Jim Garner

About Jim Garner

My expertise and experience is in improving businesses by optimizing business processes, leveraging intelligent technology investments, and ensuring that at the end of the day the most important needs are met – the needs of the stakeholders – customers, users, leaders, and the organization. It is my belief that good requirements are the building blocks for software projects, without them it is almost impossible to achieve success. Requirements should be readable/understandable by all stakeholders, both business and development resources, and most of all requirements must be testable. If a test cannot be designed for a requirement, then it can never be certain that the requirement is completed. Incomplete and unclear requirements lead to blown deadlines, scope creep and project failure. Defining (and agreeing upon) clear goals and success criteria are the cornerstones to successful project management. Solid solutions start by communicating with customers to understand their needs. I believe that in order to get the most from a project it must start with a clear understanding of the value that project will provide. What will success look like? How will we know we’ve reached our goals? Business Analysis Helping organizations discover and understand their true needs Defining, gathering and documenting business and technical requirements Problem solving, root cause analysis Project scope management Business Process Improvement Analyzing and defining existing and future business processes Improving business processes with and without technology Improving process value, process workflow Information Technology Management, Project Management Liaison between business and technology teams and leaders Project management Expertise in aligning stakeholder needs with current and proposed business processes Mapping business roles to authorizations/permissions within an Identity Management framework Specialties: Business Analysis, Business Alignment, Requirements Elicitation and Documentation, Visio, Identity Management Business Process Improvement, Process Analysis, Process modeling, Controlling Costs Technology Management, Project Management, Facilitation, Strategy, Gap Analysis, Scope Management

Experience

1. Lead Product Application Specialist

   Ge Oil & Gas

   Jan 2015 — Present · Overland Park, KS, US

   Lead requirements gathering efforts for pipeline integrity management system. Facilitate the implementation of the PODS/Esri Spatial data model. Implement agile methodology to the software development process.

Education

• The University of Kansas

  Counseling Psychology

  1989 — 1995

• Texas State University

  Bachelor of Arts, Psychology

  1985 — 1989

Skills

• Agile Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Vendor Management
• Functional Requirements
• Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Management
• Process Improvement
• Integration
• IT Management
• Issue Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Identity Management
• Business Process
• Leadership
• Enterprise Architecture
• Testing
• Software Documentation
• Process Modeling
• Project Management
• Pmp
• Business Analysis
• Management
• Process Analysis
• Analysis
• Visio
• Sdlc
• Business Requirements
• Scope Management
• Pmo
• Gap Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Strategy