Graduate Student of Geographic Information System, currently taking a course on Spatial Business Intelligence.
Resume: ANNETTE STANLEY
80 Gill Lane, Apt 2D, Iselin New Jersey - 08830
804 - 928 - 9238, [email protected]
EDUCATION
American College of Commerce & Technology, Falls Church VA October 2014 - Present
Master of Science in Computer Information System
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA May 2013
Master of Science in Business with a concentration in Finance
Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India May 2013
Master of Business Administration in Finance
Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India May 2008
Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi, India February 2008
Common Proficiency Test, Chartered Accountancy Level 1
EXPERIENCE
Business Analyst
Caliber Business Systems Inc., South Plainfield NJ
Octon – Latitude Project January 2015 - Present
Project Octon is incorporated in response to Dodd-Frank Section 165 to establish a US intermediary holding company and adhere to new regulatory requirements around Enhanced prudential standards (EPS), covering corporate governance, risk-based capital and leverage requirements, and capital and liquidity planning.
Market Data Platform 3.0 February 2014 – December 2014
Market Data Platform 3.0 is a low latency and direct data access solution designed to improve customer’s ability to process and act on real-time price information. MDP 3.0 includes FIX 5.0 Market by Price messaging formats, Event-driven market price and trade information, Enhanced market state dissemination, Increased timestamp granularity and Trade Summary Opt-In functionality for Order Identifier on both market data and order entry messages. MDP publishes event-based bid, ask, trade and statistical data for markets. CME Group uses electronic market data format based on the FIX standard and minimizes the amount of data transmitted through an incremental book management approach, which in turn provides significant efficiency and flexibility across the entire market data infrastructure.
Business Analyst Trainee September 2013 – January 2014
Caliber Business Systems Inc., South Plainfield NJ
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business, Richmond VA
Articled Assistant (Chartered Accountancy curriculum) December 2008 – February 2011
Vishnu Rajendran & Co., Chartered Accountants, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Articled Assistant (Chartered Accountancy curriculum) April 2008 – November 2008
Sebastian & Co., Chartered Accountants, Cochin, Kerala, India
COMPUTER SKILLS
ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
80 Gill Lane, Apt 2D, Iselin New Jersey - 08830
804 - 928 - 9238, [email protected]
EDUCATION
American College of Commerce & Technology, Falls Church VA October 2014 - Present
Master of Science in Computer Information System
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA May 2013
Master of Science in Business with a concentration in Finance
Christ University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India May 2013
Master of Business Administration in Finance
Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India May 2008
Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi, India February 2008
Common Proficiency Test, Chartered Accountancy Level 1
EXPERIENCE
Business Analyst
Caliber Business Systems Inc., South Plainfield NJ
Octon – Latitude Project January 2015 - Present
Project Octon is incorporated in response to Dodd-Frank Section 165 to establish a US intermediary holding company and adhere to new regulatory requirements around Enhanced prudential standards (EPS), covering corporate governance, risk-based capital and leverage requirements, and capital and liquidity planning.
- Gathering requirements by interviewing business users, prioritizing business requirements, conducting scenario analysis and feasibility study
- Formally documenting business requirements in BRD, transforming business requirements to functional specifications and documenting FSD.
- Modeled various UML diagrams, which included use case diagrams, business process flow diagrams, swim lane diagrams, activity diagrams, state diagrams; created and designed screen mock-ups & wireframes.
- Conducting walk-throughs with the development team and served as a liaison between stakeholders and development team
- Assisting the quality assurance team in developing test plan and test cases moreover necessitated broad coverage of testing.
- Constructed data structures that included data objects, the association between data objects, and rules that governed the operation on data objects
- Participated in data mapping by setting up data sources, which involved staging, data extraction, data transformation, and necessitated accurate data load into data marts
- Successfully conducted UAT along with business users to verify if the system’s behavior is consistent with the requirements
- Managing daily status meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, and monthly sprints as per Agile Scrum software development methodology
- Involved in managing defect lifecycle - conducting daily defect tracking meeting, reporting and reviewing the defects, assigning the open defects to developers, and re-testing the fixed defects
- Creating & maintaining requirement traceability matrix (RTM) to track each requirement backwards (to the business processes and objectives it supports) and forwards (to the subsequent artifacts, events, and changed configuration items)
Market Data Platform 3.0 February 2014 – December 2014
Market Data Platform 3.0 is a low latency and direct data access solution designed to improve customer’s ability to process and act on real-time price information. MDP 3.0 includes FIX 5.0 Market by Price messaging formats, Event-driven market price and trade information, Enhanced market state dissemination, Increased timestamp granularity and Trade Summary Opt-In functionality for Order Identifier on both market data and order entry messages. MDP publishes event-based bid, ask, trade and statistical data for markets. CME Group uses electronic market data format based on the FIX standard and minimizes the amount of data transmitted through an incremental book management approach, which in turn provides significant efficiency and flexibility across the entire market data infrastructure.
- Conducted scenario analysis through identifying messaging and functional scenarios by working closely with technology teams and ascertained requirements via business users interviews and prioritized business requirements
- Discovered gaps in requirements and ensured boundary maintenance with utilization of negative use case coverage
- Lead walk-throughs with the development team and served as a liaison between stakeholders and development team
- Managed and participated daily status meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, and monthly sprints as per AGILE Scrum software development methodology
- Communicated and reviewed functional specification, use-cases with project team members and business users in order to design BRD and FSD documents
- Assisted the quality assurance team in developing test plan and test cases, moreover necessitated broad coverage of testing through test planning, distillation and review meetings
- Executed SQL queries to interact with several databases and extract desired information for analysis
- Implemented financial protocols, messaging networks and formats primarily with FIX
- Comprehended and clarified system back-end processes, multi-tier system requirements and data flows
- Investigated logs to understand messaging and learnt existing system behavior using the testing tools to carry out functional and integration testing
- Contributing member of an agile analysis team by providing internal analysis and support in the form of working group discussions and knowledge transfer between different teams
- Collaborated closely with development, QA and stakeholders in facilitating discussions that lead to testable requirements and acceptance criteria definition
- Developed GAP analysis document to analyze the advancement of the proposed system in comparison to the legacy system
- Participated and conducted JAD sessions with business users such as risk managers, operations, and SMEs to document requirements as user stories with associated acceptance test definition
Business Analyst Trainee September 2013 – January 2014
Caliber Business Systems Inc., South Plainfield NJ
- Trained on conducting JAD sessions with business users (risk managers, traders, operations, and SMEs) to gather requirements and design the BRD and FRS documents
- Gained knowledge on managing daily status meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, and monthly sprints as per AGILE Scrum software development methodology
- Familiarized with developing GAP analysis document to analyze the advancement of the proposed system in comparison to the legacy system
- Explored data mapping to complete data integration process identifying the data source, destinations, data relationships, and the business rules
- Practiced to execute SQL queries to manage data in the relational database management systems
- Learned to generate Requirement Traceability Matrix to track requirements with test cases validating user requirements have been successfully developed, tested, and implemented effectively
- Conceptualized use cases, object diagrams, class diagrams, and data flow diagrams using MS Visio to imply the process flow and pin-point to any blocks in the system
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business, Richmond VA
- Manipulated databases at WRDS using statistical software to create sample data for stock portfolio construction
- Provided assistance with event planning including supervision of undergraduate student workers
- Assisted faculty member with a research project; engage in literature searches.
- Supported faculty members with grading of student assignments
Articled Assistant (Chartered Accountancy curriculum) December 2008 – February 2011
Vishnu Rajendran & Co., Chartered Accountants, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Assisted in statutory, internal, stock and tax audit
- Analyzed and prepared financial statements (balance sheet and annual returns) of partnership firms, private limited companies
- Consolidated direct taxes of individuals, companies and firms
- Knowledge of Indian profession tax and service tax which includes filing of service tax returns
- Undertaken review of company law statutory compliances with special reference to service tax, import export code, obtaining PAN, DIN, DSC and incorporation of partnership firms and private limited companies
Articled Assistant (Chartered Accountancy curriculum) April 2008 – November 2008
Sebastian & Co., Chartered Accountants, Cochin, Kerala, India
- Maintained and reconciled books of accounts
- Generated direct taxes of individuals and firms
- Prepared annual statements of partnership firms
COMPUTER SKILLS
- Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Tally – ERP 9 (Accounting Software), SPSS and SAS (Statistical Software)
- Languages: SAS, SQL
- Reporting: Crystal Reports, MS Excel, Cognos, Business Objects, OBIEE
- Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, EBSCO Host Database, Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), Bloomberg
- Testing: QTP, Quality Center (QC) Test Director, JIRA
- BA Expertise: UML, Rational Rose, MS Visio, RP Axure, Adobe Photoshop, Wiki, MS SharePoint, Confluence, MS Project, TOAD
- Operating Systems: Macintosh OS 10, Windows 8
ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
- Richmond Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup 2013 Finalist
- Dean’s Scholar Award
- Beta Gamma Sigma Member (International Honor Society)