A man with multiple hats, experienced Business Analyst who has worked in the North American, European and Asian markets
Innovative individual with a passion to introduce new ideas for product, process, performance and quality improvement
Familiar with Lean 6σ, ITIL, SDLC, Agile/Scrum, BABOK, UI/UX, often the go-to person in MS Excel and Visio
Canadian passport holder; Recognized for reliability, “getting the job done” via work ethic that transcends the 9-to-5 boundary
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
ERP Consultant/Financial Systems Business Analyst
Government of Northwest Territories
07.2023 - Current
Compiled and presented business case to bring in online approvals for visa transactions currently residing on a paper process
Providing advise and recommendation in the development of major functional and technical enhancements to the ERP modules
Product Manager
Self-employeed
09.2022 - 06.2023
Worked with clients in the intersection b/w business, technology and user experience on short term projects
Defined product vision and created roadmap; prioritized product features based on user needs and technical constraints
Product Owner/Sr. Business Analyst
Confiz Limited
01.2022 - 08.2022
Hired to support client (Lebara UK) in web/app implementation project across different countries in Europe with unique requirements
Conducted gap analysis to understand the gap in requirements from 1 country to another and present findings to stakeholders
Elicited requirements from stakeholders and wrote user stories with acceptance criteria as per the 3C format and INVEST criteria
Lead grooming calls to explain user stories to dev team, add any missing requirements and acceptance criteria during the calls and ensure necessary follow-ups are completed with stakeholders (Netherlands, France) before next meeting
Explained requirements to UI UX designers so changes to designs / customer journeys in Figma are made and approved by client
Project Manager/Business Analyst
April And June Digital Pvt Ltd
04.2021 - 01.2022
Analyzed current domain system and/or understood client (German) needs to produce BA artifacts such as BRD with scope, risks, functional (user stories) and non-functional requirements, use cases, process flows, data flow diagrams, open questions etc
Ensured BRD sign off; completed BRD walkthrough with software delivery team to allow them to create succinct estimations
Part of the team that implemented the enterprise wide risk platform RL6 (Sys Admin) by gathering requirements, configuring the system, creating workflows, executing test scripts (Integration, Regression, UAT), resolving system issues and providing go-live support, managing user access, training users, producing guides, building automated reports and alerts to monitor risk event types
Conducted Internal Quality Audits according the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 standard by reviewing policies, doing prep-work on client’s audit items, recording of audit findings/corrective actions for non-conformance in the CRM tool
Understood data specifications, worked with internal decision support group for report automation and testing for errors, performed data cleansing to submit accurate client data and sampling size to external surveying companies
Lead improvement projects by applying 6σ tools to process map, identify waste, create business cases and BRD to drive cycle time↓
ITSM Process Analyst
Halifax Regional Municipality
05.2017 - 12.2017
Ensured updates to Service Catalog, CMDB in the ServiceNow platform for IT business clients prior to projects going live
Created monthly (SLA) performance reports to ensure 80% tickets meet the target for each request item and business service incident
Co-operated with external developers to automate processes in ServiceNow with an objective of speeding up service delivery and revolutionary quality improvement by defining the current and future state in user stories, creating prototype to turn vision into reality
Performance and Planning Analyst
Halifax Regional Municipality
05.2016 - 05.2017
Supported the team in the collection of KPIs by creating templates, data extraction and tracking (pivots) of measures in excel
Built trust through stakeholder meetings by resolving their concerns to promote change and a performance management culture
Performed benchmarking research to present alternate dashboard designs for a report by defining an evaluation best practice criteria 2
Flight RM Analyst
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
06.2015 - 04.2016
Forecasted no-show rates based on historical data to determine optimal overbooking level for flights
Maintained adept knowledge on market forces impacting demand such as variable pricing, seasonality, day of week and competition
Created a pricing strategy for a new route that the airlines was about to launch that resulted in gain in market share for the airline
Produced and analyzed RM reports (KPI’s=spill, stifle, denied boarding) to support decision making and implement strategies
Education
PMI ACP, Project Management, KPI Measurement
Employer Trainings
Business Analysis Certificate -
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
12.2019
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate -
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
08.2018
B.Sc. - Economics, Comp Sci
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
05.2015
Skills
Productivity Software:
Microsoft Office Suite (Advanced Excel Functions: Macros, Pivot Tables, H/VLOOKUPs, Sum if/s, Count If/s, Conditional Formatting, SumProduct, OFFSET, Concatenate), Visio, MS Teams, Power BI
Territorial Epidemiologist, Team Lead at Government of Northwest TerritoriesTerritorial Epidemiologist, Team Lead at Government of Northwest Territories
Data Management Clerk at Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of FinanceData Management Clerk at Government of the Northwest Territories, Department of Finance