Seth Skocelas

About

Ever since I was young, I knew I had a passion for computers. Whether it was taking them apart or downloading new software to tinker with them, I was always looking for the opportunity to learn more about how they operate and how we can use them to improve our lives.

That passion lead me to pursue a degree in Computer Engineering. I wanted the opportunity to learn developing software, but learn practical skills involving hardware as well. When it came time to pursue internships, I originally sought after software developer opportunities. However, after a few discussions with recruiters, I was extended the chance to be a Business Analyst intern, which sent me on the career path I'm on today.

I am a Business Systems Analyst: I sit with the people who do the work, find out what the process actually is today, and map out the flow, the exceptions, the data behind each step until there is something a developer, a tester and a business owner can all agree on. Then I stay with it through the build: user stories, user acceptance testing, the change requests that let a release go out, and support afterwards when production tells us something is off.

Being able to read and write code has been extremely helpful in my work. I can open a SQL stored procedure or an existing .NET application myself, so what I document is what the system really does rather than what the request assumed.

Most of the work has been in auto finance and cash logistics — the systems a bank or a servicing team runs on every day. I have worked with internal stakeholders, banking clients and third-party contractors, and the standard is the same in either direction: delivered, accurate and on time.

In my free time, I've enjoyed working on iOS software development as a hobby; some of my projects are shown below. More recently, I've been fine-tuning my local LLM setup to further expand the type of projects I can work on.

Experience

May 2022 – Present · Coppell, Texas

Information Systems Analyst · Brink’s Inc

Requirements and reporting for more than ten banking clients: the daily cash-flow and inventory extract files they report from, and the data discrepancies they raise. Liaison between those stakeholders and the development teams, with Oracle SQL for root cause, and user acceptance testing of the extract files through a middleware migration from BizTalk to MuleSoft.
Dec 2019 – Jan 2022 · Dallas, Texas

Application Developer · Santander Consumer USA

Back-end and stored-procedure work on the main servicing WinForms application and an internal .NET MVC web application, delivered inside monthly iterations, plus release support and production support for servicing applications — including Control-M file errors on an on-call rotation.
May 2015 – Dec 2019 · Dallas, Texas

Business Systems Analyst · Santander Consumer USA

Researched letter mailing and imaging issues with SQL, worked with third-party mailing companies on new letter templates and file transfers, and wrote the weekly change requests that let each change be approved and deployed. Gathered the requirements and wrote more than 50 agile user stories for a new internal .NET MVC data-entry and management system, then supported its releases through testing and demos to IT management.

Core competencies

Requirements analysis and gathering · Process mapping and documentation · Agile user stories · UAT · Change requests and release support · Production and integration support · Oracle SQL · MS SQL Server · ServiceNow · Control-M · TFS · Git · Microsoft Excel · C# · ASP.NET MVC · WinForms · JavaScript · HTML · Swift