Ira Semel

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ABOUT IRA SEMEL

Phone: 73••••••07 Email: I••••••••@aol.com Senior Business Analyst / Project Leader with 15+ years experience including a technology background and ability to lead teams, train and mentor in large or small organizations Expertise in gathering, developing, and managing user requirements, gap analysis, business process mapping, writing technical functional designs, test plans, testing and implementations of major IT projects and change controls Work in environments with both formal and informal software development life cycles, while utilizing MS Office applications, iRise and Rational tools (ClearQuest, ClearCase and RequisitePro) Skilled in leadership, teamwork, mentoring, communication, negotiation, research, interviewing, and process, system, interface and screen design Successfully implemented new and changed systems for many types of business areas including operations, accounting (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), merchandising, billing, research, account management, insurance, and pharmacy Technology experience includes programming, database design, queries, and performance tuning, help desk, systems analysis, and extensive unit, system, integration, and user acceptance testing on PC, mainframe, client/server and web platforms Specialties: As an experienced business analyst, writing use cases and business requirements documentation, and functional design documents using SDLC (Waterfall and Agile / Scrum), gathering requirements from business, gap analysis, business and system process flows / diagramming / mapping, testing (system, integration, and user acceptance (UAT)) including defining test cases, test data setup and test execution, defect identification and tracking.