Arun John
Business Analysis Professional with Product and Project Management Experience
ITIL certified and CBAP trained, Business Analysis professional with 8 years’ experience, seeking for challenging roles in product or service based companies.
Door No. 57, 3rd cross Omkar Nagar
Arekere Gate, Bangalore, 76
***********@*****.*** / 812-***-****
Skills
Technical
Business Analysis – 7.2 years
Agile/Scrum- 5 years
MSSQL
VB.Net
Test case creation and Manual Testing
Customer Service
Information security and Vulnerability check
Domain experience in e-Commerce, Retail, BFSI, Hospital, CRM and ERP, CMS based projects.
Handled projects done using PHP/MySQL, WordPress, Drupal, Magento and .Net
Knowledge of: MS Excel, SaaS, RPA, Service Now, Clarity, MS Office, SalesForce, Jira, Python, Visio, MS Project, MS Dynamics.
Soft Skills
Write stories and poems
Anchoring
Engage audience with fun activities
Debate
Work Experience
Aptean
Sr. Business Analyst Aug 2015 –
Responsibilities
Study the products of Aptean and their licensing methods.
Working with product leads/managers to formulate and document business requirements
Get hands on experience in license generation and issue licenses as requirements rises.
Identifying, investigating, and analysing business processes, procedures and work practices
Identifying and evaluating inefficiencies and recommending optimal business practices, and system functionality and behaviour
Using project management methodologies, principles and techniques to develop project plans and to cost, resource and manage projects
Worked with SaaS upgrade of the product.
Taking responsibility for deploying functional solutions, such as creating, adopting and implementing system test plans, which ensure acceptable quality and integrity of the system
Take part in merger and acquisitions of new companies and figure out the licensing part of new products.
Refine and streamline the licensing process of Aptean.
Educate the teams and managers about the best practices to be followed for licensing.
Achievements
Helped in meeting and exceeding quarterly and yearly target within first 3 months of joining.
Prepared the cost and risk analysis for the major products of Aptean.
Suggested initial outline of the prospective software to be developed
Guided a product team in creating their own prototype licensing software.
Target India (On payroll of Adecco)
Project Coordinator May 2014 – July 2015
Responsibilities
Create change requests for the managers to present in Change advisory board.
Create the tasks for changes and assign to respective resources
Working with project teams to formulate and document requirements.
Arrange for CAB meeting and document the necessary details
Create and handle incidents as and when situation rises
Do the basic trouble shooting for cameras in US stores as well as other Target locations.
Ensure the ITIL process is followed in all phase of the project handled.
Resource management using the tool Clarity
Problem management using tool Service Now
Achievements
Took care of MQ/MB upgrade project, without much prior information and successfully completed upgrading 1500 stores within scheduled time.
Started and completed cameras security compliance project and updated passwords for cameras in nearly 2000 stores. Approximately 100,000 cameras were taken care of.
Apart from doing the project coordination work, did the technical side of the work myself which consists of password changing and troubleshooting the offline cameras.
TTK Services
Sr. Project Coordinator Nov 2011 – May 2014
Responsibilities
Working with customers to formulate and document business requirements. Mostly the requirements were gathered over calls.
Identifying, investigating, and analyzing business processes, procedures and work practices
Identifying and evaluating inefficiencies and recommending optimal business practices, and system functionality and behavior
Using project management methodologies, principles and techniques to develop project plans and to cost, resource and manage projects
Taking responsibility for deploying functional solutions, such as creating, adopting and implementing system test plans, which ensure acceptable quality and integrity of the system
Liaising between the team members and customers.
Identifies and communicates with users to formulate and produce a requirements specification to create system and software solutions.
Set up and facilitate daily scrum meetings for project progress. Record the development of each project and help members with issues, if any.
Ensure the software id up and working. Sign-off the project.
Worked using WordPress. Help customers with minor issues
Achievements
Increased the client base of the company.
Company started a separate website for software services, which was earlier just a part of main website.
Team size increased from 6 to nearly 20.
Managed multi-faceted projects from basic Word Press projects to complicated MVC based projects.
Created web pages myself for a client even being non-technical person.
Got appreciation from clients personally.
Ahalia International
Software Developer Jan 2011 – Nov 2011
Responsibilities
Working with users to formulate business requirements. Check with the hospital employees about the requirements.
Document business requirements. Created the documents as per the instructions by in-charge of each department in Ahalia.
Create design for the software using .Net framework. The design will be approved by the team lead before proceeding with development.
Create the database design discussing with team lead. Worked using MSSQL 2008.
Develop the software. VB.Net was used for developing the front-end and back-end of the software.
Deploying functional solutions, such as creating, adopting and implementing system test plans, which ensure acceptable quality and integrity of the system. Testing too was done by us as the team size was less.
Deploy the software in premises. Software need to be deployed in the corresponding departments. Train the people there, on the functionalities.
Maintenance of the software. Issues need to be trouble-shooted as and when it occurs.
Achievements
Studied and started working on VB.Net within a month, even though being formally trained in C#.Net
Brought up the idea of patient tracking system and implemented it in the hospital.
Developed and implemented most of the required software for new Ahalia Diabetes hospital.
Education
Courses
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
CDAC, Trivandrum (CUSAT University) 2007 - 2010
Post-graduate professional course for computer applications. Had Math and Statistics as subsidiary subjects in first semester. Completed this from one of reputed institutions in India, CDAC.
Bachelor of Science, Statistics
St. Thomas College, Thrissur (Calicut University) 2004 -2007
Graduation in Statistics. Had Physics and Math as subsidiary subjects.
Certifications
ITIL Foundation
Simplilearn 2014
Completed ITIL certification with 98% mark.
License: GR750121242AJ
Diploma in Project Management
Alison Online 2013
Studied and completed this online course during the time I was working in TTK services.
Diploma in .Net Technologies
NIIT 2010
Studied .Net framework and related technologies like Ajax and CSS.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 6 January 1987
Nationality: Indian
Current Location: Bangalore
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil
Reference
Available on Request