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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with over 5+ experience on scrum and agile framework, 4+ years experienced as a Business Analyst with expertise in areas related to Finance, Healthcare and eCommerce, Online Retail, Web Technologies (Paas, Mobile, SaaS), Content Management Systems, and Risk Management. Delivered successful projects in multi-site locations using Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Proficient in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Software Requirement Specifications Document (SRS) and UML Diagrams, creating workflows using various tools including MS Visio and activity diagrams with Rational Rose

Attending Hybris meetings and training to understand the E Commerce management.

Exceptional Documentation Skills in writing use cases as well as in creating Use Case diagrams, Activity diagrams, State diagrams based on UML Methodology and business process flow diagrams using MS Visio and Enterprise Architect.

Experience with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medicare

Experienced in Property & Casualty (P&C) within Personal / Consumer lines.

Extensive Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.

Expertise with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) specifications and Swim Lane diagrams to better understand business processes.

Expert in Effort Estimation, Project Planning, Reporting, Business Intelligence and Defect Management in capacity of Business Analyst lead.

Proficient in preparing Test Plans, designing Test Scenarios and formulating Testing Strategies.

Excellent team player with ability to think analytically and troubleshoot issues.

Excellent working knowledge of key business process, with 3 to 4 years practical eCommerce and data management experience

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

MBA(Business Analytics) University of Illinois Urbana Champagne

Bachelor’s of Accounting, ONDO STATE POLYTECHNIC, Nigeria

Microsoft Exam 70-767 Implementing a Data Ware Using Sql (Microsoft)

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Scrum International Institute

PSM (Professional Scrum Master) Scrum.org

AWS Solution Achitect (Amazon Web Services)

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Six Sigma Study)

Firm Level Economics Certification University of Illinois/Cousera

Trained in and pursuing PMI ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)

Trained in Business Analytics and SAGE Business Intelligence (BI)

Trained in using Tableau & Transact SQL

Trained on Datawarehousing/ETL tools

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies:

eCommerce, Data warehousing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), BI, Microstrategy, Supply chain Management

Business Intelligence

SAGE BI, Tableau

Databases:

MS-SQL Server 2005/2003,Tera data, DB2 UDB and MS Access 2000/2003/2007

Ms-Azure

Insurance KPI Exposure:

Net Premium Written (NPW), GAAP P&L, GOE (Gross Operating Expenses) Net Loss Incurred (NLI), Loss Ratio (LR), Expense Ratio, Combined Ratio, Solvency Ratio, RAP (Risk Adjusted Profitability), PTOI (Pre-Tax Operating Income)

Operating Systems:

Unix, Windows Server, Windows NT/2000/XP, IBM-AIX, Solaris, Linux

SHIlRO Technologies (Ozone Insurance) Nov 2017- Present

Dallas TX

SCRUM MASTER

Integrated Customer Platform (ICP) is an effort to improve Customer experience while purchasing Liberty Mutual Insurance for Auto/health/fire/life/ Property & Casuality. It focuses on providing customers the ability to acquire and service all of their Liberty Mutual insurance and financial services, insurance claims and products across all access points:]

Responsibilities:

Used Agile for software development.15 Sprints (3 weeksprint). Created Business Rules and capturedBusiness Data Elements in alignment to Functional requirements.

Facilitatedworking/ discussion/ review sessions with Product Owner, Business Partners, Subject Matter Experts (SME), Test & Design teams in order to create User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.

Act as a project driver and facilitator of the scrum team from the perspective of a scrum master and also technical perspective.

Facilitated Daily Scrum meetings

Assist in the estimation and priotization of user stories

Was involved in managing the Daily StAct as a project driver from technical perspective for each project and help the project design data extraction and load process.

Test engineer to enable them to utilize data captured as part of Business Volume Metrics for Various scenarios while executing system performance testing.

Managed an offshore team consisting of 6 resources with following activities:Offshore queries resolution Assigning tasks.

(ART) activities, including Product Increment planning, system demos and was involved in Inspection and adaptation procedures by collaborating with RTE.

• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications interacting professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

• Serve as a liaison between the product owners and development team to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.

• Conducted user acceptance testing on features and bug fixes before they are released, ensuring the high quality of products that are being delivered to customers.

• Managing Scrum process and passing it to the team as self-organization matures

• Assisted the product owner and business in prioritizing and breaking down the user stories.

• Organized special Collaborative sessions and Spikes with the Team and SMEs where necessary to help resolve the issues.

• Facilitated the Sprint Planning, Review & interactive Retrospective meetings at the beginning and the end of each sprint cycle.

• Lead the daily scrum meetings and identified the impediments faced by team members, tracked sprint cycle progress and updated competed tasks on a day to day basis.

•Work with Scrum masters from other products to share ideas and collaborate on new tools techniques and such.

Environment: MS Suite, Tableau, PL/SQL, MS Visio, Micro Focus Rumba 8.0, IBM Notes,

SHIRO Technologies (Rexel Project) Dec 2016– Nov 2017

Detroit, MI

Sr. Business Analyst/Data Analyst

Rexel, a global leader in the distribution of electrical supplies and services, serves three main end markets: industrial, commercial and residential. The Group operates in 38 countries, with a network of some 2,200 branches, a distribution network of more than 40 banners and employs over 30,000 people

Achievements.

Supported a platform which automates and integrates the group Business processes, cuts analytics time by 90% and also reducing errors in Companywide data and records.

Responsibilities:

Requirements elicitation with Business Partners, Business Architects and End Users, in order to document Functional/ Non-Functional Requirements.

Help in driving strategic business decision making through detailed analytics, insights and real time reporting

Participated in strategic and tactical planning discussion interface with executive management, gathering requirement and delivering complete reporting solutions

Use of Tableau to customize reports to help management understand their data, take decisions and action.d

Designing dashboards with the use of visualization tools to undertand and decide ways to deal with changing consumer behaviour, digitalization, and increased competition, but they also have to deal with significant weather events.

Using SQL for managing large volume of data

Communicating with customers to analyze historical data and identify KPI

Creating dashboard that allows for retailers to predict extreme spikes of demand due to weather events, understand the geographic impact, and funnel new demand to address gaps to ensure supplies are delivered to the right place at the right time.

Pull data from multiple sources in real time and display it in a single location in the form of dashboards which provides at a-glance a summary of how sales are performing, giving both marketing specialists and C-level executives a single source of truth, and the ability to drill down for deeper investigation.

Extensively used Tableau reporting functionalities such as Hierarchy, Grouping, Calculated Fields, Filters, Ranking, Parameters, Graphs, Forecasting, Trend & Reference Lines

Tweaking SQL Queries for best performance.

Analyzing the data so as to identify trends and share insight..

Recognizing areas for automation.

Producing support documentation and keep existing documentation up-to-date

Acted as a liaison between the business, technical and creative teams by collecting initial design and UX requirements; providing creative team with example promotions, product info and images; facilitating internal, technical and client design reviews; and ensuring that delivered application remains true to the creative design.

Conducted workshops that helped stakeholders understand the functionality of Dashboards and how it can be adopted to meet business objectives.

Conducted requirements gathering sessions through formal and informal meetings and workshops. Conduct one-on-one or small group interview sessions to gather functional requirements in order to develop requirement documentation.

Developed user requirements, functional specifications, technical specifications, data models, and process flow diagrams to communicate engagement scope to client and delivery team members.

Create functional requirements in use cases. Coordinate requirements walk-through and sign-offs, verifying with user representatives/stakeholders that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs

Delivered a reference data (RDM) solution to consolidate all apply channel data – implemented as part

of the new country code gathering process.

ENTRUST INSURANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES Mar 2014 –Nov 2016

Dallas TX

Business Analyst/SM

Successfully facilitated the implementation of a robust solution for Finance, Hr, Marketing and Procurement supporting information synergy amongs different units and supporting the flow and integration of processes eg accounting, ordering & inventory tracking, Employee management and customer relationship managent.

Responsibilities

•Requirements elicitation with Business Partners, Business Architects and End Users, in order to document Functional/ Non-Functional Requirements.

•Assisted the SAFe Agile transformation at both team and Program level for the successful execution to support the delivery of strategic technology products.

• Assisted the team in Agile release Train (ART) activities, including Product Increment planning, system demos and was involved in Inspection and adaptation procedures by collaborating with RTE.

• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications interacting professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

• Serve as a liaison between the product owners and development team to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.

• Conducted user acceptance testing on features and bug fixes before they are released, ensuring the high quality of products that are being delivered to customers.

• Managing Scrum process and passing it to the team as self-organization matures

• Driving adoption of engineering practices and best coding practices.

• Assisted the product owner and business in prioritizing and breaking down the user stories.

• Organized special Collaborative sessions and Spikes with the Team and SMEs where necessary to help resolve the issues.

• Facilitated the Sprint Planning, Review & interactive Retrospective meetings at the beginning and the end of each sprint cycle.

• Lead the daily scrum meetings and identified the impediments faced by team members, tracked sprint cycle progress and updated competed tasks on a day to day basis.

Facilitatedworking/ discussion/ r-eview sessions with Product Owner, Business Partners, Subject Matter Experts (SME), Test & Design teams in order to create User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.

Act as a project driver and facilitator of the scrum team from the perspective of a scrum master and also technical perspective.

Environment: Windows XP/2000, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, MS Visio, JSP, WinRunner, Mercury Test Director.

Finance Application Systems LTD Oct 2008 – Jan 2014

Lagos, NIGERIA

Business Analyst/Financial Analyst (Intercontinental Bank, Skye bank)

Worked on a variety of projects for the company such as user acceptance testing for the Online Accounts opening and Customer Enrollment Portal which is used to enter customer information and enroll customers in appropriate account plans for Skye & Intercontinental Bank. I also worked on the implementation and enhancements to the COB (Coordination of Benefits).

Responsibilities:

Manages project timelines, resources, and scope in order to meet business requirement.

Assist in providing more detailed project objectives, business needs analysis, clear structured, usable requirement, trade off analysis, risk analysis and cost benefit analysis.

Create a procedure for ongoing reconciliation and management.

Assist with scheduling and tracking sessions and creating/updating procedures and documentation.

Ensure preparation of periodic reports to all levels of management to help drive performance( Ie

Analytical dashboards showing departmental and Group profit/loss achievement, variance reports periodic forecast and projections).

Manage the reconciliation of regulatory authorities between the Regulatory Inventory and Regulatory Change System, including tracking and resolving all identified discrepancies.

Create dashboards with sql business intelligent tools to Monitor Organizational cash flow and liquidity.

Involved in gathering the requirements that were critical to the business process flow and using those requirements for the Business Requirements Document (BRD)

Develop a method and structure to efficiently manage the daily, weekly and monthly operational reports including creation, distribution, follow up and resolution.

Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to obtain domain level information, interviewing and asking detailed questions and carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed an understood by both business and technical team.

Maintained a daily meeting with the Business team on task order approval, increased and decrease frequency of the meetings as per the progress of the task.

In depth knowledge of Medicare Claims processes.

Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and insures that critical requirements are not missed.

Involved in GAP analysis both at the time of requirement gathering and later after development with the Testing team to identify areas and possible scenarios that might have been overlooked.

Facilitated collection of functional requirements from system users and preparation of functional specification documents that provided appropriate scope of work for technical team to develop prototype and overall system.

and tracks, and document the development and results of these plans.

Ensure preparation of periodic reports to all levels of management to help drive performance( Ie

Analytical dashboards showing departmental and Group profit/loss achievement, variance reports periodic forecast and projections).

Create dashboards with sql business intelligent tools to Monitor Organizational cash flow and liquidity.

Automation of inter-company transactions balance reconciliation processes and report to the Financial director.

Use of business intelligence tools like Tableau, Sage 300 erp business intelligence and Oracle

publisher to customize reports and build dashboards showing eg, top and bottom customers, Top and bottom products and services plus top expenses and cost, thus assisting share holders in timely decision making.

Use of excel and sql to cleanse, arrange, modify and automate accounting and financial data thus

reducing processing time and also reducing financial errors by 50%.

Producing detailed costings for customers and ensuring the contract Debtors/Creditors account reconciliation were automated.

Identify customer requirements, develop test schedules, review testing plans and tracks, and document trends and reports to stakeholders accordingly.

Built and managed master and reference data management architecture for digital transformation.

Provided proactive technical oversight and advice to application architecture and development teams, fostering operational efficiency of data/analytical solutions.

Prepared and analyzed financial reports and communicated recommendations to management.

Created financial models for analysis of key performance indicators (KPI) for revenue and cost.

Involved in design of data migration plans across multi-platforms.

Participated in the project requirements and definition of system and processes for the merger issues.

Alert project managers to potential risks and issues of importance

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