Product Owner
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CAREER OBJECTIVE
Certified Product Owner and Senior Business consultant with 8+
years of experience from Fortune 500 clients across Healthcare, Aviation, Transportation, Retail, Finance and Education industries. Bring strong, transferable experience in understanding business needs, executing product strategy and providing quality assurance to product/project vision. Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully fill the Product Owner role at your company. EXPERIENCE
PRODUCT OWNER
American Airlines/Pinnacle Technical Resources, Fortworth, TX / Apr 2017
- Present
• Devised around 40% of migration strategy for multi-million- dollar enterprise integration program comprising various products.
• Facilitating workshops, meetings and orchestrating User Acceptance activities with internal and external stakeholders to identify data and business requirements and mapping out product dependencies.
• Illustrating and managing product roads maps and backlogs that establish development priorities for each release, and Agile Sprints in JIRA and Azure DevOps.
• Leading teams and continuous-improvement initiatives and increased user adoption by 45% within 6-month time frame.
• Defining KPI's and measuring and tracking team’s progress towards Objectives and Key results (OKRs).
• Synthesizing business intelligence data using SQL to derive insights and understanding business processes to build product backlog (PBI) items.
• Ensuring completeness in user stories and acceptance criteria delivered to the development team.
Agile Product Owner
Southwest Airlines/Mindtree Ltd, Dallas, TX / Jan 2014 - Apr 2017
• Collaborated and worked with multiple teams across geographic locations to define and communicate business requirements in JIRA for 5-10 critical products.
• Improved stakeholder satisfaction by 30% by identifying new opportunity areas to build product backlog for future **********@*****.*** Kaus
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EDUCATION
KUMARAGURU COLLEGE OF
TECHNOLOGY
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Mechanical Engineering (May 2007)
CORE
COMPETENCIES
Product Development Product
Road Map Product Lifecycle PI
Planning
Scrum Agile Kanban SAFe
Business Analysis User Story
Requirements Backlog
Stakeholder QA & Defect
Management
Data Mapping Data Validation
Data Governance ETL Process
API Webservices SQL
Teradata Power BI
Azure DevOps JIRA Rally
Confluence ALM MS Excel
MS Visio
Healthcare Aviation
Transportation Education
Retail Supply Chain Finance
Cloud Migration Azure
Digital Strategy E-
Commerce B2B B2C
K A U S H I K K A N D A S W A M Y
PRODUCT OWNER
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enhancements and customer delights.
• Accountable for Sprint scope planning, Story Point estimation, effort & risk estimation and other Agile Project Management practices including Daily Stand-up, Backlog Grooming & Prioritization, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review.
• Advocated active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Maintained effective communication and reported updates of product road map progress to Product Manager and business team every 2 weeks.
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
Avis Budget Group Inc./Mindtree Ltd, Warren, NJ / Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
• Elicited functional requirements from customers using JAD sessions and interviews/surveys for mobile application implementation across iOS and Android platforms.
• Educated development of product by generating workflows, business process, and data flow diagrams using UML and flowcharts.
• Minimized defects by 15% detected at early stage of development by coordinating and working with technical leads, development resources and architects to translate and elaborate requirement and address requirement gaps.
• Generated additional revenue of 10M by recommending and implementing features to mobile website.
• Spearheaded internal and external presentation to demonstrate workable product to team and end users.
• Built Test Strategy and advised Quality Assurance team for crafting test scenarios and test cases traceable to requirements.
BUSINESS ANALYST
Scholastic/SD-X/Mindtree Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka / Jun 2010 - Dec 2011
• Increased user engagement by 20% through personalization of interactive tools in online resources for children's books and reading by delivering epics and user stories related to them.
• Gained ad revenue of $5M by discovering marketing opportunities for cross-business promotions.
• Ensured ratio of post release defects vs defects found during to be less than 2-4% through complete system test coverage and requirement trace-ability matrix.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Spectra Labs/McKesson/Fidelity/Unipart/NTT Data, Karnataka / Sep 2007
- May 2010
• Worked extensively through Waterfall Methodology across 4 projects at different capacities.
• Played the role of Defect Manager and prioritized defects. CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Product Owner
(CSPO)
SAFe Product Owner/ Product
Manager (5.0)
Azure Fundamentals - AZ900
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