SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience as a consultant working as a Product Owner/ Sr. Business Consultant/Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager with solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC). My skill set emphasizes identifying the project goal and objectives, establishing the cross - functional team collaboration, coordinating stakeholder consensus, and maintaining the stakeholder engagement efforts while creating solutions. As a Product Owner / Sr Business Analyst my skills set include leadership, communication, collaboration and conflict-resolving skills, ability to see things from the customer point of view, strategic ability.
• Certified SAFe Product Owner/ Product Manager (POPM)
• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Multiple years of Sr Business Analyst, Product Management, Product Owner and System Analyst in an agile and waterfall software product development environment.
• Strong experience in SAFe and Scrum framework processes and workflow
• Technical Writing: Decompose features into meaningful User Stories, Strong requirements management skills, User Manuals, Business Processes, and proven writing skills including the ability to write concisely and clearly for different audiences.
• Collaborate with Agile teams and business owners to write user stories and requirements that include acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.
• Reviews and prioritizes the backlog for Iteration (Sprint) Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other PO's and PM’s.
• Collaborates with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the technical infrastructures.
• Collaborating with various team for Risk identification/Mitigation activities.
• Primary resource to Technical (Dev) team and Customer team for user story details.
• Leads and maintains efficient flow of user story refinement activities throughout team execution.
• Participates in team demo with primary responsibility of reviewing and accepting completed user stories. As a PO responsible for accepting the iteration as done. This includes validation that stories meet the acceptance criteria and team’s Definition of Done (DoD).
• Participates in Iteration Retrospective, where teams gather to improve their processes. Also actively supports the Agile Release Train’s (ART’s) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.
• Played an instrumental role in producing the PI System demo for program partners.
• Actively participating in Sprint Ceremonies
• Coordinates user story, functional, and technical details with other Product Owners throughout each iteration and Program Increment on a weekly basis during PO/ART sync meetings.
• Maintain a balance between business viability, user desirability and technical feasibility while delivering software products with vendor teams.
• Work hands-on with the development team to prioritize, plan, and deliver software that meets client requirements using Jira.
• Help Product Manager to create and maintain the Vision and Roadmap by understanding the market needs/trends and other business solution focused requirements.
• Help Business Partners understand our iterative development approach and focus on delivering a Minimum Viable Product through careful and deliberate prioritization.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others and navigate complex decision making.
• Ability to collaborate well with engineers, designers, and business partners.
• Understanding of Agile DevOps principles
• Actively participates in Product Owner/Manager Community of Practice (COP)
• Agile Project Management: Experience with Agile backlog/project management tools. User Experience: Experience with successive elaboration and ability to develop Initiatives, Features and User Stories that the DevOps teams can ingest
• Proven track record to connect with Leadership effectively and efficiently, technical, and non-technical stakeholders while employing a high degree of collaboration and influence.
• Strong business analytical skills with the capability of identifying, analyzing, synthesizing product use data.
• Strong presentation skills that help manage communication and maintain the transparency throughout the project life cycle between higher management, technical team, business owners and other stakeholder.
• Product Management, Project Management, Vendor Management, Skilled SDLC experience
• Strong QA Conducting/Leading Experience
• Strong analytical skill using tools such as SQL, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Through collaboration across agencies and programs, NJ - EASEL will produce results that enable New Jersey to make informed decisions about programs and policies that promote and enrich initiatives providing positive outcomes for young children. The goal of this project is to integrate early childhood data related to child, family, classroom, program, and workforce characteristics in order to answer critical questions about early care and programs and services

Sr. Business Analyst /Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Medical Cost Reduction (MCR) team and involved in their initiatives to reduced Medical Spend and improve recovery which includes Prepayment claim audit and Preadmission testing audit. Worked on a various operation initiative to streamline the business processes for a specific type of claim issue such as requesting medical record from facilities after the claim audits, Contract reviews on overpaid claims, etc.

Sr Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing business requirement document and functional evaluations for Digital Asset management tools within Pfizer digital operations. Managed requirement gathering and Analysis for developing SharePoint portal for AMT group. The SharePoint portal requirements included upload, edit, Search and version control functionalities. Created detailed comparison documents which describes the business need and features of the considered DAM products facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables Defined project tasks and resource requirements. Managed project budget throughout the project life cycle.

Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the various projects that includes P60: Provider look up, CAT enhancement, Newborn logic, PEC comparisons (GHI/HIP), MER saving projects includes Behavioral health claims issue. The most importantly involved in creating forensic methodology to complete the Recoupment and run rate efforts across the organization. Single handedly,completed extraordinarily detailed analysis efforts including the comparison of PEC GHI/HIPprocesses with exceptional results yielding documentation which has been used by several other groups within EH. Relentlessly lead the project for creating Newborn claim processing logic regardless of immense obstacles and policy changes yielding the most detailed and thought - out Newborn policy with new letters approved by Corporate Compliance. Successfully lead an extremely arduous task of getting PEC and Newborn document formats approved through stakeholders, Legal, Corporate compliance.