Resume of business analist

Title
business analist

Primary Skills
Software Development Life Cycle, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro

Location
US-NY-New York (will consider relocating)

Posted
May-05-08

• Project Management certification in process
• Microsoft Certified solution Developer(MCSD.net)
• Domain knowledge of Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Telecom, Finance, Healthcare and Insurance.
• Knowledge of Collaborative and project management tools and methodologies
• Experience with IBM track of SOA(Service oriented Architect)
• Certification course in ORACLE
• Certification course in Data mining and Business intelligence
• Certification course in Information security and Ethical hacking
• Executive Program in Management, Sloan, MIT(completed May 2007)
• Knowledge in Datawarehousing

Technical Skills:
Data and Process Modeling Tools Software Development Life Cycle, MS Visio, Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro
Methodologies/Frameworks RUP, UML, OOAD, and Data Modeling, Business Modeling, Waterfall
Testing Tools Mercury WinRunner, Mercury Load Runner , QTP, Mercury Test Director and Rational Test Manager
Databases MS Access, SQL Server 2000 and Oracle 9i/8, DB2
Languages MYSQL, HTML, UML, ASP.net,VB.net, Java , SQL
Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/XP
Office Tools MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Quick Books
Reporting Tools Crystal Reports 8.0, 9.0,10.0
Project Management Tool MS Project 2002/2003
Business Intelligence tools Congas and Business objects



Professional Experience:
Morgan Stanley Oct 2007 - Onwards
Wall Street, New York City
Lead Analyst

Description :
An online end to end trading application for trading of Fixed Income securities. Product suite comprises of various applications right from account creation, account funding, routing of accounts to a particular platform and incepting them, trading fixed income through order



entry tickets, processing transactions, reconciliation, generating confirms and finally reviewing positions and account activity.

Responsibilities
• Verifying and validating requirements
• Managing a team of people, identifying their roles and responsibilities
• Assigning tasks to team members and measuring them, reporting back to management
• Preparing Requirements traceability matrix
• Preparing end to end product suite flows and Business process flows
• Documenting functional specifications and enhancements for the new system
• Preparing Test plan
• Managing quality assurance effort (Test cases, Test script and test case execution)
• Managing manual and automated testing efforts.
• Meeting Business group people and other stakeholders in project
• Interacting with Senior Management or outside vendors

Environment: Mainframe, Windows, QTP, Microsoft Suite (PowerPoint, excel, Word),
Mercury Quality center, Snag, Visio, Project Plan, DB2 and Change Man


Technovation Systems,
Arlington MA Oct 2006- Sep 2007

Technovation Systems offers web based online banking applications for its clients. It provides Financial Services and Insurance solutions for its client's specifically small banks, investment companies and hedge funds. It deals with Risk and Treasury management, compliance and regulatory solutions, Wealth Management, Equity Trading Platforms -- front office, middle and back office, Core banking solutions. It deals in specific solutions for hedge funds and portfolio managers for profit and loss calculations, portfolio sensitivity analysis and reporting.

Product1 :
IBTs,(A solution for investment Management company) , Boston
Project Manager and Business Analyst

Description:
A solution for investment Management Company needs to be designed and developed. Client wants to include advance security features in the Solution which will cater to needs of its own employees as well as customers. It will support trading, portfolio management and will offer advice on banking, mortgages, mutual funds etc. The portal covers knowledge and computer simulations on Derivatives, equities trading, equity investments, hedge funds etc Using web browser customers, administrators, portfolio managers have immediate access to information in real time Environment 24X7; the system facilitates workflow to enhance both internal and external Productivity. The system has a framework to support Sarbanes Oxley compliance. Further client wants solution to have reporting capabilities in both statistical and graphical mode using business intelligence. Portal will offer business messaging solution as a utility which can be integrated across industry standard platforms like SWIFT. Companies can access response of markets related to corporate actions and custody processing activities. Suite includes a web 2.0 platform also which fund research and Investment Company can use for advance proprietary analytics and equity trading .

Responsibilities:

• Helped client in development of business requirements, including identification of opportunities for improvement and optimization of business processes.
• Documenting all the requirements using RUP. Conducted JAD sessions to help different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Played Role of Project manager in initiating , planning, executing , controlling and closing processes. Made project plan and calculated resources using methods of estimating, did risk analysis and management. Used Gantt charts and PERT techniques to monitor progress of project. Took care of Reporting and time tracking
Activities. Responsible for assigning tasks to team members and managing their reporting activities.
• Track and maintain stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro to analyze and review requirements document to create Test plans.
• Worked with QA team and helped in creation of Test plans/ Test Scenarios/ Test Cases/Test Matrix. Documentation of Test Procedures and Test cases for user acceptance, functional and integration testing using Rational Test Manager. Defects were reported using Clear Quest and followed up with developers to discuss updates about the defect status.
• Worked as a consultant on Security features of solution during entire SDLC.
• Worked Closely in project plan and architecture of the solution.
• Whatever system is supposed to do I implemented that in excel and measured calculations. I saw system results and excel results and matched them. I used Financial CAD .
• Created Business intelligence blueprint for reporting capabilities of system

Environment: Java and Oracle, Windows XP, Microsoft office suite( Excel, word and Power Point), Rational Rose, Clear Quest, Test Manager, Microsoft Project 2003, Erwin, Financial CAD, Web 2.0.



Product 2:
All assets (Trading platform, Order Management and Treasury systems),
Boston
Project Manager and Business Analyst

Description:
Solution is front office system (Buy/Sell , Borrow/lend ,creating deal, limit checks) for asset management firm with limited middle office (Risk, portfolio) and back office(to monitor deals done by front office, settlement trading etc). It can be used by traders for all type of equities and securities trading (Includes Mortgage based securities). Real time facility of solution helps dealers and managers to efficiently manage and execute orders from multiple sources. It provides real time/Order status facility also. Solution has a unique treasury management utility which can be used for budgeting and currency management by bank or financial institution as a stand alone feature or in integration with other tools.

Responsibilities:

• Helped client in development of business requirements.
• Documenting all the requirements. Conducted JAD sessions to help different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives with each other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Played Role of Project manager in initiating , planning, executing , controlling and closing processes. Made project plan and calculated resources using methods of estimating, did risk analysis and management. Used Gantt charts and PERT techniques to monitor progress of project. Took care of Reporting and time tracking
Activities.
• Business process modeling and mapping. Responsible for Impact analysis and change management.
• Track and maintain stakeholder requested enhancements and changes using Rational Clear Quest.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro to analyze and review requirements document to create Test plans.
• Worked with QA team and participated in writing Test plans/ Test Scenarios/ Test Cases/Test Matrix. Documentation of Test Procedures and Test cases for user acceptance, functional and integration testing using Rational Test Manager. Defects were reported using Clear Quest and followed up with developers to discuss updates about the defect status. Used Financial CAD to measured expected results with system results.
• Worked as a consultant on Security features of solution during entire SDLC.
• Worked as an Architect to decide on proper configuration of server (and thus
Avoiding redundancy, fault tolerance etc), taking care of maintainability, responsiveness and throughput and did vendor management for server.


Environment: Java and Oracle, Windows XP, Microsoft office suite( Excel, word and Power Point), Rational Rose, Clear Quest, Test Manager, Financial CAD, wiki.

* In addition to Product 1 and Product 2, I have provided on-going support for, client 1 and client 2 while working with Technovation systems.

Client1-
Paragonlake , Boston
Business Analyst and Quality Analyst

Description
Client wants to build an online portal to customize jewelry in real time. Customers can interact with designers . Portal has Scheduling calendar and VOIP facilities to ensure easy interaction between designers and customers, further designer and customer can watch each other's screen while working on an image in real time. The portal includes a complete backend admin area with predefined object library, visual tools and security features along
With ecommerce capabilities. Client wants system to have Business intelligence capabilities, presentation of business data should be in both statistical and graphical mode .Solution will have capabilities for claim adjuster to login and look for claims, further solution is linked to insurance portal of company.

Roles and Responsibilities
• Did complete business modeling of client's business. Understood and refined processes. Prepared state diagrams and activity diagrams
• Conducted interviews with various stake holders in project and organized meetings
• Helped group to reach common goals related to project, Identified problem and did
Simulations to analyze causes of problem.
• Prepared Problem statement, vision document, Supplementary specification, Use
Case model, UI specifications for project.
• Helped Project manager in initiating , planning, executing , controlling and closing processes. Participated in preparation of project plan and calculated resources using methods of estimating, did risk analysis and management. Helped in preparation of Gantt charts and PERT techniques to monitor progress of project.
• Prepared Test plan and test strategy for project. Participated in both SDLC and STLC during entire project.
• Worked as a QA and wrote test cases, test scenarios, test scripts and prepared defect report for the system. Also worked on requirements traceability matrix.
• Developed an artifact for maintenance and support activity.
• Developed a blueprint of Business intelligence capabilities for system
• Created Datawarehouse blueprint
Environment- Java, Ajax and Oracle9i , windows XP, Rational rose, MS Visio, Win runner, Test director, load runner, Datawarehousing( Informatica , Erwin, metadata) , Microsoft Excel , Project 2003 and word.


Client 2:
Ibcorp, Boston
Business Analyst and Quality Analyst

Description:

Client wants a portal based human resource management application which comprises of Artificial intelligence components and can be used to help small service oriented business owners and managers create, update, and maintain schedules for shift/hourly workers. Further this application may be integrated with mobile and PDA platforms. System should have a business intelligence features inbuilt and reports can be generated on per week basis. Further Scheduling and messaging part of system has also intelligence capabilities

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business process, identifying actors, constructing functional requirements of the system.
• Consultation on technology platform and Service oriented architecture approach.
• Doing SRS study, designing flow techniques, alternative flows, exception flows, extension points and activity diagrams.
• Helped Project manager in initiating , planning, executing , controlling and closing processes. Participated in project plan and calculation of resources using methods of estimating and risk analysis
• Applying use case method to business processes, doing risk analysis, identifying users
Customers and related groups.
• Identifying the technology platform, designing solution architecture and collaborating with technical team closely during SDLC.
• Testing of the solution using various QA methods and tools.
• Developed Datawarehousing blueprint for project
• Artifact on building business intelligence capability in system.
• Worked hands on Business intelligence tool Cognos

Environment: IBM rational rose, MS visio and project, Mercury interactive QA tools, UML, ASP.net, SQL2000, Microsoft suite, Cognos, Informatica, Erwin HTML and windows XP.

Client: Diverture (Boston, USA) Aug 2005- Oct 2006
Project manager and Business Analyst

Description:
Develop a analytical library for hedge fund which is extremely flexible and reliable and can support wide range of financial instruments. These libraries implement a large range of pricing, sensitivities and Greeks, cash flow, and other functions. Various models for computation of yield curves are included. Supported products include Equities and Commodities: across all important markets, Fixed Income Products, Futures and Forwards across all underlying instruments, Plain vanilla and Exotic Options and Credit Derivatives . Further a Geneva alike-customized system is built on top of this library, which allows in creating different kinds of portfolio valuation typically on daily basis. It takes cares of both buy and sell position and can be interfaced with broker systems. Also it deals with back office, reporting and compliance.

Responsibilities:
• Helped client in identifying business requirements and documenting them.
• Played role of project manager in all stages of project. Calculated work hours
Involved and allocated resources and managed them.
• Did business continuity planning
• Prepared quality plan for the project and did risk assessment. Worked with team to
come up with architecture. Developed and documented deployment diagrams,
database diagrams, class diagrams, component diagrams, activity and state charts. Also
created blueprint for performance improvement.

Environment: .Net, SQL 2005, Microsoft suite (Office, PowerPoint, excel) ,
Enterprise Architect, open source testing environment system, subversion.


Fexmax, Europe Aug 2004-August2005
Business Analyst

Client needed a message and announcing software that enables a user to send messages to people who have Bluetooth enable mobile phones. Further client wants to keep track of marketing campaign that had been sent as a SMS or MMS and want to recall them later on. It should be Multilingual software where a user can enter any details in any language. User is able to send images, text messages, mp3 messages. Further client wanted to sell this software using a solution which should support ecommerce capabilities and marketing tools.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with business users to get understanding of clients business needs and
and gathered business requirements.
• Created use cases, Use case diagram, Business flow diagram, work and navigation
• Flow diagram using unified modeling language (UML)
• Conducted many formal and informal sessions to develop architectural solution that
the application meets the business requirements, to resolve open issues and change
Requests.
• Developed detailed use case diagrams and sequence diagrams describing how actions
are to be carried out using Microsoft visio.
• Did weekly status reports and Adhoc reports to monitor the progress and identify
critical points to allocate resources and did decision support for development life
cycle.
• Worked as a Quality analyst during testing phase and helped in changing screens.
• Consulted client related to market research strategy for selling product.

Environment: J2ME, J2SE, HSQL, MS Project and Visio, MS office suite, web technologies, windows XP.

Dhico, Boston, USA Jan 2003- Aug2004
Business Analyst

Description:

Client wants to develop core technology having Business intelligence to infer context and meaning accurately within text and speech content resources. Client wants to sell this product to search engine and Biotech/Pharma companies. Client wants to use same meaning and methodology to infer context and meaning accurately in translation to derive precise content search results. Client wants its software to replace current state of machine translation with a cognitive linguistic knowledge engineering model.

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client closely to gather requirements and understanding the application
of product in biotech and pharmaceutical sectors. Worked on getting domain
experience of biotech and pharmaceutical..
• Helped client in identifying architecture for project and reformed it further into
Stages.
• Analyzed business requirements and created use cases, use case diagrams, Navigation
flow, Business flow diagrams and work flow diagrams for applications and created
activity diagrams/state chart diagrams using MS visio and created conceptual model.
• Conducted Joint requirements planning session (JRP) as a facilitator to get
requirements, conducted many joint application development (JAD), Joint
application management(JAM) and Rapid application development Sessions(RAD).
• Facilitated communication in distributed team, extensively interacted with QA team.

Environment: windows XP, MS Project and Visio, Prolog, Java, Linux, PHP and mySQL .

CFIC Home mortgage, LA, USA Jan2002-Jan2003
Role: Got a promotion in this project as a Business Manager and consultant.
Project Scope: Client is working in mortgage industry in USA. He wants to develop a CRM systems specifically catering to mortgage industry, at the same time he wants to solution to take leads from his BPO division in Asia, these leads should work as a feed for mortgage CRM solution and in the end qualified leads need to interact with calyx software.
System should have Business intelligence for reporting capabilities.

Roles and achievements
1 Worked as a analyst for the project. Performed gap analysis to identify the gaps between what additional things client needs which are not being covered by existing processes.
2. Gained knowledge of mortgage and real estate industry by doing interactions with
Various Stakeholders involved in project.
3. Used the guidelines and artifacts of Rational unified process (RUP) to strategize the
Implementation of Rational unified process effort in different iterations and phases
Of Software development life cycle (SDLC)
4. Followed UML based methods to create (A). Use cases and ( B). Activity diagrams.
5. Performed manual testing of the functionality of the application by inserting varying
Data On different test runs. Worked as an Business intelligence consultant and
account Manager for project.

Environment- .net technologies, MS Suite, MS Visio, BI environment, Black box testing and customized Business intelligence tools.

Evolutionmarketplace,
New Orleans city, Louisiana Jan2001-Jan2002
Role: Software developer
Project Scope: Client wants a e-procurement solution that can help reduce both direct costs (like those that are part of end product such as plastic) and indirect costs( like those associated in creating the end product such as office chairs). User can increase purchasing efficiency, reduce overall production time, and can improve purchasing controls using this solution.

Role and achievements
1. Worked in a team as a software developer on ASP.net, Graphical user interface and backend database.
2. Worked with business analyst and quality analyst team to understand SDLC and testing
Methods.
3. Participated in group discussion to understand domain knowledge of manufacturing and aerospace and other heavy metal industries.

Onlinesafetyshield ,CA, USA Mar 2000-Jan2001
Role: Software Developer
Project Scope: Client wants to develop a online system to protect children from viewing
Harmful content . The system should instantly block access to website with offensive
Content .With this system parents have information and ability to address potentially
harmful situations before they affect or endanger children.

Role and achievements
1. Worked in a team as a software developer on ASP.net, VB.net and SQL2000 database.
2. Assisted Project Manager and Senior solution architect in developing project milestones.
3. Participated in all group discussions related to project, assisted Internet marketing
Team head in devising , marketing and SEO strategy for product.


Hi-tech Services, Belgium Jan2000-Mar2000
Role: Software developer
Project scope: Client wants to develop a real time interactive systems which can be used across various sectors uniformly for customer interaction. Client want to launch product in two categories for small and medium size business industries and large scale industries.
Role and achievements
1.Worked as a software developer on ASP.net and SQL2000

Technical Skill set:
• Web Technologies : HTML, XML, PHP, Flash, Photoshop
• Programming Skills: C++, ASP.net , VB.net
• MS Project and MS Visio
• Databases : Oracle, SQL2000, mySQL and DB2
• Information Security
• Broad Understanding of various other information technologies ( like Java, J2EE etc)
• IBM rational and QA testing tools.
Management skill Set:
• Leadership and Passion
• Interpersonal skills and comfortable in Business communication at all levels.
• Innovative mindset
• Entrepreneurial spirit and problem solving approach.
• Domain expertise of various sectors

Education:
Technical
Masters in Software Science (Kurukshetra University, India )
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Board of Tech. Edu , Delhi, India)

Management
MBA (International Management) ( All India Management Association ,Delhi , India)
BBA (International Management Center, Delhi, India)
Executive Program in Management (Sloan school of Management, MIT)


Certifications

• MCSD.net (Microsoft certified solution developer)
• Certificate in Enterprise Management from IIT(Indian Institute of Technology)-Delhi

Certifications
Certifications

? MCSD.net (Microsoft certified solution developer)
? Certificate in Enterprise Management from IIT(Indian Institute of Technology)-Delhi


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