Senior Business Analyst

Leadership / Diverse Business Knowledge / Project Planning & Forecasting / Budgeting / Metrics & Statistics /

Best practices / Outsourcing & Consulting / Database Administration / Presentations / Technical Expert

Goal: A results and delivery oriented senior Business Analyst position in a creative environment that offers the opportunity for a technical project leader to integrate distributed enterprise applications using best practices architectures and collaborative systems.

Expertise in Financial Services: Accomplishments in Securities Lending, Global Custody, Foreign Currency Trading and Equities. Exposure to other basic Income Equities functions including Custody back office reconciliation, Corporate Actions, Precious Metals, General Ledger, Factoring, Accounting packages and Journal Cash proofing.

Expertise in Retail Business IT Operations: Provided support in all spectrums of the retail business, from IT related tasks, to marketing, client interface, accounting, and payroll and store management. Managed entire systems department and functioned as liaison with vendors across different functions within the company. Predicted and corrected MOS issues in stores. Identified and resolved company’s web site search engine optimization issues. .

Proven Leadership across Major Corporate Functions: An assertive team leader with extensive supervision experience, decisive and self motivated with strong drive and initiative. Consistently demonstrates strong analytical skills and a proven record of achievement in the entire SDLC spectrum and the ability to work under pressure for multiple demanding clients under tight deadlines. Has a strong sense of ownership and commitment to quality.

International Experience: Successfully reinforced relationships with clients in Europe as part of various alliances and international consulting contracts. Has gained experience in different facets of offshore outsourcing.

Education: BS – French Baccalaureat, Academy of Creteil, Paris, France – 1973. Master – University of Technology, Paris, France - Computer Science Major – 1976, currently preparing for PMP certification, Bi-Lingual (French, English)

SELECT ACHIEVEMENTS & SKILLS

Decreased Expense Cost for Bankers Trust: Pioneered workflow enhancements through the use of collaborative methodologies that served to reduce processing expenses and boost processing efficiencies.

Orchestrated Turnaround of Kitchen Retail Company: Automated several aspects of the business that were previously done manually. Implemented drastic changes to payroll, warehousing, accounting and order processing.

Communication Skills: A talented communicator with strong written and verbal communication skills. Highly personable and capable of working with upper management as well as stakeholders. Proficient in analyzing problems and resolving through well-articulated solutions.

Business Intelligence Tools: SAS, SQL Server OLAP Cubes and Reporting Services, Actuate, Information Builders (MicroFocus), Crystal Reporting, IBM DB2, Data Mining.

Technical Skills: Expertise in a broad range of technology areas including PMP, OOP, SQL Server 2005, C#, ASP.Net, Ajax, Commerce Server 2007, BizTalk Server 2006, DotNetNuke, Word press, VMware, Agile Methodologies (Scrum, RAD, XP, DSDM, Waterfall), Six Sigma, UML, Metrics (SAS, Excel, Crystal Reporting) Management Tools (Visio, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint) and reinforcing Best Practices

Extended experience with several CRMs such as Rally, Word press, DNN, Commerce Server and SAVIS Cloud Computing

Extended Budgeting experience using Microsoft Project and Rally.

Proficient all Microsoft tools, from Project, Visio, excel and PowerPoint for presentations.

CAREER OVERVIEW / MANAGEMENT AND FORTUNE 100 Small Businesses

UBM Global Trade –Senior Technical Business Analyst 6/2007 – 1/2011

WAYSIDE TECHNOLOGY GROUP – Business Analyst as part of Programmer's Paradise, one of the fastest growing companies by, "The FSB 100" list of "America's fastest-growing small public companies 9/2006 – 5/2007

LE GOURMET CHEF – Project Leader / Business Analyst 12/2004 – 9/2006

DEUTSCHE BANK – Business Analyst / Architect 1981 – 10/2004

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

UNITED BUSINESS MEDIA Global Trade – Newark, New Jersey

As a responsible Tech Lead / Senior Business Analyst in charge of an offshore team of 10 developers, created a new methodology for capturing, structuring and standardize import data feeds received from US Customs, storing the information in our warehouse to finally make it available on the internet. From the conception to implementation, our ETL system used many cutting edge technologies from entity relationship, BizTalk server 2006 for orchestration, SSIS, C# and Enterprise libraries, as well as XML, Web Services and AJAX in the front end.

Developed and maintained 10 ecommerce and publishing sites, such as Piers, JocSailings, Canadian Sailings, JOC and Directories.

Exceptional leadership skills with demonstrated capacity to build train and mentor highly productive and motivated cross-functional teams.

Heavy usage of Business Intelligence tools such as Microsoft SQL OLAP Cubes and Reporting Services, Information Builder's Micro-Focus; Crystal Reports, IBM DB2, Data Mining.

Experience in subscriber based using Business intelligence reporting tools to deliver Trade import and export data. Additional experience with subscriber based publishing data (www.joc.com and www.musicalamerica.com)

Expert with Model-View-Controller infrastructure and Microsoft Best Practices.

WAYSIDE TECHNOLOGY GROUP - Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Functioned as a hands-on, proactive, technical Business Analyst and provided oversight for the entire SDLC spectrum. Developed the enterprise topology, and then performed the design, coding, testing and implementation of several E-commerce applications.

o Delivered ahead of schedule, several high quality E-commerce sites using cutting edge technology, that increased sales by 30%

o Provided search engine and site optimization features that resulted in very fast site access and improved Google search ranking. This increased site visibility and sales by 15%

o Completed business analysis of quote and order tracking processes resulting in re-architecting to increase business efficiency by 25 %

LE GOURMET CHEF – Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Functioned as a Project Leader / Business Analyst between various vendors to provide systems collaboration between the store registers, mobile devices, client server, mainframe and ADP software.

o Delivered an intranet replenishment system providing buyers with a completely automated system for reordering of products thus increasing efficiency by 30%

o Provided management with metrics calculations and reports to provide statistical data for sales projections, stores efficiency and profitability. This reporting system reduced hours of manual keying and calculations previously performed manually every week and thus provided data on a timely basis.

o Produced feasibility study and business analysis that resulted in automation of the payroll system that supported 80 stores which reduced expenses by 30%.

o Automated orders fulfillment and link to UPS for package tracking. Reduced errors and increased efficiency of shipping goods for web orders originating from the warehouse.

o Managed a team of web designers, programmers, network support, help desk, and data entry personnel to provide all steps above as well as a complete 24 by 7 support desk for the company.

DEUTSCHE BANK (formerly BANKERS TRUST) – Jersey City, New Jersey

Produced and supported an interactive web reporting system for the Global Custody division as part of a multi-currency reporting system. System provided clients with global and domestic portfolio information.

o Planned, organized and delivered reports in a logical and consistent manner by creating a scheduling process that increased user productivity by 20%.

Managed 5 person team that developed architecture for a web investor system in the Corporate Trust area.

o Delivered an efficient and flexible document repository for business analysts, as part of their business analysis tools, to allow investors to improve their portfolios by 30%.

Managed the initiative to deliver a Foreign Currency trade entry system for Global Custody.

o Technical manager of team that successfully built and delivered system under budget and on schedule.

o Developed, re-branded and enhanced the user interface for an alliance with Credit Lyonnais.

Designed, implemented and completely automated the journal entry system for cash proofing of all divisions of the Equity Income division, leading a team of several programmers.

o Pioneered new but sensible ideas, which resulted in implementation of new enhancement that reduced the processing time and resulted in a saving of monthly costs by over $300,000/month.

Performed design and implementation of the Securities Lending system, as part of the Assets Information system.

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