Alston Feggins
Bioengineering Graduate | IT Business Architect
4 yrs experience · Washington, DC · <10 hrs/week
About
With a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology, I have gained a strong foundation in the field. My professional experience includes roles such as IT Senior Business Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton, where I managed application requirements and led elaboration sessions. I also served as a Business Development Consultant at the same company, overseeing strategy, enterprise architecture, and agile transformation. Additionally, I worked as a Scrum Master for IBM, where I learned agile methodology and design thinking basics. My research and testing experience includes roles as a Research Assistant and Mechanical Testing Assistant at Florida Institute of Technology. These positions involved tasks such as measuring fiber diameter, conducting mechanical testing, and analyzing data. My diverse background has equipped me with a range of skills in bioengineering, business architecture, and project management.
Experience
- IT Senior Business Architect · Booz Allen Hamilton07-01-2021
Application Development - RRPLC - As a Business Architect, I manage all the applications requirements for a 20 person development team. - Lead the elaboration sessions with internal development and client solution delivery teams Enterprise Standards Management (ESM) As Deputy Project Manager, assisting the project lead in managing the data analytics team and federal support in knowledge sharing sessions across the enterprise to provide CIOs with product recommendations for standards and a listing on non-standard products for removal. Develop CIO, ACIO, and senior management briefings on the initiative to reduce the Enterprise Standards Portfolio by 10-15%, (~2800 products). Modernization Integration (MI) As deputy project manager assist the project manager in managing all the technical and functional capabilities for Modernization Integration related activities. Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) contract by meeting with leads to discuss Modernization Integration Team practices and ideas that can be leveraged to enhance relationships between our own EA teams as well as in Core EA.
- Business Development Consultant · Booz Allen Hamilton06-01-2019 – 07-01-2021
Strategy Enterprise Architecture Project Lead & Business Analyst Front Door Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Requirement gathering and backlog management - Manage client relations and interactions -manage a small team and a set of deliverables - provide technical support to the front door training - Agile transformation to increase productivity and deliver a working product. Next Generation Financials: Data Validation Data Analyst Organize and clean the data to verify the appropriate sources before conducting Excel analysis (VLOOKUPS). Conduct data testing to investigate relationships of data to solve discrepancies found in the Power BI reports.
- Scrum Master for IBM Architect · IBM05-01-2018 – 08-01-2018
Assisted in designing a Design Thinking Bootcamp. Maintain team progress by using Trello, Slack, and Zoom for individual and group project updates. Learned agile methodology and design thinking basics through virtual learning and direct mentorship from IBM Architect. Created a set of personas and empathy maps using Mural. Created traveling application using Alexa coded in NodeJS and Javascript.
- Research Assistant · Florida Institute of Technology08-01-2017 – 04-01-2018
Assist a graduate student in carbon monoxide releasing molecules on electrospun polyethylene fibers. Measured fiber diameter and angular standard deviation on Scanning electron microscope images using Image Pro software.
- Mechanical Testing Assistant · Florida Institute of Technology08-01-2017 – 12-01-2017
Conducted mechanical testing on low-density polyethylene and synthetic skin samples using the Instron or medical devices Analyzed the rate of failure, load applied, and extension on samples tested Used collected data to graphically using MS Excel to display the results of the mechanical testing
Education
- Florida Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
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