PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: * * Over 30 years of experience in IT with 18+ Years in Automotive Business Analysis, Project Lead and Team Lead expertise. 14 Years at Nissan and Honda (Vehicles, Export, Warranty) and 4+ Years at Hyunda (Finance, Vehicles) * Effective communication, analytical with prioritization skills, a problem-solver, Go To" person, and as a key bridge between business and IT. Experience at all levels, from Senior Programmer to Project Manager * Extensive SDLC experience with full lifecycle: Business Requirements Documents, Interface Process Design, High-Level Application Design, Functional Requirements Document, Functional Specification Document, Data Flow Diagrams and Data Mapping, Application Development, Data Migration, all Test Phases (Unit, Integration, QA and User Acceptance Testing), Implementation, and Post-Implementation Support * Utilized various Software Development Life Cycles methodologies including Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, and Waterfall-Scrum Hybrids * Extensive experience within the Vehicle life-cycle including Model Line Setup, Vehicle Allocation, Dealer Profiles, Production/Factory Ordering & Scheduling, Dealer Ordering / Trade, Export Ordering, Commercial Vehicles and Fleet, Wholesale Distribution and Logistics Forecasting, and Retail Proficient in Automotive Finance and Warranty * Partnering with Business stakeholders and Technical teams, successfully delivered major projects utilizing SDLC and business sponsorship. Seasoned Veteran at all levels, many projects end-to-end from Project Scope and Project Planning to Requirements (functional and non-functional), External and Internal Design, Application Development and Testing, QA and User Acceptance Testing, Implementation and Post-Implementation * Engaged Project Teams utilizing Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review Meetings, and Retrospective/Lessons-Learned meetings * Partnered with Project Managers to monitor and manage project plans using MS Project and Milestone Project Plans. Contributed to successful execution of project plans by participating in the scoping and estimating of project plan proposals as well as contributing additional tasks, dependencies, risks, and timelines * Managed and delivered major business objectives to provide new competitive advantage functionality, reduce corporate expenses and increase operational efficiencies. Gathered, inventoried, refined, and validated complex business requirements, Engaged in all Test Phases (Unit Test, System Test, Integration Test, QA and UAT Test) * Expertise in developing Business Requirement Documents * One-on-one Interviews with Business Sponsors, Portfolio Managers, and Support Staff * Built strong and strategic relationships with Business units and technical support teams to gain in-depth knowledge and understanding of business key success factors, products and services, policies, procedures * Business Interface Diagrams - Illustrating relationships and interdependencies between business units * Workshops and questionnaires - requirement gathering techniques to solicit new requirements and obtain feedback on existing requirements * Impact Assessment - Impact Analysis and Consultation with Technical Groups to identify and quantify requirement pros/cons, benefits and risk, and opportunities to management and mitigate risk * Gap Analysis - identified and defined detailed product requirements generating use case scenarios utilizing "As-Is" and "To-Be" processes * Prototyping - walking through screen and report designs to solicit constructive user feedback * Requirements Functionality Matrix - Translating and logically group all functional and non-functional requirements and assign matrix numbers to insure accountability and representation through SDLC * Expertise in developing Systems Design and Functional Specifications * JADs - Managed and Facilitated Brain-Storming Sessions with various IT Application Groups * Logical and Architectural Design - Managed data model design with Data Architects and DBAs * Application Interface Diagrams - Developed interdependencies process flow diagram * Data Flow Diagrams, Data Mapping - Designed data-level relationships and interdependencies * Functional Specification Documentation - Developed detailed technical specifications * Use Cases - Translated Functional Requirements and detailed technical specifications into Use Cases * Data Mining - Leveraged various production data sources to discover additional relevant detailed data requirements, functional dependencies, and technical constraints

Highlights:

• Pricing
• Management
• Test
• Integrate
• Business Analysis
• Information Technology
• IT Management
• it jobs
• sql
• software
• agile