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This document provides a summary of Brendan Vivian Achola including contact information, work experience, skills, and education. It highlights his experience as a Process Manager and Software Engineer at Capital One developing and maintaining complex IT systems. He has extensive expertise in various programming languages, tools, and methodologies.
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- 1. Brendan Vivian Achola 301-233-7818 326 Marldale drive bachola007@gmail.com Middletown, DE 19709 https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanachola SUMMARY Information Technology Professional with extensive experience developing, managing and maintaining complex systems. Proven leader delivering innovative and cost effective solutions. Exceptional trainer and mentor able to connect with both technical and non-technical clients at every level. EXPERTISE BRMS: Strategy Design Studio (SMG3), Blaze DS (Vargen), Strategyware, TRIAD Languages: SAS, SQL, JCL, C++, Python, Java, Visual Basic, VBA, XML, HTML. Version Control Tools: SDS, GitHub Other Tools: MySQL, Oracle MS Project, Visual Studio, Crystal Reports, MS Visio, MS Office, VersionOne, HP Quality Center, ALM, HP Service Manager, Unix, FTP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP, Eclipse IDE, TSYS, Xybernet, WHIRL, FDR, File Manager, FileAid, VSAM, Security Onion, Kali Linux. Big Data Tools: SQOOP, PIG, HIVE, Impala PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Capital One, Process Manager CSM Location: Wilmington, DE November 2014 – Present  Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to Product owner, stakeholders and scrum team.  Represent the team daily at the Scrum of Scrums (S2) meeting to report impediments for escalation.  Facilitate scrum ceremonies for the team (S1, Planning, Retrospective, Grooming & Review/Demo).  Facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, cost effective manner.  Track and produce key metrics from VersionOne. (e.g., burndown, burnup)  Part of the department configuration team tasked with overall system access provisioning and profile information. Capital One, Software Engineer Location: Wilmington, DE September 2002 - November 2014
- 2.  Contributed in software development of products through the software lifecycle, from requirements definition, development, deployment and post production validation.  Conducted Champion Challenger testing on Rules processing and eventually increased processing accuracy from 5% monthly to over 60% monthly.  Designed, coded and conducted unit tests on implanted Rules and strategies.  Designed and implemented simulation tools to extract production data and use the data to test code changes in development.  Developed reusable components – index tables, strategy tables and policy rule categories, which are being extensively reused in other smg3 business areas.  Build and execute tools to monitor and report on application quality.  Underwent a rigorous training on Strategy Design Studio, SAS and Crystal Reports in Chicago IL.  Participate in team Scrum ceremonies. HSBC , Senior Credit Risk Analyst Location: New Castle , DE February 2002 - August 2008  Contributed in software development of products through the software lifecycle, from requirements definition, development, deployment and post production validation.  Analyzed Rules processing for accuracy by running SAS job to monitor daily activity.  Designed, coded and conducted unit tests on impacted credit decisioning Rules and strategies.  Ran batch estimator Jobs to extract production data and use the data to test code changes in development.  Managed all major Rule engine conversion from Strategyware to SMG3  Address and troubleshoot any incidents due to credit rule accuracy via incident monitoring tool HPSM. EDUCATION University Of Alabama Birmingham: Master of Science, MIS Information Security Desales University: Bachelor of Science, Management of Information Systems TRAININGS & CERTIFICATIONS Certification: Certified Scrum Master