Application Support Analyst and Team Lead with over 7 years of robust experience in the Benefits domain. Proven expertise in functional testing, bug tracking, system configurations, and support leadership and management. Proficient in business domain, claim management, XML, SQL, UML, BPMN methodologies, and adept at working in both Agile and Waterfall environments. Strong experience in creating system prototypes and user interfaces. Committed, detail-oriented, and decisive professional renowned for problem-solving abilities in high-stress situations.
Team Size: 4 Delivery Streams (18 members):
Tech EDI (8 members)
Tech BenRecon&Integrations (3 members)
Tech ESS (2 members)
Tech Implementation (3 members)
Shared resources – 2 people (Team Lead and 1 TechSupport member)
Project Roles: Maintenance & Support Team Lead, 3rd Line / Software Maintenance Engineer
• Delivery Management (Role - Maintenance & Support Team Lead)
• Project Coordination
• Controlling, monitoring team activity, reporting status to client
• Supporting Team members with backlog management
• Assisting in troubleshooting issues across all streams
• Employees Onboarding, Mentoring and Knowledge Management
• Mentoring SLs and junior team members
• Managing customer/team communications
• Collaborating with Customer Product Managers/Owners and Customer/Support and Development
• Active participation within Bug Triage, Iterations Pre-Demo and Final Demo
• New processes Implementation
• Making product development recommendations, providing detailed product explanations and functionality requests as well as feedback during development. Providing knowledge transfer to BAs/QAs as business domain owner
• Tech Support Role
• Enrollment forms digitizing and carrier connectivity configuring
• EDI transmission of data to carriers setup and support, including payroll 180/360
• Billing Reconciliation tool setup and support
• Analysis of error logs from customer clients and resolving issues and Connectivity errors handling
Non-project Roles: Resource Manager, Business Application Support
• Resource Management
• Hiring & Interviewing
• Contributing as Technical Interviewer to staff positions
• Onboarding & Adaptation
• Helping newcomers to onboard to company and to project by means of Adaptation/Onboarding Plan
• Growth & Development
• Helping talents to grow vertically and horizontally, creating PDPs depending on project/employee’s needs, upskilling employees
• Motivation & Team Building
• Regularly monitoring and checking motivation of talents, taking pro-active steps to keep zero attrition rate, working with negotiations (work satisfaction, organizational processes, etc.)
• Rotation
• Managing rotation cases
• Discipline Expert
• Acting as assessment Committee Head and Expert within Clouds&ServiceDesk discipline
Tools and Technologies: Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Internal Case Management System, Atlassian Jira, Kibana
Business Functions
Business Development: Building partnership
Corporate Communications: Interviewing
Engineering Practices
Infrastructure & Operations: SupportBusiness, Identity and Access Management Operations, SupportUsers, Knowledge Base Management
Digital Engagement: UI Prototyping
Cloud: Application Support, Log Management and Analysis, IT Service Management (ITSM)
Leadership & Soft Skills
Leadership&Management: Mentoring, Driving Change and Innovation, Leadership, Developing Others, Motivation, Employee Recognition, Succession Planning, Coaching, Compensation Management, Unit Management, Risk Management
Consultancy: Delivery Excellence, Client Relationship Management, Consultancy
Computer Language: XML
Solution: Axure RP, Jira, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, MS PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Architect, Adobe Illustrator
· Business analysis: ITMine, Business Analysis BA#20, 2016
· Application Support: ITIL Foundation 3; Putting ITIL® Into Practice: Applying ITIL® 3 Foundation Concepts; Networking Foundation
· AI: Prompt Engineering