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Credentials
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Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques
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Agile Requirements Foundations
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Business Analysis: Business Benefits Realization
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Business Analyst and Project Manager Collaboration
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Learning Digital Business Analysis
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Cert Prep: Agile Analysis (IIBA®-AAC)
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Studying for the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)®
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Business Analysis Foundations: Business Process Modeling
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Business Analysis Foundations: Fundamentals (2014)
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Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
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Requirements Elicitation for Business Analysts: Interviews
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Certified Business Analysis Professional™
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Certified ScrumMaster
Scrum AllianceOct, 2012- Apr, 2026
Experience
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Abbott
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Greater Chicago Area
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Senior Informatics Business Analyst
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Feb 2018 - Present
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Greater Chicago Area
Software business analysis / systems engineer of multiple DHS products, both on-market and in-development.• Facilitation of prioritization meetings for Analytics Software Project Requests.• Author User Stories and Acceptance Criteria based on incoming User Needs and Enhancement Requests.• Document Software Requirements, Detailed Design Specifications.• Host / Act as ScrumMaster in Agile Ceremonies. Follow up to remove impediments and coordinate dependencies on other teams based on business priority.• Facilitate product backlog meetings.• Learn and apply Q.04.01NMP process. • Initiate Business Requirements, Software Requirements, Detailed Design Specifications.• Administration of Requirements Management tool to ensure adherence to process.• Review Formal Test Executions for accuracy and adherence to process.• TRB Chair for two on-market products• Backup Cybersecurity Risk Management contact• Participant in product and cybersecurity process update meetings to keep abreast of incoming changes and impacts to development process. Facilitate and execute tool updates to enable process compliance.
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Vative, LLC
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Des Plaines, IL
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Business Systems Analyst
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Nov 2015 - Oct 2017
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Des Plaines, IL
• Test and quality assurance for medical device software, hardware, and firmware• Maintained traceability from Test Plans to Specifications to SRSs to Design Inputs to Customer Requirements• Authored Software Requirement Specifications (SRSs) and Functional Specifications (SPECs)• Facilitated Project Discovery, Sprint Backlog and Sprint Planning meetings• Contributed to defect triage effort. Prioritize based on risk.• Built product backlog using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)• Prepared SW Release Plans for new projects• Updated the release plan after each sprint• Tracked quality metrics & ensure visibility to team, stakeholders• Wrote and execute manual test plans• Automated manual tests using Coded UI Tests and AutoHotKey
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Systems Analyst
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Jan 2014 - Nov 2015
• Authored SRSs and Functional Specifications in Caliber RM for medical device project seeking FDA 510(k) approval.• Facilitated Iteration Planning and Backlog Refinement meetings• Created Storyboard UI mock ups using MS TFS plug-in for PowerPoint.• Created MS Visio workflow diagrams used in planning and discovery meetings.• Represented the SW Team in Core Team Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment meetings• Lead SW Team Risk Analysis meetings
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Software Quality Assurance Testing Engineer
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Apr 2010 - Jan 2014
• Testing and quality assurance for medical device software, hardware, and firmware for medical device project that obtained FDA 510(k) approval.• Worked on a team using agile methods on FDA regulated software.• Analyzed/Approved specifications and SRSs• Assisted with training new Software Quality Assurance Testing Engineer staff members.• Participated in both verification and validation testing efforts.• Converted manual test scripts into automated test scripts using Microsoft PowerShell.• Document and verify defects using TeamTrack• Responsible for Test Strategy for new features and verifying high risk defect fixes.
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Software Management
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Feb 2008 - Apr 2010
• Testing and quality assurance for medical device software, hardware, and firmware
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Education
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2003 - 2007University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science, International, Resource, and Consumer Economics
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