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Sr. Analyst - Project Lead Resume
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| Desired Industry: Insurance |
SpiderID: 27060 |
| Desired Job Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Date Posted: 6/1/2009 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
Availability Date: 11/30/2009 |
| Desired Wage: 85000 |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience |
Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50% |
| Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors |
Willing to Relocate: No |
Objective:
To obtain an exciting and rewarding career opportunity with a company that values its employees, as well as one in which I can grow as a professional and truly feel that my efforts make a difference.
Experience:
Oracle / AdminServer - Bala Cynwyd, PA
2008 - 2009
Sr. Consultant - Insurance Global Business Unit
* Managed focus groups to seamlessly transition from AdminServer’s project management methodology to Oracle’s Unified Method approach
- Responsible for focus group creation, planning, review, approval, training, implementation, and adoption
# Focus group discussion topics: configuration, design, interfaces, pre-sales study, project delivery, project kick-off, requirements, and testing (unit, system integration, quality assurance, user acceptance)
* Acted as liaison to transition AdminServer applications to Oracle’s framework and architecture, including: Project Management system, Employee timesheets, and Contractor timesheets (CLEATS)
* Provided testing and configuration support for AdminServer’s internal ‘ACME Chassis’ and Rules Pallette
- Created and executed test plans (unit, integration, quality assurance, user acceptance, and regression)
* Provided testing and configuration support for .NET and/or J2EE client projects: Credit Union National Association, ING APAC, Merrill Lynch, Phoenix, Wilton Reinsurance
- Created and executed test plans
# Logged, reported, and re-tested all errors encountered, including Sad Server errors
- Created and executed sql statements to support all data testing conducted for both oracle and mssql databases
- Completed configuration changes for business rules, inquiry screen rules, screen rules, segment rules, and transaction rules
- Completed configuration conversion for Phoenix upgrade (v8 to v9)
* Gathered detailed client requirements via client interviews, surveys, use case creation, activity diagrams, and business process flow analysis
- Evaluated all project information gathered to complete the following:
# Disseminated actual requirements vs. user requested enhancements
# Determined and resolved any conflicting data collected
# Drilled-down on summarized information to provide as much detail as possible
# Translated requirements into formal business and/or functional requirements
# Determine if the current software, operating systems, infrastructure, and business processes are sufficient to meet the functional and technical requirements of the project (system performance, usability, efficiency, and system availability)
* Created a new weighted-average project estimation process, enabling more accurate pre-sales project cost estimations; resulting in an estimated savings of 15%
* Created metric spreadsheets for tracking staff skill levels in numerous categories, enabling managers to immediately assign the proper project resources, resulting in an estimated savings of 10%
Guardian Life (Insurance and Annuities Corp) - Bethlehem, PA
2000 - 2008
Project Manager, Sr. Technical Specialist, Consultant - Business Technology Solutions
* Proactively managed an annuities/life insurance application with a $6.5 billion cumulative value, via a matrixed-team of 12 onshore and offshore resources
- Compliance with all IT, PMO, security, change control, and audit governance policies, (including SEC regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley)
- Development for new variable and/or fixed products, product changes and/or enhancements (i.e. interest rate changes, new product riders), and production fixes
- IVR/VRU - which included Industry Excellence awards from DALBAR: Outstanding Customer Service (2001-2007) and Outstanding Financial Service (2002-2004, and 2008)
- Testing - unit, system integration, quality assurance, user acceptance, regression, and production parallel
- Upgrade and conversion projects: Oracle databases, Oracle database documents converted to web application, Policy administration system (related source code, servers, and work-stations), Servers (AIX, Citrix, SUN to AIX), and WinNT to WinXP-SP2
# Reduced application development costs by 20% by replacing the legacy system security with MS Windows security, re-writing inefficient code, and removing all duplicate and unused programs
# Reduced the quotes processing time from 6-8 hours to 1.5-2 hours, by replacing application programs with Oracle pl/sql
* Managed and/or provided direct hands-on support for: business continuity/disaster recovery, change management (source code migrations - magic, pl/sql, unix scripts, and data), requirements gathering, reviewing functional specifications, security (application, databases, and servers), and tracking both operational level and service level agreements
* Managed a multi-geographic QA testing team (Bethlehem-PA, New York-NY, Appleton-WI, Spokane-WA) for the Siebel Group Medical web application portals (Broker, Employer, Forms and Materials, General, Member, Provider, and Security)
* Member of the Operation Excellence team, which developed company-wide ‘Best Practice’ procedures
* Installed and supported PeopleSoft modules (IA, AP, AR, and GL), including: Upgrades and Patches (fields, records, translations, indexes, panels, menus, messages, etc.), Security Admin, Workflow Admin, UNIX (Domains, Application Servers, Process Schedulers)
Stroehmann Bakeries - Trooper, PA
1999 - 2000
Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Information Technology Services
* Installed and supported PeopleSoft modules (AM, AP, AR, GL), including: Upgrades and Patches, Security Admin, and Workflow Admin
* Worked closely with business partners to determine project risks, deliverables, and milestones for proposed enhancements, as well as determine operational and quality improvement opportunities
SBC Wireless / Comcast Cellular - Wayne, PA
1998 - 1999
Sr. Financial Systems Analyst - Strategic Business Solutions
* Installed and supported PeopleSoft modules (AM, AP, AR, BI, GL, IN, OM, PC, PO), including: Upgrades and Patches, Security Admin, and Workflow Admin
* Identified and implemented process improvement solutions to strengthen accountability, promote effective risk management, and deliver value-add results
Temple University Health System - Philadelphia, PA
1992 - 1998
Manager, Staff Accountant, Associate Accountant - Finance / Accounting
* Proactively managed the departmental budget, for all expenses, accruals, and adjustments
* Managed all prior staff responsibilities, as well as: GL approval and closing functions, Yearly Escheat payments, and Consolidated financial statements (including all affiliates)
- Staff/Associate duties: GL journal entries, account analysis, financial statement preparations (balance sheet, trial balance, financial statement ratios), monthly reconciliations (AR, AP, Inventory, bank statements), and payments for: union benefits, health, pension, and training
* Coordinated PeopleSoft GL conversion activities (planning, testing, and implementation)
* Reviewed key financial/operational performance indicators with the Director/Controller
* Developed custom nVision reports for financial review analysis, and accrual estimates
Education:
* Oracle University: Completed over 90 courses in the categories of Compliance, Consulting, Leadership Skills, Professional Development, and Professional Skills; including Oracle Unified Method and Oracle Project Management Method
* AdminServer: Completed On-boarding process training, as well as additional training
- Configuration - Fundamentals and Beyond (Level 1, Level 2, Level 3)
- Configuration - using Version 8 and the Rules Pallette
* The George Washington University (in association with ESI International)
- Guardian Project Management (18 internal courses) and PMP power-prep course
- Business Analysis and Business Analyst courses
* Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- MBA courses (Healthcare/Financial Management), GPA 3.84
- Bachelor of Arts in Accounting, GPA 3.60, Magna Cum Laude
Affiliations:
Golden Key National Honor Society, Beta Gamma Sigma-National Business Honor Society, and Beta Alpha Psi-Honors Accounting Fraternity, Becker CPA Review Scholarship
Skills:
SOFTWARE, SKILLS, TRAINING:
* Applications: AdminServer/Oracle Insurance Policy Administration System, IBM Corepoint IVR, Genesys IVR, Insbridge Rating and Underwriting (Skywire), Maestro, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft (AM, AP, AR, BI, GL, IA, IN, OM, PC, PO), Transcend Annuities/Insurance
* Connectivity - Desktop: Chameleon, Citrix, Go-Global, MS Office, Putty, Samba
* Development - Change Control: AdminServer/Oracle Rules Palette, Crystal, jDeveloper, Magic, nVision, Oracle Documaker, PeopleTools, PVCS, Serena-ChangeMan, SILK, SQL (Aqua Data Studio, MSSQL Server, Oracle SQL Plus, Toad), Visio, XML (Cooktop, Oxygen), Xstream
* Management - Reporting: Asset Insight, Concur, IBM Rational Suite (ClearQuest, ClearCase), LDRPS-Strohl, Oracle applications (Beehive, Business Intelligence, Crystal Ball, Project Management Method, Qarbon, Unified Methodology, Viewlet Builder), Primavera (Project Management, Time Tracker), Sharepoint
* O/S - Platforms - Web Services: UNIX, Citrix, Javascript, J2EE, Mainframe, .NET, UNIX, Websphere, Windows NT-2000-XP, WinServer-2003
Additional Information:
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Over 18 years of financial and IT experience, including full system development life cycle, implementations, upgrades, conversions, and post-production support. Personal strengths include: team leadership, team work, ability to work independently, self-motivated, detail-oriented, excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, as well as flexibility in today’s ever-changing technological and business environments.
Reference:
Available upon request.
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