1. Darla Aman
952-926-2415
Darlaj.aman@gmail.com
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OBJECTIVE
Leverage my experience and education to create value as a Business Analyst.
SUMMARY
 5 years experience managing cross-functional development teams for both small and large projects.
 4 years experience eliciting and prioritizing requirements through stakeholder identification and
negotiation.
 5 years experience creating business documents from functional and non-functional requirements
and business rules.
 7 years experience developing test scenarios for and participating in user acceptance testing.
 2 years experience in an Agile environment.
 Several awards for outstanding communication and project presentation across all corporate levels.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
 Business Analysis Certificate, University of Minnesota
 Masters in Business Administration; University of St. Thomas
 Project Management; MCTC (Minneapolis Community Technical College)
 Certification in Legacy Systems Programming and Business Communication; MRC
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Delegate to 46D, CD5 and the state of MN conventions, 2016
Human Rights Commission, St. Louis Park, MN
January 2012 – December 2014
Volunteer Commissioner
Bronx Park Neighborhood Association Steering Committee Chair 2009 - Present
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bronx Park Neighborhood Association, St. Louis Park, MN
October 2009 – Present
Steering Committee Chair
 Chair executive committee and general assembly meetings.
 Write association grant applications and create association financial documents.
 Plan and coordinate events and activities for the neighborhood.
 Participate in leadership forums.
 Communicate with government officials regarding community events via Google Docs and Gmail.

2. Darla Aman
952-926-2415
Darlaj.aman@gmail.com
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The Arc Greater Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN
October 2013 – November 2015
Information Program Evaluation Specialist/Sales Floor Lead
Interface with guests and donors at every contact point and gather and analyze customer information to
develop advocate performance metrics.
 Analyze POS system and coordinate improvements with store management, corporate IT
development, and sales leads.
 Create and evaluate performance and financial reports using SMS
 Facilitate communication between guests, donors, management and sales associates to promote
customer service.
 Accept and process financial and other donations.
 Gather data and design metrics for trend analyses and presentresults.
 Establish data warehousing policyand practices for benchmarking purposes.
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
July 2000-July 2007
Business Analyst/Senior Programmer Analyst
Analyzed projects and managed onsite and off-shore project teams in a continuous integration
environment.
 Identify project stakeholders and elicit business rules and requirements for multiple projects
through meetings and activities.
 Create business and project documents using MS Office suite and Visio.
 Coordinate project teams to ensure timely deliverables using MS Project.
 Develop and map test case scripts and execute user acceptance testing.
Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation, St. Paul, MN
March 1998-February 2000
Programmer Analyst
Designed, coded, tested, implemented and provided on-call support for programs and jobs.
 Serve as Project Coordinator and analyst between the corporate office and the St. Paul office.
 Design process to merge two systems during an acquisition and consolidation.
 Mentor new programmers in corporate culture and business practices.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Google Suite
 MS Office Suite
 MS Project
 Visio
 SDLC
 Agile/Waterfall
 Continuous Integration
 SharePoint
 SMS
 DB2/SQL
 IMS
 VSAM