Anil Kumar Rayaprolu
Product Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
Product Manager with 15 years of IT industry experience, specializing in Banking, Financial Services, and Energy & Utilities. Proven expertise in product implementation for Core Banking, Lending, Billing, and Regulatory systems, currently leading initiatives at JP Morgan Chase & Co. in Credit Cards and Home Lending. Adept at executing projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies while fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency.
Professional product management specialist with track record of supporting successful product launches and enhancing team collaboration. Adept at aligning product features with market needs and ensuring smooth cross-functional communication.
Product management professional with track record of driving successful product initiatives and optimizing product performance. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and focusing on achieving impactful results. Known for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments, with skills in strategic planning, and project management.
Overview
2
2
Certificates
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
08.2022 - Current
- In Home Lending LOB - As a Senior Product Associate working for HMDA Regulatory – LAR data reporting enhancements, Post Closing Edits Portal BAU process and LOS workflow changes in Chase Mortgage Home Originations division.
- In Cards LOB - Product Manager working for Cards Initiative process and workflow changes for new card & card refresh workflow changes.
- Actively involved in product requirement workshop - elicit product requirements, understand the regulatory guidelines and identify the data elements required, source systems and downstream system using feasibility study and product & process exploration.
- Developed product roadmaps, prioritizing features based on customer feedback and competitive analysis.
- Engaging with different area product teams & business stakeholders for smooth loan data delivery to downstream systems.
- Skills
- System/Product analysis, System feasibility study, define & design product scope. Project Management involving – Transition and Knowledge management, Change management for Regulatory/Risk &Control systems.
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible to maintain and meet the Home Lending-LOB Regulatory and Control demand/changes for HMDA(LAR), UCD and Downstream data demands for CHASE Home Lending LOB.
- Identify opportunities for product improvement and differentiation, efficiency and standardization, scalability, and drive process improvements.
- Primarily engage with business to elicit product requirements for HMDA – action code loan exits workflow definitions and implementation.
- Relied Upon and Point in Time loan data fields for LAR reporting requirements and model them in a mapping spreadsheet and Insight Layout design, support the ETL and cross functional teams to implement the solution.
- Working closely with area product owners to gather and refine user stories for known sprints or prioritized items in product backlog.
- Responsible for impact assessment – As-Is and To-Be process/System changes.
- Accountable for reviewing the user stories after development and participating in/hosting sprint reviews with Product owners
- Interact with scrum master, feature teams to develop a strong understanding of the project/product objectives under agile project execution.
- Align business needs and strategies with constant stakeholder involvement.
- Responsible for production validation post release implementation.
- Post implementation analysis - obtain user feedback on how the new state is functioning and provide feedback to the scrum team.
- Participate in Hyderabad Ignite Product community development activities – Show & Tell events, new product members – meet & greet events.
- Maintained positive vendor relations to build strong partnerships.
- Set goals and formalized policies to maximize team performance and keep project on-task.
- Facilitated user testing sessions to gather insights for continuous product improvement.
Agile Business Analyst
HSBC Technology India Ltd.
09.2019 - 02.2022
- In Data Analytics and Services - As an Agile Business analyst worked in Core Banking and Regulatory, MIS Reporting projects.
- Actively involved in requirement workshops, elicit Business requirements, understand the regulatory guidelines and data elements required, identify source systems, DWH Tables, design data mapping sheets.
- Incorporating Business rules and Transformation rules by understanding Data lineage: Source Systems -> DWH Tables -> Staging table ->Target tables-> Target report
- Engaging with different teams & Business stakeholders for delivery of the Data Quality HUB- solution covering data management framework across different global functions of the HSBC Bank.
- Skills
- Business Analysis, System feasibility study, Solutions Analyst
- Tools: Collibra – Business Information Management system
- SQL Developer, MS – Office &Visio, Confluence – Project document store& JIRA
- Environment –On Premise systems – Teradata, DB2 systems
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Engage with business /project sponsor to understand their requirements, perform analysis and convert to project scope- providing LO estimates for each change request.
- Responsible to meet the Business Intelligence reporting requirement demands for UK HSBC – Mortgages, Cards and CIS systems and Data migration.
- Primarily to engage with business to elicit reporting requirements, specify and model it in a mapping spreadsheet and Insight Layout design, support the ETL/Cognos team to implement the solution.
- Also, participate for data quality reporting across different functions of Bank.
- Interact with scrum master, development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project/product objectives under agile project execution.
- Participate in daily scrum call to determine the different user stories, tasks discussion.
- Document High-level design, Data flow diagrams, Approach, Risks & assumptions and specifications etc.
- Troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to meet quality as per customer requirements under change management process.
- Documentation of process/product user guide to build Data Quality as Group Service offering for different business teams.
- Coordinate, facilitate and make presentations for product demos – Engaging different GB/GFs.
- Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate to ensure zero bug deliverables within project timelines.
- Led sprint planning sessions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and development deliverables.
- Managed multiple concurrent projects effectively while maintaining a keen focus on quality deliverables.
Business Systems Analyst II/Associate Product Manager
Black Knight India Solutions (Black Knight Inc.)
01.2017 - 09.2019
- This role demands working closely with the customers as Business Analyst to understand their business model &requirements, translate them into software requirements document, engaging team for delivery of the Loan Origination - solution covering lead management and core origination workflow for US Mortgage process.
- Skills
- Business Analysis, System and product feasibility study, Product configuration:
- Sales Edge – Lead management and customer relationship management (CRM) solution for Loan enquiry and offers.
- Empower LOS Product Suite – Loan Origination system implementation for one of the leading US banks.
- Tools: Empower LOS Portal, Empower Setup Configuration management, MS Visio, MS-office product suite, MS Team Foundation Server
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Primary owner for scripting and execution of configurations for a variety of key customer - facing applications under Retail Implementation team.
- Product Suite Configuration mapping to client requirements, performing functional testing of the Loan process workflows-POS (Origination) to Fund disbursement under Retail lending channels.
- Engage with the business users to understand their requirements, perform analysis and convert to project scope – stakeholder engagement.
- Strong understanding of workflow design
- Collaborate with onshore Implementation Consultant and onshore Business Analysts understand business requirements, with the ability to convert requirements into effective system configuration
- Work effectively across multiple cross-functional teams such as implementation teams, client operations, and client application development
- Support quality assurance (QA) and user acceptance testing (UAT), triaging and correcting reported bugs or defects.
- Work with internal groups and outside vendors to ensure successful and a quality project completion.
- Ability to work effectively in an agile, fast paced environment.
- Strong team player, working in an individual contributor and/or team environment.
- Document functional specifications for configuring the application flows as per user requirements and support User acceptance testing as needed.
Senior Consultant (Functional)/Sr. Business Analyst/Sr.Product Analyst
Wipro Technologies, ltd
03.2008 - 08.2017
- This role demands working closely with customers as Functional Consultant to understand their business model & requirements, translate them into software requirements document, engaging team for delivery of the IT solution and ensuring that the requirements is delivered on time without compromising on the quality of the deliverables.
- Project: Worked in multiple Electricity, Gas and Water - UK clients
- Southern Water Services, Electricity North West, Bristol Water and CLK Enerji (Turkey)
- Latest Project
- One of the Turkey's largest energy utilities proposed to have Oracle Utilities solutions to transform and modernize its billing systems and improve service quality for its customers across all areas of its business under 3 regions.
- Skills
- Business Analysis, System and product feasibility study, Product and Process knowledge of Oracle Customer care and Billing. Test and Release management.
- Technologies:
- Work and Asset management products –
- ABB Ellipse, SAP Plant Maintenance and SAP
- – IS Utilities.
- Oracle CC&B product -CRM, Metering
- V2.5.0.2 Oracle OUCSS – Oracle Utilities Self
- Service v2.2
- Tools: SQL developer, Oracle Application Testing Suite – Oracle Test Manager, MS Visio, MS-office product suite, WINSCP, SVN- Configuration management, SOAP UI
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead a team of five members who handle various developments under RICEFW model for product customization using OUAF framework especially in CRM and Metering process.
- Liaise with various business units together and define business requirements and decide on action items. -As is and To Be study for implementing Oracle CCB products for Customer care and Billing Systems, Work and Asset Management systems.
- Drafting BPDD, FDD, TDD and Test plan, Test Case executions, Reporting requirements for Compliance.
- Manage multiple teams (functional and technical) to coordinate interdependencies.
- Requirement gathering through workshops by liaising with multiple teams – owners, map them to different processes.
- Provide guidance to stakeholders on devising effective and efficient approaches to achieve the business objective.
- Preparation/reviewofprojectresponsesbasedonthebusinessrequirement
- Develop and maintain efficient, safe and effective work practices
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
HyderabadEPGDBM - Business Management
Symbiosis International University
PuneSkills
Comprehensive product expertise
Core banking platform
Empower and Encompass (Loan Origination Suite) for US Mortgage
Sales Edge (CRM Lead management solution) - products of Black Knight Inc
Utilities CIS Billing Products
Oracle Customer Care and Billing (Oracle CCB) – Sales & Marketing, Billing
Product strategy
Product lifecycle management
Vendor Management
Team Management
Product roadmaps
Data-driven decision making
Teamwork and collaboration
Agile software development
Stakeholder communications
Product backlog management
Certification
Professional Product Owner-AI essentials
Rewards and Recognitions
Awarded Collaboration Champion Award at CCB PXT level for Product management in JP Morgan Chase &Co., Awarded Feather in My Cap (twice), Best Team Player by Senior Management and Project teams., Awarded High Profile Presenter for ensuring a zero-bug deliverable to the client., Awarded Best Project Execution – Team award for Oracle CCB Implementations., Received multiple commendations from the clients for contribution towards the various projects.