PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of experience working as a Technical Product Owner, Project Manager, Scrum Master, and Lead Mobile Software Developer with clients across industries - IT services, consulting, banking, media, manufacturing, real estate, financial services, marine industry, and healthcare
• Results-oriented professional with a passion for combining technology and business objectives to solve real-world problems
• Experienced in partnering with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process and ensure the product team understands the direction and vision
• Ability to maintain product backlogs, and worked with stakeholders (in person, on the phone, or virtually) to make strategic recommendations and plan product roadmaps
• Practical experience working with different technologies including C, C++, Objective C, Swift, MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Python, Azure cloud services, AWS, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning
• Experienced with different software development methodologies like Waterfall and Agile in a geographically distributed team environment Confidential an Enterprise level
• Expert working in the Agile (SCRUM) environment including backlog identification, refinement, creating user stories with acceptance criteria, testing, use case, process flow, and working with the team on sprint planning, running sprints, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospective
• High ability to perform data analysis, apply machine learning techniques and translate data into meaningful insights
• In-depth knowledge of Objective-C, Swift, XML, Web Services, and JSON
• Proficient is providing Web Services, Database Management, Location Services, Audio, Video, Graphics, and Animation capabilities in mobile and Apple TV applications
• Thorough understanding of COCOA design patterns, MVC architecture, and other concepts such as Delegates and Protocols
• Strong communication and technical skills with the ability to quickly grasp technical concepts and learn new software solutions, business processes, and design techniques
• Experienced in facilitating interviews, workshops, and requirement elicitation sessions with end-users, clients, stakeholders, and development teams
• Experienced in Business Analysis, Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis, Disaster Recovery Planning, Testing, and Project Planning
• Experienced in UX Design, translating concept design to user interface for mobile and Apple TV applications
• Expertise in using Design patterns and object oriented methodologies to design software for mobile phones
• Experienced with Apple Approval Distribution Process, AdHoc Enterprise distribution, parsing of SOAP, XML, and JSON files, and Usability Testing
• Worked on Core Data ability to write and troubleshoot SQLite Code and design managed Object context in objective C

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Mobile App Development
• Product Management
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Agile Product Development
• Business Analysis
• Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality
• Troubleshooting and Defect Resolutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical / Tool / Area Operating Systems: macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, Windows 10, 8, 7, Windows Server, and Linux

Office Suites & Other: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Paint Project / Test / Document Management MS Project, JIRA, MS SharePoint, Google Docs

Data Analytics / Cloud Services: SQL Workbench, Tableau, Power BI, Azure, AWS

Programming Tools and Frameworks: XCode, TestFlight, CocoaPods, Cocos2d, Stackoverflow, Github, iOS GameKit, iOS and tvOS Simluators

Programming Languages: Objective C, Swift, SQL, Python, R, C, C++, Java, C#

Database: Core Data (iOS), MySQL, RDBMS

Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality: Vuforia, ARKit, Unity, Unreal Engine

Methodologies: Agile SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall, Process Improvement, Change Management, Release management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Product Owner

Confidential, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Conducted product market research to expand and partner with Confidential &T for its IOT offerings across various industries such as Healthcare, IT, Finance, Retail, Manufacturing, and Construction by creating a filtration metric system
• Suggested what IOT product(s) Confidential &T should design based on thorough competitor analysis and SWOT analysis
• Strategized the growth trajectory, creating product and project strategy
• Identified technology trends in IOT space and implement features such as expandable UI
• Validated pricing strategy based on both cost and value derived by its offering’s product end-customers
• Created Product Roadmap by working with the Lead Product Owner and other relevant stakeholders
• Managed Scope to launch the application according to schedule by creating a detailed project plan
• Gathered requirements from business owner, stakeholders and wrote user stories, epics in collaboration with the development team, breaking stories into executable and estimable task
• Led the Backlog grooming sessions in collaboration with dev teams for story splicing and break down EPIC into executable user stories, reducing complexity, and size
• Participated in Daily Stand-Ups to understand the progress/ impediments for assessing the possible risk
• Prioritized stories based on MoSCoW and Kano model and created a customized Decision making matrix taking, business value, technical issues, release planning and financial aspect into account
• Led the ideation, design, development, and deployment of new user experience and user interface specifications
• Worked with the Scrum Development team to come up with Acceptance Criteria for the Product Backlog Items
• Constantly kept stakeholders involved with timely and relevant updates through the entire lifecycle
• Partnered with design and development teams to articulate product needs, refine as needed, and drive efficient and effective progress

Environment: Agile Methodology, Scrum framework, JIRA, SQL, SQL Workbench Microsoft Azure, Python, Tableau, MS Office, MS Projects, MS SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Windows 10, MacOS

Technical Product Owner

Confidential, Champaign, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Strategically managed execution of 6 products and defined business targets and KPIs, analyzing Brunswick’s competitive position, product impact, and customer challenges and creating product plans, feature priorities, and overall product strategy
• Developed strategic roadmaps and metrics to address company capabilities, gaps, and priorities to achieve its strategic vision
• Led cross-functional teams in agile development, defined go-to market strategy, and created product roadmap to successfully launch Project KEEL, a boat rental iOS application, leveraging VR technology to enhance safety training for boat riders by 40%
• Partnered with business owners and other stakeholders to identify customer needs and pain points and championed solutions that improved product value
• Owned backlog and drove user story refinement activities ensuring backlog is 'ready' for the development team by creating and reviewing user stories with their acceptance criteria, use cases, business rules, and mock-ups
• Collaborated with other Product Owners, development teams, marketing and sales teams, and other stakeholders to ensure proper sequencing of backlog items based on product priorities, technical implications, and dependencies
• Developed a deep understanding of customer experience and user insights to ensure continuous improvements and contributed to user personas, product Strategy and roadmap
• Communicated and prioritized production defects escalated by product support teams and ensured user feedback is integrated into the backlog, and defects are resolved.
• Applied Data Analytics, BI, and ML techniques to analyze data using complex SQL queries, R and Python ML libraries
• Translated data into visualizations and Tableau based interactive dashboards, and present meaningful business insights to senior management
• Performed cohort analysis that identified an opportunity to reduce pricing by 25% for a segment of users boosting yearly revenue by $220,000
• Designed and implemented A/B experiments for our product to improve the conversion rate by 15 basis points and reduce the churn rate by 9 basis points
• Provided inputs to the Scrum Master and the program management team on resource negotiation, workload management, and schedule setup
• Reviewed strategies required to accept quality work in terms of test plans, test case, functional, regression, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Facilitated sprint review meetings, worked with developers in coming up with features and product prototypes
• Validated that Jira stories meet acceptance criteria and meet the team's Definition of Done (DoD)
• Identified opportunities for improvement, developed a plan for implementing improvements and monitored the new process to ensure it works as intended

Environment: Agile Methodology, Scrum framework, JIRA, GitHub, SQL, Microsoft Azure, XCode, Objective C, Swift, Python, Tableau, AWS Cloud Services, MS Office, MS Projects, MS SharePoint, Windows 10, iOS, Android, MacOS

Technical Product Owner

Confidential, New Delhi, India

Responsibilities:

• Drove cross-functional product development, formulating end-to-end solutions and handling scrum meetings, and signed-up new clients and worked with key stakeholders, building effective relationships and expanding company’s revenue by 43%
• Collaborated with marketing team to plan and execute the market strategy, including pricing, promotion, product, and place
• Utilize Azure Cloud services such as computer (Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Functions), storage (Azure File Storage), mobile (Azure Database for SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics), and AI (Azure Machine Learning Service)
• Led the development of a new B2C SaaS product to enable fragrance enthusiasts and collectors to list, sell, swap, and buy fragrances, looking to grow to 100,000 daily active users in the first year
• Served as customer liaison, ensuring all customer issues were quickly resolved to increase customer satisfaction
• Trained and supported the iOS and Android development teams to follow guidelines, implement apt architecture and frameworks
• Translated features into user stories within the team’s backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements
• Owned backlog refinement and management, prioritized the iteration, drove acceptance testing and delivery of iteration
• Developed new opportunities and managed migrations of existing solutions to cloud environment
• Developed a deep understanding of the business objectives of internal and external stakeholders; evangelized the product vision and built trust by maintaining an accurate and achievable roadmap
• Worked as an active team member in an Agile development methodology (Scrum) with daily interactions with the designers, developers, and other key stakeholders
• Worked with team to track progress towards key milestones and reported status/progress, challenges, and issues to management
• Initiated product enhancement strategies, process improvements, KPIs, and roadmaps using Agile Methodologies
• Conducted product demos with different stakeholders and users to get feedback for product improvement
• Participated in change management assessment by identifying and analyzing risks associated with the change.
• Led change management communication activities including design, development, delivery, and training - tracking and reporting change-related issues
• Worked closely with counterparts in Product Management to align with the vision, to track schedule against the roadmap, and escalate risks and issues
• Works with the cross-functional teams to make sure all the necessary communications regarding the product vision are clear to them and carry back any necessary messages to other stakeholders
• Assessed value, developed cases, and prioritized epics, stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Improved customer experience by effectively understanding and solving their challenges and offering personalized and innovative solutions

Environment: Agile-Scrum environment, JIRA, SQL, iOS, Android, Python, Tableau, Power BI, MS Office, MS Projects, MS Teams, Google Drive, Azure Cloud Services, Slack, Windows 10, MacOS, Web Technology

Product Marketing Consultant

Confidential, Champaign, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategic proposals to PayPal, the world’s largest digital payment company, to lead the Brazilian digital payment market as part of UIUC MBA’s Global Immersion Program
• Work extensively with Python and R-Statistical Software in Marketing Research, Econometrics, and BI project work
• Develop and deliver Product Development Strategies, Process Improvements, and Go-To-Market strategies
• Apply data analytics and machine learning tools and techniques across multiple projects in Marketing Research and Econometrics courses to refine the product and in corporate features based on market demands

Environment: SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, MS Office, MS Projects, MS Teams, Google Drive, Slack, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Windows 10, and MacOS

Technical Project Lead/Scrum Master

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 8 developers and testers to engineer the Snagfilms tvOS app - enlisted as one of the first 200 apps on the platform Confidential the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2016 and featured in top 50 free entertainment apps in the US
• Managed scrum and product development teams both on-shore and off-shore to build the Mobile Content Management System for The Great Courses Plus - iOS application, which was ranked as 22nd Best App of the Year by TIME in 2017
• Led development of a suite of iOS, tvOS, Android, and Roku apps, and ensure that our products met and exceeded client expectations
• Manage data-intensive software solution implementations and support services
• Managed event handling, gesture recognition, focus engine for Apple TV (tvOS) applications
• Excelled Confidential gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusion
• Anticipated bottlenecks, provided escalation management, and make necessary trade-offs
• Performed project management activities, which include active mitigation of any risks to the project scope and schedule, and provided regular status updates
• Worked autonomously as the expert and lead group of developers through coaching and guiding team members within area of expertise
• Provided guidance to developers to ensure that the detailed technical design is fully understood and the development initiatives are in line with the intended design and standards
• Consulted in code reviews to ensure quality, standards compliance, re-usability and ease of maintenance
• Worked closely with technical experts, project teams, business and outside vendors
• Interpreted the System Requirements Specification (SRS) and System Design Specification SDS and developed solutions to initiatives that are in line with the intended design and standards
• Adhered to guidelines/procedures on highly complex or large scale projects complying with the system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC)
• Communicated status and provide timely escalation of issues to ensure project objectives are met
• Provided training on storyboarding, using auto-layout, building universal interfaces, HTTP-based web services, web application, and API architectures

Environment: Agile-Scrum environment, JIRA, SQL, iOS, Apple TV focus engine, Android, Python, Tableau, Power BI, MS Office, MS Projects, MS Teams, Google Drive, Azure Cloud Services, Slack, Windows 10, MacOS, Web Technology

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• White-labeled Nuance Voice Messaging iOS application for leading telecommunications companies, saving $5 million
• Conducted code, design, and process reviews including code profiling and unit test case reviews for production builds
• Coordinate coding, testing, implementation, integration and documentation of solution. Develop program specifications
• Mentored intermediate and senior developers by sharing knowledge of best practices, standards and experiences, while removing roadblocks/challenges
• Provided expertise and experience in mobile development best practices, current trends, current limitations, and future enhancements to the iOS platform
• Accountable for the successful delivery and implementation of complex enterprise-scale mobile projects involving multiple back-end systems, as well as new technologies/innovations
• Led the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with a high-level design
• Designed and developed a few augmented reality apps for company event showcasing
• Experienced with third-party libraries and APIs, Webservices and Adaptive UI development and User experience design
• Handled data sources, delegates for table views and collection views

Environment: Agile-Scrum environment, XCode, Jira, CocoaPods, JIRA, SQL, iOS, Android, Python, MacOS, Video Streaming frameworks, Cocoa Touch framework, and Web Technology

Game Developer, Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Single-handedly rote and debugged code for new and existing systems in a live, multiplatform mobile title set
• Implemented the In-App Purchase, Apple Push Notification Functionality
• Designed and developed UI, UX, game crops, animations, game story, audio, video
• Integrated Game Center, wrote leader board queries
• Wrote the code for CPU implementation in Battleship World War game with 150+ edge cases
• Integrated Social Networking framework to share scores with friends on Facebook, and Twitter
• Designed marketing ad campaigns on Facebook and a YouTube video
• Performed system analysis, analysis on design patterns, total quality management, and continuous process improvement
• Installed Cocos2d templates on shell terminal, set up necessary shell environment variables
• Constantly updated SDKs and frameworks so that the games are compatible with latest iOS devices and operating system versions
• Designed and created image resources for game sprites, projectiles, and collisions
• Added touch events and collision detection algorithm and physics
• Continuously improved the user experience and performance
• Identified, diagnosed, and resolved runtime and author time issues

Environment: Agile-Scrum environment, XCode, Game Center, Cocos2d, CocoaPods, JIRA, SQL, iOS, Android, MacOS, and Web Technology