainframe systems to web based and cloud environments.
Business Analyst (Project Manager) February 2005- April 2009
Allstate Workplace Division, Jacksonville, FL
Lead project manager responsible for defining existing and creating new business and technical requirements and documentation for mainframe health, life and supplemental insurance applications including regulation compliance.
Evaluated process, documentation and software tests to produce optimal efficiency and accuracy.
Assisted business owners to define and translate business needs and requirements into specifications for development by programmers.
Elicited business requirements, technical specifications and created use cases to define and test best practices. Successfully managed and completed an average of 38 projects with a dollar amount of less than $10,000 and three projects with a dollar amount of over $250,000 per year
Created a credit card payment system for main frame and web applications where none existed to include information security, accounting, billing, reporting, and passing files to the Clearing house file.
Interfaced mainframe system data to import/ export data files with other applications including web sites, data files, and data warehouses. Created data files formatted to be used in actuary system used for determining product costs.
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EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)
Business Analyst (Project Manager) Continued February 2005- April 2009
Allstate Workplace Division, Jacksonville, FL
Created Check Approval Process to include data modeling, security, accounting, printing of checks, and reporting. Process included mainframe, midframe, web, data imaging, and creation of written checks.
Developed and conducted Unit and System testing activities for all areas of the company including Accounting, Policy Owner Services, New Business, Commissions, and Actuarial resulting in quality improvement and increased customer satisfaction.
Business Analyst October 2004- February 2005
Huntington Group, Jacksonville, FL
Gathered business requirements, technical specifications and created use cases to define and test best practices for new business applications, interfaces, supplemental health insurance products, back office operations, and commission systems for a major insurance company.
Created data fields to be passed from one system to another. Created data models to determine important data fields.
Developed and instituted new SLDC process to ensure proper documentation and adherence to Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
Developed and conducted Unit and System testing activities for all areas of the company including Accounting, Policy Owner Services, New Business, Commissions, and Actuarial resulting in quality improvement and increased customer satisfaction.
Functional Business Analyst February 2002- September 2004
Tech2Business, Richmond, VA
Wrote business and technical requirements for test and user documentation for Medicare, Food Stamp, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and ADAPT, an application eligibility determination software used by Virginia State Government.
Researched and wrote business requirement documents and test plans ensuring user needs were properly documented and complied with regulations.
Tested TANF, Medicare and Food Stamp program enhancements setting internal best practices.
Updated Medicare tables using Unisys fourth generation language, MAPPER, and tested the changes within ADAPT.
Naval Supply Corps Officer
United States Navy Lieutenant 1978 – 1993
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION
Certified Business Analyst (CBAP), International Institute of Business Analysis 2013
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute 2006
Master of Business Administration, Tampa College, Tampa, FL, summa cum laude
Bachelor of Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Major: Biology; Minor: Computer Science Engineering
ADDITIONAL COURSES
Life Office Management Association (LOMA) Configuration Management and Electronics
Computer Programming Logistics, Transportation Process and Warehouse Operations
Certified Instructor for BA certification
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