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Thursday, July 16, 2020

[KITlist-Tech] CONTR: Business Process Analyst (San Jose, CA)

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Business Process Analyst needed for long term (1+ year) direct client project. Client is Fortune 500 (stable, public, growing)
As a Business Process Analyst with knowledge of process mapping and business process reengineering, analyze business processes and workflows in pursuit of identifying improvements and areas for automation. Facilitate process workshops and document any information elicited using process maps and business requirements documents. Work with business and IT teams to find the best way to improve and/or design new processes and solve process-related problems within and across systems teams and applications.

Required Experience:

-Exceptional business process analysis skills.

-Excellent technical analysis skills.

-Produce excellent documentation.

-Able to communicate effectively with engineers and business stakeholders.

-Problem solver

-Excellent diagramming and communication skills

-Proven ability to run/moderate workshops and meetings

-Able to influence partners through data and processes

-Experience with effective requirements, data gathering, analysis, and stakeholder interactions around business process and technology needs

-Knowledge of business process modeling methodologies, notations, and relevant tools, including modeling and visualization tools

-Experience with analysis of enterprise–wide business functions and business processes in collaboration with multiple business organizations

-Knowledge of business process reengineering best practices

-Engineering background or experience working side-by-side with engineering for 5+ years.

-Good knowledge of Internet-based application development and software development & testing approaches and project lifecycle.

-Able to quickly take complex requirements from a range of stakeholders and distill them into a prioritized list of deliverable user stories.

-Ability to operate in a complex environment with rapidly changing priorities.

-Have the confidence to challenge assumptions and direction from business stakeholders when their needs are not technically achievable.

Job Description:
With a strong understanding of eCommerce and a blend of business and technical knowledge, research, gather data, and map the as-is data to publishing processes. Using exceptional business analysis, communication skills, and process design methodology, identify, improve and/or design new processes to achieve business objectives. See the big picture, understand project objectives and be able to apply understanding of how processes should work to operational improvement initiatives.
Inform/help provide direction for internal publishing systems application feature development by interpreting business requirements for the technical teams as well educating business users on process efficiencies and where technology can best help complement their processes to achieve the business goals, objectives, and measures.
Evaluate new IT developments and evolving business requirements and recommend appropriate systems alternatives and enhancements to current systems. Leverage highly technical knowledge to ensure efficient design, development, and implementation. Act as a technical resource in all phases of the development and implementation process.
Activities include, but aren't limited to:

-Work with stakeholders to identify business requirements, processes and risks.

-Evaluate current business processes and recommend solutions for improvements.

-Define, implement and maintain business processes and procedures to meet business objectives.

-Analyze and identify opportunities for business process improvements.

-Develop initiatives for continuous business process improvements.

-Work with other process engineers in integration of new and existing business processes.

-Using best practices, carry out business process analysis, re-engineering, process measurements and change management activities.

-Identify user needs and develop strategies to meet them

-Collaborate with business and IT teams to design new work processes

-Communicate complex data in ways that are easy to understand

-Provide input on business metrics that may ultimately help end users

-Make recommendations for product or service enhancements

-Manage process change

-Lead/facilitate process design/redesign workshops that involve eliciting process requirements and liaising with users

-Educate business users responsible for managing and operating business processes

-Applying their knowledge of business process modeling notations (BPMN, EPC, BPEL) to documenting processes.

-Use appropriate ERP, BPM, CRM and BI tools.

Education:
- Business Process Reengineering or Business Process Improvement Certification

- Lean/Six Sigma Certification

- BPM Certification (AIIM BPM Certificate, Certification from BPMInstitute.org, ABPMP's

- Certified Business Process Professional (CBPP®)

- BA Certification (CBAP/CCBA, BCS BA Certification, PMI-PBA, etc)

- Understanding of ERP, BPMS and statistical/data analysis skills.

- Bachelor's degree in relevant area

OTM Software Professionals is a locally owned and operated company in the Silicon Valley working on the hottest projects. We offer direct support to all of our employees as well as excellent benefits. Do you have the skills, experience and drive to become a part of the OTM team? Apply today to become part of the OTM team!

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Friday, July 3, 2020

[KITlist-Tech] CONTRACT: Business Systems Analyst (BSA) (Sunnyvale, CA)

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Business Systems Analyst (BSA) needed for long term (1+ year) direct client project. Client is Fortune 500 (stable, public, growing). eCommerce Digital Content Management

Job summary

OTM is seeking an experienced e-commerce BSA to join a large scale Digital Content Management (DCM) team. You will define and transform the systems, tools and processes that enable the DCM Production team to bring the latest products / content across different platforms. Your mission is to improve the business team's velocity and flexibility for making changes as well as increase the quality of the information presented to client customers to support growth into new markets, new customer experiences, and new platforms.

The BSA will engage DCM Production, Product, content Dev, Engineering and cross-functional teams to map out DCM business production process from upstream source of product data/content integration to final catalog presentation online.He or she will focus on product catalog production processes, underlining product data structure and relevant system tools. He will help to articulate problems, vague ideas or concepts and turn them into structured analysis for engineering solution assessment, project formation and

business decision making.

Required Experience:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience working in large-scale, global product catalog management environments with in-depth industry knowledge on product data strategy, product data structure and Product Metadata Management

• Strong experience in product data analysis is a must with hands on experience in metadata,

data collection, cleansing, modeling and discovering useful information to support architecture solution and business decision making

• Strong experience in business process management is a must with in-depth knowledge of tools, processes and methodologies including documenting as-is and to-be process flows.

Trained in Six-Sigma is a plus

• Demonstrated success in influencing business decision making, data governance policy and process improvement supported by structured and data analysis literally across organizations

• A problem solver who thrives in ambiguous working environment with the ability to develop strategy and tactic approach to turn vague ideas into clear definition

• Experience in Agile methodologies and implementation model including user story writing

• Demonstrated ability to complete multiple tasks under pressure with a high degree of flexibility to expand his or her responsibilities when needed

• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills across cross-functional and global audiences that include DCM production, engineering, content development and product management

Project Description:

You will be the DCM product data expert responsible for defining detailed requirements for business processes and the product catalog.

You will represent the DCM Production community throughout the project lifecycle, defining solutions that promote best-in-class practices in the various facets of web production: demand management, production workflow, delivery processes, quality assurance.

This involves:

• Knowing the DCM Production (your customers), their product platforms processes and tools

• Defining best-in-class systems and processes that will enable the DCM production team to support the business goals

• Driving requirements gathering that promote scalability, smart production practices, and intuitive usability

• Effectively articulating requirement with process flows, feature definition and data metrics to the technology teams who will build production systems and tools

• Managing business team adoption of these tools and processes through readiness planning, documentation, training, and support

• Understanding the businesses demand for new website features and functionality that have a high reliance on publishing capabilities

• Project management and coordination in a cross-functional environment with hands on experience across project cycle, e.g. project formation, launch and execution including UAT, production cutover, business roll out is a plus

You are:

• Smart, analytical and detail oriented

• Articulate, organized and process oriented

• Self-directed and passionate about managing information

• Willing to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with the messy world of working with users and solving their problems

You can:

• Listen

• Evangelize smart solutions and processes

• Communicate effectively to senior management regarding risks/benefits of solution options

• Write and own requirements documents, functional specs, test plans

• Help business in articulating their requirements and transform requirements into user stories

• Plan and execute user acceptance test across functional teams

• Bridge the communication between technical and business teams

• Plan workload and coordinate resources

• Work with development, QA and deployment teams

You know:

• Web technologies

• Large scale, global content and product catalog systems

• Principles of content and product data structure, metadata and taxonomy management

• E-commerce

• Web production

• How developers think and communicate
• Agile methodologies and implementation mode
Apply to: frivera@otmcorp.com
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020

[KITlist-Tech] Sr. BA Analyst - Contract role (Sunnyvale, CA)

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OTM is seeking a Sr. BA Analyst with a strong technical understanding of the eCommerce platform ecosystem particularly Personalization Engines, preferably experience with Content Management Systems. Candidate should possess a blend of business/technical knowledge, drive to make the vision into reality.

Responsibilities:
- Elicit and capture user requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria consistent with Agile Scrum Standards
- Create process, workflow, state and sequence diagrams (illustrating information flow, data requirements and interoperability between systems)
- In-depth Data Analysis and data flow capture on systems integrating into the Personalization Engine
-Collaborate with Design team to understand, give feedback and decompose the mockup designs and map them to the functional user stories. Conduct walkthroughs and handover of the same with engineering.
-Manage the User Acceptance Test phase ticket analysis
-Work closely across a team of application users, the digital merchandisers on the business team, Engineering team and one or more project managers / Scrum Masters to understand the work that needs to be done

Required Experience:
-Excellent business process analysis skills
-Excellent technical and systems analysis skills
-Outstanding communication skills
-Quickly take complex requirements from a range of stakeholders and distill them into a prioritized list of deliverable stories
-Produce excellent documentation
-Have the confidence to challenge assumptions and direction from business stakeholders when their needs are not technically achievable
-Ability to work successfully with engineering teams to explain requirements, capture demo feedback and ensure engineering is implementing per the requirements and feedback received
-Ability to operate in a complex environment with rapidly changing priorities

Required Skills:
-8+ years of business / systems analysis experience in enterprise eCommerce Systems
-3+ years of experience of working with Scrum development
-Excellent written and presentation skills - able to communicate effectively with engineers and business stakeholders
-Good knowledge of Internet-based application development and software development & testing approaches and project lifecycle

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

[KITlist-Tech] Plant Maintenance and Reliability Manager (Berkeley Area, CA)

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Connie Dorigan Condor1@dorigan.com

We are currently seeking a Plant Maintenance and Reliability Manager for our Berkeley (area), CA facility, who will provide a single point accountability for all Maintenance, Reliability and Facility activities. Enables site Operations to perform with best in class efficiencies in total compliance of all safety, company and regulatory requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (to include but not limited to)

· Ensure an environment that is safe by reinforcing a "safety first" culture.
· Lead all site Maintenance, Facility and Reliability activities
· Utilize all resources (personnel & financial) to ensure Plant operates at maximum equipment utilization and efficiency
· Tenaciously address all unplanned site downtime events in order to return site to "Safe, Reliable Operations" as soon as feasible. In addition, work actively to asses any failures, identify cause and deploy counter-measures to prevent recurrence.
· Drive and support progression as a TPM based facility and culture including AM, PM and Early Equipment Management / VSU
· Assume the management and leadership for assets and their life cycle management from specification through commercialization, maintenance and replacement.
· Provide direct Supervision and develop all members of the Maintenance/Reliability function
· Ensure equipment availability to meet defined production schedule.
· Document all incident reports as required (EHSS, Quality, Service, or other) - Utilize a factual based incident reporting format with an emphasis on establishing a clear Sequence of Events (SOE)
· Create and establish controls to manage KPI's for Maint/Facility activities to monitor and improve performance
· Lead and develop appropriate predictive, preventative and reactive maintenance activities.
· Manage site spares, stores, & critical spare program.
· Manage and be the "keeper" of the facility Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Document all activities through this software; utilize tools to optimize effectiveness of department and interactions with internal customers (Production) and other functions (QA, etc..)
· Site lead for utility system management - to include, but not limited to, Natural Gas/Cogen, Electrical, Water, Waste Water Systems, Cooling Systems, Ammonia Refrigeration, Industrial Gasses and Compressed Air.
· Solid understanding of mechanical, electrical, automation troubleshooting.
· Demonstrated skill in promoting innovation initiative and improvement.
· Ability to quickly learn technical aspects.
· Effective problem solving and decision-making skills aligned with the Discuss, Decide, Champion behavioral capability
· Actively identify gaps in site Maintenance/Reliability systems and systematically work to close them
· Utilize Rapid Continuous Improvement (CI, or RCI) as a routine tool - Identify, prioritize and execute projects
· Site knowledge leader on Equipment & Parts specification. Establish site criteria and/or Part/Equipment standards and manage site compliance to these standards.
· Participate as a key member on site HAACP team
· Schedule and Manage all pre-determined Plant shut-downs; Work directly with Supply Chain Lead and Production Manager
· Prepare to support Operations by having capability to back-fill site Production Manager for absences.
· In all duties - exercise independent thought and judgement to make decisions consistent with company culture and philosophy.

Qualifications:

· BS Degree preferably in Mechanical/Electrical/Chemical Engineering or related.

· 10 years+ progressive experience in a Manufacturing environment with at least 5 years directly leading Maintenance/Facility.

· Firm understanding of Plant/Production Maintenance and Facility Operations. Key competencies around mechanical, electrical, Automation and Process Control Systems (will be the site lead for all).
· Knowledge of managing Maintenance/Reliability activities in a Process/Plant based environment.
· Strong knowledge of Process based industries and their unit operations.
· Knowledge of Packaging operations a plus.
· Experience with 24/7 Operations - willingness to adapt and/or have flexible established schedule
· Demonstrated ability to utilize resources to accomplish objectives.
· Working knowledge of industry regulations - local, state, Federal - Environmental, Safety (OSHA), Quality/Food Safety; BRC
· Microsoft Skills - familiarity and ability to utilize common MS Office suite - Excel, Word, PPT
· Familiarity and understanding of site Process Control and HMI Software.
· Critical Thinking - Demonstrated ability to perform troubleshooting, cause finding and taking corrective actions to address system shutdowns in a high-pressure environment.

· Candidates must be authorized to work in the US, now and in the future, without sponsorship.

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[KITlist-Tech] Senior Technical Analyst (BA, PM, Systems), (Silicon Valley, CA)

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OTM is seeking a Sr. Analyst/PM with a strong technical understanding of the eCommerce platform ecosystem particularly Personalization Engines, preferably experience with Content Management Systems. Candidate should possess a blend of business/technical knowledge, drive to make the vision into reality.

Responsibilities:
- Elicit and capture user requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria consistent with Agile Scrum Standards

- Create process, workflow, state and sequence diagrams (illustrating information flow, data requirements and interoperability between systems)

- In-depth Data Analysis and data flow capture on systems integrating into the Personalization Engine

- Collaborate with Design team to understand, give feedback and decompose the mockup designs and map them to the functional user stories.

- Conduct walk throughs and handover of the same with engineering.

- Manage the User Acceptance Test phase ticket analysis

- Work closely across a team of application users, the digital merchandisers on the business team, Engineering team and one or more project managers / Scrum Masters to understand the work that needs to be done

Required Experience:
- Excellent business process analysis skills

- Excellent technical and systems analysis skills

- Outstanding communication skills

- Quickly take complex requirements from a range of stakeholders and distill them into a prioritized list of deliverable stories

- Produce excellent documentation

- Have the confidence to challenge assumptions and direction from business stakeholders when their needs are not technically achievable

- Ability to work successfully with engineering teams to explain requirements, capture demo feedback and ensure engineering is implementing per the requirements and feedback received

- Ability to operate in a complex environment with rapidly changing priorities

Required Skills:
- 8+ years of business / systems analysis experience in enterprise eCommerce Systems

- 3+ years of experience of working with Scrum development

- Excellent written and presentation skills — able to communicate effectively with engineers and business stakeholders

- Good knowledge of Internet-based application development and software development and testing approaches.

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