<ul><li>Acted as lead business analyst in both a run and build capacity for e-commerce websites and associated digital marketing campaigns for retail independent pharmacies. </li><li>Served as lead liaison to ensure alignment between development team, product managers, UX, and QA to ensure timely and well-executed product release.</li><li>Facilitated requirements gathering sessions to map out processes end-to-end and align business and technical requirements. </li><li>Groomed stories within JIRA to ensure all UX, functional, and non-functional requirements are accounted for in traceable, testable, and manageable size efforts. </li><li>Assisted in UAT facilitation and execution to ensure requirements are successfully met. </li><li>Facilitated 3-Amigo sessions and actively participate in backlog grooming, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. </li><li>Closely partnered with the product management team to prioritize and build out product roadmaps and ensure it aligns with vision and strategy to scale the solution. </li><li> Led efforts to expand the e-commerce sites product catalog from 3,000 SKUS to 11,000 SKUs, with a focus on data cleansing and accuracy. </li><li>Partnered with the digital marketing team to successfully implement a repeatable and manageable process for both monthly price reductions and monthly and season promotions utilizing management center for HCL Commerce, and data load processes. </li><li>Led efforts to define a streamlined and standardized the IT onboarding process that aligns with business tasks that will enable to ability to SCALE by bringing additional pharmacies onto the platform.</li></ul>

Consultant & IT Business Analyst, B2C Digital Marketing E-commerce

<ul><li>Managed projects supporting business objectives for corporate health services, internal audit, business development, and environmental.</li><li>Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives by setting realistic timelines and checkpoints.</li><li>Prepared status reports by accurately documenting pertinent information, including budget and schedule health, risks and issues.</li><li>Consistently delivered key project milestones on time and in budget in conjunction with project team members and third-party vendors.</li><li>Provided coaching to junior business analysts regarding requirements gathering, testing, vendor relationship management, and the project process.</li></ul>

Adv. IT Project Manager, IT Corporate Applications

<ul><li>Provided support and ensured compliance for data interfaces and cloud software solutions for occupational health, wellness, and industrial hygiene.</li><li>Improved business direction by prioritizing customers requests and implementing changes based on defined business value.</li><li>Applied problem-solving and process-mapping skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations due to changes from mergers and acquisitions.</li></ul>

Adv. IT Business Analyst, IT Health Services

<ul><li>Acted as lead business analyst on two dependent projects with the objective to migrate Master Station, Point of Sale data and SOX Critical Credit Card business processes from a legacy mainframe to a custom-built server application.</li><li>Led planning and execution of integration and user testing efforts for user interfaces, data migration and interfaces, reporting, and batch processing used within the daily SOX critical payment stream of approximately $35 million.</li><li>Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements. Translated requirements into functional and technical specifications, wireframe designs, and process maps.</li><li>Worked closely with business clients and developer team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.</li><li>Transitioned into day-to-day support post-project efforts and managed backlogs and two-week sprints to address break, fix and enhancements within various custom and cloud-based marketing applications.</li></ul>

Adv. IT Business Analyst, IT Marketing Applications

Kacee Bednar

English (British)

Kacee Bednar is an experienced IT business analyst and project manager offering more than seven years of success in day-to-day operation support and project execution. She has a strong understanding of the system development life cycle and project management as well as experience in both Waterfall and Scrum methodologies. At Cardinal Health, she leads business analysis for B2C e-commerce and digital marketing campaigns. Kacee also worked for Marathon Petroleum Corporation.

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