OKENWA CHRISTIANA
E-mail: **************@*****.***
Mobile: +1(437)979 – 9702 ; +(234) 806-***-****
SUMMARY
Energetic and analytical Business Analyst professional, with vast experience that spans
several years and hands-on, progressive expertise in advanced process re-engineering
projects and system implementation initiatives. An innovative and inspirational leader with
a proven ability to anticipate problems, offer solutions, develop strategies and address
issues. Senior technology specialist with dynamic communication and presentation skills,
and a strong track record in reorganizing, streamlining, and strengthening business systems
and ensuring stakeholder satisfaction. a reputation for working effectively alone and as
part of a dynamic multi-discipline engineering team managing medium to large scale
projects.
CORE STRENGTHS
Software development and Testing Lifecycle Technical writing and facilitation skills
Jira and Confluence Microsoft Dynamics/NAV
Microsoft Teams, Zoom and WebEx Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Organizational change management SAP Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
Sap BOBJ Suite GAP Analysis
System Integration SAP-BW & 4Hana MS Project AND SharePoint
Business Process Re-engineering Balsamiq Wireframes
Process analysis and modelling SnagIT and MS Visio 2.0
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Business Systems Analyst Sept 2021- Till
Kuwait Energy Company- Iraq(Middle East)
• Worked with internal stakeholders to understand business needs and external customer
requirements Identifying enhancement or process improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with both business and technology teams to plan, create use case scenarios,
execute UAT and implement technical solutions.
• Be a key contributor to strategic projects from the design phase through architecture,
development, testing, documentation, production deployment and support.
• Design, build, deliver and maintain mission-critical BI dashboards using MS Power BI,
Tableau
• Prepare process and data models; using Visio to create workflow, Use Case and other
BPMN Language (BPMN 2.0) based diagrams for a payment Reporting software
• Lead the delivery of a user interface for Sales Business Unit integration with on React JS as
an open-source front-end library that is enabling Mobile data and Sales information
access.
• Prepare and document test plan documents in collaboration with QA team for User
Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), generating test cases from
business use cases and documented test script
• Facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions to elicit requirements through
brainstorming for new and enhanced system development efforts in online banking and
credit underwriting solutions
• Lead walkthroughs, validation and discovery sessions with key stakeholders when eliciting
process components in business transformation and improvement projects
Business Process Engineer July 2019-Sept 2021
SPIE OIL & GAS SERVICES, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
• Liaise with business users, subject matter experts, and development team to highlight
opportunities for process improvements and business process automation for client’s and
internal users
• Logically structured recommendations and supporting data to formulate a solid, logical
and understandable business case.
• Utilized appropriate business modeling techniques to represent and graphically depict
various activities, processes and data.
• Created Business Case, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, User Requirement
Specification (URS), Functional Design Document containing mock-ups, wireframes,
process models, business rules, use cases etc. for developers to build codes and database
tables for the system.
• Analyzed various business processes and identified new opportunities, business processes
and strategies for more efficient and optimized processes.
• Created an FDD and captured transformation rules to identify database tables that will be
impacted during data migration from source to destination/target systems.
• supported the design of Process Design Document (PDD), Business Requirement
Document (BRD), Current State document, Future State document, Volumetric Data,
Business Case, document/steps on several projects
• Analyzed testing impact of requirement changes and modifying test scenarios as needed
adhering to the system development life cycle and project management life cycle
methodologies
• Executed SQL queries to test back-end data validation of database tables based
• Coordinated different tasks to ensure that task prioritization falls within the project
schedule and plan which is in line with corporate strategic direction.
• Lead joint application design (JAD) sessions to elicit requirements and brainstorm for new
and enhancement system development efforts
Business Analyst September 2013 – July 2019
SPIE OIL & GAS SERVICES, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
• Led the business process transformation and system implementation and designed
solutions to meet business and enterprise needs supporting end users across the institution
• Performed stakeholder analysis to identify impacted and influencing stakeholders and
SMEs.
• Liaised with IT Business Partners, Product Owner, Project Manager, Validation Lead, Testers,
Developer, IT Solution Architect and external vendors to proffer solution to business needs.
• Acted as squad lead to facilitate requirements gathering sessions such as interviews,
workshops and JAD sessions, and identify knowledgeable stakeholders to drive
requirements elicitation.
• Analyzed and model the end-to-end current state business process (as is), perform gap
analysis, document and model the future state (TO BE) process, and recommend
technology solution options.
• Created Business Case, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, User Requirement
Specification (URS), Functional Design Document containing mock-ups, wireframes,
process models, business rules, use cases etc. for developers to build codes and data
base tables for the system.
• Analyzed various business processes and identified new opportunities, business processes
and strategies for more efficient and optimized processes.
• Elicited business requirements from various stakeholders across multiple lines of business
through document analysis, interviews and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions.
• Led business process transformation and facilitate and manage stakeholder and client
relationships to design solutions and meet business and enterprise needs
• Leveraged strong knowledge of Oracle application architecture, process design, and
configuration to work on functional design documents to support the build of high traffic
chat application on a CRM platform
EDUCATION
Federal Government Girls College, Umuahia
West African Examination Council - 2003
Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu University formerly known as Anambra State University
Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering - 2010
Plymouth Marjon University
MBA- Masters of Business Administration Expected Graduation April 2024
Certifications and Training
PLC Technician certificate – George Brown College in-view
Professional engineering registration (EIT) APEGA 2021
Professional engineering registration (EIT) APEGS in-view
Achievements:
• Worked as part of the team that designed and installed automated receiving,
storage, and consumption activities for all Bristow Helicopters fueling operations that
resulted in a savings of about $1,200,000.00 CAD in the first year alone
• Worked as part of the team that planned and executed automated receiving,
storage and consumption activities for all Heineken Brewing operations (9 locations)