Puspita Priyadarshini
Advanced Product Manager (IIMK)
Bangalore
Summary
Engineering Delivery
· Portfolio alignment to top line growth, LOB goals, SaaS acceleration
· Strategic engagement & outcome led portfolio road mapping
· Leverage Data as strategic asset in each vertical to inform & drive insight driven action
· Assess each verticals gaps for SaaS readiness & alignment with roadmap
Business Analysis & Digital Transformation
· Special skills on cloud native apps and with capabilities to impact the top line growth.
· Expertise in business analysis skills with a goal of bringing operational efficiencies and generating ROI.
· Played key role in RFP process to evaluate the Salesforce CPQ tool, SAP Feasibility & INFA MDM for VMware.
· Solution Architect (Product Owner) for VMware’s custom CPQ, SaaS transformation & headless configurator as key result areas.
Packaged & Custom App
· Understanding of microservice architecture and the ability to think and define business requirements & solutions accordingly.
· Good knowledge in Oracle R12 and Oracle Sales Cloud with techno-functional experience in Order Management, Inventory, Install Base, Pricing ,Purchase Order, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Service Contracts modules.
· Good knowledge of Salesforce demand to quote flow that include lead creation, opportunity management, salesforce CPQ, Sales cloud and Service Cloud
Leadership
· Lead and influence a team of 30+ team members (product owners, Developer and QA engineers).
· Run architecture forum/Team meetings , workshops to ensure architecture design & execution is accurate/scalable/resilient
· Excelled in global eco system by collaborating with team & stakeholders in multiple countries.
· An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills.
· Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities. Possess a flexible & detail-oriented attitude Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation.
Excellent relationship-building, organisational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Product Owner
VMWare Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
2019.10 - Current
- VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualisation technology company with headquarters in California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualise the x86 architecture.
- As a Product Owner I am responsible for participating in the Discovery and Framing sessions, performing current state analysis, take down high level business requirements, identifying high-level solutions and propose a high-level solution for VMware LTD.
- I was instrumental in contributing towards onboarding multiple mergers and acquisitions (M&A) projects to the existing VMWare Platform starting from feature mapping to object mapping to field level mapping.
- Create high quality user stories in the product backlog using JIRA and prioritise them through Sprints as per the business priority and product roadmap.
- Conduct grooming sessions to convert high level business requirements to workable user stories.
- Conduct sessions with Technical Architects and Developers for detailed solutioning and showcase the solutions to Business stake holders for alignment and approvals.
- Guide developers to build POCs to explain the high level working of the business solutions to the business users when needed.
- Support completion of UAT by conducting training sessions, preparing user guides, helping users understand the new features, take UAT feedback to plan for the product enhancements
- Support rollouts to global regions, get the users test the application in production, help them overcome any real-time issues.
- Work in an Agile methodology for fast paced delivery and quick go-to-market strategies.
- Project Work:
- SaaS transformation project was created to onboard new mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to the existing VMWare sales platform. This included the modules starting from Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunity Management, CPQ(Configure, Quote, Pricing), Order Management etc. We have also enabled the data models for various integration and reporting purpose. The objective is to bring in the new acquired companies’ processes and data to the VMWare systems.
- I am also a PO for Service Cloud in case management and the portal developments.· Have exposure for rolling out multiple Salesforce Lightning applications for multiple geographies from Classic platform.
- Have also played as product owner for Full stack applications where VMware has developed customer portal, admin control and product hub (ACPQ). Recently VMware is also retiring the Oracle ERP platform , so I am responsible for Building the entire product realignment to cloud native applications.
Senior Consultant, Advisory Services
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
2011.06 - 2019.06
- As a techno functional consultant have worked with multiple clients like Pearson, MTN, NetApp, ABCAM, Pearson, ICU Medial etc. in analysing current state, identifying business process gaps, brainstorming ideas and suggesting best fit solution to address the gaps.
- Always have an attitude towards learning and putting the business owner’s/users’ requirements in fore front while suggesting the best available solutions.
- Have demonstrated my technical capabilities in Salesforce CRM while suggesting various solutions.
- Strength in designing UI experience for customers in Order Management (O2C), Procure to Pay (P2P), Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
- I was involved in preparing the solution design document for the proposed implementation using Oracle Sales Cloud tools to help clients in achieving various KPIs in terms of cost reduction or growth.
- Involved in E2E implementation which started from gathering requirements to training end users.
- Had worked as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for different applications and had helped teams in understanding existing applications, feasibility of SFDC and Oracle R12 solution and preparing related documents.
- Co-ordination:
- Have worked with internal teams in identifying solutions for various pipeline opportunities.
- Handled escalations, anticipated risks and had proactively suggested mitigation plans for any kind of impediments in the projects.
- Project Management:
- Have worked on various project related documents like Software Requirement Specification, various planning documents, contracts, Integration document and other materials.
- Have exposure in managing the phases of plan, design, build, test and implementation of IT projects for various engagements with geographically distributed teams.
- Have worked on Agile methodologies.
- Responsible for creating and tracking user stories, sprints and managed product backlog prioritisation using JIRA.
- Estimation:
- Worked on estimating the resource costs, budget allocations, cross-charging, tracking earned value and reporting any deviations along the different phases of a project.
- Responsible for interviewing and onboarding fresh talent for the Salesforce and Oracle capabilities.
- Project Work:
- Pearson project was to support rollouts of UK division across the globe and maintain the client’s production environment. This project continued after the first successful implementation of Oracle eBS R12. The work streams involved were Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Planning, Projects and Order Management. As a Service Delivery Lead I was responsible for scope finalisation, allocating resources and overall delivery of the project.
- Milgard implementing Oracle Application R12 on Oracle On-demand environment for their Rig solution business division. As an implementation project, this required various integration between different modules and customization in various oracle standard processes. Almost all the modules in Oracle Application like Finance (Payables, Receivables, General Ledger, Banking and Fixed Asset), Manufacturing, Projects, and Order Management were implemented.
- Netapps project was designed for B2B customer Quote to Cash using Salesforce Sales Cloud and Oracle ERP. I had played a key role in B2B business model as a technical lead.
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
2005.05 - 2019.06
- As a Technical Team Lead was responsible for providing technical details with the technical design documentation
- Conducted peer review for technical design documents.
- Was responsible for Coding and conducting code peer review
- Implemented new interfaces, customised Workflows, Form Customisation, Form Personalisation, new Reports, New Alerts and New Extensions during SDLC phases and providing support until go - live.
- Had played a major role as solution architect from Oracle when entire Oracle System has been replaced with Sterling Commerce Application.
- Project Work:
- I was playing a Senior Software Engineer having solid technical skill in Oracle Form, Oracle Reports , Oracle Workflow in Order Management
Education
Bachelor in Engineering - Computer Science
Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha
Odisha 2001.06 - 2004.06
Executive Management Development Program (eMDP) - Advanced Product Management
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Kozhikode 2001.04 -
Skills
Advanced Product Management
Salesforcecom (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Salesforce Admin, CPQ)
Oracle R12, Oracle Sales Cloud ,OM, AP, PO, AR, SCM
SQL/PLSQL, Java, Unix,Oracle Workflow, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, BI Publisher report
Cloud Native Apps
Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills
Communication & Decision-Making ,Responsible & team player
Scrum Practitioner
Enthusiastic & Quick Learner
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner from Simplilearn
Timeline
Product Owner
VMWare Pvt. Ltd.
2019.10 - Current
Senior Consultant, Advisory Services
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
2011.06 - 2019.06
Senior Software Engineer
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.
2005.05 - 2019.06
Bachelor in Engineering - Computer Science
Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha
2001.06 - 2004.06
Executive Management Development Program (eMDP) - Advanced Product Management
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
2001.04 -