If you're looking for a Business Analyst/Project Manager in Austin, Texas, I may be a good fit. Check out my portfolio of projects. Click on the 4 cornered arrow to see the portfolio in full screen mode. If you'd like to meet to talk more, you can reach me at kcarney [at] cubitplanning [dot] com

1. I’m Kristen.
Howdy!
Nice to meet you.
You’ve got questions.
1. Can this person fulfill the Business Analyst/Project Manager (BA/PM)
role for my team?
2. Will this person fit in with my team?
3. Will I like working with this person?
This document will help you answer these questions by
mapping BA/PM responsibilities to 3 positions & 3 projects
that I’ve worked on in the past.

2. Projects & Positions
Projects PM/BA Tasks Positions
Project Planning
Co-founder,
Zonkey Cubit
Business Requirements
Noah Project Manager,
Team Collaboration TxDOT
Truth-in-Taxation Software Specifications
Socio-Economist,
Interview Customers Halff Associates
Timeline
Noah
Truth-in-Taxation Zonkey
2002 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11
BA in Socio-
Halff
Research contracted me out
English from Economist for Co-founded
Co-founded
Associate for to TxDOT as a
Cubit & funded by
Trinity Halff Associates,
Project Manager Cubit & funded by
Kavoussi & Capital Factory
University contracted out as Capital Factory
Associates
Project Manager
to TxDOT

3. What Project: Zonkey
Web app that helps real
estate developers identify Wrote User Stories, Use Cases & Acceptance Tests
parcels for development
-not yet released
Kristen’s Roles
Business Analyst
Project Manager
Database Designer
Methodologies
User Stories Applied
Lean Product Development
Homegrown Agile
Facilitated Conversations with
Prospective Customers
The customer team is
interviewing 30 real estate
developers about problems in
parcel identification.

4. What Project: Noah
SEO project designed
to drive traffic to Cubit Developed App Specifications & Wrote Requirements
See Noah at: Documents
www.cubitplanning.com/
census2010
Kristen’s Roles
Requirements Writer
Database Designer
QA/QC
Methodologies
Requirements
Documentation
I used a requirement document format that has worked
Homegrown Agile
well for the Cubit team for projects where we want to
Lean Product Development
build a minimum viable product to test feasibility.
Monitoring Results & Making Improvements
Noah more than doubled
unique visitors.

5. What Project: Truth-in-Taxation
Software that helps
government agencies Customer support
set their tax rate
http://www.texasetr.com/
tnt/index.jsp
Kristen’s Roles
Project Manager
QA/QC
Customer Support
Methodologies Communicated errors &
updates to an
outsourced
Waterfall
development team
Analyzed data to identify needed improvements
Software sales increased 11% despite a new competitor offering a similar product at a discount

6. What Position: Co-founder, Cubit
Web app for
environmental
Set business goals & Interview & survey
engineers to get
demographic data fast measure progress customers to improve
Cubit app
www.cubitplanning.com
Kristen’s Roles
Business Analyst
Project Manager
Database Designer
Methodologies
User Stories Applied
Lean Product Development
Homegrown Agile
Provide phone, email & chat customer support
Makes my day!
800+ registered users & growing

7. Position: Project Manager, TxDOT
Managed the environmental clearance process for over 400
While this project
transportation projects looks under-
whelming, it was the
first shared
documentation of the
status of 400+
projects. It allowed
local, state &
national stake-
holders to quickly
assess project status.
Position: Socio-Economist, Halff
Developed work flows & requirements documents for a diverse project team of
geologists, biologists, archeologists & engineers working on transportation projects
Bad

8. Can this person do the
BA/PM job?
Will I personally like
working with this person?
Back to I do I like but I also like
Your Requirements &
Specifications
Data Bright Colors
Questions
Team Launching Talking to People
Collaboration Products
Project Optimization Visualizations
Prioritization
Talking to Rectangles Drawing Outside
Customers the Lines
Will this person fit in with my
team?
If the answers to your questions are yes, I’d love to talk more
in person. You can reach me at kcarney@cubitplanning.com

9. Kristen Carney
kcarney@cubitplanning.com
PROFILE
My career has been a 9 year love affair with data. I ask questions, find data that answers
questions and build technology that addresses questions.
EXPERIENCE
Co-founder, Cubit — 2009-2011
Business Analyst, Project Manager, Database Designer, Customer Support, Marketer, Social
Media, QA/QC, SEO
Statistical Research Planner, Travis County — 2009-2009
Statistical Researcher, Analyst, Writer
Socio-Economist, Halff Associates & Contract Project Manager, TxDOT — 2007-2009
Project Manager, Researcher, Writer
Research Associate, Kavoussi & Associates — 2002-2006
Business Analyst, Project Manager, Researcher, Writer, Database Designer, QA/QC
METHODOLOGIES
Lean Product Development, User Stories, Agile
TECHNOLOGIES
MySQL, PostgreSQL, GIS, Wordpress
HONORS
• Cubit was 1 of 5 companies selected by Capital Factory in 2009 for capital investment and
mentorship from a pool of over 300 applicants
• Guest speaker at conferences and professional association meetings including the national
American Planning Association Conference, MIT's Planning & Technology Conference &
Supporting Women in Geography and GIS
• Published Article "Create Jobs Over Coffee" in the American Planning Association's Planning
Magazine, December 2009
EDUCATION
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas -- BA in English, 2002 (magna cum laude)
ONLINE
Blog: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cubitplanning - a Planetizen top twitter feed
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kristencarney