Suneel Maguluri

sm5e286c@westpost.net
405-648-4661

SUMMARY
* Experience of 8 years as a Business Analyst/PMO having in depth knowledg
e of the Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall, Agile software development)
and a complete understanding of various phases involved such as System Engineer
ing and Modeling, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Analysis and Design, D
ocumenting and End-user training.
* Roles of increasing responsibility as individual contributor, consultant
, manager and director in sales support, business development, hardware/software
support, and project management leadership.
* Strong knowledge of UML, RUP, Rational ROSE, Requisite Pro.
* Prepared Use cases using Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect &
MS Visio as per Unified Modeling Language (UML)/ Rational Unified Processing (RU
P) Methodology
* Directing, managing, and developing program and project managers; implem
enting project management methodologies, Program/Project Management Offices, Pro
ject Portfolio Management solutions, toolkits, training, mentoring, coaching and
quality reviews
* Extensive experience with process modeling using UML, flow charts, task
diagrams, Sequence diagrams, Activity diagrams.
* Proficient in creating Use Cases, Sequence diagrams, Collaboration diagr
ams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams etc.
* Experience in reviewing Test Procedures, defining Test cases, reviewing
and maintaining Test scripts, analyzing bugs, interacting with team members in f
ixing errors and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
* Organized JAD sessions, interviews, workshops and requirement elicitatio
n sessions.
* Well versed in project management tools like MS-Project for status repor
ting and planning.
* Co-ordination with Business, Developers, Testing Team and End Users.
* Strong experience in back-end programming with Oracle PL/SQL and underst
anding of database
* Received recognition as a strategist and in improving efficiency and acc
uracy of work.
* Expertise in Verbal and Written Communication. Excellent analytical & pr
oblem solving skills. A team player with strong interpersonal and communication
proficiency.
* Extensive exposure to Database Marketing, Mortgage, Banking, financial i
nstitutions and overview of their Business Process designs. An in-depth understa
nding of Financial Statement Analysis, Time value of money, Risk Management Rais
ing Capital, and Forecasting.

Technical Expertise
Languages C++, Java, C#, C, VB, SQL and PL/SQL
Scripting Languages HTML, Java Script, VB Script, ASP, ASP.Net, XML & EJ
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RDBMS Oracle, SQLServer, MS Access
Testing Tools Win Runner, Load Runner, Rational Suite Enterp
rise, Silk
Defect Tracking tools Test Director, Rational Clear Quest, Silk Radar
Web server Microsoft IIS, Apache, Web sphere, Web
logic
Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, UNIX, Solaris
Software Engineering Rational Rose, MS Project, MS Office, UML, MS
UNICA, SAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cox Communications, Atlanta, GA

Sr.Business Analyst/PMO Ju
n 08 - Present
As the third-largest cable entertainment and broadband services provider in the
country, Cox Communications Inc. is best known for pioneering the bundle of tele
vision, Internet and telephone services together, offering consumers the ability
to consolidate their services with one provider. For Cox, it's not about being
the biggest; it's about being the best. Excellence in customer. A huge customer
database is maintained by Equifax and customers are contacted by different campa
igns.
Responsibilities:
* Extensive interactions with the client and the management teams to understand
the requirements and report the status of the testing efforts on UNICA campaigns
* The project scope included Gap Analysis (AS IS to TO BE) and interacting with
users and clients for business requirements
* Prioritized project efforts, developed project plans, process flows for UNICA
6.4
* Transition campaigns from UNICA 6.4 to UNICA 7.2
* Wrote standard and complex SQL Queries to perform Data Validation and Graph va
lidation to make sure test results matched back to expected results based on the
user needs.
* Transition of UNICA campaigns (from clicktactics to cheetah mail).
* Work on process design for Data migration in to one unique database
* Worked on UNICA implementation and user training
* Coordinated meetings with vendors to define requirements and system interactio
n agreement documentation between client and vendor system
* Entered requirements in and change requests in customized tool called ITQ
* Worked with business owners, technical team, QA to scope and prioritize UNICA
campaign releases.
* Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire UNICA campaigns and develop
ed various test cases.
* Initiate, coordinate and implement the system testing Process.
* Documented Detailed Business Requirements for campaigns
* Worked with campaign development team to identify bottlenecks that could hinde
r progress of development.
* Coordinated with System Analyst and Project Manager to setup the Pre-Validatio
n and Validation environment to execute the campaigns
Environment: Requisite Pro, UML, RUP, MS Project, MS Access, Visual Basic, DB Se
rver- Oracle 10g sonar, UNICA, SAS, espresso, SQL Developer, UNIX, PL/SQL,SQL Se
rver.
Business System Analyst, Cupertino, CA
Apple Inc.
Dec 07 - May 08
Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on
designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely related software pr
oducts. Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, iPod
s, I phones, computer software, and computer hardware and hardware accessories.
A huge customer database is maintained by ADM and customers are contacted by dif
ferent campaigns .CMS (campaign management system) contact many of its 365M cust
omers every month with different promotions.
Responsibilities:
* Extensive interactions with the client and the management teams to understand
the requirements and report the status of the testing efforts on their UNICA cam
paigns
* Lead the cross-functional effort to understand market requirements and transla
te them into actionable plans at the functional level. Also performed financial/
budget analysis, cash flows, corporate ratios and pay-off calculations.
* The project scope included Gap Analysis (AS IS to TO BE) and interacting with
users and clients for business requirements
* Prioritized project efforts, developed project plans, process flows, Use Cases
and SRS using RUP.
* Wrote standard and complex SQL Queries in Teradata to perform Data Validation
and Graph validation to make sure test results matched back to expected results
based on the user needs.
* Worked on UNICA implementation and user training
* Coordinated meetings with vendors to define requirements and system interactio
n agreement documentation between client and vendor system
* Entered requirements in and change requests in customized tool called DM plann
ing and project queue.
* Created relationships in DM planning tool linking Business Requirements to Fun
ctional requirements and Functional Requirements to Systems Requirements.
* Worked with business owners, technical team, QA to scope and prioritize develo
pment releases of UNICA campaigns
* Analyzed the Business requirements and the site specifications.
* Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and developed v
arious test cases.
* Initiate, coordinate and implement the system testing Process.
* Documented Detailed Business Requirements for Automated Journal Entries, Autom
ated Management, Automated Financial Reporting and Automated Process Notificatio
ns to relevant departments.
* Analyzed System and Functional Specification documents for the Web Portal Syst
em
* Worked with UNICA campaign implementation team to identify bottlenecks that co
uld hinder progress of development.
* Implemented a modified RUP process for managing requirements
* Played a key role in helping the company adopt Rational Unified Process
* Used UML notations for Object Oriented Design and Documentation
* Worked on writing functional specification for reporting module that handled c
redit and consumer risk management services.
* Coordinated with System Analyst and Project Manager to setup the Pre-Validatio
n and Validation environment to execute the campaigns
Environment: Requisite Pro, UML, RUP, MS Project, MS Access, Visual Basic, DB Se
rver- Oracle 10g sonar, UNICA, SAS, espresso, SQL Developer, UNIX, PL/SQL.

Geico Direct, Chevy Chase, MD Sep

06 - Dec 07
Sr.Business Analyst
As a BA, my responsibilities included conducting user meetings, assisting the te
ch lead to develop the functional specification documents, document the requirem
ents gathered, help the users in UAT testing, provide user training.
Responsibilities:
* Implemented an integrated RUP solution with complete line of traceability for
all the artifacts of web development projects.
* Worked on UNICA and SAS implementation as part of campaign management for mark
eting department
* UAT test cases for user designed campaigns in UNICA
* Defined oracle database for UNICA backend database
* Involved in requirement gathering including interviews, brainstorms and meetin
gs with stakeholders and created requirement specification artifact.
* Involved in the creation and maintenance of the Workflow plans and artifacts.
* Involved in the preparation of functional specification and supplementary requ
irement document.
* Involved in creation of Prototypes evaluation of development and technology op
tions and feasibility analysis.
* Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities
of the business from the conceptual to procedural level. Followed top down, leve
led technique for building Business Process Models.
* Created Use-Case Models using Rational Rose to depict Actors and Use-Cases in
various Business Processes and Identification of Basic/Alternative flows and def
inition of preconditions of the system.
* Worked with UI team to create the User Interface screenshots to be presented t
o the Business.
* Examined, analyzed and model Test plans; Use Case Model cases and Test procedu
res based RUP methodology.
* Performed Gap analysis for the modules in production, conducted feasibility st
udy and performed impact analysis for proposed enhancements.
* Verified the functional aspects as per the Business Process and validated the
interfaces with the other systems and data conversion from the legacy system.
* Used Rational Clear Case, and Configuration Management tool, to maintain diffe
rent builds of the application with descriptions about all changes and versions.

Environment: Requisite Pro, UML, RUP, MS Project, MS Access, Visual Basic, DB Se

rver- Oracle 8.1.7, 0S-Win2000, Solaris 8,UNICA .
.

Bank Of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK

Business Systems Analyst M
ay 05 - Sep 06 BOK Financial Corporation, a financial holding company, provides
various financial products and services to commercial and industrial customers,
and other financial institutions and consumers in the United States. It operates
in three segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, and Wealth Management
.I serve as the technical knowledge expert and key advisor on projects within in
vestment banking and portfolio management business unit.
Responsibilities:
* Analyze business requirements and segregate them into high level and low-level
Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, State Chart Diagrams and Robustness Diagram using
MS Visio following principles of waterfall methodology.
* Responsible for writing Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and User R
equirement Specifications (URS). Conducted the FRS and URS reviews and walkthrou
ghs with designers, developers and stakeholders. Also conducted feasibility and
adaptability study.
* Conducted JAD sessions with various stakeholders (Portfolio Managers, Back and
Middle Office personnel) to develop design and architecture of the application
based on the business requirements, discuss and resolve open issues, discuss cha
nge requests and document them in orderly fashion.
* Identified Use Cases from the requirement and wrote Use Case Specifications. C
reated business process workflow diagrams (Activity, Sequence, and Collaboration
) based on Rational Unified Process using Rational Rose.
* Assisted Project Teams in preparing Software Requirement Specifications (SRS),
Software Design Documents (SDD), User Interface Design, designing of applicatio
n architecture & database Modeling
* Used SQL to retrieve data from database
* Extensively used Requisite Pro for managing and documenting requirements and T
est Manager to develop test plan, test cases and test scripts
* Defect tracking, assigning, getting defects resolved submission, documentation
and change requests were carried out using Clear Quest.
* Actively participate in Post testing meetings to evaluate QA procedures and de
velopment for any shortcomings and/or future releases.
Environment: MS Visio, MS Project, Erwin, Rational Rose, MVS, Legacy, Oracle, MS
SQL, Window NT, Win Runner, Load Runner and Test Director

Fannie Mae, Dallas, TX August 04 - Ap

r 05
Business Analyst
Fannie Mae is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by Congress with
a mission to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the U.S. housing
and mortgage markets. Vendor Management System (VMS) is envisioned to be an int
egration platform for all the business domains of Ameriquest with the outside wo
rld.
Responsibilities:
* Responsible for gathering and identifying business requirements from the clien
ts and stake holders and translating them to system specifications. Followed the
activities laid down in Rational Unified Process to configure and develop QA pr
ocesses, standards and procedures.
* Coordination of meetings/activities between the various IT teams and the clien
ts to maintain effective communication and working relationships.
* Created various business process modelling diagrams based on the foundations l
aid down by Rational Unified Process to demonstrate software architecture and in
teraction of system components using Rational Rose, Requisite Pro for requiremen
t traceability.
* Prepared Business Process Models that includes modeling of all the activities
of the business from the conceptual, construction and translation level.
* strong knowledge of steps involved in a new mortgage, including all steps tak
en by a lender to attract and qualify a borrower, process the mortgage loan, and
place it on the lender's books(Mortgage Originations)
* Developed test cases and scripts based on business requirements for the GUI, F
unctional, User Acceptance, Integration, System back-end testing and End-to-End
testing.
* Conducted review meetings with the development and testing teams to make sure
that the functionality of the application meets the expected results and is in-s
ync with the requirements and the business process models developed during the i
nception stage.
* Involved in maintaining and managing different versions of documents using Rat
ional Clear Case
* Revised, documented new business processes and reduced work load through new p
rocesses.
* Documented defects and their trailing history in Rational Clear Quest and help
ed developers identify the modules and code sections to be fixed by executing th
e related scenarios with different combinations of data.
Environment: Rational Rose, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear quest, PVCS, HTM
L & DHTML (JavaScript, CSS, etc.), Oracle, Web logic, Documentum.

Mahindra British Telecom, Mumbai

Feb 02 - Aug 03
Systems Analyst/Developer
NISM-NT
Network Inventory and Spares Management - New Technologies
* Developed Class Diagram, Object diagrams and flushed out the architectural doc
ument for the application
* Responsible for Prototype, Alpha, and Beta system testing.
* Testing memory leaks, Algorithmic Optimization, Automated Diagnostics and Cali
brations. Performance and Throughput testing.
* Implemented features and modified Database Design Schema to improve performanc
e-stability of product during Beta.
* Preparation of Test Case scenarios for program unit testing
* Working closely with cross divisional engineers for implementation, integratio
n and testing
Environment: UNIX, C, C++, Oracle, PL/SQL, VB, Crystal Reports, ASP 2.0, Perl, T
CP/IP, Win Runner
Reliance Capital
April 00 - Jan 02
System Analyst
Portfolio Management System including trade captures analysis and reporting
* Implemented reusable code to make report writing simpler, shorter and the outp
ut consistent across all the reports.
* Modified the report engine to add additional properties for easy implementatio
n of report formatting and data calculations i.e. inclusion of grouping bands, g
rouping calculations and control of page breaks.
* Designed and implemented a module for handled partnership accounts. These cons
isted of input forms to set up partners and Delphi units, which processed the tr
ade information on a per partner basis.
Environment: UNIX, Microsoft Access, C++, Oracle, Win 95 and Delphi
Education: MBA in IT and Project Management, Oklahoma, USA '
Bachelors of computer science engineering, India