Bismark A.

CEO

Washington, DC, United States10 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in coaching product teams for agile transformations.
Certified Agile Business Analyst and SAFe 5 Program Consultant.
Experienced in leading large-scale agile product organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Business Analyst with expertise in Agile methodologies within the Fintech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business AnalysisAgile Methodologies

Other Skills

ScrumProduct OwnershipAgile Requirements EngineeringCoachingUse Case DevelopmentProcess Flow DiagramsRequirements ElicitationSQLJiraData AnalysisTest AutomationUser Acceptance TestingMicrosoft AzureProject Management TrainingPSM

About

Bismark is a Senior Business Analyst, Product Management & Discovery Advisor renowned for his expertise in coaching product teams and building large-scale agile product organizations. He excels in Business Analysis, Product Ownership, Product Discovery Methods, Agile Requirements Engineering, and User Testing. A sought-after speaker, Bismark regularly presents at conferences on agile transformations and agile Product Management, including OOP, Agile Beyond IT, Transform to Agile, ModernRe, Manage Agile, and UX Days. His credentials include being a certified Agile Business Analyst, SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC), ICAgile Certified Agile Coach and Team Facilitator, Professional Agile Leadership I, Enterprise Business Agility Strategist, Professional Scrum Master, Kanban Management Professional, and Certified Agile Requirements Specialist.

Experience

Citi

Senior Business Analyst

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · New York, New York, United States · Remote

Resolving impediments, conducting stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and creating tracking plans such as burndown charts and burnup charts.
Gathered and reported Scrum team statistics to stakeholders.
Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization.
Coached the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Communicated with other managers within the business and managed expectations for the projects.
Evaluated information radiators and Scrum issues on daily basis.
Supported the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Utilizing use case, workflow, activity, and sequence diagrams to define functional requirements for the development team.
Partnered with the business stake holders, process owners, users to identify their requirements, produced detailed specifications and to plan the project deliverables.
Facilitated the JAD sessions with the primary stakeholders, end users for requirement elicitation. Defined Epic, features and identified a set of user stories needed by the product owner.
Involved in creating targeted questionnaires for SMEs to gather requirements.
Interviewed business users to gather requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the Project Manager and technical lead.

ScrumAgile MethodologiesBusiness AnalysisProduct OwnershipAgile Requirements Engineering

Sendgoafrica

Business Owner

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Comerica bank

Business Analyst II

Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs · Dallas, Texas, United States

Client- Comerica Bank
Facilitated and participated in the meeting sessions with the business users and stakeholders to define the project scope and boundaries.
Assisted the project manager in developing scope and vision documents describing primarily the goals, objective, and scope of the project.
Involved in identifying business process and developing business process flow diagrams
Validated the various business processes with a committee of Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) like Mortgage Servicers, Underwriters, Sales and Lending support to ensure the rules and guidelines have been met.
Elicited requirements through brainstorming, Joint Application Development (JAD) and interview sessions. Created the Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and the Functional Requirement Documents (FRD).
Wrote Use Cases and developed various models like Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and State Diagrams for modules like Reports, Notifications etc.
Maintained a structured approach in organizing requirements to ensure that critical business rules and requirements are met.
Functioned as a liaison between various business users and the technical team throughout the project lifecycle. Involved in maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
Participated in test cases reviews to make sure that all the requirements have been covered and accurately tested.
Wrote test cases for conducting Use Acceptance Testing.
Involved in creating User Manuals and training end users.
Environment: MS SQL Server, HPQC, MS Office Tools, MS Outlook, MS Visio, Blueprint SAP Business Objects