Engineer Diesy Okankwu has over 20 years of experience in business systems analysis, accounting, finance, economics, information technology, and engineering. He has strong analytical skills and experience documenting business requirements, processes, and technical specifications. He also has experience managing projects, creating budgets and timelines, and interacting with stakeholders. Okankwu has a background in civil engineering, economics, and information systems and has worked in roles such as systems analyst, business analyst, project manager, and financial consultant.

1. ENGINEER DIESY OKANKWU B. ENG, BA. DIT, FMC,
Phone: 613-262-5767 or 613-262-6857.
Email: ibaaman@yahoo.com
Address: 74 Mann Avenue, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 1C4, Canada.
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BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST
INTRODUCTION.
A well-rounded & versatile professional with a multidisciplinary educational background & over 20
years of work and business experience in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Information Technology &
Engineering.
ABILITIES:
• Reviewing existing documentation, and analyze business activities and processes
• Documenting business context, scope and background, including reasons for change
• Performing gap analysis on current systems and desired solutions
• Conducting research through interviews and workshops to determine requirements
• Documenting current state business environment, workflow processes, flowcharts, issues, etc.
Documenting system solutions for functional groups
• Identifying key business stakeholders that have gaps & requirements
• Determining business process and system improvements through analysis and workshops
• Determining critical success factors
• Creating Business process models and analysis
• Creating logical data models and data dictionary references
• Developing data flow diagrams to illustrate data flow
• Creating software acceptance criteria
Interacting with senior management for strategic issues
• Working with minimal supervision & within deadlines
• Advanced communication & interpersonal skills
• Collaborating with internal clients, external consultants, project management teams and
technical resources
• Excellent analytical, organization and priority-management skills
Strong customer focus and entrepreneurial spirits.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES:
• Performing systems risk analysis and proposing risk mitigation strategies
• Customer needs evaluation, gap analysis & recommendations
• Communicating technical concepts in a non-technical manner to clients & users
• Converting business requirements into technical specifications for tech groups
• Performing analysis and evaluation of business processes
• Preparing functional requirements documents
• Project management methodologies, systems, techniques and industry best practices
• Project management of Software Develop Life Cycle & implementation initiatives
• Project management, including managing interdisciplinary teams
• Managing projects that involve distributed & cross-functional systems
• Preparing budgets for IT and other business functions
• Creating estimates timeframes, resources, work flow, etc.
• Creating process workflow & information flow maps
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2. ENGINEER DIESY OKANKWU B. ENG, BA. DIT, FMC,
INFOMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT):
Computer Hardware, Software, Systems Integration, Networking, Telecommunications, Microsoft
Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, Lotus SmartSuite (Lotus 123,
WordPerfect ), Oracle Financials, Software QA & configurations, Applications Support, Software
Development Lifecycle, SAP Implementations, AccPac Simply, TurboTax, PeopleSoft
Implementations, Database Administration, SQL, Visual Basic Programming, Cobol, Fortran IV, etc.
ACCOUNTING & FINANCE:
Preparation and analysis of Financial Statements (Income Statements, Balance Sheets, A/R, A/P, etc).
Budgeting & control, Auditing, Taxation, Reconciliation, Consolidations,
OTHER AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE:
Feasibility Studies, Cost & Benefits Analysis, Impact Assessment, Sensitivity Analysis, Policy Analysis,
Business Analysis, Team Leadership, Process Re-engineering, Gap Analysis, Project Management,
Executive Reporting & Presentation, Meeting Facilitation, Mentoring, etc.
PREVIOUS JOBS & EMPLOYERS:
Accountant Multi Properties Limited, Ottawa, Ont Canada 1984-1986
Financial Officer. Ontario Ministry of Housing, Ottawa, Ont. Canada 1986-1988
Financial Analyst Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ont Canada. 1988-1989
Financial Analyst,
Systems Analyst,
Business Analyst
Project Manager Canada Post Corporation, 1989-2004
Financial Consultant Robert Half consulting 2004-2007
Financial Consultant ExcelHR 2004-2004
Managing Director Afrocraft of Canada. 2007-to date
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES ATTENDED:
B. Engineering (Civil) Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
B. A (Economics) Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
Year 1 MBA (Finance) Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Advanced Financial Management Ottawa University, Ottawa, Ont. Canada
Financial Management Certificate. Algonquin College of Arts & Tech. Ottawa, Ont. Canada
Diploma in Information Systems CompuSkills I.T Training College, Ottawa, Ont. Canada.
Courses & Certifications in IT courses. Learning Tree Training Institute, Ottawa
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIPS:
Association of Engineers, Ontario, Canada
Society of Management Accountants Canada
Project Management Professionals, Canada.
VOLUNTERING & CHARITABLE GIVING:
Volunteer tutor for High School students in Ottawa area, while a student at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Volunteered free technical support for several years, to Ottawa Public Library.
A regular volunteer & donor to Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada (CHEO).
REFERENCES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
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