Professional /Executive Summary

●**+ years of working across IT teams in various roles.

●Experience managing Product roadmaps and product lines, leading Agile Celebrations including Product Backlog, Story Grooming, Sprint Planning, Story pointing, and participating in Daily scrum standups, Reviews and Retrospectives.

●along with experience managing projects(defining project plans, Other Planned Works, Discovery efforts and budgeting for enterprise and facility funded projects)

●Experience with various project management methodologies like agile, waterfall, lean, etc.

●Excellent presentation skills, comfortable presenting to senior leadership.

●Excellent communication skills and adept in facilitating walk-through, conducting training sessions and mentoring the BA/PO team.

●Great translators; able to speak the language of Tech and of Business teams

●Strong attention to detail, combined with ability to see and explain the big picture

●Agile experience

oExperience as an Agile (Scrum) Product Owner methodology

oProduct management experience with large software development projects

oRepresents sponsors’ visions and goals to the teams per alignment with business roadmap

oDefine and write user stories, acceptance criteria and user interface design for platform and product enhancements

●Strong understanding of change management within a corporate environment.

●Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving skills and team skills. Able to navigate through a rapidly changing business and technical environment.

●Creative thinker, highly motivated, organized and detail-oriented and result oriented with little supervision.

Skills.

Project Methodologies

Waterfall, Iterative, RAD, RUP, JAD, UML, Agile/SCRUM

Testing and Defect tracking Tools

Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Center, Clear Quest

Tools

Share point, Clarity, Rally, Jira, Trello, PRM, Project Place, Azure DevOps, Google Workplace, LucidChart and MS Office.

Professional Experience:

Product Owner 2019- Present

CommonSpirit Health

●Collaborate with digital agile teams to build and manage new features and capabilities while delivering desired business impact; and negotiating with stakeholders on backlog priorities

●Own the planning and scheduling of sprints and clearly articulated product vision to engineering meeting product goals defined.

●Constantly seek to improve the performance of digital products; using creative means to bring innovative products to market to test and validate with our customers

●Define and prioritize a product backlog based on the product vision, customer value and ROI

●Have responsibility for the full life cycle of your products; leading the ideation, validation, technical development, launch and continuous improvement

●Own multi discipline product roadmaps, managing dependencies and leveraging functionality or knowledge from other products and programs

●Govern the product backlog and communicate release plans

●Brief Bas, UI designers and backend developers with high level requirements (epics) and to approve stories in the backlog

●Involvement in all agile ceremonies stand ups, refinements grooming sessions, retrospectives and showcases

●Created Acceptance Criteria and validated stories and features to accept/reject them

●Led a cross functional team involving internal employees and external contractors and vendors.

●Led building, maintenance and prioritization of backlogs for implementation based on user value and time

●Experience working on multiple enterprise projects at a time and managing projects using Planview, Rally, Jira, Trello, Azure DevOps and Project Place tools.

●Recently completed building a web applications to help employees and general public find vaccine availability and schedule COVID vaccination appointment

●Now focused on Product to establish a state of the art digital workplace to support and maintain website functionality to help patients find a doctor/location and schedule appointments, virtual visits etc.

BSA Lead/Discovery Lead/Project Manager August 2014- 2019 Dignity Health

●Worn many hats in Dignity Health supporting a full software lifecycle from discovery, creating and maintaining requirements, managing projects, testing, Go-live and post-production support depending on the project methodology each team follows.

●Constantly delivered high quality products that received praise from my stakeholders and team leads.

●Very thorough, detailed, persistent, and tirelessly drive for success, regardless of the surrounding complications, good or bad. Every project team I have worked with constantly appreciated that due to my detailed and easy to follow mapping and specification documents their work was made so easy.

●Projects to build an in-house web application project for the Quality department, standardizing credentialing systems, building reporting applications, migrating from legacy applications, etc. helped bring in huge value and reduction in spend.

●Worked on leading various feasibility requests, discoveries, projects, RFPs, security review and Privacy Impact Assessments and OPWs for Quality, Philanthropy, TeleTracking, Provider Credentialing, Patient Experience, Care Coordination, Point of Sale and Philanthropy service areas.

●Experience working on multiple enterprise projects at a time and managing projects using Planview, SharePoint, BOX, Rally, and Project Place tools.

●As SME for the in-house build web application, helped in support activities and triaging tickets

Senior Lead Business Analyst January 2013- August 2014

CVS Caremark

●Worked on Adjudication projects supporting the Enterprise vision, extensively involved in web application implementation, system migration efforts, automating client implementation and plan build.

●Managed and lead more than 10 other business analysts to deliver requirements and use cases for enterprise projects such as Benefit Builder, IPI 3.0, QL migration, RxCLAIM BSRs and RECAP BSRXs

●Secured Med-D advanced certification and experience with RxCLAIM (AS400), QL, RECAP, Clarity and Demand Management Process.

Business Analyst March 2010 – January 2013.

Test America

●Test America is the leading analytical laboratory for environmental testing services in the US, with over 90 locations nationwide.

●Worked on the “Lab serve” system, a business process management system which enforces workflow and ensures all the quality checks are met before providing results to end customers.

●Developed the project using Agile/SCRUM methodology. Managed and prioritized product backlog, developed user stories for stakeholders, facilitated Sprint planning meetings, documented sprint backlogs/ tasks and assisted Scrum master in conducting daily stand up meetings.

Business Analyst December 2007-March 2010

EmLab P&K.

The project was to enhance the LIMS system to provide detailed reports & statistics to business partners to analyze the data for exploring better opportunities based on the geographical area & pricing model that is scalable, configurable and adaptable to meet future business needs.

Lab Manager/Lean team October 2004-December 2007

Aerotech P&k

●Worked with the team to effectively handle multiple projects and tasks, reported on the progress /completion, ensuring that client deadlines are met and assuring that the quality of data is acceptable.

●Participated in companywide top down lean sigma projects. As a member of the committee, did value stream mapping of the process involved and eliminated waste, resulting in company savings.

●Supervised 10-12 analysts and performed tests in compliance with appropriate practices and procedures. Maintained laboratory records in accordance with Good Laboratory Practice standards.

Educational Background.

MS in microbiology

Bharathiar University, Tamilnadu, India.

Diploma in Computer Application(DCA)

St. Alphonsa College of Education, India.

Certifications

Scrum Master Certification

Scrum.org

Agile Certifications

Interface Technical Training.

Product Owner Training

Matrix

Agile MBA

The Job Hackers

ITIL Certificate in IT Service Management

APMG International

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