Lead Product Owner
Resume:
Uma Anmangandla
***.***********@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/umaanmangandla
Worcester, PA 215-***-****
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Results-driven technology professional with over 20 years of experience in the analysis, design, development, implementation and management of software and IT applications
Act as a lead Product Owner /Liaison between the Business owners and the Technology (IT Solutions) teams
Worked in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - Lean Agile Practices at Enterprise Scale; iterative development processes, quality and testing best practices
As a Product Owner, own the Team Backlog and implementation and act as the main source for user story detail and priorities
Clearly document all business and functional requirements by workflow analysis, and functional decomposition - owner of the Business Requirements Document (BRD), System Requirements Specifications (SRS) and Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS)
Experienced in creating and interpreting Data Flow and Process Flow Diagrams; Data mapping and Data Validation
Monitor project progress by soliciting regular feedback, obtaining requirements, tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress and recommending actions/solutions
Experienced in all phases and methodologies of IT Solutions; software development lifecycle (SDLC); Waterfall, SAFe, Agile/SCRUM, Iterative project techniques or a hybrid approach
Self-motivated, Strong interpersonal skills, Quick learner; Developed collaborative relationships with diverse business channels
Excellent communications, problem-solving and decision-making skills
Industries Served
Medical Imaging, Wealth Management, Pharmaceutical, Mortgage, Supply Chain, Software, Health Care, Managed Care, Workers Compensation, SEO, Financial / Banking, Environmental Engineering and Education.
Technology/Tools
Tools – Rally, JIRA, Confluence WiKi, JAMA, Balsamiq Mock-up, Visio, Word, Excel, Access, SharePoint, Office 365, HP Quality Center
PROFESSIONAL
Digital Dentistry - KaVo Kerr Group at Danaher Corporation
Lead Product Owner (SAFe) July 2016 – Present
KaVo Kerr Group is the world leader in smart products and processes that enable dental professionals to confidently optimize their work and lives. KaVo Kerr Group serves 99 percent of dental practices around the world.
Serve as a lead Product Owner for scrum teams
Work with business stakeholders to understand, analyze, evaluate the business requirements and translate them into functional and non-functional requirements
Apply Agile principles to translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into epics/features, stories and tasks through problem decomposition and planning
Manage communications and relationships with diverse stakeholders, including executives, engineers, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Customer Service
Define Minimum Viable Product (MVP) features needed for new capabilities, and draw on an agile mindset: implement the minimal and rapidly iterate and evolve it based on user and market feedback
Contribute to program vision and roadmap; Work closely with Product Management/Business to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
Backlog definition: Meet with stakeholders to define the product, define product epics (features), define the product backlog, define acceptance criteria for each backlog item, and prioritize the backlog.
Backlog grooming: Identify dependencies between product backlog items, refine and size the product backlog.
Define requirements: Wrangle details of each story from stakeholders and subject matter experts, support the development of software requirements to meet the acceptance criteria.
Support the development process: Present the backlog at sprint planning meetings. Answer questions, provide clarification, and minimize obstacles for developers and testers questions throughout the sprint; Mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
Get the product into the real world: Accept and sign-off on an implemented story, manage stakeholder expectations.
Tools/Technologies: JIRA / Confluence / JAMA / SharePoint / IoT / 510(k) / Medical Device
SEI Investments
Agile Product Owner (SAFe) ( consultant ) November 2015 – June 2016
SEI is a leading global provider of asset management, investment processing, and investment operations solutions for institutional and personal wealth management.
Work in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - Lean Agile Practices at Enterprise Scale; iterative development processes, quality and testing best practices
As a Product Owner, own the Team Backlog and implementation and act as the main source for user story detail and priorities
Review and re-prioritize the backlog for Agile Release Train (ART) ceremony readiness; Responsible for accepting the final iteration plan
Facilitate the process for "Just-in-time” story creations and acceptance criteria by working closely with the team to break down backlog items into user stories for implementation
Work with the Scrum Team during the ART ceremonies by providing story definition and providing clarification as necessary to assist the teams with story estimates, sprint loading, story sequencing, and drafting specific objectives for upcoming PSI (potentially shippable increment)
Co-locate with the Scrum Team and serve as the customer proxy for solution and drive iteration content via prioritized stories
Solely responsible for accepting user stories into the baseline, including validation that the story meets acceptance criteria and persistent acceptance tests
Work with the Scrum Master and Product Managers to facilitate preparation and readiness for each planning session
Work with Product Management and EPIC Owner to help assure strategy and execution alignment; Assist Product Manager in the identification and resolution of functional business or technical spikes
Work with the UX team when enhancing or developing new UIs to ensure the most effective user experience aligned with the SEI/SWP standards.
Detail oriented, with the ability to organize and prioritize tasks, to ensure timely delivery of the Sprints/PSI's and work effectively in a cross-functional organization
Responsible for the execution/coordination of the Sprint/PSI artifacts such as Release Notes, User Guides, and continuous Rally updates ( agile project management software )
Merck & Co. July 2014 – November 2015
Sr. Business Systems Analyst / Data Science Analyst ( consultant )
The project is focused on engaging MRL scientists to identify and then find answers to research-critical questions, in support of discovery and development of novel therapeutics, and by leveraging analytics of large sets of data from across multiple knowledge domains (Data / HADOOP / Search Paradigms )
Elicitation – engaging client to understand their hierarchy of needs
Prioritization – providing evidence that the requests they raise to the top of the queue are the most valuable to the business unit as a whole
Story Development - managing user requests within an Agile framework from the initial request until it has been fully specified and passed to the development team using JIRA.
Acceptance - verifying developed features have met the request and adhere to any applicable regulatory and company policies and standards
Communicate – informing the clients and end user of the opportunity or change in a way that drives user engagement and further collaboration. Creating tutorial videos of new feature and publish on Portals.
Realization – preparing users for the change (Change Management) and measuring the business value/impact of the change brought about for the specific user stories
Standards - Developing and adhering to various standards (e.g. Merck SDLC, team SOPs)
Documentation – authoring concise technical and user story documentation while ‘linking’ and ‘connecting’ information, traceability.
Ditech Mortgage Corp. ( formerly Ally Financial) May 2013 – May 2014
Sr. Business Systems Analyst (continuation of role from June 2010 after separation from Ally Financial)
Lead BSA and SME for the brand new www.ditech.com mortgage – work with UX team, Content writers, Business partners to Identify gaps and resolve/clarify issues in order to drive a successful development of fully functioning web site
Worked on integration of ditech.com web loan application with Mortgage CEO, a lead management system involving database design and upstream data mapping.
Worked on the migration of GMAC mortgage to www.greentreeoriginations.com as part of the separation from Ally. Documented end-to-end systems involved; Created process flows and current/future state documentation using Visio. This served as a crucial document for testing a successful separation and migration to a new company and infrastructure.
Developed brand Style Guide and Site Map to ensure cohesive development of new site.
Created requirements for replacement of Adobe Site Catalyst analytic tracking with Google Analytics, ensured that all new reports were met as per the stakeholders
Participate daily stand up and clarify requirements for development and testing teams
Assist testing team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans, and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed
Ally Financial (formerly GMAC Mortgage) June 2010 – May 2013
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Worked on several ongoing enhancements to the www.gmacmortgage.com website which included Loan Originations (enhanced 1003), Custom Rate Quotes and Calculators, Sales Fulfilment (interactive customer support), Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) to support existing customers as well as market to new customers.
Performed root-cause analysis of current system issues, identify solutions - work with development and testing teams to implement changes.
Interacted directly with Business Stakeholders for the purpose of analyzing the business needs and validating solutions with the client.
Worked with Vendors, and internal teams such as User Experience, Legal, Marketing and Compliance to elicit and document required project documentation such as: Business System Requirements, User Stories, Use Cases and Diagrams, Data Mapping and process flows, traceability matrices, and functional specification.
Facilitate the solution design with the architecture & development team
Assisted testing team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans, and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed
ClickEquations Inc. October 2009 – March 2010 ClickEquations is a venture-capital backed company with proprietary software, optimizes paid search campaign performance for a full range of clients in the Internet Retailer 500 and Fortune 100 space.
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Worked within an Agile (SCRUM) software development environment
Worked with all stakeholders to understand, prioritize, and document functional and non-functional requirements; Create sufficient documentation for all features and maintain them on Confluence Wiki
Work closely with developers and architects to understand the technical implications of the functional requirements
Reconcile all perspectives into a cohesive, prioritized, and detailed plan and continuously updated backlog with the Product Owner/Project Manager
MedRisk Inc. June 2008 – September 2009
MedRisk is a leading provider of specialty managed care services, custom claims, claims workflow automation and medical management solutions for the workers' compensation industry.
Sr. Business Systems Analyst / Product Manager
PPO Manager – Led design and development of entirely new proprietary software application to integrate internal bill review platform with medical billing data interfaces to/from PPO network partners. Created dynamic rules and workflow engines to enable clients to maximize cost containment. Design process included SQL tracing of existing COTS utilities to reverse engineer and build system that seamlessly integrated with internal systems that saves MedRisk over $500,000 in annual fees.
Led requirements solicitation workshops; Acted as a liaison between external customer and internal business partners; Worked closely with various business and technical teams to ensure that business requirements are accurately captured and handed off to the technical team in an appropriate timeframe. Created business requirements that allow the end business user(s) to confidently sign-off on a project prior to the start of its development. Communicated between the business and the technical teams to ensure development efforts addressed business needs and specifications.
Extensive data mapping with complex logic from source to target. Ad-Hoc data mining in order to determine data mappings between various systems while adhering to SDLC policies to ensure the integrity and quality of deliverables.
Acted as a Subject Matter Expert relating to the various business functions within the company including QA team. Reviewed and Signed-off on Test Cases and Test Plans for QA team.
Technology/Tools: MS project, Visio, Oracle 10g, SQL, SQL Navigator, SQL Server, and PowerTrak (Healthcare fee scheduling software)
Merck & Co. (Held multiple positions with increasing responsibilities) April 2001 – April 2008
Lead Developer / Sr. Business Systems Analyst (Nov 2006-April 2008)
MVD IS/Business Solutions Delivery
Lead Developer / Sr. Business Systems Analyst (Dec 2004-Nov2006)
Order Management Center — DSS & OMS
Lead Developer / Systems Analyst (April 2001-Dec 2004)
Customer Information Management System (CIMS)
Unisys Corporation June 1999 - April 2001
Sr. Oracle Developer/DBA
Palarco, Inc. and IMI Services Jan 1998 - June 1999
Programmer/Analyst in
Advanta Corporation (Treasury) Jan 1997- Dec 1997
Programmer/Software Engineer
Tetra Tech Environmental Management, Inc. April 1994 - Dec 1996
Environmental Engineer
Education
M.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Drexel University
B.S., Civil Engineering, Osmania University, India
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