Jay Randell

About Jay Randell

Resourceful, problem-solving Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager with over 12 years’ experience delivering software solutions, as well as 8 years’ experience with requirements analysis and business process improvement using a variety of structured disciplines to achieve project. Effective at collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and customers in order to elicit requirements, prioritize project goals, make tradeoffs, gain critical mass consensus and asses risk. Skilled at improving business critical resources, processes and systems. Project ManagementManage resources to achieve project goals within scheduled timelines and mitigate risks when necessary. Work with key stakeholders and customer to understand problem space and formulate solution strategy. Provide leadership, strategic direction, pace and motivation for development team. Cross-Group CollaborationFluency in speaking to diverse audiences like engineers, executives, attorneys and regulators in their own language. Successfully mitigated conflicting business priorities of separate products. Able to evangelize concepts in order to build critical mass for emerging initiatives.Strategic VisionStrong ability to understand and empathize with current as-is states, carry forward core principles of what works and integrate them with the needs of customers and partners into a vision that moves businesses forward.Specialties: Business Analysis, Solution Delivery, Project Management, Binary Analysis, Process Modeling, API Documentation, Business Requirements Documentation, Functional Specifications, SQL, Customer Service, Service Oriented Architecture, OLAP Cubes, AWS S3, EMR

Experience

1. Manager Reporting and Business Intelligence

   Zillow

   Dec 2020 — Present

   Managing an amazing team of data visualization and business intelligence engineers across the buy, sell and finance lines of business.

Education

• University of Washington

  Bachelors, Chemistry

  1994 — 1999

Skills

• Business Intelligence
• Scrum
• Data Analysis
• Integration
• Functional Specifications
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Analytics
• Business Process Improvement
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• E-Commerce
• Program Management
• Product Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Collaborative
• Process Improvement
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Data Warehousing
• Business Requirements
• Databases
• Data Management
• Sql
• Project Management