Danielle Okafor

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Senior Business Analyst with 8 years of experience translating complex business problems into data-backed solutions across fintech and healthcare SaaS. Specializes in requirements elicitation, process reengineering, and stakeholder alignment for cross-functional product initiatives. Reduced average project delivery time by 22% at current employer by introducing a standardized BRD and UAT framework adopted across three business units.

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Senior Business AnalystMar 2020 - Present

Meridian Financial Technologies, Austin, TX

Led end-to-end requirements gathering for a core banking platform migration affecting 1.4 million accounts, delivering the project 3 weeks ahead of a 14-month schedule.
Designed and implemented a KPI reporting dashboard in Tableau that reduced monthly reporting prep time by 40% for the CFO's office.
Facilitated 60+ JAD sessions with product, engineering, and compliance stakeholders, achieving sign-off on 98% of BRDs within the first review cycle.

Business AnalystJun 2017 - Feb 2020

Vantara Health Solutions, Dallas, TX

Mapped and reengineered 12 patient-intake workflows using BPMN, cutting average intake processing time from 18 minutes to 11 minutes and saving an estimated $310K annually in staff hours.
Authored functional specifications for an EHR integration project that connected three disparate systems, eliminating 900+ weekly manual data-entry tasks.
Partnered with QA to define UAT test plans covering 400+ test cases, achieving a post-launch defect rate of less than 1.5% across two product releases.

Junior Business AnalystAug 2015 - May 2017

Clearpath Consulting Group, Houston, TX

Supported gap analysis and current-state documentation for five client engagements spanning retail and logistics, contributing to proposals that closed $2.1M in new contracts.
Built SQL queries to extract and validate data sets used in root-cause analysis, reducing investigation turnaround time by 30%.
Maintained the project backlog in Jira for a 9-month supply-chain optimization engagement, keeping 95% of sprint tasks on schedule through weekly grooming sessions.

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