EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Dynamic and results-driven professional seeking challenges to employ IT solutions

focused on business process and controls improvement. Proficient in Business Analysis
including SAP, PeopleSoft, Infor ERP, and customized applications. Core competencies
reside within Supply Chain, Finance, Accounting, Organizational Change Management
(OCM) and client engagement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority: SAP Supply Chain Support
(02/2019 – 03/2024)
Business Analyst

 Engaged in the audit, statement analysis, inventory reconciliation and payment of

ISTHA supplier invoice backlog.
 Audited payment requests for vendors and validated labor and material costs
against contractual outline agreements.
 Administered the Locally Held Funds (LHF) program that identified and applied
legacy payments against vendor contract releases to budget.
 Developed the process to reduce the open Receivables balance of their primary
vehicle maintenance supplier. Established backlog monitoring procedure.
 Drafted transition planning User Guides and implemented training of ISTHA staff of
SAP functional operations within the OCM mandate.
 S/4 HANA report analysis for Procurement Shopping Cart, Purchase Order and
Contract data to promote regular Procurement review, disposition of aged
document maintenance and settle key vendor accounts.

FLEX LTD
(05/2018 – 11/2018)
Business Systems Analyst (Contract)

 Lead Analyst for the Quality, Training, Plant Maintenance and General User
Requirement Specification (URS) document development and analysis for the
Abbott Diabetes Control Freestyle Libre device.
 Ensured FDA documentation compliance in alignment with internal QA guidelines
and requirements.
 Directed the project URS for 16 factory job streams as the client-facing liaison for
URS distribution.
 Created User Stories for the IBM Tririga requirements analysis.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

Tenneco, Inc.
(07/2017 – 03/2018)
Business Relationship Manager (Contract)

 Established strategic client relationships with stakeholders and led business strategy and planning meetings.
Ensured business needs were addressed by utilizing desired technical solutions. Advocate for the business needs
and provided strategic consulting on options, risks, CBA/ROI analysis and impacts with corporate PMO.
 Managed over twenty HR, Finance and Supply Chain projects. Role required direct engagement of Business Owners
to obtain functional requirements, draft Business Charters for Business cases, build Use Case diagrams, assisted in
the launch of project Ideation processes, compile financial plans, assist in project shaping activities and collaborated
with Solution Engineers solution designs.
 Liaised with Business process owners, vendors, and internal technical staff to solicit, document and communicate
critical path requirements to negotiate and ensure effective value-based system solutions.

Jenner & Block LLP

(04/2017 – 06/2017)
Business Analyst (Contract)

 Maintained Project SharePoint site. Created Project lists, libraries, archived documents, managed decisions, issues,
and risk logs.
 Created Business Requirement, Use cases, process mapping and web site wireframes for mobile matter registration
application and related project-critical documentation.
 Performed functional application development review, functional testing, and data analysis.
 Published and distributed document change requests to Gate3 Development Team

Morgan Group
(07/2016 – 11/2016)
Financial Business Analyst (Contract)

 Performed financial research and analysis of real estate property acquisition, development, construction, and sales
data.
 Assisted in the development of forecasting property acquisition models and drafted acquisition assumption
schedules.
 Prepared financial monthly operating reports for Senior Management.

Lands’ End
(04/2016 – 06/2016)
Business Analyst (Contract)

 Analyzed and drafted Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) documents of Finance, Accounting, and
Procurement diagrams with narratives in advance of decommissioning the legacy ERP system to Oracle ERP Ver
12.2.5 in an aggressive Agile project environment.
 Co-Functional Lead of the Finance/Accounting and PMO Teams in a presentation of preliminary as-Is
documentation prior to transferring to the client BA staff.
 Drafted OCM 35 process Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) to accompany process diagrams for technical
solution build out of the GEAC.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

Getinge Group
(06/2015 – 03/2016)
Business Analyst (Contract)

 Co-Functional Lead of the Financial implementation team and Functional Lead of legacy master data serialization,
data migration and mapping, testing and reconciliation.
 Tasks included data modeling, data extraction, and gathering/processing documentation and directed change
controls (via Solution Manager) within the consolidation and retirement of three ERPs into one SAP ECC 6.0
instance.
 Conducted client-facing sessions of Finance and Supply Chain groups for build out of the ERP Solution Manager
library.
 Drafted documentation, verified Quality Assurance and moved multiple Sales, Operations, and Quality SQL
reporting into the SSRS production environment.
 Prepared comprehensive Use Case documentation illustrating business requirement diagrams to provide the
current state functional business landscape. Process documentation was provided to the offshore development
team illustrating the functionality of the proposed ERP global template solution would fit in the parent’s legacy
three-ERP world.

Integrated Merchandising Systems

(02/2015 – 04/2015)
Sr. Business Analyst (Contract)

 Researched, conducted interviews and documented over 430 work processes identifying an eleven-team
development cycle for the client’s largest customer in advance of an ERP system implementation.
 Led the Supply Chain and Marketing development sessions with Team Leads to capture business process steps
within the client’s specialty and print merchandise development campaign across four business units within their
product development life cycle into a Use Case diagram document.

NTT Data
(10/2014 – 02/2015)
Business Analyst – Organizational Change Management (Contract)

 Conducted User and developer workshops to draft SOP documentation and mapping for the client SAP rollout.
 Translated and retooled SAP ECC 6.0 Financial (OTC) and Supply Chain (DTS) process components into written
business and functional requirements – including Use Case narratives and diagrams - accepted by the technical
development and management teams.
 Chaired process review and gap analysis sessions with the Global Shared Services group based in India.
 Published OCM User training documentation and Business Process Procedure (BPP) documentation and narratives
describing their relationship to existing BAU processes.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

Accenture Business Consulting

(06/2013 – 09/2014)
Supply Chain Architect - PeopleSoft (Contract)

 Functional architect assigned to re-engineer material disbursement policies, stock distribution process
improvements and procedures across seven satellite ministries within the Ascension Health network.
Business Analyst assisting the SCM staff in the retirement of the Medtech ERP at Ascension/Baltimore to PeopleSoft
and supported the data migration and process re-engineering activities of a PeopleSoft ERP upgrade to four
Ascension Health ministries within Michigan.
 Conducted daily client reviews and root cause process improvement analysis with floor staff and Supply Chain
Operations. Proposed changes to status quo VMI policy, SLA agreements and procedures. Introduced handheld RF
inventory scanning procedures for goods issue/returns.
 Validated deliverables to meet functional and design requirements. Performed KPI data analysis, reporting and
master data maintenance.
 Conducted OCM reviews with Ascension Health users pertaining to changes within the Procurement and internal
ministry inventory distribution procedures.

Xylem Corporation
(09/2012 – 04/2013)
Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager – Warehouse Mobility – Infor-LX Lynx – UAT script creation/test analysis

Pactiv Corporation
(12/2011 – 07/2012)
Finance Business Analyst – SAP vs Hyperion Finance reconciliation, Cost Ctr/G/L and PC master data maintenance.

J P Morgan Chase
(05/2011 – 11/2011)
Business Analyst – SAP Fixed Asset consolidation – Drafted Techno-functional configuration playbook

Baxter Healthcare
(09/2010 – 02/2011)
Sr. Business Analyst – User data harvesting, data migration, drafted technical FDD requirements for Cognos
development

Bel Brands
(06/2009 – 07/2010)
System Support Analyst – Led Financial transition – Finance/Procurement / PP MDM, OCM, FA conversion. UAT, OCM

Philips Consumer Luminaires

(01/2009 – 06/2009)
Inventory Demand Planner/Buyer – Wholesale procurement - KPI and run rate analysis – Forecast buy strategy analysis.

WMH Tool Group

(01/2008 – 12/2008)
Business Application Analyst – SAP system configuration for FI, SD, MM, APO – EDI 210 mapping – Project Manager
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EDUCATION
Roosevelt University
 B.G.S in Business Institutions

College of Lake County

 Associate of Science in Computer Science

CERTIFICATES
 Micro Train – IIBA prep course / CCBA candidate
 Micro Train - MCSA: 70-461 Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Databases
 SAP Schedule Manager (SCMA)

SKILLS
SKILLS
Operating Systems / Software
Office 365, MS SharePoint, Excel 2010 and 2013, MS Word 2010, Visio 2010, Power Point 2010, MS Access 2010 and
Agile PLM 9.3.6.

Miscellaneous
SAP R/3 versions 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 6.0 functional applications including FI, CO, PS, WMS, MDM, APO, SCM modules along
with exposure to PM, IM SD, BW. Configuration of FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AM, CO, MM and SD; Exposure to S/4 HANA,
Enterprise Portals, SAP-Console, Glovia ERP.

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