Srinivas Kancharla
Product Owner
Bengaluru
Summary
Experienced product management professional well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and principles of product development. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move products efficiently through pre-production and production timelines. Expertise in development tools such as GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes and any cloud deployments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Product Owner
Nokia Networks
Bengaluru
12.2019 - Current
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog for 4 products in OSS Service Orchestration space used by more than 200 enterprise customers.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
- Suggested enhancements to product design that would improve user experience.
- Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
- Documented each step in product's design process for use in manuals.
- Interacted with internal stakeholders as voice of customer.
- Attended Agile ceremonies, demos and production proving activities.
- Liaised with product team and development team to help break down requirements.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
- Maintained internal product knowledge database.
- Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
Solutions Architect, TPM
Nokia
Bangalore
11.2016 - 12.2019
- Managed four OSS Service Orchestration products used by 300+ telcom service providers worldwide
- Had grip on the domain and on the technical know how of the products
- Groomed backlog transparent, understandable and visible to team of 7 members
- Coordinating with PLMs, Program managers and executed the product as per vision and roadmap
- Interacted with marketing and sales teams for customer commitments and respect SLAs
- Reviewed the design and technical output from development teams and took decisions for product releases which helps for customer experience
- Participated and managed the customer issues for their live systems and support them till issue resolves
- Engaged with customers in understanding the pain points while using the product and took decisions to address them in the product vision
- Helped the engineering team actively in meeting the sprint goals
- Driving development activities according to scrum policies and execution of sprint
- Other Responsibilities
- Roles:,
- Handled large scale transformation & greenfield projects to reduce opex and capex
- Analyze customer technology, define business requirements & participate in solutioning which helps for smoother design and development phases
- Responded to customer RFPs and contributed to BRD documents
- Supported sales teams in customer early stage engagements: provide subject matter expertise, identify customer needs/market trends maintain domain speciifc analysis
- Travelled to customer meetings & related business activities
- Participated in solutions focusing on Fixed access, carrier ethernet & optic transport infrastructure
- Create value proposition, positioning, differentiators, and competitor win plans
- Developed workflows for order management.
- Designed architecture strategies for large-scale system-wide application deployments.
- Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
- Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
- Promoted experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Amazon Web Services.
- Prepared cost estimates and bid documents by studying customer RFPs and consulting with project managers.
- Interacted with customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
Advisory Consultant
IBM
Bangalore
05.2013 - 11.2016
- Architect in packaged software solution Development
- Worked for North America and European accounts
- Managed multiple customer projects in the role of Senior Advisory Consult for end-to-end solution delivery
- Design end to end solutions in telecom for multiple customers.
- Participated in customer workshops and gave expertise recommendations for the Service orchestration workflows.
- Responded to RFPs and participated in technical pre-sales.
- Designed technical BRDs documents for customer and also for internal solution development.
- Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
- Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
Consultant, Senior Consultant
Capgemini
Bangalore
03.2006 - 05.2013
- Software Solution Development
- Design & Develop Ordermanagement, P&A solutions using Oracle Metasolv, Oracle ASAP(P&A)
- Developed solutions for Fixed line & GSM services
- Worked with customers in NAM region : Fairpoint LLC, Frontier, SaskTel, Rogers.
Trainee Developer
NIIT Limited
Hyderabad
06.2006 - 01.2007
- Trained in Software Engineering
- Developed Employee Placement page for NIIT staff to store employee information and placements.
Education
Executive Program - Product Management
Indian School of Business Management
Hyderabad 12.2021 - 04.2022
Diploma in Software Engineering - Software Engineering
NIIT
Hyderabad 03.2006 - 12.2006
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
JNTU
Hyderabad 08.2001 - 04.2005
Skills
Stakeholder relationship management
Agile frameworks
Scrum methodology
Troubleshooting
Product Management
Product development
Client communication
P&L Management
Accomplishments
- Oracle Certified ‘Oracle Communications Order and service management Specialist’
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Virtualization
- DevOps
- AWS
- Java, xml, webservices
- Relational & NOSql DBs
- APIs
Technical Skills
Kubernetes
Docker
Jenkins
Webservices REST full and SOAP
Java
Databases: PostgreSQL and Oracle
Certification
Product Management Training from ISB - 2021-2022
Timeline
Executive Program - Product Management
Indian School of Business Management
12.2021 - 04.2022
Product Management Training from ISB - 2021-2022
12-2021
Product Owner
Nokia Networks
12.2019 - Current
Solutions Architect, TPM
Nokia
11.2016 - 12.2019
Certified SOA Developer, IBM
06-2014
Certified Orchestration Consultant, Oracle
02-2014
Advisory Consultant
IBM
05.2013 - 11.2016
Trainee Developer
NIIT Limited
06.2006 - 01.2007
Diploma in Software Engineering - Software Engineering
NIIT
03.2006 - 12.2006
Consultant, Senior Consultant
Capgemini
03.2006 - 05.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
JNTU
08.2001 - 04.2005