Divya Kodaru

Highly-dedicated, enthusiastic, and Management professional with more than 18 years of experience in analyzing user requirements and design specifications

A distinguished Product Manager with extensive experience in Applications Development Management, Project Management and Software Development within multiple industry settings.

Expert in working with some combination of

(i)partner implementation experience,

(ii)project management experience,

(iii)product management experience

Solid management skills, capable of leading and motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity while forming a cohesive team environment.

Possesses strong analytical skills to interprets customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements

Experienced in Investments, Financial domain with multinational software development companies in Agile/Waterfall Project Management environment.

Served as the project manager for all HRIS system projects and initiatives

Successfully executed projects to the agreed schedule, budget and scope.

Monitor and control project work and resources, Identify and resolve or mitigate risk and conflicts across the business and IT elements of the project

Hands on experience in various project management methodologies like Waterfall and Agile Project Management

Practical experience of successful Scrum based development team management as an Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master

Monitored, assessed and reported individual project and overall program health in terms of schedule status, benefits status and project status

Proficient in understanding stakeholder requirements & expert in translating them into various documentation deliverables such as functional specifications, use case diagrams, workflow process diagrams, data flow/ data model diagrams.

Developed creative solutions to complex problems, validate requirements with stakeholders, and provide the optimal IT solution using JIRA.

Proven ability to bridge technology and business requirements to produce effective solutions to business problems.

Problem solver capable of making solid business decisions in high-pressure situations.

Education & Certifications

Master of Computer Applications, Tamilnadu, India

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Hyderabad, India

Certifications:

SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Skills:

Ideate for new segments, approaches

Adaptability, Sound business judgment

Supervision and Teambuilding

Conflict resolution

Compassion and Collaboration

Analytical skills and proven ability to balance optimal customer experience with speed to market Multitasking abilities

Organization and Time management

Self-motivated professional

Planning and Coordination

Conceptual Skills

Service and product design methodologies

Agile and Scrum

Professional Experience

PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC Aug 2006 - Present

Pittsburgh, PA

Project Manager/Product Owner/Scrum Master

•Created initial Agile stories for the story grooming required in a Knowledge Management transition.

•Managed various projects - Credit risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk, Scenario validation

•Excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving and influencing skills, with proven ability to take initiative and build strong, productive relationships.

•Proven track record of delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives while managing multiple competing priorities.

•Excellent customer intuition; demonstrated success in delivering innovative and user-friendly customer-facing products and services.

•Define detailed requirements and work closely with developers to identify solutions to meet those requirements.

•Sufficient technical proficiency to discuss technical details with developers Facilitating agile development and planning including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demonstrations and Retrospectives in the role of a Product Owner Understand the business needs from an end-to-end business process perspective and articulate those needs in requirements and mockups Cultivate the product and domain expertise to demonstrate the product with customer-driven vignettes.

•Understand markets, competition and customer/user requirements in depth and contribute towards Teamcenter strategy and its roadmap

•Define and socialize product plan and roadmap.

•Evangelize throughout organization and Set product goals and show measurable results

•Provide technical design leadership by conducting detailed design sessions with all Capital stakeholders Lead in development of requirements strategy, direction, scope and priorities for implementation of Basel III rules.

•Proposed and managed project to convert existing inefficient paper based manual process to automated workflow.

•Implementing Agile and Scrum practices for onshore and offshore teams

Financial Services Project Experience across both internal reporting and regulatory requirements and compliance. Experience in the software development life cycle involving business analysis, development, testing, QA, project planning, estimation, tracking and delivery

SNGC INDIA PVT.LTD, GE TRUCKING SOLUTIONS Dec 2005 - Apr 2006

Hyderabad, India

Software Manager

•Monitor customer feedback, response and metrics; develop plans to support growth and scale the business efficiently; drive continuous solution improvements.

•Influence senior leaders across GE by proactively communicating program vision, writing business reviews, reporting plans and progress, and aligning with GE's core leadership principles.

•The Order Management System allows order entry, order routing and order execution quickly, reliably and cost-effectively.

•Main Components are Order Entry Services, Execution Services, Management Functions, Message Services, and Inquiry Functions.

•Utilized and implemented web application firewalls and database firewalls and other third-party security controls

•Designed, configured, and maintained physical and virtual network infrastructure, systems, and software necessary to sustain development and daily IT Operations Engage with External Vendors to evaluate technical capabilities and alignment with OMS needs

DATA PROCESSING INC, ADP, PAYXPERT PAYROLL APPLICATION Mar 2005 - Nov 2005

Senior Software Engineer

•PayXpert is an Internet based payroll application, which allows ADP's clients to maintain their payroll information for their employees. It is designed using J2EE Technologies and deployed on BEA WebLogic Application Server.

•Project team was responsible for designing and implementing the Pay Data Grid and Pay Data Batch for employees as a part of the application.

•Obsess over your customers and work backwards to define tenets, customer experiences, long-term goals, focus areas and key metrics.

•Partner closely with product, engineering, marketing and design leaders to execute on your vision. Simplify and solve complex, inter-dependent, customer and business opportunities.

•Generation of reports based on the different criteria specified.

•Worked on design and development of PayXpert application features like Pay Data Grid, Pay Data Batch and other functions using Java, EJB, JSP and XML Technologies.

•Developed CMP Session and Entity EJB Components for the application. Involved in the development of controller JSPs based on Page Flow and Control Framework.

•Used Java and JMS API for messaging implementation.

•Used database controls for communicating with the database.

•Used XML Beans to access and parse the XML documents.

Technologies used: J2EE, Page Flow and Control Frame work, EJBs, WebLogic 7. Oracle 9i and Windows 2000.

SNGC INDIA PVT.LTD, CPMS Jul 2004 - Feb 2005

Software Engineer

•The Project has been developed for Cellomics, a leading Bioinformatics company.

•The project provides the users with an online subscription to Cell Space: a knowledge mining system that provides the latest research information on molecular and cellular Biology.

•Involved in the development of User Registration Module.

•The project consisted of different modules such as User Registration, Update User Information, and System Administration Modules.

•Designed Java classes as per Object Orient Design.

•Involved in system study, development and implementation of the project.

•Involved in development of EJB components (Entity and Session Beans) running on BEA WebLogic 5.0 application server.

•Servlets coded to act as Controllers and Dispatchers between JSPs and Beans.

•Developed Java Servlets to retrieve objects from database.

•Developed GUI using HTML and JSP for dynamic page generation. XML is used to transform data between modules.

•Developed DTDs to validate XML document.

•Designed and developed dynamic menus using DHTML and CSS.

•Extensively used JavaScript for client-side validations.

•XML was used to push/pull the data to and from an External Source.

•Involved in unit and integration Testing.

•Used Clear Case as file handling tool.

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