Dear Hiring Manager, Recruiter, or Curious Individual Looking To Work Together In The Future,
I write today with over nineteen years of real work-taxed employment experience, not counting anything personal or family-owned businesses. Within that nineteen years, I have now completed ten years as a business analyst in the non-traditional agile sense, being that I was able to more than a traditional legacy financial analyst, where I have been able to leverage a background of over seven as a focused full-time developer in the subject information technology-related fields. I am familiar with the agile culture, and I have worked in both large enterprise-level to small corporate companies that awe me in their scale of development projects. All the way back when there wasn't any tablets in high school, starting with the basics. Sales the focus of my rookie years.
I remember learning about sales in my school computer class as a teenager, where I was exposed to a software program that taught me how to be the ice-cream man on my own time when I was bored. I love ice-cream, I think everyone loves ice-cream even if they say "no, not today for *some reason*". So, after learning what I needed, I knew enough to get a job in downtown Mount Prospect, IL at the public ice cream shop. I remember learning more real world training outside of high school and later getting the ability to enter into an eggnog sales contest. The reward was money, so I won first place. My biggest advantage for winning? I put in the effort to learn how to write every sale into the POS computer register correctly instead of just on paper as required by the store. By doing this, the people at corporate was able to verify the sales with the data, and see my results to be true. My first technological advancement, with less accounting work than what I had to do on paper to earn the same value. In the end, the cash reward was not the only thing I earned, I also earned the knowledge of working a point of sale. Learning the advantage of combining technology with traditional sales to achieve a cash goal. This excitement and positive reinforcement lead me to prove to people at home depot even as a young guy that I am smart enough to use the computer in the back of the millwork department to make custom design orders. I showed that I have the personality, and technical abilities of helping the next people waiting on what products, sizes, install, and delivery to improve their home front door, windows, kitchen, blinds, trims. Fast forward to being trusted in the store vault with the money and setting up the morning registers and POS start of day procedures. Where I gained enough product knowledge where I was able to prove I was smart enough to work for a hotel, and later the garage door company that I was selling at home depot. These first two rookie years, built the foundation of service, and focus as I was getting series with my studies of technology and business programs. That have me as a consultant with manufacturing, restaurant, delivery, finance, banking, fintech and new stuff I have not done yet.
The last 10-years as a business analyst, highlighted throughout the front of my resume page. I earn to understand best business practices and to learn new technologies, in order to succeed with the continuously changing and fast pace environment of today. With subjects such as A.I., and XR/VR as the cutting edge of development. I am thankful for past mentors for teaching me how to translate business requirements details to smart Developers and QA testers. Learning from an extensive range of cultural backgrounds attempting to compete in story point results working towards the same feature goals, and work together with them to achieve the overall epic in scope. Every week I focus on making small differences in someone's software, machines, data and queries, A.I. website training, and helping scrum masters on the list of stories they need to take on in the next sprint, and what a rough estimate of those timelines can be before they get refined further with developers.
When it comes down to it, there is a purpose to make the code work the way it does today, and there is a reason to change it within the backlog. There is a solution, but the team in scope is not able to take on the expense right now. The next steps to make code safer, and better at accesses and performing requests over the user’s raw data in any database. I enjoy the feeling of looking at the display on a user interface and saying that I listen to the users and product owners with their current problems and then worked with Devs, Q.A., and Ops with my efforts to make a difference on the screen. By asking the right questions, it is possible to build small working prototypes quickly within Jira, InVision, Adobe, C# .Net, Postmates, Ready API automation, and other system tools to deliver a project that becomes final products that meet owner requirements. Remotely, I am able to do all my work from my desk, and I am flexible with my available times to communicate with a global team.
I believe in the good of humanity, and to better one's self in order to make a positive impact on society. From many different roles that are required to successfully run the backend of a business, I have been able to be the business analyst, and perform a series of jobs outside of the traditional analyst role by incorporating an agile manifesto that works in matrix with the traditional waterfall accounting tax requirements. I enjoy the opportunity to listen, learn, and write what I hear and see a list of epics being requested, and answered in a way that captures the volume of work that allows the creation of user stories to build the latest helpful features, and be ready for the next round of UAT. There is an art after a while of searching and always learning and updating the requirements of the latest assignment from smart directors and company vice presidents, and even sole owners on any project that trust to let me in and help them.
I have a self-driven personality with the experience to not be overwhelmed to learn the syntax of code in an IDE, run queries, perform quality assurance tests, or configure server DNS settings in addition to working with the business to achieve their milestones. It is this reason I do always consider myself a developer at heart, and I find more joy working with other engineers and solving niche complex problems, and build value. There is a lot of work and pressure for a business analyst when capturing epics, user stories, bugs, and working with scrum masters to plan sprints, line up kanban boards, or adapt to what each small dev team follows.
After active working hours, and free from committed tasks for the day, I enjoy researching and tinkering with things I do not understand. I like learning about different markets and e-commerce on the internet, and amazed by the volumes of opportunities across the internet. I love there is always different ways to buy or sell anything online across the world the best practices that work today with different platforms. I have degrees in computer information systems, business administration, and philosophy but am still open to learning and growing in order to better myself and others through MBA studies in the past. I challenge myself to pick a virtual Ph D. program and principle to start pursuing by fall of 2030 to become a subject matter expert in a new highly valuable but difficult subject by the end of Spring 2040 to publish something scientific.
I am looking to solve and assist in creating business solutions to improve production apps with Q.A, Automation deployment, API automation, load test development, performance monitor development, publisher subscription message bus configuration (Rabbit MQ), Security, and F5 load balancing, application security management (ASM), operations, online marketing, information technologies, software development, data management, and report building, disaster recovery planning, new product development, and the list goes on to really capture all of the data types I've been able to be part of across the full stack. You can learn more about me throughout my website (www.JohnEliopoulos.com). Where I can give you a demonstration and explanation of past projects where my skill sets helped, and then I learn about what your project and daily needs are, and discover where my skill set will help the team with their requirements and build new re-occurring revenue in a long working relationship starting from this introduction.
Respectfully,
John Eliopoulos
January 26th, 2026