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Bibhu Prasad Swain

Bibhu Prasad Swain

Product Owner
Hyderabad

Summary

CSPO® and CSM® certified solution driven product owner and business analyst with experiences of leading cross-functional teams in the development, project and product management, documentation and delivery of process innovations driving the attainment of business goals. Seek opportunities to transform company practices into fresh, cost-effective solutions leading to more efficient operations.

Proficient in effectively collaborating with business stakeholders and providing feasible software solutions that align with the requirements and objectives. With a proven track record in initiating and executing system transformations, I have a strong focus on enterprise strategy and architecture as an Enterprise Architect.

Exhibited leadership throughout complete product development lifecycles, encompassing activities such as requirement analysis, architectural design, proof of concept (POC) creation, estimation, code review, impact analysis, and deployment.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr. Business Analyst & Product Owner

Verizon India
Hyderabad
06.2021 - 07.2023
  • Collaborated led 8-person product development team collaboration and vision toward launching product
    solutions that are simple, delightful, and impacting
  • Documented detailed Epics, Features, engineering, non-functional (Reporting, Accessibility, Security) and functional stories using Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
  • Conducted design PI planning, product vision and backlog prioritization using MoSCoW principle
  • Worked with Senior PM to design product roadmap, prepared PRD, develop features and enhancements based on data metrics and analytical insights
  • Owned the product lifecycle from requirements gathering through development and go-live
  • Spearheaded product discovery and customer/market research, resulting in a 25% increase in new leads
  • Developed and prioritized a 45% overhauled roadmap that aligned with the broader business strategy
  • Implemented requirements for 80% of user stories, mockups, wireframes, and storyboards
  • Delivered 11 weekly verbal and written storytelling of customer issues, customer journey, and product outcomes
  • Performed Market research, Competitor analysis to derive decisions for the product roadmap
  • Redesigned/Revamped the User Experience for existing application
  • Knowledge of cross department touchpoints with Engineering, UI/UX, Sales, Finance, Marketing & Support
  • Implemented BULK feature in product to excel the 10X scale and reduce the time
  • Leading Go to Market strategy for product/feature launch and campaigns
  • Adept in building context diagrams, function flow diagrams, and cross-functional for a business process to analyze the current vs future state

Business Analyst and Scrum Master

Verizon India
Hyderabad
02.2017 - 05.2021
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories
  • Articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams
  • Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams
  • Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams
  • Product planning eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, business process descriptions, user stories and scenarios
  • Defined, monitored, and analyzed key metrics for launched products/features and feed learnings back into our product development and learning process
  • Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standup's, Sprint retrospectives,Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning, UAT, SIT, Production deployment
  • Tracked and managed Product backlog, burn-down matrices, sprint velocity and task breakdown to provide transparency on product
  • Planned and estimated 3-weeks sprints in a realistic yet time-efficient manner that allowed the teams to deliver 97% of the MVP according to the company roadmap

Team Lead Consultant

Verzion India
Hyderabad
08.2015 - 01.2017
  • Presales team liaison with business on large RFPs and provide the quick solutions as well as contract/pricing preparation without any hiccups
  • The team took the ownership for the quoting, contracting and pricing modules
  • I lead a team of 13 members with a mix of global employees and vendors
  • Conducted and participated in business reviews
  • Focused on solutions design, validation and stake holder’s approval
  • End to end responsibility on the projects delivered
  • Metrics on the progress and the product adaptation
  • Tools & technologies: Ericssion OrderCare, pl/sql, sql, ms excel, tableau, JIRA, Jenkins

Consultant

Verizon India
Hyderabad
06.2012 - 07.2015
  • USeC is the MDM system for the complete wireline business stack and has data feed from 6+ systems and 20+ consuming systems
  • Lead and manage the data governance process and product lifecycle management
  • Involved as the IT lead in all the product/solution designs and validation of the approach
  • Technical feasibility study on the business asks and solutions presentation adhering to the design and enterprise architecture principles
  • Devops principles and CICD implementation on the PLM and MDM
  • Part of architecture board on evaluating the tools for MDM to identify the scope and capabilities as defined
  • In the enterprise architecture for federation and SID model of data
  • Built a highly motivated team of employees and vendors and was a go to person for business for any technical issues
  • Tools & technologies: CW Catalog Manager, SQL, Pl/Sql, Excel, Sharepoint, Jenkins

Senior Engineer

Collabera Technologies
Chennai
03.2011 - 05.2012
  • Lead a team for an enterprise quoting and ordering tool with 8k active users.
  • Took special interest on the support tickets analysis and identify the top pain points.
  • Suggested and implemented the system changes to reduce the incoming IR count to 30%.
  • Created a KB on user training issues and workarounds
  • Adhered to timelines to meet quality assurance targets for releases.
  • Conducted tests & surveys to determine success of product performance.
  • Monitored employee performance to keep projects on task.
  • Tools & technologies: Java, Oracle, pl/sql, oracle forms, excel and ppt

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
12.2006 - 02.2011
  • Worked as a developer to automate the manual process involved in data gathering and created the central repo for the data dump
  • Used functions to read excel data and insert into the DB. Test the data and health checks for the CRON jobs
  • Worked as a lead developer with the task to create the workflow automation for the role based access instances creation across both legacy and modern applications like, Mainframe, Unix and applications.
  • Implemented the admin dashboard for real-time visibility of the systems health and status of the workflows.
  • Tools & technologies: Java, J2EE, Oracle IADM, pl/sql, shell script

Education

MBA - Information Systems

SMU DE
07.2014 - 06.2016

Electrical Engineering

BPUT
Odisha
06.2002 - 07.2006

Skills

    Tools: JIRA AzureDevops Confluence Miro Tableau MS Office MS Visio Advanced Excel SharePoint Atlassian ServiceNow ITSM SlackJavaOracleEricsson OrderCareCatalog Manager

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Timeline

Sr. Business Analyst & Product Owner

Verizon India
06.2021 - 07.2023

Business Analyst and Scrum Master

Verizon India
02.2017 - 05.2021

Team Lead Consultant

Verzion India
08.2015 - 01.2017

MBA - Information Systems

SMU DE
07.2014 - 06.2016

Consultant

Verizon India
06.2012 - 07.2015

Senior Engineer

Collabera Technologies
03.2011 - 05.2012

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
12.2006 - 02.2011

Electrical Engineering

BPUT
06.2002 - 07.2006
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