Ali Tinwala

**** *. ***** **. ****, TX

806-***-**** ac4j4n@r.postjobfree.com

Business Analyst Project Management Data Analysis

Process Improvement Trilingual Solution Focused

Accomplished and integrity-driven Business Analyst with a proven track record analyzing complex issues and developing solutions to support business objectives. Recognized as a leader with strengths in reengineering businesses processes utilizing data/statistical analysis to provide dynamic alternatives. Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at facilitating discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders.

Selected Highlights

Proven track record in planning and executing projects among cross-functional, high-matrix organizations.

Effectively manage multiple priorities, and perform well under pressure in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.

Adept in project organization and management, problem resolution and data documentation.

Excellent interpersonal skills, hard work and dedication have built up a reputation for being positive and honest in communicating to all levels of personnel while being flexible in problem solving.

Core Competencies

Information Technology

Interpersonal Skills

Crisis Management

Complex Problem Resolver

Quality Assurance

Data Analysis

Accuracy and Detail Orientated

Multi-Task/Prioritize Effectively

Business Acumen

Self-Managed and Self-Motivated

Cross Team Collaboration

Delivery Focus

Professional Experience

Oil States International Houston, TX Sept 2016 – Current

Business System Analyst

Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals, and identify and resolve systems issues.

Participate in design sessions in prototyping new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow.

Conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and to support purchasing efforts.

Create systems models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmers.

Halliburton Houston, TX May 2015 – April 2016

Business Analyst - QA

Elicited workshops and working sessions with functional groups to create 2 of 11 test plans to streamline project commencement.

Cross-collaborated with the functional and technical analysts to provide support in creating test plans for the remaining process areas.

Defined the As-Is process with the functional team by creating a process diagram using Visio to identify gaps in technology and processes.

Proactively communicate and collaborate with project team members to analyze business needs and dependencies as part of the two Product Service Line (PSL) divestitures.

Assisted both my project managers in developing metrics and status reports in relations to upcoming key milestones, risks and mitigations, and accomplishments.

Worked closely with project managers, developers, testers, and product owners to ensure all testing activities occur in a timely fashion and to the level of quality demanded by the business.

Frequently perform application reconciliation at a scope management level across 11 project tracks to keep with constant application scope changes.

Managed multiple projects and maintained deadlines in SharePoint and Project server.

Continuous collaboration between 9 business analyst to own and complete requirement traceability matrix between the various projects.

Conduct triage meetings using Agile methodology across all teams in respect to their functional areas for bug defect management and resolution using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and HP Quality Center.

Developed SharePoint sub sites to track project activity within multiple departments, creating a centralized and cohesive work environment.

Sat with project manager and delivery manager to outline schedule, milestones, resources and budget using MS Project.

Assisted in creation of the implementation strategy/cutover list and schedule using Project for all of the 22 functional areas with Cutover lead and Project Manager.

With the team of 11, we provisioned the movement and Cutover of over 2,000 tasks and sub-tasks for the divestiture project. Overseeing the entire disposition from infrastructure to mobile devices to applications.

Prepared Cutover strategy, identification of cutover objects, and coordination with various project managers in respect to their process area for smooth migration of SAP and Non-SAP landscape from Halliburton's domain to DivestCo domain.

Created process maps/flows using Visio to identify roles and responsibility between the different functional areas during our blackout rehearsal.

Neudesic – HESS Houston, TX Oct 2014 – April 2015

Business Analyst

Ownership of all deliverables, including FSDs and TSDs among the cross functional teams, ensuring consistency and level of detail is in parallel to the stakeholders requirements.

Led scrum and status meetings with various internal teams to identify impendent issues.

Liaison between business stakeholders, IT team consultants and 3rd party vendors.

Gathered, analyzed and documented detailed business requirements, functional and technical spec with the appropriate teams.

Conducted interviews, meetings, JAD sessions during the process of gathering requirements.

Interpret customer business needs and translate them into unambiguous business requirements for proper BRD creation.

Coordinated development, testing and implementation of 32+ interfaces across Success Factors through BizTalk to 3rd party applications.

Worked with all teams on B2B integration project HR module, transitioning from SAP HCM to SAP cloud Employee Central.

Supported SAP consultants in developing, configuring and modifying interfaces based off of FSDs for the SAP Success Factors HRT project.

Liaison between the SAP Success Factor configuration team and the SAP Success Factors data migration team.

Converted functional requirements into a workflow design using Visio for a concise and visual point of view.

Worked closely with offshore team personnel and application vendors to manage testing and issue resolutions.

Assisted in administrating SharePoint by adding/changing/removing users and creating user group permissions for various sites, updating/uploading content, changing navigation and configuring views among countless of users involved in the project.

Developed, build and maintained relationships with key business customers and other stakeholders, to ensure continued alignment with their business objectives and strategies.

Analyzed data segments and data structure between test files and source/target documents from Success Factors system to 3rd party sub-systems.

Applied formal project management methodologies and reporting practices in line with E&P IT PMO project guidelines and principles, to ensure timely and effective delivery of the HRT project.

Service Corporation International Houston, TX July 2012 – Sept 2014

Business Analyst

Researched and analyzed scope, time, and cost using MS Project with project managers.

Liaise between the business and IT teams for deployment of new enhancements using UX methodology and mockup process for value-add usage of HMIS ERP application.

Gathered and documented business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and other deliverables required by the project as determined by the project manager.

Adhere project guidelines based on business functional specs and business rules while revising use cases created in earlier phase to reflect system and user correlation.

Transition software development efforts to a test-driven development process, bringing QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for improvements in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity.

Collaborated with several teams performing testing in an implementation model (UAT) to capture development requirements in an iterative software development life cycle.

Utilize reporting tools such as VSTS for testing and identifying bugs in use case scenarios while regression testing, negative testing and error/bug retests for agile development.

Successfully prioritized and planned design for application enhancements, integration and upgrades.

Ensured accuracy and detailed solutions to issues and deficiencies while following quality assurance and implementing quality control methodologies.

Provided business analysis and coordinate activities to achieve goals of IT projects, including system design, implementation and production support of the HMIS system for the client’s business needs.

Attended high-level status meetings to derive and execute action plans, meeting project deadlines and standards.

Versatile consult on impact assessments to Production environments and process improvement; for projects such as, Microsoft connectivity issue, AZ052 interface, and technical parameters for the OAS application to successfully operate on end users hardware for a more robust productivity.

Administer security functions overseeing 10,000 plus users with their security access to our HMIS application via SQL Server.

Performed Data Analysis using excel, SQL, and other tools necessary to query the database and generate reports.

Managed multiple projects concurrently and spearheaded initiatives to increase the efficiency and adeptness within the organization.

Education

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2012

Bachelors in Management Information System

GPA: 3.4

Additional Credentials

Technical Skills

Languages

Microsoft Office Suite (Power Excel User), Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook,

Microsoft SQL Server, MS Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), Visio, Lync, CMS (Joomla), VMware, JIRA, Heat/Heat Cloud, HTML, Footprints, SAP/ Success Factors/Employee Central, SQL, ASP.NET, UX/UI, HP Quality Center, Team Foundation Server, JD Edwards and RTMS.

Trilingual – Urdu, Guajarati and Hindi

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