SUMMARY:

Highly capable Agile Product Owner seeking to leverage 5+ years of experience in Product Ownership across various financial domains (Investments, Wealth Management, Retails banking, credit card/consumer financing). Delivered 12 Cloud infrastructure environments across 3 platforms. Delivered 2 software/data migration products for fortune 500 financial clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Proficient in tools such as: Jira, Rally, Confluents, TFS, Versions 1, Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, teams), ServiceNow etc

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Product Owner/DevOps Coach

Responsibilities:

• Creating and defining new product specifications and drive go - to-market strategy.
• Engaging with Key customers; providing product/solution overviews, rationalized architectures, influence the opportunities and aid product decisions.
• Evangelizing technical capabilities of product and solutions to customers, sales reps and system engineers.
• Developing internal and external facing documents including business case, program concept/execution and technical focus documents such as product and solution-level presentations.
• Reviewing products specifications and plans with engineering, operations and select stakeholders to ensure scope/accuracy for target release.
• Pro-actively providing training to Marketing, Sales teams and C-level audience to help communicate the product, solution, differentiation, value proposition and go-to-market details in-depth.
• Providing long-term product vision with clear and detailed plan to achieving revenue goals.
• Engaging with select customers to understand market changes that affects our products.
• Maintaining the Product backlog using input form Stake holders.
• Communicating and grooming product backlog requirements with the development team.
• Building/maintaining the product roadmap and adjusting as warranted by the business.
• Facilitating standard scrum and other ad hoc ceremonies as required both within the scrum team and with stakeholders/management.
• Monitoring the sprint for impediments and coordinating towards their resolution.
• Monitoring the burndown chart and other scrum metrics to understand the team’s progress toward sprint goals.
• Shielding the team from external interventions and distractions; keeping them focused on the sprint goal.
• Working with the system architect to eliminate or minimize technical debts.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Product Owner/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
• Articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams.
• Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams.
• Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
• Applied Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management process.
• Engaged with engineering, data science, and operations teams to ensure alignment on key business objectives, direction, and vision of the product.
• Conducted customer research to support the program vision, roadmap and content presentations
• Managed expectations in order to create a backlog with items that will likely get realized and excluding waste.
• Analyzed the feasibility of new business functionalities.
• Built and maintained product roadmaps.
• Coordinated with other Product Owners to Build a unified backlog to avoid duplication of work.
• Tracked progress towards releases and other business objectives.
• Communicated progress of sprint, releases and other milestones to products and stakeholders.
• Facilitated the various sprint ceremonies to ensure focus is maintained and time is used efficiently (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective).
• Coached the team towards self-organization and developing best practices for consistent delivery.
• Protected the team from distractions and unplanned work.
• Monitored team metrics for continuous improvement and adaption.
• Tracked and led the delivery team and product owner towards managing dependencies.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported business partners in executing key strategic projects.
• Created, drove, and maintained end to end project plans.
• Leveraged End to End project team to report detailed status.
• Identified and escalated project risks and issues.
• Ensured necessary business partners are engaged as needed.
• Assisted with developing and maintaining project management best practices.
• Ensured organization is leveraging project management best practices.
• Maintained knowledge of project management and change management best practices
• Facilitated Cross team collaboration.
• Drove projects across all lifecycle gates to ensure successful launch and adoption.
• Ensured all Project deliverables and dependencies are met.
• Prepared project milestone reports showcasing status of project progress.
• Identify project roadblocks and elicit mitigation plans to resolve them.

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Defined product vision based on stakeholder and customer input.
• Created and maintained the solution roadmap and backlog of work through the product's life cycle.
• Drove product development with a team of engineers and designers
• Collaborate cross with other areas of business, including tech, product, design & marketing.
• Manage the relationship with key vendors, customers and management/stakeholders.
• Defined, monitored and analyzed key metrics for launched products/features and fed learnings back into our product development and learning process.
• Defined and conveyed the vision to the team to ensure a successful product based on business value
• Developed detailed product requirements that defined the user capabilities, specifications, data/analytics and additional details that show how the user stories are to be satisfied.
• Groomed and prioritized the product backlog based on business value.
• Partnered with Development team to ensure alignment and realization of business requirements during the development process.
• Elicited product requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, business process descriptions, user stories, and scenarios.
• Managed deadlines and expectations with key stakeholders respective to defined goals.

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with product owner towards managing and prioritizing the backlog.
• Worked with the product owner is refining the backlog prior to meeting with the development team.
• Facilitated continuous improvement sessions towards maintaining healthy agile practices within the organization.
• Facilitated various scrum ceremonies to ensure feedback is maximized.
• Sought for and resolved impediments to help the team achieve their goals.
• Facilitated team development, resolved conflicts and encourage healthy team dynamics.
• Ensured core agile principles such as transparency, self-accountability, and self-organization are maintained with the team.
• Identified the maturity level of the scrum and team and developed a road towards realistic targets.
• Acted as servant leader for the scrum team to help them achieve their maximum potential.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirements discussions with business units, ensuring all business requirement were satisfactorily met.
• Interfaced with internal clients and technical vendors on new high-level features and conducted a thorough analysis of the system features to assist project team.
• Gathered user requirements by meeting with business users and generated business models and use case analysis.
• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Worked with the developers closely to magnify success scenarios of Primary and Alternate flows.
• Liaise with management and business stakeholders to understand, document, and certify business requirements and translating end-user requirements into user stories.

Confidential

Staff Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Performed daily bank reconciliation.
• Processed multiple account payable invoices.
• Prepared payments by accruing expenses, assigning account numbers, and requesting disbursement.
• Prepaid general ledger entries by maintaining records and files; reconciling accounts.
• Assisted in month end closing process.
• Prepared weekly snap shots of the company’s financial standing.