Experience

AccelerEd

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Product Owner

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  * Understand the vision for products and features and evaluate various approaches to implement effective solutions* Collaborate with product managers and other stakeholders to drive product specifications, product design, and overall product direction* Translate ideas and strategies into tangible product requirements in the form of themes, epics, and user stories* Prioritize development backlog items based on product strategy, business value to the customer, implementation cost, and resource availability* Continuously groom the development backlog by recurring iterations of user story development and prioritization* Set specific objectives for each sprint* Act as the one person in the scrum team who fully understands the vision and business value associated with all user stories, and communicate that knowledge to the team to ensure that implemented solutions achieve intended goals* Make the final acceptance decision on all implemented user stories based on whether the intended business value has been achieved* Review and demonstrate product functionality with customers and internal stakeholders* Evaluate and articulate scrum team results, and identify opportunities for further product and feature improvements Show less

• Senior Business Analyst

  • Sep 2017 - Apr 2022

  - Lead requirements elicitation, prioritization, and documentation from stakeholders using various methods, such as user stories, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, story boards, wire frames, brainstorming sessions, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, and scenarios. - Validate with stakeholders to ensure that requirements are written clearly and with enough detail to be both implementable by development and testable by quality assurance.- Serve as a business liaison to communicate requirements to the development team and facilitate detailed requirement gathering with stakeholders during development lifecycle.- Work with product owners to make necessary, just-in-time decisions around product implementation and priorities.- Assist project management in release planning to ensure that stakeholder vision and priority is represented. - Facilitate requirement traceability, categorization and management. - Assist in planning and scoping inter-related projects for enterprise level initiatives.- Work as a liaison among product owners in order to understand the structure, policies, data and operations of the organization. - Responsible for maintaining a deep awareness of how the business operation works and helping the stakeholders identify problems early to generate creative solutions and ideas. - Establish Business Analysis as a practice; develop best practice guide and templates to set a Solutions Design Standard.- Perform business analyst lead tasks by mentoring other analysts and mapping out best practices, templates and training avenues for them. Show less



University of Maryland Global Campus

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Business Analyst

  • May 2015 - Present

  Lead requirements elicitation, prioritization and documentation from stakeholders using various methods, such as user stories, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, story boards, wire frames, brainstorming sessions, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios. Validate with stakeholders to ensure that requirements are written clearly and with enough detail to be both implementable by development and testable by quality assurance. Serve as a business liaison to communicate requirements to the development team and facilitate detailed requirement gathering with stakeholders during development lifecycle.Work with product owners to make necessary, just-in-time decisions around product implementation and priorities. Assist project management in release planning to ensure that stakeholder vision and priority is represented.Facilitate requirement traceability, categorization and management.Assist in planning and scoping inter-related projects for enterprise level initiatives. Work as a liaison among product owners in order to understand the structure, policies, data and operations of the organization. Responsible for maintaining a deep awareness of how the business operation works and helping the stakeholders identify problems early to generate creative solutions and ideas. Establish Business Analysis as a practice; develop best practice guide and templates to set a Solutions Design Standard. Provide technology insight or process consulting services to UMUC line of business.Perform business analyst lead tasks by mentoring other analysts and mapping out best practices, templates and training avenues for them. Perform other job-related duties as assigned. Show less



Netvision Resources Inc

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Process Analyst

  • Jun 2013 - May 2015

  Business Analyst focusing mainly on Iterative Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) principles of Agile Methodology and Waterfall, with experience in the field of Business analysis, Business modeling, ERP, document processing, process re-engineering and decision support systems. In-depth knowledge in Claims Processing and Billing Module, effective analytical and problem solving skills and hands-on experience in creating Use Case Diagrams, Context Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Software Requirements Specifications Documentation and Scope Documents. Show less



Astraia Technology.co.za

• Business Solutions Consultant

  • May 2010 - Sep 2012

  • Implement the Sage 300 for Windows • Understanding and collecting client business requirements • Installation and setup of Sage 300 and Sage CRM products • Setting up management reports using Business Objects crystal reports and Alchemex reporting tools • Provide training and support to clients • Implement the Sage 300 for Windows • Understanding and collecting client business requirements • Installation and setup of Sage 300 and Sage CRM products • Setting up management reports using Business Objects crystal reports and Alchemex reporting tools • Provide training and support to clients



Frost & Sullivan

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior ICT Market Research Analyst Intern

  • Jul 2007 - Feb 2008

  • Conducted research studies on Information & Communication Technologies in emerging markets. • Provided companies with a global ICT industry analysis, growth strategies, market forecasts, and insights into emerging technologies. • Assisted companies address current technology trends & challenges, identify new technologies, and take advantage of opportunities for growth. • Identify companies excelling in the ICT industry and nominate them for awards Projects Completed • Business Intelligence Software Tools Market in Sub Sahara Africa • Africa’s Demand for Mobile Internet Access • Sub-Saharan Video Conferencing Infrastructure Market Show less