Jordan Ramirez Senior Business Analyst
Chicago, IL • bizanalyst@gmail.com • +1 312-555-0166
Profile Summary
- Senior Business Analyst with 8 years of experience operating across Fortune 500 digital and operational transformation programs in airlines, financial services, and retail clients, specializing in requirements engineering, process discovery, and data-driven recommendation.
- Hands-on coverage across delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma), requirements tooling (Jira, Confluence), process mapping (Lucidchart, Visio), analytics (Power BI, Tableau), and data (SQL, Excel (advanced)) with strong fundamentals in user-story writing, acceptance criteria authoring, and audit-ready requirements traceability.
- Deep expertise in outcome-driven requirements, process-discovery rigor, data-informed decision making, and stakeholder-first communication, leveraging methodologies such as IIBA BABOK guide alignment and bi-weekly stakeholder feedback loops to drive solutions that ship on-time and deliver measurable business value.
- Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Finance teams in Agile and SAFe environments, contributing to steering committees, sprint planning, and stakeholder reviews with a calm, evidence-first temperament.
- Emerging leader who shares technical excellence and fosters a culture of requirements traceability and stakeholder-alignment discipline through peer reviews and playbook authoring, while leading BA community-of-practice sessions and authoring widely used elicitation and documentation templates.
Technical Skills
- Requirements & Documentation:
- BRDs, FSDs, user stories with INVEST acceptance criteria, use cases, traceability matrices, user flows
- Process Mapping & BPM:
- BPMN, Lucidchart, Visio, Miro, Draw.io, swimlane diagrams, value stream maps, as-is / to-be modeling
- Data Analysis & Reporting:
- SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Excel pivot tables, dashboards, KPI definition
- Project Management & Collaboration:
- Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Asana, MS Teams, Slack, SharePoint
- Methodologies & Frameworks:
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall, Lean Six Sigma, BABOK, PMBOK, IIBA CBAP
- UX & Prototyping:
- Figma (collaborative review), Balsamiq, Miro wireframes, Axure, user journey mapping
- Business Case & Financials:
- ROI and NPV modeling, cost-benefit analysis, KPI baselining, risk-adjusted scenarios, executive readouts
- Languages & Productivity:
- SQL, Excel (advanced), Python (analysis), PowerPoint, Word
Education
Work Experience
- Serve as the business-to-technology liaison for the Digital Operations and MileagePlus portfolio across 8 product squads, owning requirements elicitation, process discovery, and solution validation across 18+ digital initiatives.
- Run 70+ stakeholder workshops a year across 12 business units, using workshops and structured interviews alongside observation, shadow sessions, and SME deep-dives with Operations, Customer Service, and Loyalty to capture requirements on a quarterly discovery cycle.
- Author 240+ user stories and 12 BRDs in Jira, with INVEST-grade acceptance criteria, use cases, and traceability matrices that drove zero rework cycles across the past 3 quarterly releases.
- Lead current-state and future-state process mapping on Lucidchart and Visio, producing BPMN swimlane diagrams, value stream maps, and end-to-end flow analysis across 32 process maps that identified $1.8M in annualized inefficiency across booking and rebooking flows.
- Build operational reporting through SQL against the data warehouse, Power BI dashboards for product squads, and Tableau reporting for leadership, shipping 14 live dashboards that reshaped quarterly decisions on capacity, scheduling, and refund flows.
- Drive gap analysis on 5 vendor selections using capability mapping, build-vs-buy evaluations, and vendor scoring with cost-benefit weighting, with 4 of 5 recommendations adopted and $2.1M in avoided spend across the past 2 years.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing on 9 major releases through UAT plans and traceability matrices, end-user coordination across geographies, and defect triage with Engineering and QA, cutting escaped defects per release from 11 to under 2 across 12 sprints.
- Delivered change management and end-user adoption support through training curricula and user guides, comms plans across 4 channels, and adoption tracking for 3,200+ end users across 6 client rollouts, lifting 90-day adoption from 54% to 91%.
- Authored 12 business cases using ROI and NPV modeling, KPI baselines and projected gains, and risk-adjusted scenario analysis across 8 clients, supporting $4.5M in funded initiatives across financial services, retail, and healthcare.
- Ran 9 post-implementation reviews through benefit realization tracking, stakeholder retrospectives, and optimization backlogs fed into the next planning cycle, partnering with client Operations, IT, and Finance across 6 engagements to ship 8 reusable BA templates and onboard 3 junior business analysts.