Portfolio
Happy Housemates
Role: Researcher & Designer
Team: Self
Project: For SI 582, we were asked to consider a community, research that community and competitor products, and come up with an interactive solution. The community I chose was unrelated adult housemates. I created the prototype to meet two needs of this group:
- Encourage individuals to understand their own preferences and how their preferences differ from others in the household
- Help housemates become aware of and address differences before they come an issue
Guardian & NYT Data Investigation
Role: Developer and Analyst
Team: Self
Project: For SI 506, we were asked to follow project guidelines to create classes, define functions, call methods, and create some human-readable output. I investigated average word counts and ouput the data to a CSV file.
What is a BA? Presentation
Role: Presenter, Organizer (Motor City Business Analysts)
Team: Self
Project: I’m really passionate about the importance of the business analyst role on projects (whether in title, or in practice). In this presentation, I describe what a BA does and how they add value to projects.
Project Under NDA
Role: Scrum Master, Business Analyst & QA
Team: Client, RIIS team (UI designer, developers)
Project: This project was both exciting and challenging because I was responsible for getting it off the ground. I led the development team through sprints 0 - 6. I coached the client through implementation decisions. It was amazing seeing an app morph from ideas and designs to a working prototype.
Selecting & Applying Requirement Gathering Techniques
Role: Presenter, Organizer (Motor City Business Analysts)
Team: Self
Project: In this presentation, I give an overview of project fundamentals.
- Engaging stakeholders
- Recognizing project inputs
- Determining project outputs
- 10 techniques for gathering requirements
- Bringing it all together
Project under NDA
Role: Business Analyst
Team: Client, team (UX designers, developers)
Project:
- Launched metrics on AEM platform
- Documented requirements for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) solution development
- Wrote “How to Author in AEM” guide for Accessibility enhancements
Project under NDA
Role: Business Analyst
Team: Client, team (UX designers, developers)
Project:
- Facilitated requirement gathering between product owners, SMEs, vendors, and IT
- Broke down business and technical requirements into user story format, documented acceptance criteria and error states, managed Confluence space and authored templates, and mapped API parameters to UI designs
- E-commerce – Translated business needs and mapped to APIs (contracts, address and tax validation)