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Vinodhini Pandurangan

Vinodhini Pandurangan

Product Owner
Chennai,TN

Summary

Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move products efficiently through pre-production and production timelines. Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of IT products. Ready to offer 10 years of versatile experience in different domains and take on a dynamic new position.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Senior Business Analyst (Product Owner)

MERIT
Sep.2020 - Current
  • Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal
  • Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items
  • Ordering and maintaining Product Backlog items
  • Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood through the prioritized list of user stories
  • Primary liaison between stakeholders and scrum teams to refine and incorporate features based on market needs
  • Establishing user story acceptance criteria and refining stories with the scrum team.
  • Owning the product roadmap and executing it based on Product Vision and mitigating any roadblocks
  • Making decisions on when to deliver and what to deliver
  • Evaluating product progress at each sprint against the goal.

Senior Business Systems Analyst (Product Owner)

Travelers Insurance Co
Hartford, CT
Oct.2017 - Jan.2019
  • Engagement with Pivotal Cloud Foundry ensuring smooth transformation to Pivotal processes and methodologies
  • Working with Business Stakeholders to understand Business goals/objectives and establishing an outcome-oriented Product roadmap, vision and strategy
  • Eliciting requirements from Business to understand what needs to be built and convert them into self- contained stories with precise Acceptance Criteria
  • Identifying right stakeholders to validate integration points and agree on integration contract to resolve dependencies
  • Prioritizing and Managing the Product Backlog
  • Leading the agile team during iterations to drive delivery, managing scope and ensuring the end products appropriately meet the business needs

Technical Business Analyst

Cisco Systems
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Jul.2011 - Jul.2014
  • Working closely with multiple stakeholders to understand the requirements and convert them into project level technical capabilities
  • Working to understand the new functionalities added and impact/gap analysis of the same to the existing system
  • Creating of Business and functional requirement documents and test plan documents to support test strategy based on gathered requirements
  • Creation of process flow, use case diagrams, mapping document to capture the data processing rules and the data lineage
  • Participating in Business improvement team meetings, conduct SWOT analysis to help make Business decisions
  • Responding to RFPs/RFIs from the customers Making Product and feature presentations
  • Providing values adds for process improvements

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Jun.2006 - Jun.2011
  • Managed team of 10+ personnel focused on developing and implementing technical solutions to diverse Business problems.
  • Efficiently managing the critical deliverables through proactive identification and mitigation of risks
  • Owning the development and implementation of a complete Virtual Network Element for different network device families
  • Troubleshooting and debugging issues in Logical Inventory of Virtual Network Elements
  • Creation of both functional and technical documents and demonstration of POCs to the customers
  • Performing code reviews, mentoring, allocation and management of resources
  • Owning and representing quality metrics for the entire development team

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Information Technology

Annamalai University
2002 - 2006

Skills

Scrum framework

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Certification

Professional Scrum Product Owner
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