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Antonio Picazo

Business Analyst

University of Virginia

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Data Scientist

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Introduction to Python

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Data Scientist

Quantitative pioneer, venturing into unexplored territories of data exploration.

My Work

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Introduction to Functions in Python

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Introduction to Python

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Intermediate Python

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Introduction to Functions in Python

DataCamp Course Completion

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Introduction to Python
Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Understanding ChatGPT
Introduction to Power BI

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

NTT DATA Services | Jul 2022 - Jul 2023

Senior Business Analyst

Provide subject matter expertise related to functional initiative implementation, requirements analysis and security assessment. Serve as liaison between client groups for business definition, scope, testing, and implementation to ensure quality, efficiency, effectiveness, and customer knowledge. Collaborate extensively with client to clarify requirements and to prepare user test steps. Business Analysis • Prepare, manage, and maintain functional documentation of the NIH Executive Secretariat's Document Correspondence and Clearance system through the NIH Center for Information Technology. Maintain application user guides. Apply business logic to design models and reporting of current processes to aid in development of long-term improvements. • Identify business process challenges and opportunities for improvement and solve for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations. • Own creation and documentation of program guidelines, patterns, analysis, program performance, requirements, and escalations. Project Management. • Create, update, and own project security documents for annual security assessment in accordance with NIST FISMA guidelines. Prepare quarterly newsletters that feature application functional updates, reminders, and articles on new NIH Executive Secretariat staff members and liaisons.
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DMI (Digital Management, LLC) | Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

Senior Business Analyst

Promoted from Business Analysis II position to a Senior Business Analyst. Provided functional expertise on the following projects: State of Maryland’s proposed grants management system, the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Grants activity systems, and the government’s Grants.gov system. Acted in a scrum master capacity on numerous project teams to help prioritize backlogs and detail out user stories with the business partners. Business Analysis • Managed user acceptance testing (UAT) activities, results, and reporting. Improve efforts to integrate enhancements and new technologies. Supported the transformation of client needs into technical requirements and system deliverables. • Prepared workflow diagrams to describe grants’ lifecycle processes. Prepared data element definitions for proposed system. • Prepared and managed written documentation to identify and describe test scenarios, requirements, processes, designs, and user roles. • Planned and coordinated stakeholder efforts during software release’s user acceptance testing process.

DMI (Digital Management, LLC) | Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

Business Analyst II

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The Rock Creek Group | Jun 2011 - Feb 2019

Senior Analyst, Software Support and Quality Assurance

Successfully tested new software or enhancements to existing software to ensure solutions were delivered on-time with quality and in accordance with business requirements. Identified compliance risks and communicates to the appropriate level of management. Applied procedures and processes effectively in compliance with company standards. • Strategically managed functional testing of all the firm's applications utilized in the investment decision-making process. Provided expertise on how different hedge fund and emerging market processes like manager due diligence, investment liquidity, and asset allocation are modeled and applied in both internal and client-facing web applications. • Controlled highly-customized system-wide application entitlements for the entire firm and all external stakeholders through the use of a SQL-based set- of-sets framework. • Coordinated testing efforts with the offshore application development team for the building and testing of a new, advanced due diligence and advisory platform based on cloud capabilities and machine learning-based recommendations. • Administered quality assurance of application fixes, enhancements, and stories through the use of JIRA and PivotalTracker systems.

The Rock Creek Group | Aug 2010 - May 2011

Graduate Intern

Improved firm’s processing of complex liquidity terms by preparing liquidity cash flow model reports for these funds.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Jul 2009 - Aug 2009

Finance Administrator and Operations Project Manager - Intern

Monitored the organization's database system by analyzing the incoming data. Delegated cross-reference analysis and analyzed revenue streams and business operations for use in project development. • Initiated a new budgeting process to facilitate closer tracking and accurate alignment between past detailed expenditures and forecasted budget line items. • Assembled spreadsheets, drew charts and graphs used to illustrate technical reports using Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Accenture | Sep 2005 - Mar 2008

Team Lead/Acting Project Manager/System Analyst

Proactively built and maintained strong customer relationships; maintained consistent communication, and managed customer needs and expectations by meeting project timelines. Managed strategic and tactical projects using onshore and offshore team members organized in a matrix environment. Managed projects through all phases from discovery through deployment. • Managed a ten-member team to complete application development, from requirements-gathering to post-deployment support, of a significant application release; accomplished requirements within budget and 15% earlier than the scheduled delivery date. • Developed and implemented risk tracking process and resolution for four teams across three countries, raising the project's Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMi) rating level to the highest level of five. • Coordinated testing effort for project and tracked internal and external project risks. Worked closely with the deployment team to successfully promote numerous integrated modules for deploy. • Successfully motivated and lead teams that included developers, business analysts, and QA testers while promoting a high level of team rapport.

Accenture | Jun 2002 - Aug 2005

Analyst

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My Education

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University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business
MBA Administration | 2010
BS Management, ManagementAteneo de Manila University | 2002

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