Gary Bischoff: Business Analyst - Consultant in Durango, CO

Work closely with business partners to resolve issues, drive decision making, capture requirements for application development. Define and negotiate project scope, and guide and implement multi-application development. Clearly document business requirements by collaborating with all stakeholders, including end-users, clients and development teams. Work with cross functional teams including development, business and QA to ensure successful implementation of business initiatives and client requirements. Monitor changes moved to production work accurately and provide expected benefits. Research and resolve issues reported by front end users, clients, and business owners. Assist in authoring end user documentation.

-Work with cross-functional teams to assess client needs and translate those needs into effective, marketable and profitable solutions -Act as a liaison between business/end-users and development staff -Coordinated cross-functional dependencies related to software development -Responsible for accuracy and integrity during all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including requirements definition, approval of design-specification, test conditions, test output as well as field communications and continued support -Migrated Quality Assurance testing from a manual environment to automated with use of Mercury Interactive tools and ‘in-house‘ test tools. -Manage development priorities and implementation schedules -Developed, Tested and maintained GUI applications, which enable system enhancements to be completed by user groups -Measure/track/report effectiveness of implemented strategies and make recommendations based on findings

-Work with cross-functional teams to assess client needs and translate those needs into effective, marketable and profitable solutions -Act as a liaison between business/end-users and development staff -Coordinated cross-functional dependencies related to software development -Responsible for accuracy and integrity during all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including requirements definition, approval of design-specification, test conditions, test output as well as field communications and continued support -Migrated Quality Assurance testing from a manual environment to automated with use of Mercury Interactive tools and ‘in-house‘ test tools. -Manage development priorities and implementation schedules -Developed, Tested and maintained GUI applications, which enable system enhancements to be completed by user groups -Measure/track/report effectiveness of implemented strategies and make recommendations based on findings

-Interacted with clients and Account Management to clearly define requirements for Point-Of-Sale system enhancements and Drug Utilization system enhancements -Created functional software requirements, test conditions, training documents and Quality Assurance procedures -Coordinated cross-functional dependencies related to implementations and responsible for system enhancements and refinements -Researched, evaluated and responded to Help Desk tickets -Interfaced with internal users and clients to provide training on systems enhancements and new capabilities -Met critical client, regulatory and clinical deadlines -Provided representation at functional meetings to determine appropriate business changes and optimum system solutions -Generated and Analyzed production reject and regression reports to track program effectiveness