Senior Professional Business Analyst
Gainwell Technologies · Sacramento, CA
Nov 2025 — Present
Program-level requirements for a state-mandated dental claims platform, partnering directly with California DHCS.
- Lead end-to-end implementation of regulatory changes, serving as the central coordination point across multiple technical teams.
- Run impact analysis and cross-team assessments to determine scope, feasibility, and downstream system changes for new state-driven requirements.
- Act as Product Analyst / functional Product Owner for portal and workflow enhancements, translating stakeholder needs into prioritized requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate stakeholder walkthroughs and governance reviews with state partners to obtain approvals and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Deliver program artifacts — BRDs, FRDs, implementation roadmaps, action plans — and manage Agile delivery in Azure DevOps.
Founder & Product Manager
Brand Vibes 360 · Fremont, CA
Jul 2023 — Mar 2025
Founded and led a digital solutions consultancy delivering IT, web, and eCommerce implementations for small and mid-sized businesses.
- Owned the full lifecycle — client acquisition, discovery, implementation, testing, and post-go-live support — across multiple concurrent projects.
- Designed and shipped custom sites and eCommerce platforms on Shopify, WooCommerce, and custom CMS, including payment gateway configuration and data migration.
- Built as-is/to-be process models to optimize client sales funnels, order management, and customer engagement workflows.
- Led offshore development and QA teams: sprint planning, backlog prioritization, release timelines, and test strategy.
- Created wireframes and low-fidelity mockups to align stakeholders early, closing the gap between business expectations and engineering implementation.
- Stood up analytics and reporting dashboards so clients could make decisions from data, and handed over documentation and training for self-sufficiency.
Senior Business Analyst
First Republic Bank · San Francisco, CA
Oct 2020 — Jun 2023
Product analysis for enterprise ServiceNow and data platform modernization supporting regulatory and operational transformation.
- Led requirements definition for an AI-enabled transaction monitoring initiative — facilitating workshops to define model inputs, business rules, risk thresholds, and explainability requirements.
- Documented functional specs for predictive risk scoring on historical transaction patterns, and established feedback-loop requirements so the model kept improving from compliance review outcomes.
- Integrated AI risk outputs into existing workflows and case management systems rather than bolting on a separate tool.
- Designed REST/SOAP API workflows and enterprise integrations across ServiceNow, Snowflake, Workday, Salesforce Marketing & Service Cloud, and Kafka.
- Produced as-is/to-be process flows, architecture diagrams, and data lineage documentation to support cross-platform consistency and governance.
- Partnered with Risk, Audit, and Compliance to monitor regulatory controls and keep documentation audit-ready.
- Built compliance and operational dashboards in Excel and Power BI for leadership visibility into risk metrics and system performance.
Business Systems Analyst & QA Manager
Genome Medical · San Francisco, CA
Nov 2019 — Sep 2020
A digital health company in genomics-driven care, connecting patients and providers to genetic services through a cloud platform.
- Led end-to-end requirements for a cloud HealthTech platform integrating Stripe, VCee, and Athena APIs.
- Specified patient intake, provider scheduling, telehealth sessions, billing, and EHR data exchange workflows.
- Embedded HIPAA, ADA, and GxP controls into requirements and documentation, validating configurations with Clinical, Compliance, and Legal teams.
- Used Figma mockups to bridge business expectations and engineering implementation, especially for dashboard and reporting features.
- Led root cause analysis on production issues involving PHI data flows, implementing CAPA in line with quality and compliance standards.
- Defined API specifications and data contracts in Swagger and Postman for secure third-party healthcare integrations.
QA Lead
American Eagle · San Francisco, CA
Jan 2015 — Nov 2019
Quality engineering for omni-channel eCommerce checkout and search.
- Directed automation and manual testing across payments, fraud, loyalty, and inventory systems.
- Implemented Selenium (Cucumber) and Appium frameworks with third-party integrations.
- Managed offshore teams and global release cycles; ran performance testing with JMeter and Splunk and supported release sign-offs.
- Owned CMS integration and requirements gathering for content and feature flags.
Senior Quality Engineer
Kaiser Permanente · Pleasanton, CA
Aug 2014 — Jan 2015
- Built data-driven automation frameworks in Java, TestNG, Appium, and ANT.
- Ran SQL-based data validation and defect management in Rally and Quality Center; ensured ADA compliance and supported CI pipelines.