Business Analyst Cyber Security

ABDUL

MUHAMMED

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A strategic and results-driven Senior IT Lead with a proven track record of success in driving business transformation and delivering impactful solutions. Expertise encompasses business analysis, product Management, and Agile methodologies, with knowledge in cyber security and identity/access management within Azure cloud environments. Skilled driving efficiency and productivity through development, delivery and support of strategic plans. Dedicated to creating and delivering initiatives to guide organizational navigation of modern technology. Proven history of successfully translating technical requirements into business solutions With passion for utilizing excellent communication to foster company rapport. Highly-motivated employee with desire totake on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ATHENE HOLDING LTD, West Des Moines, IA NOV 11, 2022 – PRESENT

Snr. Agile Business Analyst / Scrum Master

• Orchestrated the meticulous management of backlogs, crafting comprehensive user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, and requirements documentation to drive efficiency and ensure alignment with project objectives.

• Helped with Currencies, Portfolio, underlying, Base rate onboarding and configurations set up for better wealth management / trading decisions and executions.

• Directed and facilitated critical stakeholder engagements, including user interviews, requirements workshops, product demos, and training sessions, fostering collaboration and ensuring clear communication of project requirements and expectations.

• Onboarding Tickers and Cail-keys set ups for Quants, front office, middles off and Credit Risk & Control team.

• Identify critical data, managed business glossary, metadata, standard and system reference data and their relationship

• Strong grasp of unit testing, integration and smoke testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT) for ensuring code quality and meeting user requirements.

• Identified and documented User Stories, acceptance criteria, story dependencies, QA Test approach and Technical approach to help facilitate backlog refinement and prioritization

• seting up portfolios for newly onboarded brokers for easy wealth management/ trades and payouts.

• Conducted Data Mapping, GAP analysis of business rules, Status process flows, screen mock-ups, for fostering alignment / efficiency across domains for wealth management or risk team

CITI - BANK, IRVING TEXAS, USA JUN 2020 - NOV 2022

Snr. Agile Business Analyst / Product Lead

• Identity and Access Management Business Analyst on several external/client facing applications.

• Managing high-profile, fast-paced Cyber Security programs that will span all Consumer & Community Banking lines of business. The CCB Cyber Security Program is a multi-year initiative aimed at improving the firm’s posture on how sensitive data is accessed and protected

• Curate and manage a prioritized list of customer and market requirements, guiding product development efforts towards delivering maximum value.

• Lead the product design process, crafting detailed user stories and requirements to inform development initiatives.

• Develop, modify and execute department policies, standards and processes,

• Run projects from initiation through implementation /Support establishing (Cyber) Identity Programme for Groups

• Created High level requirements, Epic Stories, Functional process Flows, Use Cases and User interface mockups

• Configuration, integration, and management of Azure AD Identities, Groups, App Registrations, and SSO services.

• Gathered requirments and developed Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to exchange dta and communicate between different business systems for B2B (Business-to-Business) operations. (all my Apps on the Citi Main apps Websites for App’s and Integrations

• Continuous In-Depth learning and Understanding of Azure Ad Identities, Security Groups, Azure Ad Roles and Assigning Users and Groups to Applications Per Request.

• Experience With Azure App Registration (Saml SSO) Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD Identities, Groups, App Registrations And Azure Portal Administration.

• Facilitated meetings to clarify and break down security requirements for Identity Convergence project.

CONTACT

Phone: 407-***-****

Address: Flowering Peach Lane Dallas

Texas, 75212

Email: ***.*******@*****.***

CORE COMPETENCIES

Software Process Improvement

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Cross-functional Team Collaboration

Software Life Cycle Development

Strategic Design

Planning and Monitoring

Training and Leadership

Quality Assurance

Relationship Building

Rapid Conflict Resolution

Innovation and Vision

Project management

Planning,sizing,

EDUCATION

GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY, GRAMBLING, LA

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

GPA: 3.94/4.0

GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY, GRAMBLING, LA – 2014

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

GPA: 3.94/4.0

TOP SKILLS

Project Management

Basic SQL

Rest API

ChatBot

Azure AD Engineer

WAL-MART LABS, BENTONVILLE, AR, USA APR 2018 –JUN 2020

Snr. IT Business Analyst II /Product lead

• Demostrated strong knowledge of process requirements elicitation, analysis, validation and management activities to drive process standardization across the Benefits Administration project.

• Participated in the design, development and maintenance stages of the project, which involved interacting with Clients.

• Collaborate with teams to streamline risk assessment procedures to cut down processing times

• Proficient in Microsoft SQL for database management, data manipulation, and query optimization to support application development and reporting needs.

• Gathered requirements and ensured that the compliance request of all insurance company and government new compliance rules and regulations governing the insurance and wlmart poples benefits are meet

• Played a major role as a scrum master by facilitating Daily status meeting, Weekly Backlog grooming, Sprint review/Demonstration meeting, Sprint & Potentially Shippable Increment planning and Retrospective meetings.

• Manage and eliminate the team’s impediments thereby ensuring timely delivery of commitments. • Regularly ensured Agile management tools (application lifecycle management tools and Kanban boards) are up to date and reflected on the prioritization of the backlog.

• Consistently monitor and report on team metrics, including technical quality continuous integration, burndowns, lead times, throughput, flow efficiency etc.

• Spearheaded requirement gathering for the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) utilizing the Waterfall methodology for short- to medium-term projects.

• Work closely with the product owner and other technical stakeholders to prioritize backlog considering business value, technical debt and risks.

• Collaborated with other domain teams, performing GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, screen mock ups, user administration, and requirements for ‘Human Resource Systems - Benefits Enrollment’ project.

WAL-MART LABS, AR, 72712, USA SEP 2016 – APR 2018

IT Business Analyst II/ Scrum Master

• Demonstrated expertise in process requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, and management, driving process standardization across the Benefits Administration project.

• Participated in all stages of the project lifecycle, engaging with clients during design, development, and maintenance phases to ensure alignment with project objectives.

• Led Business Analyst efforts for the implementation of Inpat/Expat and Personalized Guide data within the Benefits system.

• Served as a pivotal scrum master, orchestrating key meetings including Daily status updates, Backlog grooming, Sprint reviews, Planning sessions, and Retrospectives, ensuring efficient sprint execution and team collaboration.

• Played a critical role in team planning, balancing technical considerations with delivery of user stories and requests to meet project commitments.

• Proactively managed and resolved team impediments, facilitating timely delivery of project commitments.

• Gathered requirement and sensetive data for SWIFT configurations and setup international payment processs for applications payment processing systems

• Consistently monitored and reported on team metrics including technical quality, continuous integration, burndowns, lead times, and throughput, driving continuous improvement efforts. • Led requirement gathering for Chatbots development across various application communication channels, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

• Collaborated closely with product owners and technical stakeholders to prioritize backlog items based on business value, technical debt, and risk considerations.

WAL-MART LABS, BENTONVILLE, AR, 72712, USA OCT 2013 – SEP 2016

IT Business Analyst II

Led requirement gathering, analysis and functional design of the application.

Built relationships with business partners and worked with them on solutions, keeping cost and productivity in consideration.

Provided understanding of project complexities and risks

• Communicated resource and tool capabilities/limitations

Collaborated with Product owner/ Project Manager and clearly defined the scope of each Potentially Shippable Increment (PSI)

Facilitated scrum stand up, retrospective and story grooming meetings

Considered alternative solutions and ensured story size estimates are reasonable

Streamlined communication across onsite and offshore teams

Documented and Developed the AS-IS and TO-BE business process flows for GDMS, Ground, Air and Ocean freights .

ABDUL

MUHAMMED

TOP SKILLS

Cloud Computing

Windows Server

Microsoft Azure

System Administration

IAM

Azure AD

MDM

Active Directory

Service Account Governance

Cyber Security

Cyber Security Governace

Methology :

oWaterfall and Agile

OTHER TOOLS

JIRA, LinkIT, TeamForge.

SalesForce

Remedy

API Connect

Microsoft AZURE

Fedwire

LuCid Chart

Microsoft Visio

AWARDS

Dale Carnegie Break Through Award

Wal-Mart labs - Certificate of Appreciation

IT BA Spark Awards

Associate of the month

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe Agilist

Certified Scrum Master

Executive Certificate in

Business Analysis

Foundations of Cybersecurity

Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

Manage Security Risks

Networks and Network Security

Detection and Response

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