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PAUL L. KRAVITS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oppenheimer Funds, Lead BA Consultant (3/2011 4/2011), New York, NY For a major mutual fund firms Investment Services Group, a marketing group tasked with ensuring timely and effective marketing, via the web and on-demand print, of the firms more than 50 mutual funds, was responsible for identifying and promoting streamlined processes for compositing and delivery of marketing communications materials via both channels; worked on mapping current state processes of the applications feeding and interfacing with the web directly. KPMG, Senior BA Consultant (6/2008 10/2008), Woodcliff Lake, NJ Working in KPMGs Global Division, was responsible for defining the business rules, processes, portal functionality and screens, data model, and use cases detailing how to leverage global website assets for reuse by content developers of local member firm websites, as well as how to make local website assets available for reuse by other member firms. Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Lead BA, Project Manager, and Project Management Team (PMT) Chair (4/2007 4/2008), NY, NY While working in the Enterprise Risk Management department, was responsible for owning preparation and delivery of business requirements addressing back testing, linking the fixed income Government Services Divisions closeout process to Settlement Operations, defining enhancements to a clearing fund methodology, and establishing a risk margining methodology to mitigate the intraday risk of inter-clearing bank general collateral finance (GCF) repo trading. Internal clients and approvers of project artifacts included senior management within Credit and Market Risk, Quantitative Risk, Product Management, Legal, Settlement Operations, and Risk IT. Specific accomplishments included: Chaired PMT meetings of cross-functional business teams and represented risk management business in meetings with Product Management, Legal, and IT Served as the businesss subject matter expert (SME) on proposed business services and their implementation to Risk IT; and drove, validated, and signed off (indicating business approval of) the IT teams conceptual solutions and detailed technical requirements documents Managed development of and shepherded through approval CMMI-compliant business requirements, business cases, risk assessments, Important Notices, and project launch plans for delivery of new services by the clearing corporation (CC) subsidiaries to internal and external customers Developed and maintained project plans and lists of action items and open issues Chaired PMT meetings to identify and resolve QA and UAT issues, and reported status of QA and UAT issues McGraw-Hill, Lead BA and Project Manager (6/2006 3/2007), NY, NY Responsible for managing Inception and Elaboration phase efforts to develop UML-compliant activity and use case diagrams and specifications for client use of a web-hosted homework management system. Subsequent assignment scheduled to start, but was cancelled due to slip-and-fall accident. Goldman Sachs, Lead BA, Project Manager, and PMO Member (10/2004 3/2006), NY, NY On project to better integrate functions, processes, people, and data of a department tasked by global broker-dealers Audit Steering Committee with minimizing firm-wide reputational, financial, and regulatory risk by conducting financial and IT audits, was leader of two concurrent work streams: defining BAs roles, responsibilities, methodology, and both standard and Requirements Lite deliverables, including leading business analysis, BPM, and BPR, and reviewing and validating BA deliverables; and documenting decisions, open issues, and options considered in revising the Risk Control Model. Accomplishments include: Defined the BA, UAT, communications, and training portions of project plan; iterated plan to determine staffing needs (and provide input to budgeting) to meet deadlines and ensure quality of deliverables; and trained new BA Defined role and responsibilities of BAs and obtained business sponsors approval, and established standards and prepared sample set of BA deliverables for each use case.
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Managed expectations of PMO members and senior managers by socializing BA role, responsibilities, methodology, and sample deliverables in a fast-track environment Defined the BA process and timeframes for developing business and functional requirements, including identifying, defining, and writing use cases; reviewing BA deliverables with business user clients, technology management, and developers; and obtaining business management and technology management signoffs as appropriate

Specific deliverables (and my responsibilities for those deliverables) included: Participated in a series of select meetings to revise the Risk Control Model (RCM); prepared meeting minutes and logs of open issues and decisions; and created the RCM document, which detailed the risk assessment (RA) theory and principles agreed to, as well as those considered but ruled out, to improve and better integrate risk assessment and management capabilities as well as consequent audit planning, scoping, and conduct, including: Detailed definitions of risk-control (RC) sets, risk families, and risk control tables (RCTs), as well as the business rules and models defining their relationships and the process for updating the data sets A new methodology to drive business planning incorporating a relative weighting of risk factors, including (but not limited to) time since last audit; last audit results; financial, regulatory, and reputational impact, including potential severity of control failure; changes to business, IT, and controls; operational incident metrics; and regulatory requirements JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Credit Derivatives Trading), Lead Plan Team BA (10/2003 6/2004), NY, NY Responsible for leading cross-regional development of a business requirements document (BRD) and corresponding functional requirements document (FRD) on improving the quality of reference obligations (ref obs) data for instruments underlying CDS trades. Supported by a VP-level Senior BA who provided subject matter expertise for London, and working within a Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) environment and a Plan/Build/Operate (PBO) model, accomplishments include: Matrix-managed Senior BA in London Represented IB Ops to middle-office business management and users (internal clients) and IB Technology (to which the FRD was handed off), and developed and managed ongoing relationships with both business and technology Coordinated middle office business managers and data guardians user input and the efforts of NY and London BAs modeling region-specific, current-state ref obs workflows supporting CDS trading; and held business and technology meetings and informal discussions whose negotiated resolution was a new business model incorporating a single, reengineered global workflow with common business rules and procedures Facilitated meetings to define data attribute requirements, including identifying data sources and automating data feeds (where possible), and to determine the impact of proposed changes on downstream systems Prepared Test Approach and Test Plan documents Facilitated UAT by delivering a FRD that included detailed, step-by-step procedures for each use case as well as use case entry, exit, and success criteria Coordinated middle office business and technology management review and signoff on BRD, current- and futurestate workflows, use cases, data attributes and requirements, wireframes of GUI screens and reports, and FRD Delivered approved FRD three weeks ahead of schedule Led preparation of and delivered a kickoff presentation that summarized project vision, goals, scope, schedule, and success criteria, and which identified project sponsors and team members and summarized their project roles Led development of BRD that explained in-scope global business requirements, which entailed researching and detailing root cause analysis, assumptions, dependencies, in-scope and out-of-scope business requirements, and impacts to business and systems Led development of a detailed global FRD whose functionality satisfied and was traceable back to the business requirements, which provided the basis for application development and UAT. The functionality defined included:

Specific deliverables (and my responsibilities for those deliverables) included:

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Defining and modeling a batch process for importing MiP instrument data records automatically when all MiP values matched those in JPMC systems, as well as a process for identifying pairs of records whose value(s) differed and bringing them to the attention of the Data Guardians for both the current and future states Developing and modeling detailed, reengineered workflow models, transaction processes, and step-by-step procedures for each ref obs business use case (i.e., creating new ref obs, amending them, making them inactive, maintaining an audit history of ref obs, etc.) for both the current and future states Wireframes and working prototype for a web-based GUI that permitted DGs to access screens and reports for comparing MiP instrument data values with those in JPMC systems; reviewing instrument data; updating incomplete instrument data; updating instrument relationships with reference entities to create or update ref obs; etc.

Goldman Sachs (Cash Equities Technology), Lead/Senior BA (7/2000 11/2002), NY, NY Responsible for managing development and delivery of multiple business analysis, BPM/BPR, and communications projects for Cash Equities Technology. Supported development and modification of broker-dealer order management and trading systems through deliverables that clarified technology-to-business alignment and satisfied the information needs of both business and technology. Accomplishments for this global brokerage firm include:

All of Cash Equities Technology: Compiled application inventory covering U.S. Listed, NASDAQ, compliance, sales trading, automated execution strategies, GS principal strategies, convertible bonds, and international technology groups across the US, UK, Hong Kong, and Tokyo regions; added value was inclusion of detailed information on the processes by which the transaction data was transmitted NASDAQ Technology: Conducted BA and modeled trader and application interactions that satisfied NASDAQ trade and order management and compliance requirements, including Limit Order Protection and Limit Order Display, Quote Server, SelectNet Manager, and Trade-or-Move Watcher. Wrote the WinSOES Spec for Eagle (and NASD Manager), which detailed how traders browse and manage stacks of SelectNet orders and SOES executions, move the market and reset GSCO exposure, execute SelectNet orders, decline orders, and interact with the Back Book US Listed Technology: Planned and developed NYLE Technology Overview (for print and intranet), which included application descriptions, diagrams of application (and major intra-application process) interfaces and data flows, and detailed morning checklist procedures for Listed block trading, NYSE floor, and position management systems, and for interfaces to clearing, settlement, and overnight comparison systems. Also managed intranet site developers NASDAQ and US Listed Technology: Edited and reorganized executive presentations and business cases mapping the responsiveness of in-progress and proposed technology initiatives to business imperatives; and on the order processing and user interface benefits of replacement vs. legacy sales trading, trading, order management, and risk management systems Developed business process models of order and execution data flow from order entry and off-board execution entry systems; through the trade entry, trade processing, and position management systems; to the risk management, performance reporting, and transaction processing systems. Also developed model of order status transitions, and a data dictionary listing the message attributes for Nasdaq and US Listed transactions Modeled capital commitment process for risk orders based on interviews with sales traders and traders; HA/DR configurations, processes, and procedures; and account booking and position management for NASDAQ, Listed, ETFs, and PT basket trades, including functionality to ensure that positions were not double-booked Compliance Technology: Rewrote/edited an Invitation to Tender to potential vendors of a Compliance technology infrastructure that would incorporate a consolidated compliance database to reduce the number of data mappings required to support surveillance reports, regulatory reports, and regulatory queries

Benchmark Communications Group, Principal/Senior Consultant (6/1987 7/2000), Painesville, OH Responsible for contingency plan development, modeling and reengineering processes supporting compliance with business requirements and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and managing and preparing communications for product teams and for advanced architecture and application development teams. Major clients included IBM Global Services, the
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District of Columbia, Westinghouse, Allen-Bradley, Ameritech, Boeing, and The Management Network Group (TMNG). Accomplishments include: Managed four-person group producing technical specs for third-party developers; wrote chapters on advanced communications message protocol and messaging; addressing (using an IOI to identify the consuming object); and establishing, maintaining, and closing network, transport, and application connections in an object-based automation architecture based on the OSI model. Also participated in Gilb software inspections Led communications and training, including managing three communicators Led requirements gathering, including BPM/BPR, for Sales Force Automation (SFA) systems for telecom and industrial automation clients Wrote Executive Summaries and parts of Technical & Management volumes of more than 30 technical proposals; and analyzed RFPs, developed proposal outlines, and evaluated and represented proposals compliance with RFPs Lead BA / Project Manager for Y2K contingency plan development for DCs Department of Motor Vehicles; received distinction of uncommon promotion (for a non-IBM employee) to client-facing Project Manager Defined models, processes, data flows, and success criteria to satisfy SLAs for trouble management (including a Customer Call Center), customer acquisition, order processing, provisioning, error handling, and account maintenance for cross-regional LD telecom services Defined key business events and data sets for use in SIT and UAT of reengineered business processes; and facilitated UAT by delivering functional requirements that included detailed, step-by-step procedures for each scenario

SKILLS

Business and Related IT Development: Business Process Modeling and Reengineering (BPM/BPR), Business Analysis (BA); Project Management (PM); Negotiation of Business Scope; Communications to Stakeholders, including Senior Management; SDLC; CMMI compliance; Current- and Future-State Business Processes; Development of BRDs, FRDs, and Technical Specs; Use Cases; Workflow, Dataflow, Sequence, and Application Interaction Diagrams; Web Portal Requirements, including Website GUI Wireframes; OOA/OOD; State Transition Diagrams; Network Domain Modeling; Data Dictionary Development Applications: Microsoft Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Project; Adobe Dreamweaver
EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Technical Writing and Editing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
AFFILIATIONS

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI) Currently studying A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)Fourth Edition, in preparation for the Project Management Professional (PMP) SM certification test Member, International Institute of Business Analysis Currently studying A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), Version 2.0 in preparation for the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification test Member, American Mensa

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