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Sarith Krishna Rao

Bangalore

Summary

Accomplished Product Owner with expertise in Product Management and Technology Consulting, specializing in the integration of new systems and processes to achieve business excellence. Proven track record in Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Integration, Business Analysis, Consulting, and Technical Integration within the Healthcare sector. Extensive on-site experience in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner, Specialist II

Philips Healthcare R&D
Bangalore
11.2021 - Current
  • As a Product Owner, spearheaded product incubation, comprehensive product strategies and roadmaps, conducted market research, collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product development and launches. Managed product lifecycles, gathered customer feedback, and led teams to optimize and enhance products, particularly in the healthcare sector.
  • Worked primarily with various research facilities across sites and hospitals to Collaborate with designers, developers, knowledge partners and practitioners to translate the product vision into reality.
  • Led various events as a key opinion leader in various CT-Imaging forums and product incubation summits.
  • Product Strategy: Developed comprehensive product roadmaps, defined vision and goals, and ensured alignment across all teams with the overall product strategy.
  • Market Research: Conducted thorough market research to understand customer needs, preferences, and pain points, using these insights to guide product development.
  • Product Development: Collaborated closely with engineering and design teams to create products that meet customer needs, are technically feasible, and align with the product strategy.
  • Requirement Analysis and Feasibility Study: Worked with multiple clinical and End User stakeholders to define requirements for different functional modules and new features.
  • Agile Methodologies Mentor: Helped facilitate and plan multiple PI (Program Increments), ran through the various stages from planning, to backlog grooming to prioritization.
  • CAPA Owner: Owned multiple CAPA related activities, through the phases of initial analysis to root cause discussions to risk mitigations and change management.
  • Audit Representations: Represented multiple Audits both ISO, MDSAP and FDA related back room support for the product I owned.
  • Product Launch: Coordinated product launches, including developing marketing and sales strategies, creating product documentation, and training sales and support teams.
  • Product Lifecycle Management: Managed the product lifecycle, making decisions on feature updates and enhancements, sunsetting or retiring products, and analysing product performance metrics.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked with various teams within the organization, such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure unified efforts towards product goals.
  • Customer Feedback: Collected and utilized customer feedback to inform product decisions and improvements.
  • Competitive Analysis: Monitored the competitive landscape to identify market trends and opportunities, using this information to inform product decisions.
  • Research & Development: Contributed to multiple R&D product incubation projects.
  • Clinical & Advanced Medical Imaging: Collaborated on refining products for various market needs in the healthcare sector.
  • Team Leadership: Led teams of Product Owners to implement new features and optimize existing products.

Product Owner

Korber Pharma
Bangalore
07.2021 - 11.2021
  • Led the practice of storyboarding and developed user stories with clear acceptance criteria, ensuring they were VENTI (Valuable, Estimable, Negotiable, Testable, and Independent). Acted as the voice of the customer, maintaining a deep understanding of customer needs and business logic to guide rapid technical decisions. Managed the product backlog effectively and prevented unnecessary short-term trade-offs, ensuring consistent and agreed-upon customer deliverables.
  • Storyboarding Leadership: Led the practice of storyboarding to visualize and plan product features and workflows.
  • User Story Development & Prioritization: Developed and prioritized user stories based on business benefits and relative costs, aligned with business objectives.
  • Acceptance Criteria Definition: Clearly defined acceptance criteria for each user story to ensure clarity and alignment.
  • VENTI Stories: Ensured that user stories were Valuable, Estimable, Negotiable, Testable, and Independent (VENTI).
  • Customer Deliverables Verification: Verified that customer deliverables of stories were consistent and agreed upon.
  • Customer Advocacy: Acted as the voice of the customer, maintaining a solid understanding of customer and user segments.
  • Business Needs & Product Domain Understanding: Possessed a strong understanding of business needs, product domain, and business logic to enable rapid technical development decisions.
  • Product Backlog Management: Managed the scope of the product backlog effectively.
  • Trade-off Prevention: Prevented customers and users from making unnecessary short-term product development trade-offs.

Sr Product Analyst

Cerner Healthcare
Bangalore
11.2018 - 07.2021
  • Led requirement gathering and analysis through scrum calls and modelling, ensuring business expectations were met via demos and walk-throughs. Managed client and stakeholder communication, project quality, and agile project management, contributing to new client architecture and integration.
  • Requirement Gathering & Analysis: Conducted requirement gathering and analysis through scrum calls and studying existing business requirements, using wireframes and mock-ups for modelling.
  • Documentation & Sign-Off: Captured and finalized requirements by creating documents such as User Stories, Use Cases, UML Documents, Epic Lists, and Wireframes/Mock-ups, obtaining client sign-off.
  • Client Requirement Transmission: Transmitted client requirements to the development team through walk-through presentations.
  • Business Expectation Management: Ensured business expectations were met by presenting demos on Fridays and walk-throughs on Mondays.
  • Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions: Arranged JAD and brainstorming sessions between technical teams and business stakeholders.
  • Technology Feasibility: Assessed new technology and development feasibility based on requirements.
  • Supporting Documentation: Created supporting documentation such as Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Demo Scripts, and Feature Coverage documents, and developed training manuals for end users.
  • Project Quality Assurance: Reviewed QA documentation maintained requirement traceability, and managed defect triaging.
  • Client Architecture & Domain Setup: Contributed to new client architecture and the setup of client domains.
  • Client & Stakeholder Communication: Solely responsible for client and stakeholder communication and management.
  • Onsite & Offshore Interaction Management: Managed interactions between onsite and offshore teams.
  • Client Migrations & Integration: Worked on various client migrations, integrating new clients and their information.
  • Root Cause Analysis & Retrospective: Conducted root cause analysis and project retrospectives.
  • Agile Project Management: Managed projects using agile methodologies, including daily stand-ups, scrum methods, sprint planning, product backlogs, and program planning, utilizing the Project Management tool Insight (CollabNet).
  • Product Strategy & Innovation: Collaborated with clients and research-based organizations within Cerner on product strategy and innovation for new feature additions.
  • Clinical Workflow Expertise: Provided clinical workflow expertise in clear and concise approaches to facilitate development.

Senior Technology Consultant

Cerner
01.2013 - 01.2018
  • ntegrated Cerner in-house solutions into customer environments using middleware technologies, and installed solutions for patient-flow and tracking. Engaged in business analysis, translating client requirements into functional specifications, and managed project plans, testing, and post-implementation support to ensure customer satisfaction and compliance with standards.
  • Solution Integration: Integrated Cerner in-house solutions into customer on-premise or hybrid environments using middleware technologies.
  • Solution Installation: Installed solutions, solution packages, and mobility solutions for patient-flow and patient tracking.
  • Business Analysis: Engaged in business analysis sessions to understand client business processes, translating these requirements into functional and technical specifications; assisted internal business partners and clients in defining and refining business strategy.
  • Requirement Analysis & Design Validation: Analysed business requirements for process enhancements, streamlined functional process flow, validated high-level and low-level designs created by the development team, and assisted developers through development phases by resolving queries.
  • Documentation & Testing: Generated project plans, business requirements, functional specifications, and impact analysis documents regularly; assisted in functional testing/UAT of new systems, ensuring they met user specifications and obtaining UAT sign-offs.
  • Project Delivery & Support: Delivered projects within preset budgets and deadlines with effective resource management; extended post-implementation and maintenance support to end-users; assisted in effective change management in consultation with stakeholders.
  • Customer Interaction & Satisfaction: Ensured continuous interaction with customers to address areas of concern for improved service levels and implemented measures to maximize customer satisfaction.
  • Team Development & Mentorship: Created and sustained a dynamic environment that fostered development opportunities and motivated performance among team members; guided and mentored junior team members to maintain excellence in project operations.
  • Solution & Technology Alignment: Set up and aligned solution plans with technology plans in compliance with project timelines and milestones; managed the implementation of corrective and preventative actions and best practice change management processes and procedures for EMR and integration solutions.
  • Compliance & Standards Development: Defined and ensured compliance with organizational application domain standards; developed application domain roadmaps for future application services and standards.
  • Testing Strategies & Standards: Developed and implemented application unit test and end-to-end integration test strategies and plans; set up and maintained standards related to the application domain.
  • FHIR Integrations: Worked on multiple FHIR integrations as part of the consulting team.
  • Clinical Healthcare Knowledge: Maintained updated knowledge related to clinical healthcare in inpatient and outpatient settings, and designed and delivered system integration in complex environments.
  • Process Improvement Documentation: Documented process improvements using closed-loop patterns; managed the integration of systems using middleware engines.
  • Stakeholder Liaison: Liaised with stakeholders for end-to-end testing of solutions to ensure seamless implementation of various project phases.

Education

Master Of Computer Applications -

PES Institute Of Technology
Karnataka, India

Skills

  • Requirement Gathering
  • Requirement Analysis
  • Business Analysis
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Scrum
  • SDLC
  • Software Testing
  • RFP Designing
  • Scaled Agile Methodologies
  • System & Gap Analysis
  • Project Execution
  • Systems Integration and Testing
  • Quality Assurance/Compliances
  • Team Management/Trainings
  • Microsoft Visio
  • JIRA
  • HP Quality Center
  • Jazz
  • RQM
  • TFS
  • Clear Quest
  • ClearQuest
  • HL7 & ASTM Standard Related Proficiency
  • Sonic ESB
  • MySQL
  • Cerner Integration Engine (iBus and iCommand)
  • GE,Siemens,Drager,Philips,Roche & Abbot Medical Device Intergrations Into Leading EMRs
  • UNIX
  • JAVA
  • Sonic MQ
  • HP UX
  • AIX
  • Linux Solution Deployment

Languages

  • English
  • Kiswahili
  • Hindi
  • Marathi
  • Kannada

Skillsets

Requirement Gathering, Requirement Analysis, Business Analysis, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, SDLC, Software Testing, RFP Designing, Scaled Agile Methodologies, System & Gap Analysis, Project Execution, Systems Integration and Testing, Quality Assurance/Compliances, Team Management/Trainings, Microsoft Visio, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Jazz, RQM, TFS, Clear Quest, ClearQuest, HL7 & ASTM Standard Related Proficiency, Sonic ESB, MySQL, Cerner Integration Engine (iBus and iCommand), GE, Siemens, Drager, Philips, Roche, Abbot Medical Devices, UNIX, JAVA, MySQL, Sonic MQ, HP UX, AIX, Linux Solution Deployment

Timeline

Product Owner, Specialist II

Philips Healthcare R&D
11.2021 - Current

Product Owner

Korber Pharma
07.2021 - 11.2021

Sr Product Analyst

Cerner Healthcare
11.2018 - 07.2021

Senior Technology Consultant

Cerner
01.2013 - 01.2018

Master Of Computer Applications -

PES Institute Of Technology

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