By: Janie Hudson
Janie Hudson
MIDAS Business Process Analyst
For the past year, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the MIDAS jobs to be posted. When the positions were finally announced, I began to assess the role of a business process analyst against my qualifications. I served as the Idaho change agent for the past year, had 22 years experience as a program technician, and served six years as a county executive director (CED).
After doing some research, I found that a business process analyst is defined as someone who “analyzes the existing or ideal organization and design of systems, including businesses, departments and organizations.” I thought about this definition in terms of my career at FSA to see if my skills and abilities fit the description. I was very familiar with the “business” itself, FSA, and confident in my knowledge of the farm programs and farming/ranching operations in general. The “analyst” term made me think a bit harder about my past roles and what I could bring to this one. I read further about business analysts bringing structure and formulization of requirements to a process and realized that I did have the necessary skills to be an analyst.
I found that I analyze various situations at both work and home. As a coach for 15 years, every time a new season rolled around and a fresh group of girls hit the gym, I analyzed each of their strengths to build upon; their weaknesses to alleviate them; and with strong communications skills, formulized and structured my team. I can use these skills along with the skills I’ve gathered over my career at FSA to succeed in the business process analyst role. In my MIDAS role, I can take suggestions from the change agents to build on the good points of our programs and to improve the development areas to come up with an end product that will serve FSA for many years to come. I am honored and excited to be a part of this team and can’t wait to see what the next two years bring this change agent turned business process analyst.
