CV
Experience
2023 - Present
Senior Technical Business Analyst
Guidehouse
Remote / Fort Collins, CO
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with proven capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation (Guidehouse.com).
Participating in close collaboration within an agile cross-functional team responsible for the replacement of a complex and tightly regulated Federal legacy system.
Critically reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs.
Produces clearly documented functional and non-functional requirements and deliverables.
Facilitates elicitation discussions with various stakeholders to clarify project scope to develop story maps, flow charts, UX/UI mockups, and user/technical stories.
Conducts regular backlog refinement meetings with product owners, solution architects, and developers to ensure stories and tasks are ready for implementation and dependencies are identified.
Collaborates with development staff during the discovery phase to gather non-functional requirements and during feature implementation to clarify requirements as needed.
Communicates product features to both technical and non-technical communities.
2019 - 2022
Oncology R&D
Business Analyst
Pfizer, Inc
San Diego, CA
Interacted with Oncology and Integrative Biology internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope. Analyzed key aspects of the business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
Facilitated brainstorming sessions to expose true requirements, product expectations, and evaluated potential areas for business process improvement. Identified underlying technologies to address stakeholders needs. Documented software system requirements and product/project plans using MS Suite, Confluence, JIRA. Developed wireframes using Axure RP and MS PowerPoint. Created stakeholder analysis and user personas. Produced User Acceptance Test (UAT) scripts and organized user testing as part of the quality assurance and control process.
Utilized Visio to derive conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver products according to specifications for usability, performance and functionality.
Produced hardcopy and electronic user training materials. Introduced process of leveraging video tutorials in support of the launch of Oncology products.
Migrated 20+ projects from Oncology product portfolio PowerPoint to Roadmunk to provide better visualization and reporting of the product roadmap.
Successfully lead team of five colleagues to deliver an Oncology cell line tracking and management product. Achieved goal of 76% (remaining responses were neutral) of respondents indicating product improved workflows, increased turnaround time, and reduced costs.
Subject Matter Expert in development and successful launch of Client Partner, Product Management, Colleague Services SharePoint site enabling effective collaboration and communication among organizations.
Delivered a system with targeted data exploration and analysis capabilities from a unified data repository curated from multiple systems. The system received the first annual Pfizer Elevate Digital Award for outstanding work in the Breakthrough category.
2016 - 2019
Business Analyst
Pfizer, Inc.
San Diego, CA
Interviewed Oncology and Vaccines stakeholders to elicit requirements and document details using MS Word and Atlassian Confluence.
Engaged in agile project management activities using Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA) to successfully deliver Pfizer Digital Technology products, services and processes to Early Clinical and Integrative Biology Oncology R&D teams.
Developed UAT scripts and coordinated user testing.
Created training materials in support of the launch of an Oncology tumor model identification application.
Providing support for ongoing efforts to successfully deliver Business Technology products, services and processes to R&D teams in Oncology and Vaccines.
Leveraged Oncology Data Steward Council to develop, launch, and promote adoption of an online tool which guide scientists on where to store their data.
Education
2018 - 2021
PURDUE UNIVERSITY GLOBAL
MBA - Information Technology
West Lafayette, Indiana
MBA with a Concentration in Information Technology. Specialist knowledge in Managing Information Technology in a Business Environment; Information Systems Project Management; Database Design and Data Modeling.
2010 - 2013
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
BS Management
Tempe, AZ
Bachelors of Science in Management with relevant coursework in Management Theory, Practice, and Application; Business Communications and Critical Thinking; Strategic Management; Computers and Information Processing; Project Management; Strategic Portfolio and Project Management; Project Estimating and Control Techniques
2017
CORPORATE EDUCATION GROUP in partnership with Duke University Continuing Studies
Business Analysis Certificate Program
Chelmsford, MA
Business Analysis Certificate Program offered through Corporate Education Group (CEG) alliance with Duke University. The program focus areas in Core Competencies for the Business Analyst; Model and Document Your Project Requirements; Collaborate with Stakeholders to Elicit Requirements; and Plan, Manage, and Communicate Requirements
Certifications
2024-2027
Earners of the globally-recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) have demonstrated their extensive knowledge and mastery of project management concepts, tasks, and techniques that are applicable across virtually any industry and methodology. Earners are able to speak and understand the global language of project management. Individuals that earn this certification have demonstrated the knowledge and skills needed to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close a project.
2025 - 2026
Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist (SA)
Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
A Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist (SA) is a SAFe® Enterprise leadership professional who leads and sustains the Lean-Agile transformation. Key areas of competency include the application of Lean-Agile mindset and principles, the release of value through Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and building an Agile portfolio to align strategy and execution.
A Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager adopts a customer-centric approach to building products, using Scaled Agile Framework® to deliver more value, faster. A Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager collaborates with engineering teams and business stakeholders; writes Epics, Features and Stories; and designs, prioritizes, builds, tests, and delivers products with increased productivity and higher quality
2023 (does not expire)
Association of International Product Marketing & Management (AIPMM)
Certified Product Manager®
The rigorous competency and practice standards met by those certified by the AIPMM Certifying Board have allowed the Certified Product Manager® credentials to stand out from the crowd as the highest certification standard. Individuals holding the Certified Product Manager® certification validate their product management skills in the areas of building case studies, writing business plans segmented for each major function, market planning, competitive analysis, project plans for each major activity, product specifications, develop product launch plans, Product Life Cycle project modeling, Phase-Gate Process modeling, and Product/Market Data modeling.
2023-2025
Adheres to Scrum as it is defined in the Scrum Guide. Facilitates Scrum events and maintains Scrum artifacts. Works to remove team and organizational impediments. Completed educational offering (>14 hours) or coaching session (>25 hours) led by a CST®, CEC, or CTC covering established learning objectives. Demonstrated knowledge of being a Scrum Master by passing a certification exam.
2023-2025
Adheres to Scrum as it is defined in the Scrum Guide. Creates and communicates the product vision to the Scrum Team and understands release goals. Voice of the customer. Makes decisions with the customer and business in mind. Maintains a Product Backlog. Completed educational offering (>14 hours) or coaching session (>25 hours) led by a CST®, CEC, or CTC that covers the CSPO learning objectives.
Professional Skillset
Business Analysis Principles (BABOK®)
Agile / Scrum
Teamwork & Collaboration
Atlassian Confluence and JIRA
Microsoft Office Suite
Stakeholder Management
Organizational Skills
Tableau
MS SharePoint
Testing (UAT)
SQL (basic)
GitHub
Process/Workflow Diagrams
Axure RP
Project Coordination
Languages
English (native)
Filipino / Tagalog (conversational)