USDA Food Safety and Inspection Services

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Sr. Business Requirements Analyst/Technical Lead

USDA Public Trust Clearance

Nov 2007 – Jul 2009

 

Summary

Lead a development team in the design and development of a congressional mandated web site for the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service for meat, poultry and egg products.

Highlights

• Elicit requirements using BPM, interviews, document analysis, stakeholder workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis, wireframes, IDEFx and UML Diagrams.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Develop and manage project work plans using MS Project to ensure project tasks and system functionality are completed.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Perform requirement and post-implementation inspections to ensure that business requirements are achieved.
• Designed and developed SharePoint custom lists, calendars, document libraries, Wiki, announcement boards for development team to meet project needs. Including a bug tracking application for the testing team using SharePoint.

Environment & Tools

• Visual Studio, MS C# .NET, ASP, Ajax, MS SQL Server, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, MS SQL Server Integrated Services,Telerik RAD Controls
• SDLC, Agile, BPMN, IDEFx and UML Diagrams (Activity, Sequence, Process Flow)
• MS Office 2007 (Excel, PowerPoint, Access), MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint 2007