Supply Chain Data

Sean Keady

Minneapolis, MN ***** 612-***-**** *******@*****.*** LinkedIn

Motivated Business Analysts with 10 years’ experience in developing roadmaps, improving processes, soliciting requirements and Agile story mapping. Strong communication skills in defining project benefits, risks, and opportunities with business users, key stakeholders and senior leadership. Proven problem solving skills with legacy dependencies, system limitations, and competing resources.

Skills & Abilities

Road-mapping / Release Planning / Project Plans / Timeline Updates

Requirements Soliciting / Definition / Goal Mapping / Traceability to Testing

Business Capability Framework mapping systems to business processes and data needs

Idea Generating thru Six Sigma, Lean Value Streams, Process Mapping, and Scrum Story Mapping

Value definition with Wireframing and Prototyping

Experience

Workflow Tool/New Systems Design – Sr Business Analyst - Scrum Team (Feb 2015- Oct 2016)

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Led Story Mapping sessions across five business areas that would utilize new product

Quantified story maps/business processes into measurable goals attached to team OKR’s

Worked with new Product Owner splitting stories and including acceptance criteria and dependencies

While waiting for new developers, coded systems enhancements in existing Excel-VBA program to include new data for forecasting and budget.

Generated working wireframes, demonstrating automation options available which were previously deemed unattainable. New automation generated floor plans within minutes versus existing manual process taking hours.

.Net / Oracle Systems Rewrite – Sr Business Analyst/PO – Scrum Team (Jul 2014- Feb 2015)

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Implemented VersionOne backlog / converted existing Excel stories into tool / trained team on tool

Created initial Epics and Stories while training in new Product Owner

Led Standups / Sprint Planning / Sprint Reviews

Led backlog grooming sessions with total team for training of business process and improved understanding of user needs across team

Wrote queries to Oracle and SQL databases to define different data needs for stories as well as testing

Performed UAT testing for functional, non-functional and data needs

Rewrote custom application to on screen reporting, allowing more user interaction and reporting that increased system usage from 20% to 100%.

Wrote business process documentation on how to use systems and how to resolve user issues

Stabilized systems, reducing issues 50% and decreasing system implementation time by 3 weeks.

Supply Chain Oracle Systems Rewrite – Portfolio Business Analyst (Jun 2010 – Jul 2014)

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Led JAD sessions defining project Goals and Objectives which enabled prioritizing high level requirements and developing Project roadmap.

Created Business Capability Framework detailing products/process needs of business which fed into new semantic data model

Created “As-Is” and “To-Be” process flows that started at system level and moved down to individual user interaction with screen linking high level processes to individual user inputs.

Utilized process flows to write use case requirements on API requirements, ETL syncing requirements, database structure as well as NFR’s.

Tested data amounts by utilizing SQL queries to both DB2 and Oracle to ensure requirements matched current and future business processes.

Utilized UML Diagrams (Unified Modeling Language) to define amount of data needs for business process and later non-functional requirement needs for each system process.

Implemented Agile process of requirements review, ensuring consistent updating of user stories requirements through documentation, non-functional requirements (NFRs) and technical design allowing opportunities to enhance the product. New process identified opportunities combining many smaller applications together while reducing over-all coding time and effort.

Managed 6 business analysts through requirements and use cases, change management, development reviews, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and test cases. Reduced custom code from 39 applications to 6 custom applications with easier updatable third-party application.

Generated brainstorming sessions to resolve Waterfall implementation issues with ETL. Developed new rollout process allowing to implement by business area versus Big Bang minimizing outage windows and increasing stability.

Rolled out program with dramatic decrease in user issues, process times, and custom code, allowing future upgrades to be completed within 2-3 weeks versus previous 9-month process.

Supply Chain Product Forecasting – Senior Business Analyst (Apr 2008 – Jun 2010)

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Documented detailed requirements for coding, testing, training, and support operations. Defined and managed scope to update forecasting tool to deliver key business goals while addressing existing production issues.

Developed requirements for new assortment forecasting application allowing merchants to plan their assortments down to a store cluster level replacing previous company level planning

Tested data amounts by utilizing SQL queries to ensure requirements matched current and future business processes data needs.

Improved product forecasting and planning abilities by implementing logic allowing for both tops down and bottom up allocations.

Utilized Web Analytics to understand user movements on and off screens which led to improved filter and tab placements

Created 4 supply chain reports, improving visibility to product shortages.

Received Supply Chain VP Award in Excellence for “Greatest improvement on a development team.”

Supply Chain Forecasting/Reporting – Business Analyst (Aug 2006 – Apr 2008)

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Documented requirements for 12 JScript reports detailing product shipments from country of origin to the physical store. Integrated shipping with inventory to allow for forecasting of inventory.

Managed several smaller enhancements such as store label updates due to state laws, scoping efforts in system impacts due to 3-5-year growth expectations of data, and customized JDA software to improve product placements in planograms.

Senior Product Support Representative (Feb 2000 – Apr 2006)

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN

Directed a cross-functional team, involving organizations both vertically and horizontally to achieve improved system capacity and monitoring, communication and a reduction of overall issues across technical areas during critical peak business periods.

Subject matter expert (SME) and key liaison between business and IT pyramid.

Managed incident recovery for suite of Merchant and Supply Chain applications

Research system issues for trends and solutions

Managed change management processes for Merchant and Supply Chain applications

EDUCATION / ASSOCIATIONS

Bachelors of Arts (BA) Business Administration UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS, St. Paul, MN

Mini (MBA) Lean Enterprise Management UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS, St. Paul, MN

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) – Agile Alliance, 2016

IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) Member

SYSTEMS

Microsoft Office, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, VersionOne, JIRA, Confluence, Axure Wireframing,

Excel with VBA, Access with SQL, Tableau

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