Ormond Beach, Florida, United States
A highly proficient communicator, manager, problem solver, and mentor with extensive experience as a senior U. S. Navy leader, innovator, career coach, instructor, and administrator. A skilled trainer with knowledge of emerging personnel development and education initiatives, strategic communication principles, research methodologies, and organizational skills to ensure continuous team-building success. A detail-oriented leader and energetic self-starter, dedicated to exceed existing corporate goals and excel in effective and positive communication. A transitioning veteran, ready for another career, combining leadership, education, and ability to achieve lasting results while promoting a positive team-concept learning environment.
Senior Business Analyst seeking new opportunity after relocating to the Daytona Beach Area!
• Assigned to the Career Waypoints Development Team in support of Force Management and the My Navy HR Enterprise. • Consolidated and cleansed two years of retention survey data, then engineered a fully functional Excel-based dashboard with enhanced data visualization techniques to track trends and support data-driven retention decisions for more than 12,000 personnel. • Analyzes business processes, evaluates and documents “as is” and “to be” processes, use cases, business rule documents, functional process documents, and documents to develop test and evaluation metrics for the Navy’s retention mandate. • Performs persona-based, scenario-based, and functional testing for the U.S. Navy’s primary retention enlisted planning suite. • Generates system defect reports, tracks corrections, and performs re-test and regression testing once defects are corrected. • Coordinates with software developers, analysts, DBAs, data architects, quality analysts, and other IT team members.
Senior Business Analyst, supporting the Greatest Sailors in the World! • Assigned to the Functional Requirements Group in support of Enlisted Force Management and My Navy HR Enterprise. • Analyzed business processes, formulated scenario-based schemes, and performed functional testing, system evaluation, and end user operability testing in KOFAX. Completed initial Functional Requirements Document and testing for the new Chief Eval. • Evaluated and documented existing “as is” and “to be” processes, use cases, business rule documents, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), functional process documents, and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) documents. • Analyzed functional requirements against proposed system development, ensuring 100% alignment and preventing costly redesigns. • Coordinated with Functional Requirements Group team members to evaluate interfaces and functionality of dependent systems. • Coordinated with Multiple Independent teams to coordinate testing or interfaces and functionality of supporting systems.
• Develops user Stories, multi-role test cases, scenario-based maintenance schemes, cross-functional testing, system evaluation, and end-user operability analysis in support of the U.S. Navy's primary Human Resources tools suite. • Leads the documentation and validation of the Requirements Traceability Matrix for test team members and stakeholders to ensure proper documentation, adherence, and tracking for requirement validation and tracking. • Developed a Test Execution Matrix using Excel, increasing test cycle daily planning, and test documentation by 40%. • Managed a 10-member team in drafting evaluation suites, tracking system defects, and defect corrections while insuring adherence to training, relocation policies, testing procedural compliance, and utilization for over 8,000 personnel. • Provides business analysis planning and corporate policy adherence, working with database developers, business analysts, data architects, data quality analysts, and other IT team members while managing client relationships. • Provides problem reporting and analysis via JIRA issue logs, and provides requirements based recommendations. • Leads and conducts persona-based scenario testing and complex problem-solving in association with continual development and integration of the U.S. Navy’s primary staffing, training, planning, and resource allocation portal.