Praveen Kumar

• Project: Contract & Price Management, Engineering activities dashboard and Intermodal
  terminal operational
  activities Dec 2019 - Present
  (Client: One of the Class 1 Railroad Transporter in North America)
  • Launched contract and price management applications with complex bulk price revising from downloaded price spreadsheets and auto price adjustment features.
  • Launched a schematic representation application to showcase complete railroad network, assets, work orders and defects to improve efficiency of track inspector and foreman.
  • Value added suggestion provided to automate manual work orders and that saved ~ $7M annually for client.
  • Implemented an application that defines all the Intermodal terminal operations and a logic to identification of equipment DROP and PICK events, with the aim of efficiency and accuracy improvement of drivers.
• Project: Manufacturing quality control SPC system Jun 2014 - Nov 2019
  (Client: One of the pioneer in Manufacturing SPC domain in US)
  • Launched a cloud based B2B SPC application aimed at reducing manufacturing costs by the use of real time predictive analytics.
  • Designed solutions related to industry 4.0 and leveraging Microsoft Azure Cloud SaaS technology.
  • Created Marketing Strategy and launched this product in market in Apr-2017. Currently, more than 30000+ licenses are sold out.
  Currently, more than 30000+ licenses are sold out.

• Acted as liaison between business, sales and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands.
• Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution development process and ensure the product team understands the direction and vision.
• Collaborated with teams to discover and deliver the best solution to the market presented by the product team lead and the business.
• Created and maintained the product vision, roadmap, and backlog of work through the project's life cycle.
• Prioritized product backlog to maximize the business value.
• Analyzed product metrics and trends to assess product health and improvement opportunities.
• Gained a deep understanding of users and customers, identified and filled product gaps and generated new ideas that improve user experience and drive growth.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) on every release iteration.
• Showcased product's unique selling points to potential customers via presentations, demos, posters, user stories and effective documentation.
• Collaborated with pre-sales team in responding the RFPs.
• Well acquainted with the Agile scrum, Waterfall, V & Iterative methodologies of SDLC process.
• Sound knowledge of Wireframing tools (Axure & Balsamiq) and UML diagrams.
• Product Backlog Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence and Team Foundation Server (TFS) Wireframing Tools: Axure RP Pro, Balsamiq and Pencil UML Diagram Tool: MS Visio, Draw.io and Gliffy.

• One of the pioneer in Manufacturing SPC domain in US) Worked as product owner and maintained product backlog.
• Determined user story candidates for release based on value, feasibility, and business and customer impact.
• Launched a cloud based B2B SPC application aimed at reducing manufacturing costs by the use of real time predictive analytics.
• Designed solutions related to industry 4.0 and leveraging Microsoft Azure Cloud SaaS technology.

• Project: India's largest government project Nov 2013 - Jun 2014
  (Client: Indian Government)
  • Developed business requirement document and functional specifications for client engagements.
  • Designed and prioritized solutions related to largest unique identification project of Indian government.
  • Accelerated process for enrollment of unique identification numbers and tracking the status of enrollment to printing.

Project: Laboratory information and clinical analysis system

Oct 2009 - Oct 2013
(Client: One of the market leader in Scandinavian region)
• Gathered business requirements by interacting with business users, stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Designed and prioritized solutions for HIS (Hospital Information System) product for Scandinavian region.
• Product featured with complete laboratory and clinical analysis solutions.

Project: Retail POS application Jul 2007 - Sep 2009
(Client: One of the largest retailer in US)
• Prepared Software Requirement Specification document (SRS) and then analyze, and convert business requirements into functional specifications.
• Prepared and executed test cases to validate the functionality of the application.
• Designed solutions for POS (Point of Sale) for one of the largest retailer. POS is basically an application device in which all the sales transactions in retail industry are performed.
• Retailer's profit increased by manifolds with various discounting, sales and nventory management features added in the product.
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inventory management features added in the product.