Julie Graber

Senior Business Analyst & Project Manager passionate about leading teams to design and develop software products for small, medium, and enterprise clients from a plethora of industries including healthcare, life sciences, retail, finance, and energy. Passionate team leader proficient in servant leadership, the ins, and outs of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), organization important for project documentation, and communication pertinent to project stakeholder management. MBA student, runner, and wildlife enthusiast. 

Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager

Chateaux, A Coretelligent Company / Norwalk, CT / 2021 – 2022

Managed software development projects interfacing with product owners & scrum teams in daily scrums as a scrum master. Coordinated resource & software hosting management according to client's needs to ensure smooth product delivery within the allocated project budget and timelines. Conducted agile scrum training with clients and internal teams for utilization of Agile Scrum for project management and software development.

• Managed daily scrum calls to support individual work focus, blocker alleviation, and product owner collaboration in aligning product vision and priority with internal teams
• Created weekly reports and converge with clients for an overview of weekly activities
• Led Sprint Review & Retrospective for stakeholder approval of features development
• Interfaced with internal management and clients for project resourcing and strategic company governance to ensure successful project delivery
• Collaborated with 3rd-party vendors for requirements gathering for new application development and systems integration support

IT Business Analyst

Chateaux, A Coretelligent Company / Norwalk, CT / 2019 - 2021

Led client discovery workshops to assess product vision, business requirements, 3rd-party system integrations, mockup & design coordination with requirements in creating custom solutions from clients’ vision.

• Executed requirements discovery sessions with stakeholders & subject matter experts to review their end-to-end product vision
• Created product backlog & non-functional requirements used to guide the team in creating the product in various sprints/iterations 
• Provided requirements knowledge support throughout sprint for the team
• Maintained product backlog throughout each project phase to update requirements aligning with clients’ business use cases, 3rd-party systems integrations, bugs, or enhancements
• Assessed features-based test cases to support the QA team in aligning requirements with testing
• Performed smoke and end-to-end scenario testing to verify product aligns with business requirements
• Facilitated client backlog grooming & internal organization of backlogs before each new sprint

Business Analyst

Korchek Technologies, LLC. / Trumbull, CT / 2015 – 2018

Organized systems access to legacy healthcare software for patient data extraction and transformation. Coordinated with 3rd-party vendors, hospital IT, hospital lab managers, and internal implementation teams for synchronized systems deployment and testing of patient data in mock and production environments. Supported PMO & internal implementation personnel for resource management, quality assurance testing, testing material review for healthcare software stress testing, and data conversion validation. Coordinated with internal teams for production launches of clients’ new healthcare IT systems.

• Facilitated access to legacy & new Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) for internal teams
• Created project timelines with Health Systems provider coordination to ensure successful system implementation, migration, testing, and final deployment before launch dates
• Validated sample set of complex records in test & production environments for LIS data migrations & compiled issues reporting updated throughout various test cycles 
• Managed issues summary reports & client reviews with healthcare personnel and 3rd-party software vendors
• Developed testing artifacts including Test Plan, Test Scripts, Validation Summary
• Executed weekly project meetings with Technology, Project, and Clinical Product Manager internal teams to ensure project success through synchronized task management, project deliverables, and resource allocation

Master of Business Administration, Information Technology Management Concentration

Southern New Hampshire University

2021-2023

Bachelor of Science in General Biology

Fairfield University

2010-2014