Project Management - Senior Business Analyst

Imre Varkonyi

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Career Profile

Mr. Varkonyi is a senior business analyst that helps organizations solves their business problems with innovative solutions using available tools. He has extensive experience in Project Management, Business Transformation, Business Architecture, Business Analysis, IT management, Business Process Management, System Implementations, Asset Management coordination and analysis.

Mr. Varkonyi has applied his expertise to a wide array of projects, including implementing ERP systems, ECM solutions, imaging, LMS, BPMS and cloud based solutions in the medical, educational, aerospace, finance, construction and pharmaceutical sectors.

Mr. Varkonyi has also used his talents to help clients reduce their costs by optimizing business processes, helping to reduce hardware inventory ($1.8 million in savings), and negotiating requirements with users to reduce annual software maintenance costs ($250,000 annually).

Professional Experience

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Aug 2015 – Present

Project Lead – e-Portfolio Testing

Planning and preparing UAT & Integration testing of Cloud based Learning Management System that tracks Residents progress for attaining RCPSC Accreditation

Prepared RTM document to ensure compliance with complex BRD requirements.

Track test defect and issues in Jira

Business Analyst – Business Capability evaluation

Analyzing and defining the future state business model for a department at the College

Propose improvements to the roles and capabilities of departments to further align with the college strategic direction.

Business Analyst

Contributing to the selection of a WCM, portal, collaboration and ECM tool.

Preparing competitive analyses on cloud solutions to determine the best fit.

Proposing Strategic solutions to address Enterprise wide needs of collaboration on documents with external partners

Minto Communities Inc. 2009 - 2014

BUSINESS ARCHITECT

SAP Project Systems Module Lead

Minto Communities SAP solution was to enable the entire value chain from acquisition through sales, construction and eventually delivery of units to customers. The project encompassed financial planning, procure to pay, sales to cash, project accounting and project management cycles

Led a team of Business Stakeholders and SMEs in regular workshops to define the SAP Project Systems detailed business requirements to manage high and low rise residential construction projects

Worked with Business to define portfolio of projects for each individual type build and cost control and to develop and implement a governance solution for managing these projects and project templates.

Worked with ERP development team to develop SAP PS customizations based on defined business requirements to improve end user acceptance by automating non value added steps.

Consulted with business and ERP team to define methodology for budgeting, cost allocations, payment and scheduling to help drive better cash spend forecasts.

Trained end-users in new processes and SAP transactions.

Prepared presentations to various groups on the features and benefits of the SAP solution, specifically for the Project Systems Module

Process Architect

Led Business Process Analysis and Design activities for the purpose of improving and maintaining customer experience and operational effectiveness.

Helped define the process improvement methodologies and standards to be used through the enterprise.

Directed staff on various initiatives to deliver People, Process and Technology improvements.

Evaluated business processes to determine possible optimization opportunities

Achievements

Automated reports eliminated the need for construction site Supervisory staff to manually inspect lot status of 200 homes on a weekly basis. Created an easier way to display the homes behind schedule.

Created Sales tracking vs Inventory home build status tool using Excel and SQL queries.

CGI 2003 - 2009

Key Mandates

1.PSP Investments

a.Analyze each departments ECM requirements through workshops sessions

b.Prepare a high level classification using PSP's own defined taxonomy and ontology

2.GE Capital :

a.Major upgrade project that tracked required documents to finance procurement of large capital assets, from credit risk, insurance, approval to dispensation.

b.Analysis of existing document and folder structures. Devise new solution that minimizes duplication of information

c.Coordinated the development of a custom Web interface to make finding information on related companies easier.

d.Prepared migration plan for Documentum upgrade and folder restructuring. Performed data quality checks on migrated documents.

e.Prepared and evaluated response to an RFP for a BPMS solution

f.Integration of Kofax tool to automate the classification and naming of each credit document.

3.Caisse de dépôt du Québec Documentum deployment.

a.Analyze departments ECM requirements through workshops sessions

b.Implement solutions specific to each department. Training of end-user.

c.Preparing functional specifications for system improvements.

Senior Consultant

Mentoring of new consultants in day to day work issues, career planning and technical evolution.

Received positive feedback from staff during 360 degree evaluations.

Business analyst and project manager

Documented business requirements for numerous projects

Helped numerous clients in evaluating, defining, selecting and implementing information systems.

Defined ECM solutions that merged document management, imaging and workflows with corporate systems.

Conducted process definition and improvement workshops to select and deliver improved systems.

Managed the deployment of Ariba procurement solution to CGI’s Greater Montreal Finance Group.

Created training and trained sales professionals on a Health Learning solution for a large Pharma Co.

Team lead Application Delivery Services

Lead a team of second level functional analyst in managing legacy applications at a large aerospace firm.

Coordinated data extraction from legacy tools towards SAP.

Responsible for full life cycle development of new and improved functionality for legacy tools, from requirements analysis, business process re-engineering, detailed specifications, integration and end user testing to rolling out the solution in an Agile environment.

Subject Matter Expert for new Documentum solutions.

ADS representative on the Bombardier CAB

Achievements

Eliminated 40% of duplicate documents in a contract management system by implementing new information architecture.

Linked CRM and ECM systems to better control and manage large leasing contract management process.

Bombardier Aerospace – Engineering Division 1989-2003

Business Analyst and project management

Understanding customer requirements and coordinating the implementation of solutions to fit.

Interfacing with various stakeholders to assure prompt and efficient resolution to customer issues.

Managed the implementation of a corporate intranet and a web based electronic timecard solution.

Help redesign business processes to improve efficiency and to eliminate redundant steps.

Implementation of an ECM solution linked to an Intranet

Analyzed the requirements from various departments. Prepared and implemented solution.

Defined and built and intranet solution for the engineering division.

Migrated Intranet solution from Belfast to Montreal and coordinated refresh of look & feel.

IT Team Lead and coordinator

Guided system administrators and developers during migration to new environments and updates.

Designed a Windows system architecture to manage an aircraft structural test facility.

Ensured efficient scheduling of flight testing to achieve certification of various aircraft.

Achievements

Negotiated with engineering end users to streamline software licenses for a $250K CAD annual savings.

Disposed of obsolete computer equipment that resulted in a $1.8M annual budget saving.

Education

Coursera Online Course – R Programming – Completed with Distinction 2015

Part of the Coursera Data Science Specialization

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Scholl of Public Health

Coursera Online Course – Process Mining: Data Science in Action 2015

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Coursera Online Course – Data Scientist Toolbox – Completed with Distinction 2015

Part of the Coursera Data Science Specialization

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Scholl of Public Health

Coursera Online Course – Model Thinking – Completed with Distinction 2014

University of Michigan

Graduate Diploma in Management - Leadership option 2010

6 out of 10 courses completed, McGill University

Bachelors of Arts – Specialization in Applied Mathematics 1987

Concordia University, Montreal Canada

D.E.C. Aircraft Maintenance 1983

École nationale d'aérotechnique, St-Hubert

Professional Training

Professional Certification Course Enterprise Architecture TOGAF 9.1 2013

Documentum Composer, Technical Architect, eRoom coordinator & administrator 2009

Managing Information Technology Projects 2001

Web Project Management 2000

Computer Skills

SAP Project Systems

SQL

BPMN

Documentum

Sharepoint

Data Science / R language

MS Project

MS Visio Professional

MS Excel Super User

Volunteer Experience

St-Lazare Soccer Club Coach for house league & Inter-Club. 2002 to 2010

Executive member Sport Motor Car Club. 1991 to 2002

2 yrs as President, 2 yrs as treasurer and various position in between.

Languages

English, French and Hungarian.

Successfully passed Government of Canada language proficiency to eXempt, C, eXempt, eXempt

Security Clearance

PWGC Secret II clearance valid till July 2025

NATO secret clearance for CF-18 program at Bombardier Aerospace

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