Management Project

Yashaswi Devaru

Product Owner (Certified SAFe PM/PO)

Phone : 551-***-**** Email : ********.******@*****.*** Experienced Business Analyst with 8+ years experience with a proven track record of taking ownership of complex initiatives and converting them into action oriented objectives and measurable results. Looking for opportunities to prove myself in Product Management roles. Adept at understanding risk, working on multiple projects and with cross-functional teams. Have a Masters in Management Information Systems. WORK EXPERIENCE

Sagitec Solutions LLC Sep 2016 – Feb 2018

Product Owner

Sagitec Solutions provides modernized pension administration software (ASPEN) for teacher’s retirement systems. The project involves automating and streamlining majority of the manual processes and interfaces. [Client: New York Teacher’s Retirement Systems]

• Gathered evidence to push for the need for changing from legacy system (UPS) to ASPEN in forms of benchmarks, case studies and demos to client. Created buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners.

• Responsible for ensuring that over all product strategy aligns with risk landscape, key success metrics, and efficiency goals across multiple projects using agile methodology.

• Lead project teams consisting of developers and testers to automate manual processes, saving time and money while decreasing errors. Credited as a primary driving force behind a 5% increase in margins this fiscal year.

• Responsible for translating stakeholders business requirements and managing Backlogs, User stories, BRD and FRDs.

• Partnered with cross-functional teams to design solutions and transform end-to-end processes for large complex initiatives into action oriented objectives and measurable results using scaled agile framework methodology.

• Other responsibilities include overseeing design efforts working with UI/UX engineers. Defined governance policies supporting Information architecture (IA) components and led projects related to Data architecture and monitoring KPIs.

• Provided knowledge transfer in form of product guides to Operations readiness (ORT), providing go-to market support to sales and marketing as needed.

• Redesigned the In-service Inbound Payroll System to automatically process large volume payroll, wage files received from the third party sources (FISA/DOE/ Charter Schools) and breaking the payroll contributions by various Fixed or variable investments to align with the business rules.

• Implemented complex processes such as Fixed Interest, Fund Unit Explosion and ITHP Posting using BPM approach, which could run asynchronously, or synchronously with other processes to perform retroactive adjustments.

• Designed banking loan process to monitor sanctioning of loans, notification of payment dues, periodic liquidation of loans for the members.

• Built QPP Contribution Discrepancy Resolution application supported both on web and mobile to ensure fund excess and deficits are identified and auto resolved on a timely manner or manually paid off using ACH, E-check or Credit card banking options in ASPEN for Teacher's Retirement System (NYCTRS).

• Designed and implemented Death Benefit process covering Life time or Joint and Survivor annuities in ASPEN using the Service Request Management (SRM) architecture for Teacher’s Retirement Systems (NYCTRS).

• Solely responsible for refactoring of Beneficiary Designation, Communication Strategy and General Ledger processes to eliminate redundancy and support structured and more streamlined architecture in ASPEN.

• Worked with number of third party vendors for different features. Some of the vendors include Official payments ACI for secure payment systems through portal, Lexis-Nexis and Melissa data for identity verification, City Human Resources and Management Systems for death match reports, FISA and PPMS for payroll administration. ASPEN’s communication engine with Twilio for both IOS and Android devices SMS notifications. Vitech Systems Group, New York, USA Jul 2009 – Aug 2016 Sr. Solutions Analyst

Vitech Systems Group is the leading provider of administration software to pension, investment, and insurance verticals. Vitech serves many of the world’s premier investment organizations with a combined $1 trillion in assets under management, and benefits clients servicing over 13,000,000 members.

• Served as a liaison between development staff and business users through the implementation phase of the system.

• Measured the weekly progress of the system’s implementation along side tracked the reported issues and new change requests by adapting agile method of project management.

• Responsible for development of project plans in conjunction with technical development team to meet project milestones.

• Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed “go-live” of enterprise implementations for up to 12,000 global users.

• Reduced costs and enhanced development flexibility to meet market demands by designing and implementing iterative development and delivery mechanisms. Identified fit-gap analysis for the new business requirements using Oracle and JAD software.

• Influenced new vendor agreements by demonstrating value of intellectual property to alliance partners.

• Conducted hands on training for the business users and assisted through the UAT phase. Alongside smooth rollout during project go-lives.

• Good domain knowledge and working experience in Reference Data, Client Reporting, Wealth Management and various Assets classes.

• Performed number of trade studies to down-select solutions our platform could not offer to client for third party integrations.

• Provided ad-hoc support to colleagues and other company departments. Notable Investment Projects [Clients: Lexington Partners, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer Trust, Citigroup]

• Designed the CRM structure using IA methods for our investment platform using custom processes in Sales force, which would offer CRM enterprise capabilities, utilizing and augmenting present contact database while incorporating core CRM functionality such as Investment Portfolio management, Deal flow management, Fund raising and investors relations.

• Created EDB interface, Investor closing commitment and Longview interface which would act as a data warehouse consolidating information from several other systems (sibel and global plus) that’s needed by finance and PE/RE front office teams.

• Built Investors Capital Call and Distributions Transfer feature in our investment platform, which helped to track and balance out the cash flows (CapEX) across various capital tracking commodities for each investors across Private Equity funds.

• Designed multi-currency streamlined transaction process to support subscription, redemption, exchange and investor transfers for Bessemer Trust Hedge funds.

• Designed and implemented GL financial Statements working on Crystal reports for Lexington Partners and Goldman Sachs.

Notable Pension and Insurance Projects [Clients: NIB –Bahamas, OSEEGIB – Oklahoma, ERB-New Mexico]

• Responsible for converting the registration system in Pension software to act as social security administration system with integration with KOFAX third party integration for NIB.

• Built various Public Pension, Taft Hartley, Defined Benefit Plans based on my broad knowledge of DB administration rules for various clients and maintaining each client specific plan provisions.

• Sole ownership of designing and structuring the security configuration system in Pension software across multiple clients.

• Created and developed custom reports for ERB and OSEEGIB pension clients to support PMT level business analysis quarterly and annually.

• Created and implemented insurance system covering contract, policy, enrollment, billing, Annuity, compliance, employer legal agreements for NIB.

SKILLS

• Extensive knowledge of CRM, SCM, SDLC and Investran software.

• Highly skilled in using BPMs, Blueworks Live and workflows to design business processes.

• Highly skilled in using Visio, MS Word, Excel (pivot tables and macros) and PowerPoint.

• Project Planning and Tracking Tools: JIRA and TFS

• Programming Knowledge: Java, SQL, XML and excellent understanding of web services and Restful APIs.

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