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Manu Kumar R
Product Owner
Summary
Experienced product management professional with over 9 years of experience, well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and the Insurance (Property and Casualty – P&C) domain.
A Scrum Alliance CSPO, certified product owner with detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life value adding products for various insurance providers.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Sapiens
Bengaluru
01.2022 - Current
- Owning and prioritizing the product backlog (Smart Upload Application).
- Overseeing the entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Managing implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications.
- Working on feature development for back-end API services, API portals.
- Creation of SDS, Interface SDS and product setup books for various Insurance Products including creation of detailed interface process flows, sample request response
Product Owner
Amadeus Labs
Bengaluru
04.2021 - 01.2022
- Played the role of a Product Owner in the Rule Type Designer – Self Service Module (SSM).
- Worked with the stakeholders from various airlines and identified features of the SSM Module required.
- Analyzed the required features in scope and created the specification documents.
- Collaborated with development team and conducted trainings sessions.
Senior Business Analyst
Sapiens
Bengaluru
08.2018 - 04.2021
- Interacted with customers to understand business needs through requirements workshop sessions and translated them into requirements and project scope.
- Performed feasibility checks with existing product to identify gaps from the requirements.
- Liaised with core framework teams to ensure requirement feasibility and scope for customizations.
- Carried out Data Model analysis and identification of required updates and customizations.
- Creation and configuration of Insurance Products and providing walkthrough to clients for further requirement analysis.
- Played the role of a proxy product owner by ensuring all the stories are implemented as per the requirements.
- Mentored junior BAs and provided the support required to aid their ramp up to the projects.
Business Analyst
Infosys
Chennai
08.2013 - 07.2018
- Actively took part in requirements elicitation workshops conducted by Product Owners.
- Analyzed requirements and created simple wireframes and wrote business rules.
- Worked with the product owner to take up each feature, create Themes, Epics and write User Stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
- Worked with product owner to prioritize the user stories and independently groomed the user stories to the development teams.
- Evolved into a subject matter expert of the products/applications handled.
- Actively took part in the planning activities of the releases and coordinated with multiple vendors to ensure successful releases.
Education
MBA - Consultancy Management
BITS Pilani
Study While You Work Program 08.2016 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
KNS Institute Of Technology
Bangalore, India 03.2008 - 04.2012
Skills
Scrum methodology
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
Interests
Photography
Timeline
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
08-2022
Product Owner
Sapiens
01.2022 - Current
Product Owner
Amadeus Labs
04.2021 - 01.2022
Senior Business Analyst
Sapiens
08.2018 - 04.2021
MBA - Consultancy Management
BITS Pilani
08.2016 - 08.2018
Business Analyst
Infosys
08.2013 - 07.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering
KNS Institute Of Technology
03.2008 - 04.2012
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