{"id":21251,"date":"2019-02-14T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/?p=21251"},"modified":"2019-02-14T05:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:00:46","slug":"amelia-kram-mchenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/amelia-kram-mchenry\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelia Kram McHenry &#8211; From Informal BA to BA Lead making $90K\/year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Amelia joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/business-analyst-blueprint\/\">The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae<\/a> in January 2018,\u00a0 she had the &#8216;business analyst&#8217; job title but not the responsibilities.\u00a0She even had to volunteer outside her actual work just to complete the program\u00a0and be able to apply all the business analysis techniques you learn in The Blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a year later, Amelia started a senior BA lead role, making $90,000\/year. I&#8217;m going to be reconnecting with Amelia soon, to get all the juicy details on her story so you know exactly how to recreate her success in your own career. In the meantime, I wanted to share the highlights she&#8217;s shared with me.<\/p>\n<h2>Still In The Blueprint, and Already Into a More Formal BA Position<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short case study interview with Amelia last year \u2013 when she was just going through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/business-analyst-blueprint\/\">The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae<\/a>. Already, she catapulted her engagement in the program into a new business analyst position with more formal BA responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NTq3DvFBGTY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/business-analyst-blueprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23675 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1660\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner.jpg 1660w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-1024x204.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-768x153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-1536x305.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Celebrating Her Next Job Offer, as a Senior BA Lead<\/h2>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what she shared on February 6, 2019, in our online community for The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae \u2013 celebrating her new $90K salary in\u00a0Brentwood, Tennessee, and moving into business analyst\u00a0<em>lead<\/em> role. This move represented a $20K salary bump in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21259 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Amelia-Testimonial-FUll.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Amelia-Testimonial-FUll.png 505w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Amelia-Testimonial-FUll-165x300.png 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you evaluate the investment you make in your own professional development over the return you could potentially receive for the rest of your career, you can easily see how <strong>the investment could multiply itself many times over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s possible for you when you up-level? Join us for the next session of The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae certification program and find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/business-analyst-blueprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23675 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1660\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner.jpg 1660w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-1024x204.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-768x153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Blueprint-ACBA-banner-1536x305.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>About The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When you join\u00a0<strong>The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae certification program<\/strong>, you\u2019ll learn all 12 of the industry-standard techniques and the business analysis process framework \u2013 to build your confidence in the best practices of business analysis.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll create validated work samples and be a credentialed business analyst as a recipient of the\u00a0<strong>Applied Certification in Business Analysis\u2122 (ACBA)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/business-analyst-blueprint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for more information about The Blueprint<\/a>\u00a0&lt;&lt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Amelia joined The Business Analyst Blueprint\u00ae in January 2018,\u00a0 she had the &#8216;business analyst&#8217; job title but not the responsibilities.\u00a0She even had to volunteer outside her actual work just to complete the program\u00a0and be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridging-the-gap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}