ANUSHA BALA
SUMMARY
Innovative and efficient individual with 5 years experience in the Technical and Product management industry across various domains. Built multiple applications across several countries in both Android and iOS platforms that provide the ultimate user experience and a significant increase in revenue. Strong customer focus and proven track record of identifying needs, opportunities and capability gaps and delivering products that resonate and enable business transformation
WORK EXPERIENCE
2015 –Now Product Manager
Walt Disney Company
Disneyland Paris – Working on the Mobile app starting from inception until App Launch
Developed and maintained the Roadmap to build the Paris Park App
Elicited the complete set of requirements in Agile storyboarding
Designed the Epic User story template to be used across the Product team
Co ordinated with marketing teams at different locations to provide a comprehensive Go to Market plan Analyzed Customer data to provide optimum user
experience
Presented the features and components and a
comprehensive demo of the app to the Leadership team Worked on Optimizing the Ticket sales experience Analyzed and elaborated business requirements for
purchase within the app using Apple pay 2014 – 2015 Product Western Manager Union Digital Mobile App – Worked on launching the app in 6
Transactional Countries
Built and maintained the user stories and requirements for the mobile app
Co ordinated with multiple stakeholders as part of the requirement gathering process
Managed the UI/UX team to build the mobile prototype to expedite development
Implemented Localytics for tracking analytics information EXPERTISE
Product Management
Agile Storyboarding
Epic & User story Documentation
Go-to-Market plan
Road show
Content writing
Creative iterations
Product Review (UAT)
Globalization\Localization
Componentization
Prototyping
Mobile Platform
iOS
Android
Agile Tools
Jira
Confluence
Business Process Model
Tools
Microsoft Visio
TIBCO Business Studio
Project Management Tools
Microsoft Project Management
Microsoft Office
Analytics Tool
Adobe Omniture
Google Analytics
Adobe Sitecatalyst
Localytics
TeaLeaf
Tableau
Business Analysis Tool
SAS
R
SPSS
SSRS
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EXPERTISE
Programming Languages
.NET framework
C#
Java
J2EE
JSP
Java Bean
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Database
SQL Server
PL SQL
MS Access
App Markets
Western Union
United States
United Kingdom
France
Australia
New Zealand
Germany
Walt Disney Company
Paris
Hong Kong
California, United States
Florida, United States
Website Optimization
(US, UK, France, Australia, Germany)
Elicited requirements for A\B testing and feature
optimization that increased customer feedback and
revenue by and overall of 3%
Analyzed Global and Market expectations using various Analytics tools and Tealeaf sessions and provided
optimization solutions for the existing Website Created and maintained product Backlog for Agile product development
Performed in depth User Acceptance Testing on the new features and got the product aligned with the business and technical requirements
2013 – 2014 Business System Analyst
Bank of America, Merrill Lynch
Online Portfolio Management – Acted as a liaison
between the business and the technical team to ensure that issues were brought to focus for quick resolution through Incident and Problem management
Interacted with the Business team to gather requirements to enhance the existing account opening application Created a Business Process model that is being used as a Prototype and an Impact analysis model
2010 – 2012 Software Developer & QA
Infosys Limited
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield
Developed interactive Insurance Management tool using Dot net, SSRS tools and PL SQL
Utilized SSRS Report builder to generate reports such as comparative pie charts, histograms,
Bar graphs on the data present in the front end Executed the complete cycle of Data migration and Process migration of the existing systems
Performed data mining and analyzed data retrieved Identified risks in the project and recommended
appropriate risk mitigation strategies to the management EDUCATION
2012 – 2013 Masters in Management Information Systems University of Illinois, Chicago
2006 – 2010 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science SASTRA University, India