GOAL:

Drive organization product goals to ensure successful completion within defined scope, time and budget with focus on customer needs and keeping team motivated and engaged.

SUMMARY:

• 9+ year of experience managing complex product lifecycle involving cross - functional domains.
• Certified Scrum Master with 7+ years of agile management/scrum master experience
• Experienced in ecommerce, online retail, financial applications, SAAS, IoT industry.
• Experienced in Product management concepts like product feature scoping, planning and estimating, scheduling, organizing, monitoring, budgeting and drafting remedy procedures.
• Ability to drive technology product implementation; building and leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve corporate objectives in complex scenarios
• Identify key metrics in line with project goals for quantifiable measurements
• Keen understanding of business processes, committed to managing operations and product lifecycle while contributing to revenue-producing opportunities.
• In depth knowledge of business domains like Turbo Machinery Services (O&G, Power), Healthcare -Life Sciences, retail, finance, accounting, merchandising, planning, forecasting, order management, supply chain, payment processing and customer service
• Effective conflict resolutions skills, problem solving skills and drive results while solving complex Product/Feature dependencies.
• Expert in project management methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Experience in all phases of agile methodology including backlog grooming, planning, demo and retrospectives.
• Strong communication skills and intuition for communication strategy at every level -- within teams, within the company, to users, to press, and other audiences.
• Successfully practiced Behavioral Driven Development methodologies like writing acceptance criteria.
• Extensive experience in developing use cases, creating screen mockups, conducting gap analysis and impact analysis, SWOT analysis, cost benefit analysis and risk analysis
• Highly organized and capable of managing multiple tasks with ability to thoroughly research and analyze situations, proposes feasible solutions, and bring projects to completion within deadlines.
• Experience in managing teams located at different geographical regions.

SKILLS:

Business Concepts: Product Discovery, Requirement Analysis, Database design, Quality Assurance, Business Intelligence

Business Functional Areas: Finance, Supply Chain, Accounting, International Finance, International Trading, Shipping and Custom, Procurement

Methodology: Agile, Waterfall

Agile Tools: Aha, JIRA, Rally

Tools: Microsoft Project, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), HTML, Visio, FrontPage, Photoshop

Finance Tools: Peachtree, Oracle Financials, QuickBooks

Finance Concepts: Billing, bank/account reconciliation, collateral reports, borrowing reports, LOC evaluation, financial book closing

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Technical Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with customer Product Mangers, Program Manager to build and prioritize backlogs for multiple Quarterly Releases and Sub Releases. Contributed to customer, Stakeholder workouts to develop the Roadmap for multiple quarters.
• Lead efforts to coordinate with UX team, customer engineering teams, brought them all on single platform to collaborate and achieve Release train goals.
• Collaborated with customer product and engineering teams to come up to speed through production adoption trainings and workouts.
• Helped understand product offering, architecture and future roadmap aligned to customer needs.
• Successfully converted requirements into scenarios in form of acceptance criteria (BDD) detailing all possible scenarios (positive and negative), discussion with the developers about all the scenarios and approval of the acceptance criteria.
• Guided dev team to understand each requirement and business process behind it in order to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Involved with end to end feature/product development process from Designing to execution and successful testing.
• Participated actively in architecture design discussion and decisions and proposed inputs to ensure that expected use cases are satisfied through proposed design.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as liaison between scrum team and business to meet the velocity and development goals
• Worked with team to help them to understand and execute the value of being Agile.
• Helped team to determine their estimated velocity by practicing story mapping and story estimating sessions.
• Coordinated with business team and operations to finalize budget, scope and estimated delivery dates.
• Performed risk analysis, communicated it to business to negotiate scope and resources successfully.
• Interacted with a variety of personality types toward a solution that works for the business.
• Encouraged team to Laugh at the mistakes, learn from it and move towards improvement to create happy and healthy team environment
• Involved UX designer with each and every phase and process of the project to reduce gap between dev team and UX designer.
• Received GB certification for the DMAIC project focused on received external quality.
• Encouraged dev team and business team to create transparency between dev team and Business.
• Worked very closely with product owners to achieve the next level of customer satisfaction.