Nikhil Ramesh
Product Owner
Bangalore
Summary
Motivated and forward-thinking product owner with 10+ years of experience in Healthcare domain. Eager to support the team with leadership and guidance over a wide range of product development efforts.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Business Systems Analyst
IQVIA
Bangalore
08.2020 - Current
- Experienced in providing Risk Based Monitoring solutions to sponsors through a cloud-based Sales force platform by monitoring and mitigating the risks that could affect the quality or safety of a study and ensuring good quality results of the trial.
- Performed in gathering, analyzing and eliciting business requirements in order to provide high quality functionalities to a product which brings values to the user community.
- Support UX team to create prototypes to provide an accurate, graphical user interface representation of data, thereby facilitating successful solution needs definition.
- Triage of data issues reported by users in production systems
- Collaborate with project teams to ensure timely delivery and quality of all project deliverables within a sprint and release cycles.
- Partner with Business Owners (BO) and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to define Product Backlog, prioritize features and bugs according to market value and business needs.
- Lead Product Demo during the Sprint; evaluate acceptance criteria and results, works with Business stakeholders on next steps.
- Work with product management to create and maintain solution roadmap and assist other team members.
TEAM LEAD- PRODUCT OWNER
SLK SOFTWARE PVT LTD
Bangalore
12.2019 - 08.2020
- Experienced in providing Financial solutions to Merchant Data system on Card processing and transactions to make their daily activities easier and smoother
- Work with product management to create and maintain solution roadmap.
- Assist other team members, development team, and enterprise architecture in developing solution delivery best practices
- Be the strong liaison between Product Management and development to ensure a transparent and productive workflow environment.
- Work with teams to continuously improve product ownership and other agile processes.
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
- Provide sprint goal and tactical objectives to team, and provide quick decisions to system level questions and defect triage.
- Work with program management to track schedule against the roadmap, and escalate risks and issues.
- Experienced in Safe Agile methodology for performing ceremonies like- PI Planning, Refinement, Mid-Sprint Review, User Feedback sessions, Sprint closure, Demo Acceptance, Product Demo, and Retrospective.
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
ARIS GLOBAL SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
Mysore
11.2018 - 09.2019
- Experienced in Clinical Trail Management System, Investigator/Site Portal, Clinical Data Management and Document Management System to help the Clinical Research Institutes to perform their research tasks simpler and easier
- Provide solutions to Life science products help/support the Clinical Research Institutions, Sponsors to manage data involved in the clinical trials compliance with the FDA and European Drug Administration bodies
- The Sponsor and CRO’s conduct trials on drugs or devices to ensure safety and efficacy in a larger section of people
- The objective of the trials include: determining a better treatment than the existing once and identifying the best treatment among different populations such as children
- The product manages to store the data of the clinical trials like identifying the clinical product, study, investigators, subjects etc
- It helps in managing the reports like submitting, reviewing and approving
- Identifying the study budget and helps in Site Contracts, payments, monitoring visits and plans
- Gathered high-level requirement from the customers and Break down epic - level user stories into detail-level stories consumable and testable by a scrum team
- Performed the requirement analysis, impact analysis and documented the requirements
- Involved in all ceremonies of the Agile including sprint-planning sessions, backlog- grooming session, daily scrum, product demos, sprint reviews and sprint retrospective
- Create and maintain regularly the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project life cycle
- Facilitated and led functional requirement walkthrough for all the impacting projects and updated the documents based on recommendations if any
- Single point of contact between Delivery head, Project Management and IT groups from solution planning, sizing, to fulfillment
- Raised few concerns on the usability of the product to the higher management to take appropriate measure to develop/maintain a product with latest technologies
- Prepared wireframes/prototypes for the product to have the new UI
- Insisted the IT groups to follow the wireframe standards across all the modules in a product.
SENIOR SOLUTION AND TEST DESIGNER
CERNER HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
Bangalore
12.2011 - 11.2018
- Experienced in providing solutions to physicians, nurses, patients, payer, providers and hospital administration by implementing products such as Cost Accounting, Command Centre, Extended Care
- Provides Mock Ups and works with creative in development of UI for web based applications
- Work with the Business Strategist to ensure that each release provides business value to end users, sales, and marketing
- Create and maintain regularly the solution vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project life cycle
- Act as a proxy for the user during development, and answer implementation questions from developers
- Build road map and a strategy to execute the products to create a high impact
- Experienced in full software development life cycle including requirement gathering, planning, design, deployment, documentation, and quality assurance
- Communicate with the Business Strategist to get the higher level of requirements of the product
- Break the higher-level requirements to functional requirements, create stories, use cases, etc
- Raise hands during the iteration planning to prioritize the use stories
- Issue Resolution and Report Generation to assure that all aspects of a Project are in Compliance with the Business Requirements
- Strong relationship management, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to network with stakeholders and clients
- Travel onsite to study client’s systems and gather requirements to a Strategy page so that the Engineers can develop the product without any gaps
- Understand and be SME in the workflows of the clinical products and HIS - Hospital Information Systems and demoing to the clients at the final stage of the product
- Collaborate with internal stake holders like – Directors, Architects to discuss and enhance the ideas and strategies before rolling it to the implementation team
- Led/Managed team of 3 members
- Involved in managing associates reporting to me and helping them in providing solutions to road blocks.
Education
B.E (Bachelors of Engineering) - Computer Science & Engineering
Sambhram Institute of Technology, Visveswaraiah University
Bangalore 08.2007 - 09.2011
12th Grade - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Electronics
The National College of Basavanagudi
Bangalore 08.2005 - 05.2007
10th Grade -
New Cambridge High School
Bangalore 06.2004 - 03.2005
Skills
Requirements gathering & elicitation
Product development & Roadmap
Product Management
Tools- Jira, Rally, Confluence
Agile- Scrum, Safe Agile
MS office tools
My Sql
Invision, Sketch cloud
Healthcare Domain
Banking Domain
Timeline
Senior Business Systems Analyst
IQVIA
08.2020 - Current
TEAM LEAD- PRODUCT OWNER
SLK SOFTWARE PVT LTD
12.2019 - 08.2020
SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST
ARIS GLOBAL SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
11.2018 - 09.2019
SENIOR SOLUTION AND TEST DESIGNER
CERNER HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
12.2011 - 11.2018
B.E (Bachelors of Engineering) - Computer Science & Engineering
Sambhram Institute of Technology, Visveswaraiah University
08.2007 - 09.2011
12th Grade - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Electronics
The National College of Basavanagudi
08.2005 - 05.2007
10th Grade -
New Cambridge High School
06.2004 - 03.2005