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Neeraj Kumar

Noida

Summary

Seasoned Product Manager with over 17 years of experience in digital product development. Expertise in managing the product lifecycle from concept to market launch, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution. Strong analytical skills drive data-informed decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives. Proven ability to foster cross-functional collaboration to achieve strategic goals.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Tech Product Manager

Optum (United Health Group)
03.2021 - Current
  • Built the Patient Access & Engagement platform, enhancing patient-provider matching, improving access, outcomes, and reducing costs, while delivering comprehensive patient experiences, and supporting provider business priorities.
  • Managed product strategy aligned with market trends and customer needs.
  • Gathered and prioritized market requirements to drive product development.
  • Collaborated with engineers, UX designers, and DevSecOps to manage product lifecycle.
  • Maintained product roadmap consistent with organizational vision and objectives.
  • Monitored healthcare regulations to ensure compliance with legal standards.
  • Conducted build, buy, or partner analyses to evaluate strategic options.
  • Performed secondary market research to inform decision-making processes.
  • Developed wireframes and conducted product demos for stakeholders.

Product Manager

Optum (United Health Group)
Noida
01.2020 - 03.2021
  • Launched MVP for MDI, an automated solution utilizing machine learning, OCR, and NLP.
  • Established product vision and strategy for Medical Document Indexing solution.
  • Gathered and prioritized customer problems to create actionable functional requirements.
  • Developed core messaging and marketing materials to enhance outreach efforts.
  • Defined user and buyer personas to refine targeting accuracy.
  • Conducted product demonstrations to showcase capabilities to prospective customers.
  • Managed product backlog to ensure alignment with user needs and priorities.
  • Represented user needs to engineering team, improving overall product alignment.

Product Manager

Optum (United Health Group)
Noida
09.2018 - 12.2019

Built the UHG Enterprise Data Catalog, a unified inventory of data assets to helps data professionals quickly find and understand data, support data governance, and ensure consistent, high-quality data across the enterprise.

Developed and managed product strategy and roadmap to align team efforts with vision.

Represented user needs to ensure product relevance and effectiveness.

Demonstrated product business value to customers and stakeholders, enhancing engagement.

Defined and measured success metrics to assess product performance.

Provided direction to Agile development team, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders.

Planned and prioritized product features and user stories within backlog.

Lead Business Analyst

DXC Technology
Noida
06.2013 - 09.2018
  • Built a commercial Electronic Health Record (EHR) system.
  • Conducted gap analysis to assess client needs and document critical business requirements.
  • Developed understanding of business objectives through discussions and consultations with clients.
  • Defined project business requirements alongside IT solutions to ensure alignment with goals.
  • Created prototypes and functional solution designs to visualize proposed systems.
  • Participated in responding to RFPs and RFIs to secure new projects.
  • Collaborated with QA team to review test cases, plans, and conduct usability testing.
  • Facilitated user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate application effectiveness.
  • Authored user manuals and help guides to support end-user training.

System Analyst

DXC Technology
Noida
10.2010 - 06.2013
  • Conducted requirement analysis through discussions with business stakeholders.
  • Developed low-level technical and functional designs to meet project specifications.
  • Executed coding and unit testing using Java/J2EE, PL/SQL, and Oracle.
  • Performed system integration development utilizing HL7 V3 standards.
  • Facilitated code and design reviews to ensure adherence to quality standards.

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd
Chandigarh
11.2007 - 10.2010
  • Converted client requirements into optimized application specifications.
  • Developed technical designs and implemented code in Java/J2EE utilizing Oracle RDBMS.
  • Conducted thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices.

Education

BE (Hons) - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Tech
Murthal, Haryana
06.2007

Skills

  • Product management and strategy
  • Business consulting
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Healthcare expertise
  • UI/UX design
  • Design thinking methodologies
  • Generative AI and machine learning
  • Agile project management
  • HL7 standards (V2x, V3, FHIR)
  • Java programming
  • SQL database management
  • RESTful APIs

Certification

  • Portfolio Product Management Certified by Proficientz
  • HL7 V3 RIM certification.
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
  • Optum ACE Advanced Certification for Strategic Product Management

Timeline

Sr Tech Product Manager

Optum (United Health Group)
03.2021 - Current

Product Manager

Optum (United Health Group)
01.2020 - 03.2021

Product Manager

Optum (United Health Group)
09.2018 - 12.2019

Lead Business Analyst

DXC Technology
06.2013 - 09.2018

System Analyst

DXC Technology
10.2010 - 06.2013

Senior Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd
11.2007 - 10.2010

BE (Hons) - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Tech
Neeraj Kumar