JOHN GODDARD7842 Snead Lane, Falls Church, VA 22043

John55qq@yahoo.com      703.609.7027

Elevator Summary:

 

US Citizen

Requirements Business Analyst w/ more than 15 years experience

Industry experience in government and commercial sectors

Agile and waterfall development environments JAD sessions

Project Manager: Homeland Security, Sallie Mae, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., West Virginia University Medical Center, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company Investment Management Division (CAP Gemini America), Department of Justice, WV High Risk Insurance Group, Mellon Bank

Software Developer and software design architect

COTS Integration Designer

BS Industrial Engineering, MBA

Associate Professor West Liberty University

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

 

ICF International Inc., Fairfax VA.  (Contractor)              02/2015 – Present   

·   Sr. Business Analyst – Agile software development providing epics and user stories for the re-design of WebATLAS and its interface to mail processing equipment.

 

·   Created the Barcode Library, an on-line Library of all US Post Office barcodes currently in use in the United States.  The Library defines the use, symbology, constructs, and specifications of those barcodes and provides access for US Postal employees.

 

WDC Associates, Vienna VA.  (Contractor)              09/2014 – 01/2015   

·   Self Employment: Business Analyst – custom design software requirements for Tennessee small business; Functional Specifications for Fuel Commodities Trade and trade commission tracking

 

Computech, Inc.  Washington, DC(Sr. Business Analyst) 07/2014 – 09/2014   

·   Sr. Business Analyst – Develop Business and Functional Specifications for Federal Communications Commissions on-line auctions of the Broadband spectrum

·   Develop requirements for the FCC Optimization Model using a modified Agile process

 

TurningPoint Global Solutions, Inc.  Rockville, MD (Sr. Business Analyst)  07/2012 – 03/2014   

·   Sr. Business Analyst – Develop Business and Functional Specifications

·   Develop requirements for Automated Provider System using a modified Agile process

·   Designed HIPPA Eligibility Transaction System for the Center for Medicaid & Medicare

·   Meet weekly with the CMS to participate in JAD sessions

·   Prepare deliverable documents: Schedule, Project Management Plan, Risk Log

·   Create Use Cases and user stories from requirements

·   Develop schedule from Statement of Work

·   Lead JAD sessions; interface to HIPPA Eligibility Transaction System (Mainframe)

·   Develop new Requirements Template for Automated Provider System for use by business analysts

·   Process definitions and re-engineered process recommendations

 

Veterans Administration – (GeoLogics Corp. contractor)Washington, DC    07/2011 – 6/2012   

·   Sr. Business Analyst – Develop Functional Specifications.  Designed / developed / maintained the Data Dictionary; write Functional Specs for VBMS

·   Daily SCRUMs, Agile Development Environment

·   Provide direction to other business analysts

·   IBM Jazz Suite: RRC, RTM, RQM Document Library

·   JAD Sessions with SMEs

·   Create Use Cases and user stories for testing

·   IBM Rational Pro/Clear Quest; RUP

·   Swim lanes process flows utilizing Visio

·   Detailed specs for system interfaces

 

Fannie Mae –                                       Reston, VA:  (Contractor)                  02/2011 – 06/2011   

·   Compliance Analyst.  Responsible for QA on Fannie developed code to insure that it is in full SDLC compliance

·   Assess  all SDLC documentation including PMP, Requirements, Releases Plans, test plans; access DOORS, HP Quality Center, Remedy

 

US Treasury Department, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency      08/2010 – 12/2010

(Robert Half Technology Contractor – Washington DC)                        

·   Sr. Business Analyst: Re-Engineer the existing Waterfall SDLC to Agile process, daily SCRUMs

·   Provide Subject Matter Expertise on creating an Agile / Scrum Methodology for the Software Development Life Cycle currently in use at OCC.

·   Project Management responsibilities include reporting, customer facing, metrics 

 

Verizon -- Ashburn, VA (Siwel Contractor 60 day contract)                        03/2010 – 05/2010

·   Project Manager/Business Analyst: Verizon’s North American Enterprise Asset Management System; this $8 million Project interfaces with 37 databases in 450 North American locations; the Team is comprised of 25 in-house and contractor staff.  Implement BI rules in the Data Warehouse model.  Design interface to legacy systems.

·   MS-Project and Visio used to document Verizon’s in house SDLC

 

Sallie Mae – Reston, VA (Contractor)                                     04/2009 – 03/2010

·   Master Project Manager / Business Analyst responsible for 21 concurrent IT SDLC Projects to support the Department of Education loan processing programs; identified risks and standardized reporting practices

·   Design new agile version for the existing Sallie Mae Corporate wide SDLC: redesign of the Scope & Functional Requirements document, the Business Systems Design document, and other SDLC process documents.  The purpose of this Project is to shorten the software development cycle, and to reduce IT costs.

·   Evaluate Use Cases / user stories

·   Project Manager: Design and established a SharePoint Site for internal document repository and publication; Business Analyst full SDLC process

·   Disaster Recovery Plan; Configuration Management assessment for 41 software applications for the Department of Education 

·   Process redesign: make revisions to SDLC process, PowerPoint/Visio swim lane definition of roles and responsibilities; BI rules review and updates

·   ClearCase, ClearQuest, Remedy

 

Department of Homeland Security (TAC Worldwide/SAIC Contractor)     06/2007 – 03/2009

·               Department of Homeland Security Project Manager; Status Reporting for Quality Assurance

·               Project Management responsible for Configuration Management Process definition / Office2007 /Swim Lanes/Visio

·               CMMI Level 2 Project Manager for DHS/IT Management (assessment of 3 active DHS Projects)

·               IT Department Configuration Management (CM) PM representative

·               Provide weekly project status for 3 active SDLC projects (10-Print, Enumeration, Change Control Process Improvement documentation); work with customer to develop joint solutions; MS-Project Server; fingerprints integration for Border Patrol

·               Monitor and assign Change Requests from multiple User Departments; Clearquest

·               Represent IT Management in status meetings for Change Management & CMMI

 

CompuNet Consulting, Inc.     (Pittsburgh, PA)                                       09/1990 – 4/2007 

General Manager, SDLC Project Manager

·               Account Management – customer facing

·               Project Manager/Business Analyst for SDLC applications; functional specs & business requirements; interface to Real World G/L Accounting

·               Tech Shop Manager, LAN installation

 

Consulting Clients at CompuNet Consulting:

National Technology Transfer Center / NASA

Ohio Valley Medical Center

Mellon Bank

Weirton Steel Corporation

West Virginia High-Risk Insurance Carriers Corp.

Department of Justice (Facial Recognition System design and development)

Lincoln National Life Insurance Company

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation

Cap Gemini America - Consultant for Lincoln National Life Insurance Investment Management Division

 

·               West Liberty University – Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems.

Taught programming and business analysis classes (while at CompuNet) (1989 – 1996)

 

 

Education:

 

·               MBA, West Virginia University (Finance Specialization)

·               B.S., Engineering/Industrial Management; Math Minor, West Virginia University

 

 

 

 

Technical Summary:

 

·               Over 15 years of experience as a Project Manager and Sr. Business Analyst supporting client custom SDLC Software Development.  Agile SDLC, Waterfall, CMMI, PMBOK, MS-Project, Office2010, Visio, MBA, Technical Software Architect, Integration between platforms

·               Leads the SDLC: Develops the Project Plan, defines the Scope and Functional Requirements, analyze the Business Requirements and review with Client, manage the development team, test the new Software, obtains Stakeholder acceptance of UAT, implements the system, monitor Change Requests, and train the Stakeholders

·               Manage budgets, interface with the stakeholders, cost/benefit analysis, vendor management, scheduling, and customer reporting; root cause analysis, Risk Management, Process Improvement

·               Platforms: SQLServer, IBM Mainframe, Windows Client/Server, UNIX, HP, OOD, .NET, XML, ASP, Java, COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and MVS

 

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