Rahul Mehta, MBA, MD

Monroe, NJ 609-***-**** ad3pjv@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3yYjudf

Objective: Desire a Capability Owner/Product Owner/Scrum Master position within the organization utilizing my education and experience directing operational strategy that leverages technology to process strategic business outcomes in the healthcare domain. Notable success directing a broad range of information technology initiatives and implementing technology solutions that support overall business needs. Now ready for my next growth & development opportunity!

Professional Summary: Focused and a self-motivated professional, offering comprehensive experience in clinical related product and project management and business analysis with the last 7 years as a senior leading team member at UHG and 12 years of software and consulting background.

Experienced in managing cross functional and global Scrum Teams, creating roadmaps, requirements gathering, creating epics, prioritizing features, user stories with acceptance criteria. Maintaining product backlog for the engineering teams, competitive analysis, architectural diagrams, BI/data intelligence, KPIs, analytics and reporting, APIs, microservices, cloud, data flows, data warehouse, dashboards, SQL, Oracle, Informatica, MS Project, MS Office, Rally, Jira, and Confluence.

Efficiently manage multiple, high-priority projects while providing exemplary relationship management and liaison skills. Articulate communicator; technically proficient.

Reside in NJ with ability to travel, am a US Citizen, and immediately available.

Skills & Expertise:

Cross-functional Team Leadership Relationship Management

Leveraging third party solutions Policy and standard interpretation

Pharmaceutical Clinical Development Operations Management

Demonstrated analytical skills Process Improvement Management

Product and Project Management Proficient in medical protocols / terminology

Excellent oral communication and Agile Methodology

interpersonal skills

Leadership Impact:

-Trusted technology partner who consistently delivers quantifiable value attracting and retaining top performing technical teams, and leveraging technology to deliver business and data insights that optimize business results

-A results-driven and decisive leader who is highly skilled at building stakeholder relationships and managing change, developing measurable procedures and service level agreements, and counseling/developing individuals and teams.

-In-depth experience spanning project management, process improvement, systems design, Lean and Agile methods, training, and software quality assurance.

-Strong business acumen with strengths bridging the gap between technology and business, enabling the business to work smarter, leaner and with reduced risk and lower-cost technology platforms and processes.

-Servant leader.

Rahul Mehta

Professional Experience:

Medtronic Nov 2021 to Present

Senior Business Analyst / Agile Product Owner / Scrum Master

•As a Product Owner, provided vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and created requirements

•Communicated with senior internal and external stakeholders and vendors updating them with the status, implications and modifications. Focused on long term engagement with Business, aligned capability roadmap with related business strategies and articulated a logical, iterative approach to delivering against the plan

•Drove engagement with technology and operations team on requirements and approach for desired business outcome

•Ensured that the team always had an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on

•Planned and prioritized product feature backlog and development for the product

•Worked closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

•Lead the planning product release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities

•Provided an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

•Implemented Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

•Created Demands / Features / User Stories in ServiceNow and Azure DevOps

UnitedHealth Group – Basking Ridge, NJ Sep 2014 to Sep 2021

Senior Capability Manager / Agile Product Owner

As a Product Owner worked across stakeholders in the business to understand desired business outcome which were further translated as requirements for the engineering team.

As a PO worked with stakeholders to strategize and prioritize the sequence of work (Features/User Stories). Worked to ensure that there is a clear line of communication between stakeholders and the delivery team.

As an integral member of the project delivery team, I was responsible for maximizing the ROI.

Worked together with the business to understand future state needs to inform and direct the project work.

Prioritized the Product Backlog and carved the roadmap for implementation for milestone commitments.

Responsible for coordinating between the various businesses and IT teams to create end-to-end workflows to address both technical and business needs and communicate the overall vision for the new system.

I was articulating the minimum viable product (MVP) needs.

Prioritized and enabled delivery of product backlog by creating, owning and refining well-formed user stories and artifacts that described and detailed new products, features and services based on feedback from team. Created acceptance criteria with the team, and accepted user stories as they were completed.

Effectively communicated the use cases and prototypes to project delivery team and various businesses.

Lead work streams and discovery sessions with key business and IT stakeholders and cross functional teams to define future state processes and workflows.

Integrated industry best practices, end user research and other data into workflow and process design to ensure maximizing efficiencies and ROI with new product while meeting end user needs.

Was available as a resource to the project delivery teams through all phases of implementation including development, testing and rollout.

Rahul Mehta

Represented the team throughout implementation to external stakeholders, leaders and other teams to ensure alignment.

Provided support to the agile program and ensured the team follows enterprise agile standards.

Provided feedback to program on enhancements for the agile process.

System Training to the stakeholders. Feedback sessions.

Coordinated with other portfolio Product Owners to ensure alignment to build a cohesive end user experience.

Partnered with business and technical stakeholders to drive innovative and strategic planning to gain short- and long-term ROI from the new system implementation/enhancements

Stars Data Mart

Established relationship with businesses stakeholders for strategic alignment developing and executing strategies based on business need

Defined product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities

Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies and Backlog Refinement Sessions

Researched and analyzed for broad market trends, with deep understanding of relevant business and product strategies and related use cases

Worked closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

IHR - Centri Health Project

Provided vision and direction to the agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and created requirements.

Planned and prioritized product feature backlog. Created User Stories with acceptance criteria.

Translated client needs into actionable plans. Interpreted and analyzed to contribute to capability development across the lifecycle according to business needs

Optum Government Solutions

MA HIX Reporting Project (Boston, MA)

WY HMUM Implementation Project

VT HIX UAT Project (Burlington, VT)

HealthPlan Services, Tampa, FL Jan 2012-Aug 2014

Manager – Software Quality

NASCO, Atlanta, GA Aug 2011-Dec 2011

Data Analyst

Earlier Career Professional Experience:

ENT Physician – New Delhi, India 2007 - 2008

Resident Doctor – Otolaryngologist – Moscow, Russia

2004 – 2006

Language Skills

Proficient in written and spoken Russian language

Education:

Doctor of Medicine

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Moscow Medical Academy) Moscow, Russia

Master’s in Business Administration

Pacific Coast University, Des Moines, Iowa

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