DARRYL CROPPER Current Resume August2020SHC
DARRYL CROPPER Current Resume August2020SHC
Email: darrylcropper@yahoo.com
Phone (415) 240-0960
Summary
Business System Analyst with 10 years of experience providing analytics at both the business system
and data levels. Strong experience business and data analytics and process modelling. Providing
business solutions and strategic planning while working with stakeholders and supporting customer
business needs, teams and other application enhancements. Translate story-boarding artefacts into an
electronic format and provide input in design sessions. Includes strong SQL knowledge.
7 years of experience working with statistical toolkits: Python, R and Tableau. Including understanding
and developing framework to track business performance. Including Master strategic business process
modelling, trace ability and quality management techniques with ability to elicit business requirements
and translate into technical solution design documents. Working knowledge of business processes,
system development and process improvements. Plan user acceptance test (UAT), create UAT scripts
and facilitate UAT.
7 years of experience in business analysis, project management, business architecture and/or another
related area.
6 years of data modelling, data mining and both Python and Power BI
6 years of experience creating dashboard and reporting ordering processing.
6 years of data analysing and interpret trends/patterns in complex data sets using statistical techniques
5 years of providing reports and creating dashboards for clients for insight and recommendations.
7 years of collaborate with business and IT teams in regard to business insights, consolidation of use
cases and drive common business focus to provide solutions.
5 years of experience working with large datasets and marketing information including ETL Processes.
4 years of experience working with Python, Hadoop, Azure/Salesforce/AwS cloud.
5 years of experience working with CAP , CLIA and other healthcare regulatory requirements.
5 years of experience in Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Migration in area of product
lifecycle management processes. Strong knowledge of data management principles and data
acquisition and modelling including data warehousing and business intelligence.
5 years of providing partnership in working with data stewards and other data management to ensure
proper data operations improvement quality.
7 years of experience in business analysis, project management, business architecture and/or another
related area.
5 years of experience Agile methodology and DevOps practices., scrum, Kanban, experience working
with scrum teams to create user stories.
4 years of experience working with Oracle Agile PLM in areas of supply chain, retail and pharmaceutical
domains.
6 yrs. of experience working with tools Tableau, Jira, Confluence, and Slack.
5 years of experience with Cloud-based big data frameworks such as data lake, relational, Graph and
other no-SQL databases.
7 years of experience working with Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAF) methodologies.
10 years of with software development methodologies and software engineering principles with an
emphasis on data related development techniques.
5 years as a product -drive professional with over 5 years of experience and a reputation for success
with strengths in areas of Order management, Partner Enablement, Customer and Product data
analytics. Experience includes working with Business Partners, Product Owner and IT resources.
5 yrs. Understanding the Business Partners and technology landscape in regarding to existing IT
resources and timelines. Also assisting in configuration of complex subscription offers using proprietary
tools.
5 years of experience with analytical process and approach in reaching solution. Includes Ad Hoc
business analytics, periodic business reporting, performance measurement. Including both forecasting
and predictive modelling. Also, solid understanding of Statistical concepts such as Hypothesis testing,
A/B Testing, Forecasting and predictive analytics
6 years of leading ongoing analysis of business performance to support daily operation. Including assist
in developing and delivering presentations for senior executives and support strategic initiatives. Assist
in troubleshooting operation issues as they surface; propose changes to system/processes to seek
RCA and resolve. Prepare analysis and recommendations for strategic decision making
7 years of experience in data integration and data warehousing. Including data analysis, data
management, data mining, data migration, portfolio analysis and reporting at system and application
levels. Including document business functional, data requirement for Finance/Regulatory
reporting/credit reporting projects. Plan user acceptance test (UAT), create UAT scripts and facilitate
UAT
5 years of experience Agile methodology and DevOps practices., scrum, Kanban, experience working
with scrum teams to create user stories
3 years of experience hands-on working on web development and web applications. Including usage of
web and content proto-typing tools – creations of working demos for client and business partners.
6 years strong understanding of information technology and business processes as related to needs of
client. Advanced experience with data visualization and business intelligence software
Working with Tableau, Power BI, and Excel Expert, Pivot Tables including analysis of Data. Including
experience with additional reporting tools: MicroStrategy, Tableau, Power BI, SAS
6 years of experience working with Financial Business (BI) Intelligence in collecting, processing, and
analysing financial data in real-time to increase the accuracy of forecasting and predicative analysis.
4 years of experience in hand-on experience with Salesforce CRM tools on various client platforms in
areas of (Pharmaceutical, Retail, HealthCare, and Financial) areas of business to deliver strategic
solutions for client and forecast planning. Includes Salesforce Certification in Salesforce Certification
Administrator role.
7 years of strong Data and Business System Analysis regarding business process modelling, create
conceptual prototypes and mock-ups, including workflow diagrams and POC guidance. Meeting with
Business and Stakeholders to review business process and address business strategies.
5 years of hands -on experience using visualization reporting tools: Tableau, MicroStrategy, PowerBI.
6 years of hands on with Salesforce (Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Marketing)
Including preparing test scenario and test cases for UAT testing on changes reviewing and coordinating
UAT testing with business stakeholders.
7 years of experience with working with development teams, outside vendors, and Stakeholders to
communicate ongoing projects, manage expectations and resolve any challenges.
6 years of strong facilitation and leadership experience in the areas of communication (verbal and
written), helping in collaboration between business partners and technical architects. Including the
ability to manage multiple activities/small projects from requirements to completion.
Technical Summary
Platforms: UNIX, JAVE EE (J2EE), .NET FRAMEWORK
Software: Teradata 14.0, Informatics Data Explorer 9.5 (IDE), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM-
QC), SAP, SAS, Tableau, Hadoop, SharePoint, Confluence, MS SQL Server, SSMS, SSIS, SSRS,
including Visual and Management Studio. Excel Spreadsheet, MS PowerPoint, MS Project and MS
Visio. Cisco Sales Connect/Jasper Connect Jasper, CCW (Cisco Commerce Workspace. Enterprise
Data Management, Order Management and Partner Enablement services.
Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Python, R, JavaScript, UNIX, Shell Scripting, XML
Databases: Oracle Agile PLM, Teradata, SQL Server, Non-SQL, Oracle, and DB2. Cisco Commerce
Workspace (CCW), MS Access, Toad Tool used for Oracle Database
Data Modelling , data mining and Python Power BI
Reporting Software: JIRA, Confluence, ETL, Tableau, Informatica, MicroStrategy, SAS, Power BI,
Cloud: Azure, Salesforce Cloud
CRM Software: Salesforce:(Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Marketing) SAP, SAP HANA, ERP
Methodology: Agile, Scaled Agile Framework, Scrum, Waterfall,
Certifications: Six Sigma – Yellow Belt- in-progress of project management certification.
Salesforce Certification Completed (Service Cloud and Salesforce Administrator)
Cisco Certification in progress: Completed Cisco Routeing
Accomplishments:
Education
BS in Communications
University of Texas at Austin
Six Sigma Certification – Yellow Belt
Professional Experience
Responsible for managing customer interactions and validate and fulfilled resources requests.
Including Project managing of resources. Also include efforts to improve dashboards and
automation in order to increase accuracy of resource management and improve system.
Defining scope, goals and deliverables that support business and technology goals in collaboration
with senior IT and Business management and business stakeholders.
Work with business partners, team members to develop an on-going release calendar and maintain
the status.
Development content reports, analysing data results , trouble shot problem areas, creation of
dashboards and visualization.
Develop business use cases and stories to identify the scope, budget, timeframes as well as ROI.
Conduct release post mortems and create recommendation reports in order to identify successful
elements.
Experience with running discovery meetings with stakeholders departments. On from multiple the
agenda: making sure the scope of your latest project meets their needs.
Expert at eliciting, writing and managing user requirements/stories, use cases
Working with CAP and CLIA regulations
Expert at creating TDD/ TRD (Technical Review Document)
Creation of data flow diagrams to help the team understand the requested changes in the latest
project and how the final process will look.
Identify key data points that the Sales organization should be tracking.
Time to document some actionable recommendations for leadership to review.
Make sure everything is adhering to the Project/Architecture scope and take note of any issues, red
flags, or positive trends.
Expert at documenting business processes using industry best practices and standard tools
(flowcharts, activity/interaction diagrams, work breakdown structures etc.)
Experience with Agile methodologies
Expert at eliciting, writing and managing user requirements/stories, use cases
Experience preparing technical reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and
trends
Assist in development and maintenance of dashboards through use of internal visualization tools
and an SQL.
Responsible for managing customer interactions and validate and fulfilled resources requests.
Including Project managing of resources. Also include efforts to improve dashboards and
automation in order to increase accuracy of resource management and improve system.
Respond to and resolve resource request with clients in a prompt, friendly and responsible way.
Assist in development and maintenance of automation tools, typically written in Python and trivial
shell scripts.
Data Modelling, data mining and Python Power BI
Assist in development and maintenance of dashboards through use of internal visualization tools
and an SQL.
Work with Functional Managers to ensure resources are available and assigned to the Team
Develop and maintain an integrated program plan and schedule with Cross Functional Core Team.
Lead the Core Team in managing and tracking program progress, including making tradeoff
decisions to achieve Program objectives within a set of constraints defined by Senior Functional
Management.
Prepared price quotes for the bill of materials in CCW, Developed end-to-end user guide for the
enterprise agreement management portal (EAMP). Provided comprehensive editing and
proofreading for the EAMP Guide Me training. Enterprise Data Warehouse development.
Proactive Risk Management through risk identification and development of risk mitigation plans with
the Core Team. Ordering Management and Partner Enablement.
Working with Tableau for reporting metrics, KPI, and Financial business Intelligence utilized in
forecasting project and products.
Data Modelling , data mining and Python Power BI
Drive fast resolution of barriers and issues with the Core Teams by elevating to appropriate level of
Management for fast decision making and resolution.
Integration Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Marketing
Using JIRA and Agile Framework
Senior IT Systems Analyst development and analysis of both technical and functional specifications.
Daily Responsibilities include web development and hands-on experience working with web
applications and related web development tools (web development, prototyping and database tools)
Responsibilities include designing efficient IT systems to meet business and technology needs
communicating with Business stakeholders, coordinating with developers to build and implement
technology solutions in enterprise setting.
Experience with critical paths and technical dependencies of new product launch, and facilitate
discussions between project teams including product management, engineering team, sales, etc. You
assist writing business requirements and write functional specifications. Using your technical
background, you configure complex subscription offers using proprietary tools.
Capturing and translating customer needs into requirements, documenting these in the form of Agile
stories.
Data Modelling, data mining and Python for Power BI
Involved in end to end solutions on Cisco major initiatives/Projects – Operations, MDM, AM Migration,
EPS, LSS, Oracle Agile PLM Program initiatives by using Oracle, Teradata Working with Cisco
Products: Jasper Connect and Sales Connect (GSX). EDW development and enhancement workflow
processes.
Sr IT Systems Analyst driving Jasper Connect (Service Bulletin Project) and support/QA testing Sales
Connect (GSX).
Coordinate with Business to ensure all requirements have been captured/agreed. Coordinate with
developers to build and implement technology solutions
Gather feedback from end users about system performance and incorporate as appropriate
Development has all need requirements for Service Bulletin. Writing any Function Specs for Service
Bulletin. Creating User Stories for Acceptance criteria for Service Bulletin
Meeting with Management for regular status meeting for Service Bulletin
Meeting with Business Partners to update/inform status, drive expectation of all on-going projects
(WEM migration and Service Bulletin) – Jasper Connect Projects Testing for other
projects (WEM migration – (migrating from Doc Central to WEM and validation of all documentation on
User side) Salesforce (Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce Marketing
Assisting in the testing of GSX for mobile devices to ensure Sales, Training, and Briefcase are working
as expected and filing/follow-up on defects /resolutions.
Wells Fargo Bank San Francisco CA Dec 2016 – Aug 2017 (contract)
Role: Sr. Business System Analyst
Business System Analyst -Responsibilities included working with business partners, stakeholders, and
development teams to provide solutions for on-going processes, issues, support and drive future
business needs and goals, and address ad-hoc report, documentation needs of business. Includes
doing analytics for products.
Worked closely with project managers and business team to manage both data analytic driven projects
and data analytics and creating complex SQL queries.
This included the creating of dashboard metrics and statics for weekly management meeting and
update status. Finance/Regulatory reporting/credit reporting projects including SAP and ERP
Applications
Responsibilities and daily tasks include conducting daily meeting with Lines of business, creating
Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), business Process implementation experience. Product
Analytics.
Managing ongoing projects and development and working with outside vendors.
Developed and publish key forecasting
Created key metric reporting for financial business intelligence which was used for forecasting current
trends and client performance.
Supporting critical paths and technical dependencies of new product launch, and facilitate discussions
between project teams including product management, engineering team, sales.
Creating and developing product analytics
Implement advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analysing requirements
Prioritize requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.
Creating high level data analytic report to address business needs and goals. data analytic driven
projects and data analytics and creating complex SQL queries and working with core team of document
current risk management processes and procedures.
Creation of Test cases and working with UAT to meet project goal and timelines. Including CRM/ERP
applications (Salesforce Cloud and SAP) managing application requirements, working with Tableau,
MicroStrategy to create reporting and forecasting. Business Process implementation experience for
product delivery.
Working with IT GxP processing requirements Working with Tableau/Informatics- Enterprise
Implementation of Oracle Agile PLM for supply chain enhancement and database upgrades.
Business Analyst – Responsibilities and daily tasks include conducting data analytics to investigate,
quantify and design reporting on the accuracy and usability of input data used in capital modelling,
calculations and reporting for Wholesale Credit capital management work stream.
Creating high level data analytic report to address business needs and goals. data analytic driven
projects and data analytics and creating complex SQL queries.
Working with Capital and Investment management domains. Also, developing reports and dashboards
for project teams.
Data analysis, comparing data elements and highlight what data is at risk. Meeting with stakeholders
and lines of business. Finance/Regulatory reporting/credit reporting projects. Enterprise Applications