CAREER PROFILE:

A Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics and certified scrum professional candidate with 8 years of prior SDLC experience as a Product Owner, Scrum Master and Business Analyst in the Retail, Finance and Health care domain; possesses strong communication & analytical skills; gives deep attention to detail and has a proven ability to multitask without compromising on quality.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Strong knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• In depth knowledge in data analytics across multiple domains.
• Hands on experience in business process automations.
• Experience in research on mathematical, econometric and statistical models to understand and derive insights from data.
• Well versed in data manipulation using complex SQL statements.
• Experienced in working with Onshore - Offshore communication model.
• Expertise in Data modeling techniques like Dimensional Data modeling, Star Schema modeling, Snowflake modeling, and FACT and Dimensions tables.
• Extensive hands on experience on developing and performance tuning Informatica Mapping, identifying and removing performance bottlenecks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, MS-DOS, Unix

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Teradata

Interfaces: Oracle, MS SQL Server, SAP BW, SAP ECC, SalesForce, Microsoft Access

Statistical Software and Packages: R Programming, SPSS, STATA, SAS

Tools: & Utilities: Jira, Confluence, Informatica (development, testing and support), Business Objects, Putty/WinSCP, Data Studio, HP Quality Center, Control - M, Teradata

Data Warehousing: Reporting and Data Analysis

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Technical Product Owner

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

Responsibilities:

• Built the product roadmap and wrote high level features and epic for the Pricing scrum teams pf Confidential .
• Bridged the gap between the business/product managers and the development teams by channeling the technical vision of the product to the scrum teams.

Product Owner

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Create stories for features assigned by the Feature Owner.
• Created the Roadmap and Release Plan.
• Created Acceptance criteria for testing team for successful testing of development changes.
• Responsible for the backlog grooming.
• Review all the Jira Reports for a better understanding of the sprint progress and the Velocity of work.
• Documented workflows and wireframes used to support UI/UX design and development.
• Led bi-weekly Scrum planning meetings to develop team strategies and define sprint goals.
• Conducted gap analysis to build technical solutions and manage stakeholders’ expectations.

Product Owner

Confidential, Cary, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Identified, evaluated and delivered disruptive and innovative solutions for Confidential .
• Used my software development skills while working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Analyzed large sets of consumer data to better understand user patterns, develop better products, and anticipate user requests.
• Conducted user research, and managed onboarding development strategies to better identify areas of customer growth and product use cases.
• Helped develop and maintain sprint plan and infrastructure related product road map by prioritizing tasks and balancing engineering workload among onshore and offshore teams.
• Maintained the entire requirements tractability matrix to successfully track all business requirements, functional requirements, technical requirements and test cases.

Confidential

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded a team of over 15 software engineers at offshore and onshore to drive the R&D and requirements backlog.
• Wrote user stories and was the gatekeeper for the product backlog.
• Managed a distributed team of engineers, data scientists, and designers to develop core data analytic products and features.
• Collaborated with designers and UX engineers to ensure that each feature’s UI/UX design translated to accessible user interfaces that promoted intuitive user interaction; utilized A/B testing and user feedback to make sure users could interact with the features we designed in the way we envisioned them.
• Managed the system transition from the project implementation to the operations support.
• Re-modelled the sales analytics data mart to handle changed product management by front end SAP system and increased complexities in reporting requirements.
• Led bi-weekly Scrum planning meetings to develop team strategies and define sprint goals.
• Recommended process and systems improvements such as identifying the rights metrics/portal/portlets for the PPM Dashboard to present effectively the health of Services & Investments.
• Monitored timelines and flagged potential issues to be addressed.
• Create Capacity planning for PI planning in SAFe Agile methodology.
• Maintained the Kanban and Scrum boards.
• Presented stories in SAFe PI Planning for POC (Proof of Concept) of the migration of systems from older version to new secured version.
• Created a better understanding for the team about the SAFe Methodology and how it makes a difference at enterprise level.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple teams for the data migration to Salesforce for Confidential .
• Facilitated all Scrum Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Daily Scrums.
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Communicated the Weekly status reports, Burndown charts and other metrics to the senior management.
• Maintained the Kanban and Scrum boards.
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Identified and removed potential issues and roadblocks to ensure high performance from teams.

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted detailed analysis and modelling of market data across all asset classes (Sales Performance analysis, Trend analysis, Property Index formulation etc).
• Developed a sales satisfaction model to identify the key drivers of sales in the residential sector.
• Developed and maintained informative reporting tools to assist strategic decision making across the broader organization.
• Automated the reporting processes, data extraction and model update processes (R, SQL, MS EXCEL).
• Performed predictive analysis to forecast the direction and strength of financial markets (using R).
• Built Time Series models (ARIMA, VAR, and GARCH) to forecast asset prices.
• Sourcing, extracting, updating and maintaining data sources and systems used by the broader Research team to conduct analysis.
• Ensure all relevant data and information systems are properly maintained and utilized.

Business Intelligence Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a major BI deliverable with stringent timelines.
• Worked in system operations after implementation to stabilize the system, monitor the performance, liaison with support teams to deliver KPIs as committed to the client.
• Implemented data warehousing methodologies for extraction, transformation, and loading using Informatica designer, repository manager, workflow manager, workflow monitor.
• Extensively worked on ETL Informatica Transformations effectively including -Joiner, Aggregator, Lookup, Filter, Router, Normalizer, Update Strategy, Stored Procedure, Sorter and created complex mappings.
• Gained experience in production support and change management.