Business Analyst Project Manager

Peter Moghalu

Powder Springs Gerogia USA +1-404-***-**** ************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Business Analysis Professional with over 10 years progressive work experience in critical project and business analysis initiatives. Extensive experience in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, knowledgeable in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). An expert in new system implementations, upgrades, Commercial Off the Shelves (COTS), Data Migrations, production support, testing, go-live assistance till post implementation. Effectively acting as a liaison between Business and Development Teams in converting requirements into effective Business Solutions and translating business requirements into technical Specifications / System Designs. Demonstrated proficiency in requirement elicitation, analysis and documentation.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

•Application/Methodologies

Waterfall, Use Case (User Stories, modelling, diagram, flowcharts, and narrative workflows) and Business Process Analysis

•Technical Knowledge Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Power Point, Word), Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Teams, Visual Basic, Share-point, Visio, and Wireframes

•Elicitation Techniques

Brainstorming, Interview, Shadowing, Surveys, Focus Group, Document Analysis, prototyping, Interface Analysis, JAD Sessions

•Competencies

Impact Analysis, Gap Analysis, Process Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Backlog Management

•Change Management Testing

People Change Management, Project Change Management

•Vendor Selection

Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quote (RFQ), Request for Proposal (RFP)

•TECHNIQUES

Impact Analysis, Gap Analysis Root Cause Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis, Data Analysis, Scenario Analysis

•TESTING COMPETENCES

User Acceptance Testing (UAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Quality Assurance Testing (QA)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Business Process Enhancement /Recommendation

New System Implementation

Creation of Test Plans

User Training

Technical specification documentation

Work flow analysis / Process Re-engineering

Requirement Gathering /Analysis

Design Specification

QA and user acceptance testing, planning, management and implementation

Production and Non-production support

System Integration

Business case documentation / Alternative solution

WORK HISTORY

Power Play Ent LLC 2013 - Present

Business Analyst

•Collaborate with the product owner to write User Stories, groom backlogs in preparation for future sprints

•Work with various departments to review current processes, explore opportunities for improvements and identify action plans to reach the future state

•Ensure open line of communications amongst the development team and other stakeholders to ensure clarity of vision and alignment to goals

•Highly experienced in managing and accommodating change

•Sourcing of cars from diffrent auctions and purchase and sale.

•Auto shipment to the west coast of Africa

•Diagrammatically represent business requirements using Visio (Use Case, swim lane diagrams)

•Document Test Cases with QA team, perform QAT to ensure the solutions meet customers’ specification; participated in UAT, demonstration and trainings of clients involved in the SDLC

•Eliciting and documenting business requirements on an on-going basis via document analysis, focus groups, workshops, interviews and brainstorming

•Prepare and regularly update BRD; secure stakeholders’ signoff on the BRD

•Conduct design review sessions with implementation team in accordance with enterprise best practices

EquitorialTrustBank 2011 – 2012

Senior Business Analyst

•Demonstrated core skills of a business analyst by acting as a liaison between the business and technical team

•Worked with the Project Manager in creating the business cases, project charters, project scope, project plans, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and communication plans.

•Effectively elicited and documented business and system requirements. Handled AML functions for the bank

•Led a team of analysts that saved the bank losses in excess of $20mm arising from contingent obligations by designing and implementing a risk rating software solution

•Participated in the project kick-off meeting and ongoing weekly status meetings, define end user requirements as well as risks and their respective mitigation action plans

•Facilitated workshops and walk-through of the business requirements with stakeholders, developers, and other members of the project team to validate the requirements and obtain sign off from key project stakeholders

•Developed current/future state gap analysis, functional requirements, use cases, process flow diagrams, data models, development stories, test plans/scripts and change requests

•Supported in building business cases for systems implementation, enhancements, resolution of defects and exploring process improvement opportunities

•Liaised with 3rd party developers to report bugs and ensured change requests were raised as required for defects resolution

•Documented procedures for end users to assist with system configuration and acted as the SME/point of contact for issues and questions relating to the functionality of the system

•Led the change control process to ensure changes to the project timeline were appropriately coordinated by ensuring all change requests were raised effectively with no huge impact to project timeline.

•Maintained a strong partnership with IT and the business by tracking the progress of the projects

•Documented changes to solutions on Confluence and SharePoint, created JIRA tickets to log bugs, fixes and lessons learnt during post implementation reviews.

•Prioritized and delivered high standard of process and training documentation to effectively handover new functionality to business teams.

•Provided status reports to the project manager. Participated in bi-weekly project review meetings.

United Bank for Africa ( UBA) 2006 – 2011

Junior Business Analyst

•Held sessions with key business stakeholders to understand, capture and document detailed functional requirements across several departments and technologies

•Analyzed and documented business processes

•Assessed impact of changes to other applications and business users

•Requirements Management – end to end management of requirements with full traceability

•Worked closely with development to ensure that development is in line with business needs and priorities

•Assisted the Quality Assurance Team in preparation of test strategies and plans

•Assisted and coordinated UAT

•Prepared and delivered user trainings

•Carried out change requests, estimation and planning

•Escalated risks and issues to the project manager which could adversely impact the outcome of the project

•Ensured compliance to SDLC

•Wrote detailed requirements for current and future usage of each technology (including gap analysis between 'as is' and 'to be')

•Supported the creation of functional technical specifications

Universal Trust Bank 2002 – 2006

Banking Advisor

•Reviewed clients’ portfolios and financial needs from a holistic perspective and identified opportunities to broaden the clients’ suite of products and services.

•Aviaton credit processing and packaging.

•Processing of contingent liabilities

•Adopted a client-focused management strategy to build rapport with clients, fully understood their needs and provided solutions

•Identified sales and referral opportunities from interactions with clients

•Fostered partnerships with key businesses to grow level of business patronage of the bank

•Met regularly with clients to conduct portfolio reviews and introduce products/solutions

•Maintained high quality connections with clients and peers to achieve business objectives

•Contributed to team’s result by listening, spotting opportunities and offering solutions to meet customers’ needs

•Managed risks by adhering to compliance routines, processes and controls to protect clients and shareholders’ interests while concluding transactions

•Mentored, coached and influenced the workforce to higher responsibilities within the bank

•Proactively took ownership of resolving and preventing client banking problems

•Ensured that all recommendations and actions adhere to the bank’s risk standards and guidelines.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

•Bachelor of Agriculture Economics (Second Class Upper Degree) University of Nigeria Nsukka 1998

•Post Graduate Diploma in Managment (PGDM) Merit. University of Calabar Nigeria 2001

•Master of Business Administration Degree in Business Administration (MBA FINANCE)

University of Calabar Nigeria 2003.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/CERTIFICATION

•Moodys Financial analysis training Universal Trust Bank.

•Business Analysis Professional

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•Positive Leadership

Universal Trust Bank internal training

REFERENCES

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