Guruprasad Prabhakara

608-***-**** ade94w@r.postjobfree.com Bridgewater, NJ

Professional Summary

IT Product Manager with over 13 years of experience in leading cross functional teams to plan, build, launch, support and enhance software products using Agile (Scrum), iterative and waterfall SDLC methodologies.

Skills

Product Management: Product planning, launch, development, implementation, enhancement and support. Requirement Elicitation: JAD sessions, Stakeholder and customer Interviews, brainstorming sessions, onsite visits and Surveys.

Requirement Analysis: Flow charts, Mindmap, Fit-Gap analysis and Impact analysis. Requirement Documentation: Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document

(FRD), UML diagrams, Use cases, User stories, Change Request document and NFR (Non Functional requirements).

SDLC: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall and Iterative.

Domains: US healthcare Care management, US Partnership Tax (State and Local Tax or SALT), CRM, ERP, HRMS and workflow engines.

Utility Tools: Microsoft Teams, MS Office Suite, Visio, Project and XMind. Mock up and Wire Frame tools: Axure RP, Balsamiq, Pencil and Visio. Document Management: MS TFS, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence and Bizapp. Quality Assurance: User Acceptance testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Test case and test plan review. Data Analysis: SQL queries, Tableau, MS Power BI and Excel. Data Integration: ETL, Data mapping techniques for ETL and Data migration experience. Certifications and Community Memberships

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist by Scaled Agile, Inc.

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) by Scrum.org

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Business analyst by Automation Anywhere

RPA Business Analyst Foundation and RPA Implementation Manager Foundation by UiPath

Google Analytics for Beginners and Introduction to Data Studio by Google Analytics Academy

Tableau Author, Tableau Consumer by Tableau

Six Sigma Yellow Belt by 6SIGMAstudy

Professional Experience

Business Analyst (Consultant) for Cartus at Brillio LLC Danbury, CT April 2020 – Present

Product – MovePro BenefitsBuilder

Domain – Relocation

Tools and Environment – Agile (Scrum), Jira, Confluence, Web and Mobile Interface, API’s and MongoDB Highlights:

Introduced RPA (Automation anywhere) for integration with legacy systems.

Created product vision using Xmind to define product roadmap. Responsibilities:

Participated in PI planning with product owners to identify MVP, product roadmap and release schedule.

Worked with product owners to create, refine, manage product backlog and define priorities to align with roadmap.

Participated in Scrum of Scrum to identify and address dependencies.

Conducted sprint planning, backlog grooming and sprint review sessions. Business Analyst (consultant) for KPMG LLP at Brillio LLC Montvale, NJ Sep 2015 – Mar 2020

Product – Development of KPMG asset management platform (FKA PartnerTrack) Domain – Partnership tax (1065, 1065 K-1 and State K-1 generation), State and Local Tax (SALT) Tools and Environment – Agile (Scrum), MS TFS, SharePoint, Web Interface, Axure RP, .net, Exago reporting, MS Visio, MS office and SQL

Highlights:

Proposed and implemented configurable solution for configuring and printing of state K-1 forms.

Introduced Admin import/export to automate state law changes (tax reforms) resulting in significant manual hours and errors.

Implemented partner withholding and Composite filing for all states (generic scalable solution to support state tax law changes). Much desired functionality from most of the engagement teams which helped KPMG onboard more clients.

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with product owners to create, manage product backlog and define priorities to align with roadmap.

Slicing requirements into Epics and quantifiable product backlog items

Conducted agile ceremonies (daily scrum, Grooming session, Sprint planning, Sprint review and sprint retrospective).

Provide production support during busy season by performing root cause analysis of production issues and suggested workarounds to meet deadlines.

Mentored development team members to adapt agile (scrum) and tax domain. Sr. Business Analyst for Corning Incorporated through Trishulla LLC. Corning, NY July 2014 – Aug 2015

Projects:

Integrated fiber supply –Integration between SAP, PeopleSoft and In house web applications to introduce Rainbow or colored fiber order processing capability for Corning Optical fibers division.

Symantec Data Insight upgrade – Introduction of ETL between Data Insight and other HR supporting systems of Corning for Share consumption report generation.

CLS Data warehouse and Data analysis – Introduction of ETL between Corning CLS data warehouse and Corning CLS divisions, to capture daily booking and shipping of CLS business. Microsoft Power BI for Data analysis.

Automation test tool selection for SAP – Functional automation test tool selection to introduce better Regression and retesting capabilities.

Business Analyst at Superior Software LLC, through Trishulla LLC. Middleton, WI Feb 2014 – Jul 2014

Product: Autocare ERP

Responsibilities:

Owning and managing a healthy product backlog aligning with product release roadmap.

Sliced epics into quantifiable product backlog items and groom scrum team for sprints. Business Analyst > Product Analyst for ZeOmega Inc. Bangalore, India Feb 2011 - Jan 2014

Domain: Care Management – US health care

Products:

1 Development of Provider Portal and ACO Care management solution: 2 Market study for ACO care management solution

3 Implementation of Jiva Care management solution for CHP Washington: Responsibilities:

Worked with product development team for Product planning, development, launch and enhancement.

ACO market research, survey and solution development.

Created ETL solution for patient EHR and provider data integration.

Introduced an effective solution for Healthcare Provider management.

Dashboard and report solutions development to measure provider performance. Production Control Supervisor for ACS, a Xerox company Bangalore, India Mar 2010 to Mar 2011

Product: DART (Document approval and routing of transactions) for SAP Responsibilities:

Product implementation and production support.

Managed production control team.

Change request management.

Business Analyst for Sobha Developers Ltd Bangalore, India Mar 2009 to Mar 2010

Product: R-Construct ERP/CRM

Responsibilities:

Product implementation, training, release management and production support.

Created change requests, conducted feasibility study and impact analysis. Associate Quality Analyst > Quality Analyst > Associate Business Analyst > Business Analyst for Sobha Renaissance Information Technology Bangalore, India Oct 2006 to Mar 2009

Product: R-Construct ERP/CRM

Responsibilities:

Created BRD, FRS, use case, change request and release plan documents. Change request management.

Product development, implementation and production support.

Process mapping, gap analysis and documentation.

Release planning and release management.

Participated in data migration and validated migrated data.

Participated in all phases of testing (Functional, Regression, Integration, Unit, System Testing, Database and user acceptance testing (UAT)).

Education

Visveswariah Technological University (VTU), Karnataka, India May 2004

Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Communication

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