Project Management/Analysis

Wasim Hassan Syed

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Professional Summary

A result oriented individual with two years of diversified experience in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Software testing in the Retail and Finance industry.

Performed planning and development of Test Plans/Cases/ Scenarios to meet product’s business requirements.

Knowledgeable experience in gathering user and Business Process Requirements (BPR), creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Specifications Documents (FSD); used applied statistics and data integration to create business modules and financial design for financial projection of expense and cash flow.

Expertise in Project Planning, Project Design, creating functional specifications and data flow diagrams.

Strong communication skills: ability to communicate and gather requirements from stakeholders and multiple departments through interviews and surveys: ability to conduct JAD sessions.

Certified Scrum Master Currently studying to obtain CAPM certification – Associate Project Manager

Language/Technical Skills

Front End Tools: MS Office, MS Word, MS Project Professional, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Databases: MS Excel, SQL Server

Testing/Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, SQL Server Reporting Services

Business Modeling Tools: iRise, MS Visio

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum

PMIS: SharePoint

Team player, enabler and a self-starter with excellent communication, technical and business documentation, executive presentation, project planning and interpersonal skills.

Proven ability to work under pressure, adept at handling multiple priorities and projects with strong analytical and problem solving skills, and able to meet deadlines.

Professional Experience

CollegeScript: New York, NY July 2015 - Current

Associate Project Managerial Intern

This project is for a new start-up social networking company strictly for college students. The project consists on identifying requirements and establishing clear objectives in the marketing/advertisement field, as well as managing a team of IT developers and analysts in updating the website and developing promotional strategies.

Developed project charter/project management plan with upper management and lead project manager.

Communicated with stakeholders to update new requirements as well as analyze potential risks through Progressive Elaboration.

Aided in developing project life cycle with lead project manager.

Gathered requirements with analytical team through the life cycle, specifically through execution stage.

Cognosante Healthcare: Hoboken, NJ (Remote) Feb 2015 – July 2015

EDI Business Analyst

This project was focused on 1095-A medical tax forms and extracting data from HICS, EDBO, and government databases to perform analysis based off consumers’ requests.

Creation of meeting agendas and documentation.

Created analysis of medical forms based on consumer’s requests; made decisions based off research from large government databases.

Used analysis to create statistical data graphs and charts for presentations for upper management.

Trained new employees in performing analysis and extracting data precisely.

Worked as a liaison between the subject matter experts, IT development, and analysts to define, document, and execute business processes.

Used SharePoint regularly for gathering and organizing documents and cases.

Electronic Concept: New York, NY Oct 2013 – July 2014

Business Analyst

This project was for creating an online database for selling products and services: Ecommerce. I was actively involved in gathering requirements needed to sell through Amazon, Ebay, and other third party companies.

Evaluated business requirements for enterprise business applications integration while delivering new/modified enhancements.

Collaborated with senior management, functional managers, and IT development to plan business and technology initiatives to formulate ecommerce methods.

Highlighted any potential risks to the environment, analyzed bugs.

Analyzed consumer surveys and gave technical inputs in Business meetings.

Monitored progress against business functionality, requested objectives to ensure that projects meets the specific release criteria.

Worked directly with software engineers to ensure clear communication on requirements and analyzing defect reports.

Pearson Education: Upper Saddle River, NJ June 2012 - Sept 2012

Junior Financial Analyst Intern

Primarily focusing on a database project called SPRING, in which multiple databases would fall into one new database. Compiled data for annual reports, budgets and cash flows reports from previous databases.

Gathered Requirements from Managers, Technical Team and Business Users; experience with V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, using Microsoft Excel.

Analyzed and Reviewed database sales and transactions to ensure proper numbers through auditing and transformation into new SPRING database.

Created weekly revenue reporting and insights while developing dashboards with key performance indicators and tools to drive incremental revenue.

Communicated through financial presentations of data findings of financial reports, cost analysis, and revenue.

Learned about audit reporting as well as analyzing invoices and management.

Through analysis, created recommendations with Finance team to improve operations through business meetings and the use of Microsoft PowerPoint.

Education

Pace University: Lubin School of Business, New York, NY

BBA in Finance & Management; August 2013

PMI – Project Management Institute - PMBOK

CAPM – Certified Associate Project Manager Course; Current

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