Product Owner Technical

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SADHANA MOHAN

Technical Product Owner

+1-651-***-**** *****************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadhana2024 Saint Paul

SUMMARY

Experienced Product Owner with a proven track record in managing and executing digital product roadmaps. Expertise in leading product discovery, refining epics, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. Strong leadership skills with a focus on mentoring teams, driving business value, and ensuring alignment between technical constraints and business needs.

Seeking a Technical Product Owner position at your company, where my product management and strategic planning skills will be utilized to support your mission of innovation and enhanced customer experience. EXPERIENCE

Technical Product Owner Delivery Lead

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2024 - Present Remote

Owned, Defined and prioritized product backlog, aligning them with overall product roadmap and ensuring 30% improvement in product functionality.

Spearheaded the development and launch of an AI-powered personalization engine, resulting in a 35% increase in user engagement and a 28% boost in revenue across digital platforms. Resulted in successful launch of 25% market share capture of MAP Growth Products.

Acted as the primary point of contact between stakeholders, development teams, and UI/UX designers to ensure clear product requirements and efficient execution.

Led cross-functional teams to deliver products within set timelines and budgets, consistently meeting or exceeding expectations for scope, quality, and cost efficiency.

Fostered open communication between executive stakeholders, engineering and marketing resulting in speed improvement of feature development life-cycle by 20% over the year. Technical Product Owner

Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Acquisition)

2022 - 2024 Remote

Streamlined agile methodologies to ensure 20% faster 'time to market' for new product features.

Led the planning and scheduling of two-week sprints, Proficiently communicating the product vision to the engineering team, which resulted in achieving 98% of product goals.

Streamlined the product development lifecycle by introducing automated testing and continuous integration, reducing bug rates by 60% and improving team productivity by 25%.

Supported UAT testing and feedback loops to ensure the product met user needs and expectations.

Delivered compelling presentations to clients and executive leadership, ensuring alignment with business objectives and increasing client satisfaction by 20%.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align business processes and operations with industry best practices, legal standards, and internal policies, minimizing risks and ensuring operational integrity.

STRENGTHS

Strategic Thinker

Successfully prioritized project tasks in a

high-stake environment, leading to a

25% increase in efficiency.

Effective Communicator

Coordinated with diverse teams and

clients in different time zones.

Streamlined communication, reducing

project delays by 30%.

Analytical

Employed analytical problem-solving

abilities to predict and mitigate potential

project hurdles, ensuring on-time project

delivery.

SKILLS

Product Management:

SDLC, Requirements Analysis & Road

mapping, Backlog Management,

Prioritization Techniques, User research

and analysis, Technology Integration &

Adoption.

Domain Knowledge:

Manufacturing, Shipping and Receiving

logistics, Retail, Educational services and

assessments, Identity Management.

Competitive Technical Skills:

SQL, JavaScript (Intermediate), Python

(Basic), GitHub, JIRA, Target Process, DB,

Confluence, APIs, WAF, AWS, Google

Analytics.

DevOps & Collaboration:

Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CICD, Slack,

Microsoft Teams.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Market Share Capture

Awarded Standing Ovation for

Achievement of 25% market share for

'Back to School' Program launch within 6

months.

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EXPERIENCE

IT Product owner

Best Buy

2021 - 2022 Minneapolis, United States

Played Product owner role for Integrated Program team (IPT) collaborated with different stakeholders within Best Buy like PLP, PDP, Cart, Checkout, Business partners, automation engineers on Order Creation and Order fulfillment process

Engaged in Improving manual testing tools converted to automation projects within Best Buy, played key role on defining, monitor and analyzes key metrics

Product backlog management and prioritizing user stories in JIRA Defining short- and long-term product vision and communicating it to development team and stakeholders

Managing and monitoring product KPI's

Derived requirements and use cases for Microsoft Xbox All Access to improve end user experience and derived-through successful implementation

Continually maintained and improved company's reputation and positive image in markets served

Senior Technical Business analyst

3M

2016 - 2021 3M, Minneapolis, MN

Collected, tracked, and evaluated current business and market trend data.

Explained technical concepts to non-technical staff members in easy-to-understand language and concepts.

Functioned as key member during crisis situations on application restore by coordinating with infra teams, code blue teams. Collaborated with integrated teams on validating requirements, created user story mapping documents, conducted UAT and site testing on gathering testing application logs, validating test results, monitoring application dashboards.

Enhanced system uptime by 15% by redesigning application architecture for a global retail client.

Boosted company's competitive edge by achieving 40% faster project delivery through automating workflows.

IT Technical Analyst

3M

2014 - 2016 Maplewood, MN

Involved in product development engaged in various phases of development which handles shipping of 3M Manufacturing Engineering systems.

Discussed with various stakeholders over 50+ 3M US plants discussing on business requirements.

Worked with engineers helped in converting business requirement to technical requirement developed design document.

Reduced delivery times by 25% by enhancing the logistics software platform.

Managed 5 cross-functional teams with a combined team size of over 60 members.

Achieved a 30% increase in on-time deliveries by streamlining communication channels.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Accelerated Delivery Speed

Improved product delivery speed by 30%

by refining agile processes.

Cycle Time Reduction

Reduced cycle time by 25% using digital

Kanban boards.

Stakeholder Engagement

Led 50 international stakeholder

meetings per quarter.

Product Functionality Enhanced

Improved product functionality by 30%

through backlog ownership and

prioritization.

CERTIFICATION

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Certified

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

EDUCATION

Master of Engineering in Computer

Science

Anna University

05/2010 - 05/2012 India

Master of Science in Software

Engineering

Anna University

05/2005 - 05/2010 India

AWARDS

Recognized 'Standing Ovation' for

successful launch of complex 'Back

to School MAP Program in short

timeline.

Received recognition for Business

value Management Innovation

which helped to achieve 3M

business profit targets up to

increase of 60% KPI.

Received several recognitions from

3M business stakeholders for

'Dedication & Best Assets for team'

Award

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