Van Wooten has over 20 years of experience in business IT solutions with extensive experience in various roles including business owner, product owner, business analyst, developer, and QA. He has founded three corporations and holds a patent in transportation data. He has strong skills in gathering requirements, user stories, Microsoft BI tools, SQL, and manipulating and reporting on data. He also has an MBA and experience working with companies both large and small.
Possessing 5+ years in Reporting, MIS & Analytics, Business Intelligence Reporting, and Project Management. Creating valuable information out of data, designing of reports, statistical modeling, forecasting techniques, & delivery are my forte. Adept knowledge in communicating across all levels in the organization
Hands on experience in Tools like Developing SAS code, Dashboards and Automation to Streamlining reports by using SAS, MS Excel, MS Access and Macros.
Having exposure to Project Life Cycle including Design, Development, Implementation and Testing.
Possessing 5+ years in Reporting, MIS & Analytics, Business Intelligence Reporting, and Project Management. Creating valuable information out of data, designing of reports, statistical modeling, forecasting techniques, & delivery are my forte. Adept knowledge in communicating across all levels in the organization
Hands on experience in Tools like Developing SAS code, Dashboards and Automation to Streamlining reports by using SAS, MS Excel, MS Access and Macros.
Having exposure to Project Life Cycle including Design, Development, Implementation and Testing.
Expertise in QualityAssurance , testing DataWarehouse Systems, Waterfall and Agile - Hybrid methodologies and delivering business critical testing projects.
Has executive leadership, negotiating , communication skills and capable of providing an authoritative guidance to the team for successful delivery of the project.
A positive approach,Capable and committed TEST LEAD with a proven ability of achieving high client satisfaction, meet project timelines.
Experienced in Data engineering, finding the gaps in the data and providing suggestions to the application teams.
Strong skills in client management and expertise in performing QA assessment in delivering innovative testing solutions.
Deepen Analysis capabilities such as business process mapping, data analysis, data testing, data wrangling, data transformation mappings to build data assets that enable business value generation.
Developed reports and dashboards for threshold reporting using Tableau.
Developed Data Integrity ,data quality throughout the department by designing and promoting best practices.
Experienced in Business Insurance Data Warehouse Projects involved in deriving Business Intelligence & Analytics.
Experienced in working with data models around data warehouses and data marts to understand source data and how data needs to be landed in the target database.
Facilitated sessions with System Analysts, IT developers, Quality Analysts, and Data Engineers from Business Team, to help them better to understand processes and enhancements captured in the business requirements , Testing the Requirements / Test Points mentioned in Test Strategy.
Expert in designing the below Project deliverables
- Project metrics,
– Team Velocity Chart
- Test Strategy
- Burn Down charts
Strong experience in planning and implementing the
- Product Grooming Sessions – Sprint Planning session
- Sprint Retrospection – Daily Scrum
Strong hands on experience on the below project management tools
- Rally
Working as Senior Content Analyst - Primarily deals with mapping of Reference Data Identifiers such ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL and Tickers. Handling of Global corporate events.
1. Van Wooten
1815 Southpark Circle
Arlington, TX 76013
Phone: 940-391-9747
van@tdnweb.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
• Extensive business experience in top to bottom roles and have been involved with business IT solutions
for 20 years.
• Founded three corporations, awarded method patent in the field of transportation data.
• Performed the roles of Business Owner, Product owner, BA, developer, and QA.
• The ability to obtain and utilize the subject matter expertise needed in gathering solution requirements,
regardless of the domain.
• Experienced with user stories and use cases
• Deep experience manipulating and reporting on data with Excel, Access, SQL.
• Proficient with Microsoft Power BI tools, Tableau.
• Work well with all levels, roles or groups, internal or external to the organization.
Key Attributes:
• Entrepreneurial, problem solving.
• Broad exposure – administration, accounting, operations, sales, back office systems.
• MBA plus experience in companies large and small..
• Resourceful, analytical, curious; Will search our answers
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 2002
• MCSD prep.
• SQL, .NET.
University Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma 1990
• M.B.A., Business Management
University Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma 1984
• B.B.A., Business Management
Pellucid Tech Business Analyst Training Program
BABOK training - Skillsoft
Financed 100% of undergraduate degree with football scholarship, National N.A.I.A.
Champions 1982
Patent Holder – US7577622 – Method, apparatus and medium for data management collaboration in the transport
of goods.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Transport Data Networks, Inc. - Arlington, TX 9/2003 – 2016
Founder
SME on freight transportation data structures. ASP.NET, C#, SQL. Method Patent. BugTracker.net for product
backlog management.
• Business Owner/Product Owner Role – Project Vision, Scoping, Documented Business Requirements.
• BA Role – SQL Server schema, Documented Workflows, Functional, Non-Functional Requirements,
JAD meetings, Wireframes, User Stories, Backlog Management.
• QA Role – Test plans, Test data creation, UAT.
• BABOK Areas of Knowledge: Enterprise Analysis, requirements elicitation, requirements analysis,
solution assessment and validation.
Avcor Healthcare Products – Dalworthington Gardens, TX 1/2012 -4/2016
Consultant
Normalize and validate data from eleven different sources to derive sales data, commission data and gross profit
analysis. MS Access, Excel, VBA, SQL.
• BA Role - Facilitated meetings with business owner, CFO to document Business, Functional and Non-
Functional requirements.
• Developer Role – Developed ETL procedures and tools for Excel and Access. Developed reporting
database in Access. VBA for custom functions in Excel, form behavior and export automation in Access.
• QA Role – Test plans, UAT.
• BABOK Areas of Knowledge: Requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, solution assessment and
validation.
Sterling Power, LLC – Dallas, TX 10/2012 – 5/2013
Consultant
Documented requirements, user stories user acceptance criteria from business owner. Proposed and developed
Contract Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications in MS Access, VBA, SQL.
Implemented Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 network.
• BA Role
• Developer Role – Access VBA for form behavior.
• QA Role
• BABOK Areas of Knowledge: Requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, solution assessment and
validation.
Dispatch Solutions, Inc., Dallas, TX 9/2007 – 10/2014
Founder
This company is a companion to TDN (above). Performed in a general administrative role.
• Business administration (P & L).
• Developed Shipper’s Agent business model.
• Select, contract and manage carrier groups for shippers.