Technical Product Owner

ALPANA BHATNAGAR

: ****.****@*****.*** : +1-872-***-**** Chicago, Illinois (Authorized to work in USA)

: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alpana-bhatnagar-a88a4850/ PROFILE

Technical Product management professional for Enterprise SaaS implementations and Change projects using SAFE Agile with experience in leading cross-functional teams including engineering, support and business engagement

Experience in the end to end implementation of technology products including market analysis, evaluation, Identification, POC development, environment strategy, on boarding, support model, risk evaluation, platform governance, go-live & stabilization

Brainstorming with product managers, development leads, architects, operations & sales team including key internal & external clients to develop product vision and find solutions to meet business requirements while complying with technology architectural principles and fulfilling Controls, legal & regulatory requirements

Accountable for running & adopting platforms after going live and owning delivery capacity, application strategy, technical product vision, roadmap planning, driving execution and backlog management

Managed Change Governance through stakeholder management, prioritizing requirements, preparing budgets & timelines with pre-determined SDLC checkpoints for requirements, on boarding, testing, production readiness and supportability

Developed technology service model catering to data integration, functional segregation, deployment model - cloud & on- prem, network & application security, and other technology controls

Adeptly initiating & socializing of new platforms through roadshows, business pilots, cost of ownership, licensing, contracts

& service agreements, product training plans and developing Bot-a-thon sessions for multiple businesses thus promoting platform adoption after the product goes live

Participated in Key delegation from DB in Anita Borg Gracehopper Celebration India (Asia’s Largest Women Technologists led conference) to improve branding & attract talent

Driving the end-to-end Vendor engagement & alliance, right from pricing, techno-commercial, negotiations to contract management, legal coordination and other aspects

Experience in setting up teams using both internal and vendor resources; conducted hiring and performance appraisals AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Program & Project Management Product Ownership Product Analysis, Assessment & Evaluation Vendor Management POC Development Risk Assessment & Management Platform Governance Solution consultant Business & Data Modelling

SAFE Agile Methodologies SCRUM Master (CSM Certified) Sprint Planning Six Sigma GB Certified PMP trained TECHNICAL FORTE

Application Platforms Celonis, Automation Anywhere, BluePrism, Microsoft Power Platform, Google Apsheet, UI Path, OmniFlow iBPM Suite, EMS

Business & Data Modelling Microsoft Visio

Documentation Microsoft Word, JIRA, Confluence and Wiki Project Management Clarity, MS Project

Testing & Defect Tracking JIRA, HP ALM

Statistical Analysis

Languages

Oracle PL/SQL, Minitab, MS Excel (incl. Macros)

Python, Java

RECONGNITION & CERTIFICATES

@ Deutsche Bank Group, Bangalore, India - Jul 2013- June2022

Certified Scrum Master’ 2022

Rewarded India Excellence award for 2022 & Shout out Award for Year 2022 for leading Power Platform Implementation

Rewarded with the Star Performer Award, 2021 for leading Celonis Implementation

Received Employee of the Month Award and Flash Awards, 2015-16

@ Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India - Jan 2012-Jul 2013

Won several accolades for re-engineering project execution model to ease delivery through separate streams, decrease change requests through iterations and set-up clear success metrics upfront CAREER HISTORY (Recent)

Duration Organization Designation

Jul 2013- June 2022 Deutsche Bank Group, Bangalore, India Assistant Vice President Key Deliverables:

As Technical Product Owner for Automation Platforms (Dec’17 – June’22)

Co-Lead the Governance framework for Robotics & Low code solutions at the bank along with Risk functions to ensure effective risk and control processes are in-place for the new evolving technology

As the Product Owner of the automation and process mining platforms owned the implementation and running of Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Power Platform & Celonis;

Applying Agile methodology by drafting epics & stories and converting stories to shorter tasks as a JIRA Scrum Master, preparing test scenarios and executing User Acceptance Testing

Communicating with global teams for BOW identification, reporting & prioritization across systems handling various functions like HR, PnL, Portfolio accounting, treasury, risk management etc. handling all asset classes, regulations, and currencies.

Managed technology budgets through Clarity, including infra costs, product licenses, and vendor resourcing As Product Owner for IPV and PnL Tools (Aug’14 – Nov’17)

Leading change management of the entire migration project that implements technology application under BREXIT migration of global branches of the bank and IPV (independent price verification) platforms

For Adjustment PnL Tool - reduced the onboarding time from 2 to 3 weeks to 4 days and minimized TAT by 30% of the regular process; Conducted detailed analysis & implemented, thus brought down 23 tool versions to 10 across functions

Owning standardization project by optimizing the adjustment management tool for PnL process for various product lines like FX, equities & commodities businesses and reducing functional disparity among tools As Business Engineering Lead (Jul’13 – Jul’14)

Interacting with senior operations managers regarding crafting BOW for process re-engineering for 2014 and improving proposals to meet automation targets across Pnl, Portfolio accounting and IPV

Administered multiple types of re-engineering assignments and environments using LEAN, DMAIC, ISO 9001/27001, Six Sigma methodologies

Duration Organization Designation

Jan 2012-Jul 2013 Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India Delivery Manager (Shared Services) As Delivery Manager (Shared Services)

In the capacity of a delivery & project manager for the workflow application team, developed, maintained and aided process workflows on OmniFlow iBPM Suite and Base Platform (Wipro Internal) for corporate procurement, finance and HR

Directed portfolio enhancement, process automation in the support function division of Wipro (WIVIDUS) and administered stakeholder management for requirements gathering, functional specifications and process workflow designing

Conceptualized & formulated operating budgets for executing projects within cost & time constraints and partook in project review meetings to gauge project progress & remove bottle-necks

Worked closely with the shared service head to finalize the automation strategy to improve the business unit and monitored compliance & SLA adherence, risk mitigation functionalities of shared services

Oversaw the execution of SoW, contracts and license approvals for the vendor teams PRECEEDING EXPERIENCES

Duration Organization Designation

Aug 2001-Jun 2006 GE Capital International Services, Gurgaon, India Assistant Manager SCHOLASTIC & ACCREDITATION

Masters in Computer Management from Pune University, India, 2001

Bachelor of Science from Delhi University, India, 1999

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