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Prateek Parashar
Product Management
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Highly passionate professional specializing in Product Management, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis and Product Execution with 8+ years of experience in the domain of Retail & Digital Banking, Client Onboarding, Hotel Distribution and Healthcare, currently working as a Senior Product Owner, who is detailed oriented and adept at making strategic decisions that enable business objectives
Overview
3
3
Certifications
8
8
years of post-secondary education
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Product Owner
Sabre Corporation
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2019 - Current
- Senior Product Owner for the largest hotel distribution platform in the world, responsible for collaborating with business stakeholders, sales, marketing, architecture, and technology to realize the product vision and goals.
- Defined the vision, strategy and currently own the execution of Supplier Acquisition APIs – used by supplier customers to onboard on the lodging marketplace and manage their offerings on the platform.
- Spearheaded the product strategy and Go to market plan for Stay Safe feature on platform – which provides the ability to search for and identify properties with the new safety indicator in post Covid world.
- This led to an increase in 10% of bookings made on platform on monthly basis.
- Own the product roadmap and product backlog for Property Normalization and content acquisition on the platform which is the key USP of platform.
- Identified process gaps in the existing property normalization process and oversaw a solution leading to 5% increase in properties available for shopping/booking on platform.
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile engineering team and stakeholders throughout the product development life cycle while implementing best practices.
Product Analyst
Finastra
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2019 - 07.2019
- Engaged with tactical partners for delivering Geo/bank specific requirements.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to prioritize product backlog items thereby ensuring business value.
- Engaged with process owners and SMEs to understand their as-is business processes (if any), identify scope for process improvement and finally gain consensus on the proposed to-be processes.
Product Owner
Standard Chartered GBS
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2016 - 03.2019
- Experienced in creating requirements artifacts like BRD, FSD, change request, business rules and data mapping.
- Prepared user stories by following INVEST model and acceptance criteria as part of proposed digital transformation of the bank.
- Analyzed business requirements and conceptualize solutions using process maps, detailed workflows, as-is and to-be processes.
- End to end ownership of functional requirements and issue resolution through project delivery lifecycle.
- Maintained product backlog and ensured prioritization of user stories by following MoSCoW model.
- Planned/Spearheaded sprints with the Scrum Team to set the Scope (What?) and Sprint Goal (Why?).
- Held/Steered walkthroughs for development and testing teams and prepared screen mockups for visualization.
- Organized and led/supervised demonstration of sprint deliverable with different stakeholders to get feedback for product improvement.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2011 - 04.2015
- Designed, built, and maintained integrated go-to-market IBM Unica Campaigns flowcharts with exposure to multi-channel digital marketing and campaign life cycle.
- Requirement gathering, application development, unit, and integration testing with understanding of project life cycle in IBM Unica Campaign.
- Client appreciation for serving as SPOC with teams from different organizations and for building strong professional relationships with third-party subcontractors and technology partners.
- Provided high level technical solutions and client deliverables while establishing seamless liaison with key onsite stakeholders.
- Appointed as KM Head and facilitated functional knowledge transfer by creating a formal process for a 10-member team reducing time spent by 20 hours.
Education
MBA - Operations & IT, Marketing
Great Lakes Institute Of Management
Chennai 04.2015 - 04.2016
B.E. - Information Science Enginering
SMVIT
Bangalore 07.2007 - 06.2011
H.S.C - Science Education
St. Joseph Public School
Bihar 04.2004 - 03.2006
S.S.C -
Sunshine Prep High School
Bihar 01.2004 - 12.2004
Skills
Product Management
Stakeholder Management
Requirement Management
Business Analysis
Agile Methodology
Process Optimization
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) by Scrum Alliance
Interests
National politics
Timeline
Senior Product Owner
Sabre Corporation
07.2019 - Current
Product Analyst
Finastra
04.2019 - 07.2019
Product Owner
Standard Chartered GBS
06.2016 - 03.2019
MBA - Operations & IT, Marketing
Great Lakes Institute Of Management
04.2015 - 04.2016
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2011 - 04.2015
B.E. - Information Science Enginering
SMVIT
07.2007 - 06.2011
H.S.C - Science Education
St. Joseph Public School
04.2004 - 03.2006
S.S.C -
Sunshine Prep High School
01.2004 - 12.2004