Collins Anyanwu

Business Analyst

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Toronto, ON

Solutions-driven and tech-savvy professional with substantial experience in developing creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies, and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations.

Qualifications Summary

Adept at leading cross-functional teams in the development, documentation, and delivery of process innovations driving the attainment of business goals.

Equipped with extensive experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), such as Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Sound knowledge of ERP integration processes and requirements, Data Mapping and CRM management.

Possesses exceptional Requirements Gathering and Elicitation, Process Modeling, project planning and stakeholder management abilities successfully demonstrated across multiple projects.

Skilled in using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to model current and future states of processes

Knowledge of Procurement Processes and Methodologies (RFQ, RFI, RQP, ITT, PQQ),

Extensive technical proficiency in the following tools and applications: MS Office Suite, Tableau, Visio, SharePoint, Project, Mock Flow, Zoho Sprints, Jira, Primavera P6, Power BI, Project Planner Tool

Career Experience

Matrix Industrial Control System, Brampton, ON 2019 – Present

Senior Business Analyst

Achievements

Directed completion of a $3.6M custom inventory management software project spanning multiple facilities.

Identify and manage technological and operational risks within the business to mitigate potential project bottlenecks.

Responsibilities

Prepare Business Analysis strategy and establish BA monitoring process for new and ongoing projects.

Identify and cultivate relationships with influential parties to establish relationships with stakeholders and construct suitable stakeholder hierarchy (RACI).

Oversee and serve as a subject matter expert in the entire life cycle of projects from initiation, completion and post-implementation

Develop and maintain strategies, plans, scripts and cases for User Acceptance Testing purposes

Serve as a go-between for the company's business operations and the IT department to guarantee meeting of project's goals and objectives.

Supervise design of new products and assessing the effect of integration with existing customer products.

Produce clear written documentation for all programming changes and new installations

Implementing effective agile project managing methodologies to ensure that projects are completed in time and within budget

STADXL Consulting 2018 – 2019

Business Analyst

Achievements

Directed business analysis process to increase efficiency and strengthen user acceptance testing (UAT), which resulted in a reduction in testing time by more than 30% while maintaining quality to meet project goals.

Responsibilities

Collected, analyzed, documented, and validated business requirements provided by the Project Sponsor for both the University Students Interaction Platform (USIP) project and any other IT projects.

Supported the development and documentation of the Project Charter and Business Requirements Document (BRD)

Formulated detailed functional and technical specifications from which programs will be written, through the use of interviews, workshops and document research.

Drafted documentation for workflows, process flows, and data flows related to current and proposed processes.

Maintained open lines of communication with the project managers, subject matter experts, and end users.

Served as a liaison between the business and technical teams and translate business and the technical requirement.

Formulated user stories, use cases, use case diagrams and acceptance criteria for scrum-based projects

Organized and perform User Acceptance Testing to ensure that system functionality meets user requests; create test plans, test cases, executes testing and reports on testing results

Clarks Group (Retail) 2016 – 2018

Business Analyst

Achievements

Successfully managed scrum process for a digital transformation project, with the objective to rapidly eliminate project bottlenecks to improve project delivery time.

Arranged workshops, meetings, and interviews with stakeholders to enhance requirements traceability and sign-off.

Responsibilities

Supported a digital transformation project to enhance the shopping experience across digital channels, such as web, mobile, and brick-and-mortar stores.

Provided assistance to the Product Owner in the process of developing a product road map for the various customer channels.

Coordinated and facilitated workshops and interviews in order to elicit and analyze requirements with the goal of building a prioritized product backlog from the perspective of the product owner.

Organized and led sprint planning meetings, daily scrum, sprint review, and retrospective to identify and manage roadblocks

Oversaw the development and management of issues on the JIRA Agile application, including epics, stories, and tasks.

Prepare and communicate accurate and timely consolidated monthly performance analytics reports to senior management to assist in the overall management and KPI.

Procurement For All Limited, UK 2015 – 2016

Business Analyst – Procurement

Achievements

Managed a team tasked with defining business needs for a £200M Planned and Reactive Maintenance project

Responsibilities

Formulated tender documentation, including RFQ, RFI, RQP, ITT, and PQQ.

Analyzed client responses to determine suitability and liaised with relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with all applicable procurement and contract regulations and governance.

Identified system and data errors, areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions to ensure high data integrity.

Provided assistance to the business in the process of translating business requirements into test plans and scenarios.

Identified, documented, and managed all risks, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID) within the business

Conducted critical path analysis to identify problem areas regarding procurement project schedule and resource.

Assisted in the preparation of procurement activity reports and presentation material for the Executives by capturing data in the relevant software programs and performing analyses on that data.

AAMP Engineering 2011 – 2015

Senior Project Planner

Achievements

Built and preserved a solid planning infrastructure for a £500M residential development project.

Responsibilities

Steered detailed integrated master project schedules covering all phases of the project from inception to completion.

Developed and maintained comprehensive integrated master project schedules, including Front-end Loading, Detail Design, Procurement, Construction, and Commissioning/Start-up Project Stages.

Additional Experience

Project Administrator, Clear Security Solutions

Project Analyst, Pina Manufacturing Company

Project Engineer (Intern), National Power Holding Corporation

Education & Professional Development

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), IIBA

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1), Scrum.org

Business Analysis Practice – Practitioner, British Computer Society (BCS)

Business Analysis Foundation, British Computer Society (BCS)

Prince 2 – Foundation & Practitioner, Association for Project Management (APM)

Value Management – Certified Professional in Value Management, Europe (F-GB09-MSc-494)

Master of Science in Construction Management - Glasgow Caledonian University

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Enugu State University of Science and Tech

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