Project Management Product Manager

Manisha Sharma

AGILE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT LEADER MENTOR

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Agile and Project delivery Champion

Agile Delivery lead, Project Delivery Manager

Identify and execute best practices to increase delivery, transparency, and quality.

Executed and Implemented DevSecOps, AppSec and helped reduced delivery time by 20%

Driving Agile maturity and Innovation approaches across a set of teams reduced sprint churn by 30%.

Partners cross-functionally with stakeholders to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive product delivery.

Partner with product manager to plan strategies and roadmaps.

Skilled at leading teams in Information Technology and Finance providing years of expertise in Program Management, Project Management, Software Development (SDLC) and Strategic Planning.

Experienced in effective allocation of common resources amongst the individual projects under the program.

25 Years of IT Experience

18 Years of Leadership

Business Collaboration

Strategic Planning

Systems Implementation

Risk Management

Dependency Management

SDLC process

Pair Programming

Project Management

Working Experience in 4 different Continents

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

DTCC (AUG’2022 – TILL NOW)

SR. PROJECT MANAGER / VERTICAL LEAD

Acted as the liaison between product, IT, and sales teams to understand customer demand for new features and prioritize the product roadmap.

Owned the product roadmap and met 96% of all feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks

Encouraged more open communication between executive stakeholders, engineering, and marketing, resulting in a 24% percent annual increase in the pace of the feature development life cycle.

Owned the planning and scheduling of two-week sprints and clearly articulated the product vision to engineering resulting in hitting 99% of the product goals defined at the beginning of the year in 2024

Performed cohort analysis that identified an opportunity to reduce pricing by 18% for a segment of users.

Directed product strategy by partnering with Customers, Corporate Strategy Managers and Sales Directors and delivered innovative solutions to meet time-to-market demands.

Executes responsibilities with an understanding of the product vision, strategic objectives, and priorities.

Product Details: - Data Analytics application which provides different reports on organizations’ performance, agent’s performance within the organization as per industry standards, based on their security and trading transaction (weekly, Monthly, Quarterly). Technology used is Java, ReactJS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, snowflake, and AWS.

CAPITAL ONE BANK (APR’2018 – AUG 2022)

PRODUCT OWNER

Created strategic objectives, product vision, and priorities with company’s vision and goals.

Managed concept-to-launch of mobile banking passport sign in challenge.

Led development of a suite of mobile apps providing bank customers with the ability to complete fast, secure sign in as well as activate card via mobile devices.

Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations. Excelled at gathering feedback and requirements; communicating needed changes to development team; and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts to on-time and on-budget conclusion.

Developed a deep understanding of the business objectives of internal and external stakeholders; evangelized the product vision and built trust by maintaining an accurate and achievable roadmap.

Worked with the product owner to ensure the backlog is ready for PI planning and is aligned with the organization’s initiatives.

Synthesize customer feedback and usage analytics using natural language processing to inform data-driven product decisions

FM GLOBAL INSURANCE (FEB’2017 – MAR 2018)

PRODUCT OWNER

Worked continuously with the Product Director to align the product vision, strategic objectives, and priorities with company’s vision and goals.

Work with the Agile team on Sprint ceremonies and supported the Scrum Master whenever needed.

Worked on removing impediments and collaborating with other teams for cross functional dependencies.

Translated high-level strategy & product direction into features, epics and user stories and communicated with the agile team.

Prioritized stories at the product backlog as well as sprint backlog level.

Worked with the Scrum Master to ensure the backlog is ready for PI planning and is aligned with the agile release train.

Executes responsibilities with an understanding of the product vision, strategic objectives, and priorities.

Lead sprint Planning and Iteration planning sessions along with the rest of the development team.

Lead system demos for demonstration of various features that were implemented in the application.

Assisted team and program with CI/CD/ROD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Development and Release on Demand), interacting with the program manager to ensure deliverables were achieved on time.

Product Details: Insurance application which has the entire workflow from onboarding agent till issuing a policy using AWS and snowflake, React Js. This application was designed to be used by FM Global affiliated subsidiaries and their agents.

BARCLAYS BANK (JAN’2015 – JAN2017)

PRODUCT OWNER

Developing and adapting the product vision for regulatory reports, Creating the epics & features, maintaining, and prioritizing the Product backlog.

Help the Scrum Master to organize the sprint review meetings.

Communicate the business requirements to the Team

Build and maintain a relationship with the Stakeholders

Managed the application support product backlog.

Conducted Monthly Business Prioritization meetings with the stakeholders identify features to be scheduled for the upcoming release.

Documented User Story using Rally to detail the business need.

Conducted weekly sprint planning meeting with the developers and quality assurance analysts to review user story, assign story points and assign cards to a respective sprint.

Conducted Weekly Sprint Review meeting with the stakeholder to demonstrate the features developed during the current sprint.

Helped QA team write test cases.

Review the outcomes of sprint retrospective

SYNECHRON INC (US, UK, INDIA) (NOV 2006 – DEC 2014)

PROJECT/ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT / SCRUM MASTER 2006 – 2014

Successfully implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment reduced deployment time 30% faster.

Selected Project team and created roles and responsibilities.

Implemented QA activities, conducted project progress meetings, Implemented corrective and

preventive actions. Coordinated with Onsite and Offshore team leads and ensured on time

delivery with quality.

Reported the project performance against baselines. Obtained formal acceptance for the

deliverables and Sign-off.

Leveraging Agile Best Practices to Deliver Critical Projects, implanted TDD to ensure better quality and reducing testing time.

Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment (CI/ CD) using Final Builder.

Designed and developed the Palm OS application for client I –Comp (London)

Responsible for developing conduits for integration with the desktop application and Palm OS

application.

Designed and developed WAP application. Developed middle-tier wrapper WAP for the application to connect with full framework.

Developed and designed Pocket PC application.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES

NIIT Team Lead Mumbai, India (Aug’2001 - Mar’2006)

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS Technology Program Co-Ordinator Botswana (Aug’1999 - Jul’2001)

ZENITH Technology Program Co-Ordinator Mumbai, India (Apr’1995 - Jul’1999)

CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

ICP-ACC – Agile Enterprise Coaching Certification Agile Coaching Certification - 2024

ICP-ACC – Agile Coaching Certification Agile Coaching Certification - 2022

SAFE Agilist Scaled Agile Certification Agilist 5 - 2021.

SAFE PMPO Scaled Agile Product Manager Product Owner 2021.

CSP Certified Scrum Professional 2016

CSM Certified Scrum Master 2011

ITIL ITIL foundation Certification 2011

Mumbai University Master of Economics with Management 2003

Software Development & Advanced Computing, India Postgraduate in Advanced Computing 1998

Mumbai University, Mumbai, India Bachelor of Commerce 1995

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