Manager Life Insurance

Priya Arora

Senior Product Manager

(Work Authorization - L2 EAD)

***, ******** **, ******, ** - 08820 M: 848-***-**** adbrug@r.postjobfree.com I https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-arora-11385310/

SUMMARY

●Product Management - PMP and CSPO Certified Product Manager/BA/PO with 14+ years of diversified and global experience in Customer Engagements, Product Management, Program Management for Agile based product deliveries. A proven track record on successfully implementing complex products involving cross functional teams. Managed all facets of product management from ideation, requirements, design, implementation to product market delivery.

●Product Marketing - Close Coordination with Marketing team for creation of marketing collaterals for the new Product Marketing, campaign execution and analysis of campaign outcomes.

●Pre-Sales - Response to ‘Request For proposals (RFP) and Request for Information (RFI) around the product and active involvement in pre-sales calls and presentations.

●Agile - Scaled Agile change agent, well versed with SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Agile methodologies and took several initiatives in transforming the project methodologies from traditional to Agile.

●Training - Extensive experience of Imparting Trainings on following topic – SAFe, Scrum, Product Owner and Product Management on various platforms.

●Domains – P&C Insurance, Life Insurance, Payments, Auto Claims, Scaled Agile, Knowledge Management, Learning Management, Digital Transformation, Collaboration platforms

●Clients – Exposure of Multi geography clients like USA, Europe and Singapore, majority being USA clients

EXPERIENCE

July 2013 – Sep 2019

Infogain

Sr. Product Manager, Product Owner & Agile Coach

Jan 2010–July 2013

Computer Science Corporation

Lead Business Analyst

Feb 2008–Jan 2010

Dell Perot System

Business Analyst

May 2005 – Jan 2008

Xchanging technology

Software Test Engineer

Product Manager and Product Owner

●Gathered requirements by conducting Customer Interview, gathered deep insights of the pain-areas of the customers and defined Product Roadmap accordingly. Conducted iterative Release Planning with cross-functional teams for each Product Increment (PI) to align achieving short/mid/long term goals.

●Manage all facets of product management from ideation to product market delivery.

●Create product documentation including Market Requirement Document, Epics, Features, User stories for product implantation.

●Owning/Analyzing/Prioritizing/Clarifying/Detailing of the requirements & breaking market requirements into detailed product solutions within timelines & budget

●Flushed out requirements in Gherkin and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to explain the expected outcome with business value and not dictate the engineering teams with exact 'what', this enables the teams to contribute effectively and feel empowered.

●Innovated and enhanced the products leveraging trending technologies like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics and IoT.

●Lead Domain and Innovation Task forces to enhance Domain knowledge across the business units and conducted workshops to encourage wider participation to generate Innovative ideas.

●Contributed to presales by responding to the RFPs/RFIs and presenting our product management capabilities to prospective customers.

●Coordinated with the marketing team for creating the marketing collateral and running the campaigns around the products and solutions.

●Coached the teams around SAFe ceremonies – PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, Retrospections.

Trainer and Speaker

●Speaker at platforms like meetups and college guest lectures on topics around Agile, Scrum and waterfall models.

●Prepared and published training courses on Udemy on topics – Agile, Product Management, Product Owner.

●Imparted multiple trainings on Agile, Scrum, Product owner, Business Analysis in Infogain, CSC and Dell.

●Published articles on LinkedIn on various topics around Product Owner.

●Created a YouTube channel talking about practical implementation of Scaled Agile and posted multiple videos on this topic.

PUBLICATIONS

Courses

Product management

Scaled Agile

Product Owner

https://www.udemy.com/course/product-management-a/

https://www.udemy.com/course/scaled-agile/

https://www.udemy.com/course/product-owner-career-guide/

Meetup

Guest speaker in San Diego PM/PO meetup group.

Topic - offshore PO/PM experience and challenges in SAFe

https://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-Agile-Product-Owners/events/236822109/

Videos

Learn Scaled Agile Program Increment Planning in 4 minutes

Tips for Product Owners for effective sprint planning

How Important is PI planning in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/priya-arora-11385310_learn-scaled-agile-program-increment-planning-activity-6633040188312510464-k-qy

https://youtu.be/pCv6PVH8v20

https://youtu.be/P75xMssCU7Q

Articles

Tips for Product Owners for effective sprint planning

How Important is PI planning in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-product-owners-effective-sprint-planning-priya-arora/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-important-program-increment-pi-planning-scaled-agile-priya-arora/?trackingId=kv48laL7PXrl%2FgYfUcdFkw%3D%3D

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

●Awarded with 'Special Contribution Award' multiple times for fostering Innovation culture in Infogain.

●Awarded as ‘Trainer of the Quarter’ by Infogain in 2019’Q2 for imparting effective trainings around Agile and Product management.

EDUCATION

●Post Graduate Diploma in Insurance and Risk management, BIMTECH, Greater Noida

●Bachelor of Tourism Studies, IGNOU

●Diploma in Hotel Management from National Council of Hotel

CERTIFICATIONS

●PMP Certified from PMI

●Certified Scrum Product Owner from Scrum Alliance

●Certified LOMA 280 & 290 (Life Insurance)

●Diploma (Associate) in Insurance from Insurance Institute India

●Certified Lloyd’s Introductory Test Professional (Insurance) from Charted Insurance Institute, UK

SKILLS

●Business Analysis

●Requirements Gathering

●UX Designing/ Prototyping

●Primary/Secondary Market Research

●Competitor Analysis

●Product Strategy

●Team Foundation Server

●Microsoft Visual Studio

●Quality Center

●MS Power Point Presentation

●MS Office

●Agile

●SAFe

●Effective Training Skills

●Presentation Skills

●Oral and written communications

●JIRA

●Scrum

●Strong decision maker

●Project documentation

●Mercury Quality Center

●Project management

●Software Development Lifecycle

●Milestone assessment and achievement

●Conflict resolution

●Insurance

Contact this candidate