Vincent Anderson

719-***-****

Colorado Springs, CO

personal email: ac5102@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications

Business Analyst with over 20 years in the Information Technology Industry. Excellent analytical skills with a clear understanding of technical capabilities and the practical application to business processes. Committed to improving business performance by leveraging Agile methodology to improve code development to the production environment.

Core Competencies

Business Analysis System Analysis Data Mapping

SDLC Requirements Analysis Project Management

Test Planning Managed cost and schedules Agile/Scrum

CRM system (Salesforce) Experienced with JIRA

Technical Tools

SQL Server 2016 ETL software Excel

PowerPoint Project Visio

UML (Unified Modeling Language)

Professional Experience

CoBank

Business Analyst, 01/13/208 to current

Interviewed financial business representatives for their business needs and translated the needs into technical software requirements by the use of use cases, flowcharts and swim lanes and Agile user stories. Actively participated in the transformation of a legacy CRM system to Salesforce.

From creating user cases and understanding the business needs, determined the specific business application as a solution for the requirements, such as Cloud storage, using SQL instead of another language due to performance issues and existing third party solutions for financial application.

Presented formal design documents and requirements documents based on my work with the financial business representatives and researching previous historical documents. On a weekly basis I present the project(s) status and any software issues and the timeline for their resolution. This is accomplished by working closely with Quality Assurance and Testing.

Progressive Insurance Company

Business Analyst, 03/03/2014 to 10/18/2017

Developed and ran SQL queries for the fraud detection project, Queries were used to select insurance claims based on the insured, family names, location and other pertinent information. Reports were generated based on the findings and submitted to the fraud detection group.

Business Analyst for an ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) data mapping project. The project involved mapping data between the source systems and the target data mart for claim records. The project involved translating business requirements into functional requirements.

Improving business performance by leveraging agile methodology to improve code development to the production environment. Used JIRA software in connection with agile methodology to create user stories, tracking the sprint progress and software defect issues.

Created test plans and test cases by the use of the UML software and Visio charts, Developed and ran automated test scripts to pinpoint software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality. Serve as a value-adding member of QA teams

Performed system analysis work on legacy agent interfaces to an enhanced web application to improve cross-sell of polices and a better perspective of the policy components. Participated in the initial planning and requirements gathering, consisting of data mapping and user case documentation.

Lead weekly meetings with the stakeholders to update and receive requirements feedback, in order to keep the applications focused on the salesforce’s (direct agents) requirements.

Responsible for the gathering of business requirements for new application program projects; then designing a Product Breakdown Structure to divide the project into workable Agile iterations. I consulted with the business group to verify the business architecture is inline within the expectations of the project.

Established weekly “touch point” meetings to review and discover new iterations requirements and lead the team in writing story cards for the minimum coding needed (Agile process). The results were that the deliverables were met on time.

Worked with the application developers to help understand the perspective of the web site panels being designed (headers, sections and field labels) and resolved issues with web panel placements.

System Engineering Service (SES)

(contract position)

Business Analyst 04/05/2013 to 10/07/2013

Lead daily Agile Scrum meetings for application development and deployment. Identify roadblocks for software development, resolved these issues and plan for the next day’s activities. Presented burn down charts for review with the product owner. The sprints were 2 weeks in length with no delays migrating to the production platform. Prepared and presented slides at the retrospective meetings, to determine what tasks successful and what tasks needed improvement.

The Agile/Sprint software application used was JIRA with the Greenhooper component to track progress of the sprints. Greenhooper was used to determine and publish timelines for application project milestones reviewed and approved timesheets, produced weekly reports on progress and financial cost of projects.

Managed risks through mitigation plans for code delays and test platform resources. Worked with testers/quality assurance group to verify projects on schedule and provided timetable for production cutover.

Weekly status reports were submitted as well as face-to-face meetings with management to review the progress of the application projects/sprints.

Agilent Corporation

(contract position)

Business Analyst 06/01/2012 to 03/31/2013

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) software was implemented to assign sprint teams, set-up a build system, compile and execute code and management of the release to the production platform.

Lead the implementation of custom written application projects such as financial, inventory control and customer reporting programs. The projects were managed within the Agile Sprint environment. Daily Sprints were held to discuss roadblocks for the day and achievements of the development team. The software development projects ran within the task duration successfully.

Through the project backlog and daily Sprints, projects were completed on time by identify risks and migrating risks and performing dependency and gap analysis. Conducted project assurance reviews, assessed program management execution, quality of deliverables and “go-live” readiness of projects.

Lead cross-functional team to support each release project plan and post Release/Change review. Documented issues and the action taken to resolve the issues, to remain on the release time.

Developed scope documents and project time line for new in-house application releases, server installs and cabling and network connectivity; these functions were developed by TFS software. TFS was also use to determine the code to compile, determine the action for needed triggers a build and tests to run for UAT processing.

Catholic Health Initiatives

(contract position)

Systems Architect 03/25/2012 to 05/15/2012

Successfully completed a project release, involving business web servers, Oracle databases, application servers, applying maintenance and upgrades to the current release level. The project was under budget and no negative impact to the users, with no unscheduled down time.

The project release involved healthcare programs developed with Java and .Net, by Catholic Health Initiatives, to reduce the manual input of medical records and printout of records. Focus was to work through the implementation, testing, documentation and build of the project, TIBCO project management software was used for the release.

HP

(contract position)

Sr. Project Manager/Agile Scrum 03/15/2010 to 03/20/2012

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) was used to share and build application code, using Team Foundation version control (TFVC) component for the Global ITO transformation project. Project was to enhance existing applications and replacing legacy applications.

Using Agile Spring methodology, successfully worked with the Global ITO transformation project, tracking exceptions, funding sources and resolving funding limitations. Identifying reduction in expense costs in the vendor transformation for the return of investment (ROI). Developed and implemented the project for converting or eliminating vendor system applications. The result was a cost savings to HP through reduction of vendor contracts.

Verizon Business Corp

(contract position)

Business Analyst 12/01/08 to 03/14/2010

The software deployment was managed by the agile process, beginning with a sprint planning meeting, with the product owner and assigning know risks and timeline for completion. Major emphasis has been placed by me on the scope, risk, cost and other factors to ensure the software and business projects were fully funded and resources are available for a successfully implementation.

Worked with management and software designers for the implementation of new business features by publishing a report of requirements of business and service requirements, segmenting the project into test cases, determining need capacity and budget requirements.

Education

University of Missouri at Kansas City

Bachelor Degree

MidAmerica Nazarene University

MBA

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