Vikasitha Kokkonda
Summary
Dynamic Technical Product Manager with a proven track record at Optum, excelling in product lifecycle management and cross-functional collaboration. Spearheaded the GA release of a key module, achieving $40M in sales. Expert in agile methodologies and stakeholder engagement, recognized for exceptional problem-solving skills
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Product Manager
Optum
11.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Optum is a health services and innovation company that provides solutions to improve healthcare delivery
- Led 2+ agile scrum teams of 20+ engineers, Defined product roadmap & E2E ownership of Physician review & spotlight module
- Played pivotal role in GA release comprising of 50+ product features, with $40M qualified commercial sales & $4M potential TCV
- Led product development through the entire lifecycle from ideation to launch; Product went live with 8 clients & 9 in-progress
- Collaborated with engineering, UX & cross-functional teams for seamless product development & launch; ensured timely & high-quality delivery
- Gathered & prioritized requirements from stakeholders; Documented over 70+ user stories per sprint; Delivered 30+ presentations
- Experience with tools like Rally, AHA, Confluence, Figma managing over 50 sprints providing insights and aligning product strategies
- Collaborated with engineering teams to implement scalable solutions, improving performance; maintained documents & user guides
- Coordinated testing of 10+ releases & proactive problem-solving reduced bugs in production; contributed to cost savings & optimized utilization
- Awarded “Exceeds Expectations” from FY’20 to FY’25 & Received multiple bravos from stakeholders
Advisory Services Consultant
Optum
03.2022 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: Optum is a health services and innovation company that provides solutions to improve healthcare delivery
- Developed ETL pipelines, processed 100k+ records per client for Physician Documentation Initiative & Care Variation Insights
- Identified data issues, optimized SQL queries & collaborated with cross-functional teams reducing data processing errors by 90%
- Created & maintained data quality checks for data ingestion; Documented the process & created flow charts of tables for data flow
- Optum is a health services and innovation company that provides solutions to improve healthcare delivery
Advisory Services Analyst
Optum
05.2019 - 02.2022
- Company Overview: Optum is a health services and innovation company that provides solutions to improve healthcare delivery
- Evaluated Value analytics for 2 specialized care entities using QE, BHI & UHC data to identify underlying gaps & improvement areas
- Analysed data for 650k patients for period of 2 years; Created data model & reporting; Analysed costs, Care Utilization & patient’s profiles
- On-time delivery of projects and detailed report comprising of 100+ slides having valuable insights was delivered to the client
- Automated member feedback & gathered insights to improve member experience, site satisfaction with minimum human intervention
- Created user stories, conducted UAT & E2E testing on Myuhc 2.0 & E&I member portal for dashboard, help & activate pages
- Received multiple bravos worth 200k+ amount for collaboration, performance, leadership, Innovation, Quality, Relationships
- Optum is a health services and innovation company that provides solutions to improve healthcare delivery
Programme Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2019 - 02.2022
- Company Overview: Cognizant Technology Solutions is a multinational technology company that provides IT services, including digital, technology, consulting, and operations services
- Worked for 207yrs fortune 500 Client which provides policies to 150 countries; Increased efficiency by 200% using Guidewire Policycentre
- Mapped 31 tables & Solely Responsible for preparing 3000 functional & 1000+ regression test cases; Handled 4 production check-outs
- Increased efficiency by 27% using test case generator; Productivity by 33% using Automation; Improved the quality of data by 22%
- Proactively documented 100+ defects; Saved $60000+ per month; Reduced 240 manhours per month with 0.002 % defect leakage
- Only POC between offshore & onsite; Coordinated with dev team for backend operations; 2 releases which includes 2/7 lines of business
- Created 650+ policies based on 74 business scenarios; Solely Conducted KT for 6 new recruits; Awarded ‘Exceeds most of the expectations’
- Cognizant Technology Solutions is a multinational technology company that provides IT services, including digital, technology, consulting, and operations services
Gartner Peer Insights
04.2018 - 05.2018
- Spearheaded Customer’s Choice CC4 & CC5 markets; Designed surveys across 200+ markets for VPM
- Solely responsible to run CC4 results weekly; Converted 50% of potential winners into final CC4 winners
- Built CC tracker to automate; Integrated 8 teams on single platform; Reduced 40 manhours per week
- Designed CC user Guidebook & compendium; Strategized the implementation of A/B testing on GPI
DRDO
05.2013 - 06.2013
- Worked under Telecommunication Department, analysed the working of guided missiles in remote places
- Handled data by maintaining signal to noise ratio at 4db for a reliable link using telemetry processing system
- Achieved low bit error rate 0.000001; Recorded data up to 4MHZ with data rates 173Mbps & 100 Gb capacity
Education
Master in Business Administration -
IIM Calcutta
01.2019
Electronics & Communication Engineering -
SRM University
01.2015
Skills
- Product management
- Agile methodologies
- Stakeholder engagement
- User story creation
- Data analysis
- SQL proficiency
- Market research
- Problem solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Presentation skills
- Product roadmapping
- Feature prioritization
- Product lifecycle management
- Scrum framework
Certification
- AHM
- General Insurance
Extracurricular Achievements
- Headed Design & Hospitality Committee for SRM university Tech fest; Allocated budget of Rs.50,000 among 10 events.
- 1/8 players to be selected out of 200 & represented Medak dist. in state level korfball & Basketball; stood 4th out of 23.
- Tutored 15 Underprivileged kids as part of Unnati initiated by INCA; Under Secretary General for the MUN organized by IIMC.
Projects And Papers
Live Project Moksh Industries, Analysed Production data/SCM practices, Recommended potential decrease of Bullwhip effect by 34%. Increased their avenues of payment; Introduced a new sales channel for B2C; Supply chain made agile. Analysed portfolio optimization & Risk Estimation for Bank, IT, Auto, Pharma, Energy sectors across India & US. Calculated weights of optimal portfolio using fPortfolio package & minimized variance using EViews software.
Timeline
Technical Product Manager
Optum
11.2022 - Current
Advisory Services Consultant
Optum
03.2022 - 11.2022
Advisory Services Analyst
Optum
05.2019 - 02.2022
Programme Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2019 - 02.2022
Gartner Peer Insights
04.2018 - 05.2018
DRDO
05.2013 - 06.2013
Master in Business Administration -
IIM Calcutta
Electronics & Communication Engineering -
SRM University
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