Brian M. Elrod
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Senior Technology Analyst
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sam’s Club (Formerly Triad Retail Media) – St. Petersburg, FL August 2018 – present
Technical Operations Analyst – Information Technology
Responsible for supporting OTC (Order to Cash) platforms, which includes Salesforce, AdBook+, Ad-Juster, and other Ad Operations software.
Product Owner for Ad-Juster application
Scrum team member
Support for core applications
Identify and facilitate solutions to drive performance
Manage testing and acceptance of enhancements with vendor/customers
User training, support, development and upkeep of SOP/documentation
Own and maintain product roadmap, user stories and business requirements
Vendor management & Project management
Communicate technical issues to the line of business
Maintain documentation for best practices, business processes and training to be used by partners and internal resources.
Utilize JIRA for incident, bug and enhancement tracking
Cadence Bank – Tampa, FL June 2012 – August 2018
AVP, Technical Systems Analyst II, Information Technology (08/2014 – 08/2018)
Responsible for supporting critical applications/systems, which includes Consumer and Commercial Online Banking platforms and all ancillary products within an Agile environment.
Level 3 support for assigned applications
LaserPro Product Owner
Monitoring stability of servers and applications using Solarwinds, Dynatrace and Splunk alerts.
Testing, QA and release performance analysis
Work directly with offshore QA team and provide signoff for enhancements and features
Establish and maintain positive relationships with developers, infrastructure, and banking operations personnel
Responsible for DR testing as well as validation of both technical recovery and functional plans
Triage, troubleshooting, initial communication to lines of business and incident tracking through BMC Footprints within SLA timeline
Shared ownership of assigned applications with product team to ensure satisfactory end user experience
Serve as product subject matter expert to both the technical and end user communities
Adhere to both change and incident management processes
Developed product training guides for both end users and technical support teams
Responsible for SQL query metrics
Senior Operations Coordinator – Treasury Management Operations (06/2012 – 08/2014)
Responsible for the management and implementation of requests for online Treasury Management services.
Tier 2 support, system issue resolution
Management of daily workflow of the team
Continuous Improvement of SLA’s through analysis
Merger and Acquisition project coordination
BBVA Compass – Birmingham, Alabama 2008 – 2012
Senior Systems Coordinator – BSA (2011 – 2012)
FircoSoft Application Owner in an Agile environment
Worked with offshore Dev team
End user support for BSA team
UAT go-live scripts for regression testing
Test scripts for upgrades/enhancements
Deployed resource files to FircoSoft users/environments
Business Systems Analyst I, Treasury Management Technology Deployment (2008 – 2011)
Responsible for the completion of full TM implementation requests
Reduced commercial client OLB implementation time by 48 hours.
Treasury Management Ops Subject Matter Expert
QA, Design test plans/scripts, scenarios and procedures.
Test the implementation of vendor project related enhancements and upgrades by performing regression testing
Provided technical support and product training, in both English and Spanish, for TM Clients
Developed training guides/procedures
Assisted with incident management during system outages
Regions Bank – Birmingham, Alabama 2007-2008
Documentation Specialist, Loan Operations
Responsible for reviewing subprime auto loan documentation
Provide bilingual assistance to Spanish speaking clients
Alabama Public Schools – Tuscaloosa & Hoover, Alabama 2002 - 2006
High School Spanish Teacher
Responsible for following the Alabama Public School curriculum. Spanish levels I – V, which included AP and IB. Utilized classroom management techniques to manage guided group activities, facilitated student comprehension with hands-on activities, lesson planning, curriculum writing and individual/collaborative assessments of subject matter.
IB students obtained passing rate for Spanish comprehension.
Tennis sponsor
EDUCATION
BS, International Marketing & Spanish, University of Alabama – Tuscaloosa, AL
AS, Business Administration, Snead State Community College – Boaz, AL