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
Stakeholder relationship management
Agile methodologies
Risk mitigation strategies
Process integration
Problem identification
Communication & Negotiation
Computer skills
Decision Making
Planning and Coordination
Java, XML, HTML, SQL
Web Services - API, REST, SOAP
Documentation – AsciiDoc, MS Excel, Visio, Power Point, drawio
Project Management Tools - Rally, Jira, Pivotal Tracker
Other Tools - SOAPUI, Swagger UI, ALM, BMC Remedy
Certification
Professional Scrum Product Owner