Keith Privette

Current

Business Analyst at Target
Board Member at Free Arts Minnesota

Past

Senior Consultant at Weatherly Consulting, Inc.
Senior IT Analyst/Project Manager at UnitedHealth Group
Senior Business Analyst Consultant at Alliance of Computer Professionals

Business Analyst Manager at Gelco Information Network
Business Systems Analyst III at GMAC RFC
Trading Sales Associate at GMAC RFC
Recoveries Specialist at Arcadia Financial

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Education

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Streamwood High School

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Industry

Consumer Goods

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Keith Privette’s Summary

I am a Business Analyst 3.0, there many tools in the toolbox for many different types of business or technology initiatives. I have worked on initiatives that has required me to play many different roles (many of them at the same time).

The skills include the following business analysis, process analysis, requirements management, modeling, project management, conceptual UI design, testing, curiosity, willingness to learn, collaborative, and stratactical decision making

Innovative business solutions lay in the region of the win+win+win which is; 1st win = the people succeed and gain positive experiences, 2nd win = initiatives & ideas succeed, and 3rd win = We receive experiences, knowledge and deepen the relationships.

Lastly, I have utilized the skills above with innovative technologies such of web2.0, social media, social networking technologies, and cloud computing to execute enterprise strategies.

(e) keith.privette@gmail.com
(w) www.twitter.com\keithprivette

Keith Privette’s Specialties:

Business Analysis 3.0 (method,tech,collaboration,people) | Social Media technologies | Social Media strategies and execution | Business innovation with Cloud Technologies
| Business innvoation with Social Business Platforms | Software Development Lifecycle Delivery experiences | Application and Tool innovation and management

Keith Privette’s Experience

Business Analyst

Target

(Public Company; TGT; Retail industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Coach and Mentor project teams on the enterprise standard requirements management process called Scenario Based Requirements.

Developed the process and documentation to use SBR with implementing packaged software. This area of improvement has helped many teams have more successful implementations and working relationships with their Vendors.

Manged and Communciated the changes necessary for the improvements and enhancements for the SBR process for our Enterprise Release schedule. Managed the changes and communicated them to an Enterprise audience
Board Member

Free Arts Minnesota

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Member of the Board of Directors for Free Arts Minnesota. I am also a Committee Member of the Major Gifts. I also help out as a volunteer in the office filling needs of around technology operations whenever necessary.

www.freeartsminnesota.org
www.pullingtin.com
Senior Consultant

Weatherly Consulting, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

October 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Senior Business Analyst consultant for Weatherly Consulting. Providing leadership in the areas of consulting, recruiting, and sales support.

Thrivent Financial Project Work:
Senior Business Analyst : Business Systems Analyst
Project work for Client: business analysis, conceptual application design requirements, management of the business process architecture for implementation of an enterprise client relationship management software as a solution SaaS application.

Business Analyst : Systems Analyst : Project Manager : Release Manager
Project: Lead business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for an online Retirement Strategy tool called ThriveQ.com for Thrivent Financial
Senior IT Analyst/Project Manager

UnitedHealth Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UHT; Hospital & Health Care industry)

May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Project: Led business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for an employer portal application. Responsible for writing the project scope, requirement documents, detailed design documents, test plans and user documents for an Employer Portal web application

Project: Led business analysis, project execution, discipline structure and senior leader communication efforts for the development of new software development lifecycle for the Employer Portal business group.

•Served as the "process development liaison" between senior management team and project management, development, architecture, business analyst, and quality assurance teams.
•Managed software requirements within the Rational Unified Process framework and facilitated the enhancement and maintenance of the new software development process for business requirements to be realized inside the Employer Portal application in a production environment
Senior Business Analyst Consultant

Alliance of Computer Professionals

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2004 — May 2005 (6 months)

Carlson Companies (Client)
Project: Lead business analysis, system requirements management, project managed work breakdown activities, and quality assurance for the development of Carlson Marketing’s new Service Orientated Architecture Platform for their Service offerings within their loyalty business.

•Identified and documented internal/external business processes, developed and implemented methodological and process plans for the delivery and management of business and software/application requirements.

•Managed traceability of the business service offering requirements I was responsible for within the program to ensure the program was proceeding mitigating the risks of the dependencies for delivery of this new service orientated platform.

•Performed business analysis activities such as gathering requirements, managing those requirements through a project life cycle for their implementation of service orientated architecture of business services offerings.
Business Analyst Manager

Gelco Information Network

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2004 — December 2004 (8 months)

Project:Lead project management and business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for the development of new electronic receipt submission application.

Project:Lead coordinated the work breakdown structures, business analysis, system requirements management and quality assurance for the development foreign currency reimbursement integration.

Project:Project Managed, lead business analysis, and provided subject matter expertise implementing a new software development lifecycle utilizing an iterative development methodology.
• Developed the business procedures to ensure the development teams had the
proper information exchange and approval processes to insure proper execution of
projects within this new methodology.
Business Systems Analyst III

GMAC RFC

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

August 1999 — May 2004 (4 years 10 months)

Managed project timelines; gathered, analyzed, modeled and tested throughout the development lifecycle; and monitored and reported on project budgets to ensure adherence to guidelines. Project was finished 2 months ahead of schedule and $500,000 under budget. This system created a ‘on demand’ tool for submitting requests for appraisals that eliminated the need for an outside vendor, concurrently achieving a cost reduction in excess of $300,000 annually.

Built and documented a new ‘Mortgage Portfolio Collection System’ that resulted in growing the portfolio collections from 46% to over 75% within 6 months by adding a system that allowed collectors to process more accounts in a day than was previously possible to do in a week. This $850,000 project was finished on-time and within budget.

Change Agent within a Development Center of Services to implement shared internal resources concept. Produced a strong new strategic sourcing initiative.
Trading Sales Associate

GMAC RFC

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GM; Financial Services industry)

November 1997 — August 1999 (1 year 10 months)

Managed bulk purchases of mortgage loans up to and exceeding $500 Million dollars of Mortgage Loan Products. These products ranged from Asset Backed to Mortgaged Backed Loan Products.

The Loan Packages were funded through operational funding processes to be placed into investment pools to be sold as mortgaged back securities on Wall Street's open market.
Recoveries Specialist

Arcadia Financial

(Financial Services industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Managed a portfolio of repo'd and charged off balances of automobile loans around $3,000,000.

Responsible for settling these account balances with either settlement balances and or monthly payments.

Keith Privette’s Education

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

BA , Sociology , 1991 — 1996
Streamwood High School

General , 1987 — 1991

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Keith Privette’s Groups:

International Institute of Business Analysts - Member
Free Arts Minnesota - Major Gifts Committee Member
Free Arts Minnesota - Healing Circle Society Member