Product Owner

TEJAL NEMANE

Cell : 215-***-****

Email : ***********@*****.***

Location : Santa Clara, CA 95054

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejal-nemane-2a48bb59/

Results oriented & passionate agile product owner with experience playing different roles as Business Analyst, Database developer and Programmer Analyst. Unique combination of technical expertise and business acumen leading to successful implementation of complex multi-application systems. Strong client interaction skills. Ability to perform tasks with minimal supervision and have excellent problem solving, communication and analytical skills. Excellent record in customer service with a track record of success in driving results; consistently performing at highest levels, highly motivated, results driven.

Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, organizational and analytical skills.

Diverse domain experience in healthcare industry, government childcare agency and retail industry.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Product Owner.

Staples, Inc. – Santa Clara, CA Aug 2014 – Present

Currently working as an Agile Product Owner for Inventory Planning POD which is one of the 3 pillars under Supply Chain org at a leading Retailer.

As inventory product owner, worked on three major initiatives: EIP (Enterprise Inventory Planner, merchandising platform), AWR (Automated Warehouse Replenishment) and mergers & acquisitions.

Merchandising platform features include forecasting, planning sales and computing complex forecasting math so planners can work with vendors to buy stock for item and financial planning. Achieved savings of 2.5+ million for company by implementing retail Projections feature for EIP tool.

Automated warehouse replenishment system features include mainly minor enhancements and support for business.

Mergers & acquisitions include working with external vendors/orgs to integrate external and internal systems. Savings of 8+ million achieved with system integrations.

Also worked as product owner of RIMS (Retail Inventory Management System), a mobile app for handheld devices in stores used by store associates. Managed 3 cross functional teams required to manage store inventory. Features for mobile app include SKU lookup, cycle count, returns processing and PO receiving. Worked with external vendor for procurement of devices. Rolled out app/devices through entire store chain.

Define product vision, roadmap (multiyear and capability). Collaborate with business stakeholders and end users to gather requirements, convert to user stories and track them to completion.

Used JIRA to write user stories and acceptance criteria. Perform sprint grooming activities, work with scrum engineering team members to groom and split user stories by feature.

Own product backlog, prioritize product features and user stories. As a scrum master, conduct agile ceremonies (daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint retrospective meetings) and coach team members to adopt agile best practices.

Main responsibilities also include eliciting business requirements, working with business to prioritize product and sprint backlog. Perform user acceptance testing for user stories and validate against definition of ‘done’.

Communicate POD status and objectives to business stakeholders and senior leadership weekly and address any issues/reprioritization if required. Represent POD status at weekly scrum of scrum meetings.

Participate in SAFe Quarterly Product Increment (PI) planning events to represent Inventory Planning POD. Work with Release Train Engineer to plan for future quarter by providing team capacity sheets, epic definitions, ASKs for other cross functional teams and stories for the future quarter. Coordinate with product owners from other agile PODs for cross functional team dependencies (ASKs).

Business Process Development Specialist.

Accenture – Boston, MA Sept 2013 – July 2014

Coordinate with client and Accenture teams to update and refine business process models using BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) in IBM Business Process Manager for eventual automation.

Main responsibilities also include conducting Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with the different application areas and business team, understand the business requirements and convert them to functional requirement specifications.

Prepare current and proposed business process state diagrams to enhance better understanding of the business requirements.

Senior Database Developer.

Datathinks - Boxborough, MA Mar 2013 – Sept 2013

Work with the business team to understand and document data migration requirements. Use of meetings to elicit requirements to migrate data from MySQL database to MongoDB database.

Design different complex views to extract data and display on the ecommerce website portal. Work with business to elicit and document requirements for displaying required data on the website.

Lead Business Analyst.

Infosys Technologies Ltd - Hartford, CT and Bluebell, PA. Mar 2006 – April 2010

Client – Aetna, Inc.

Worked as the Lead Business Analyst leading a team of 4 Business Analysts and handling the Claims NCO business partners.

Helped the Claim NCO business with claim analysis and figure out potential claim auto-adjudication opportunities which lead to savings of $2 million in terms of reduced rework costs.

Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle: Analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation and post-implementation and all phases of Project Life Cycle (Initiation, Planning, Execution, and Close-out).

Extensive experience in Business Process Analysis/Re-engineering, Project management, Requirement Analysis, Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, change request impact analysis & Quality Assurance skills.

Planned User Acceptance Testing, develop and execute UAT test plans and script.

Programmer Analyst.

Infosys Technologies Ltd – Hartford, CT & Pune, India. Sept 2002 - Feb 2006

Client – Aetna, Inc.

Worked as a Programmer Analyst leading a team of 3 developers. Automated the daily batch schid monitoring process for the Member Enrollment project which used to take a total of 2 hours daily support.

Main responsibilities include system analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation activities and requirement analysis.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager Certificate ID: 820*****-****

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Languages : SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, CICS, JCL, REXX.

Operating Systems : Unix, Windows, OS 390.

Databases : Oracle, Cassandra (NoSQL database), MySQL, DB2.

Tools : JIRA, Confluence, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, IBM Process Designer, Pathways Materials Management (tool was evaluated for health care client).

Design Tools : UML, MS Visio, BPMN Notation.

Methodologies : SDLC Waterfall model, Agile methodology.

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