VISWANATH CHANDAKA
Product Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Diligent Product Manager offering 2 years of success in product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Sr Product Analyst/ TPM
Optum Global Solutions, UHG
Hyderabad
10.2019 - Current
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
- Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
- Analyzed user feedback and implemented changes to product design.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
- Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Documented each step in product's design process for use in manuals.
- Collaborated with team of engineers to develop new products.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
- Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
- Supported development team in generation of technical requirements and product documentation to achieve process commonality.
- Worked with development team to define and implement customer change requests to enhance product functionality.
- Compared project goals and user experiences and recommended revisions to bring entities into alignment.
Sr. Business Analyst
E-Pragati, AP State Govt, Payroll: Extranet
Vijayawada
12.2017 - 07.2019
- Visit the education department governing bodies of govt of AP and understand citizen service charter, G2C, G2B, G2G services
- Capture AS-IS Workflows, Organizational structures and draft BRD
- Create wireframes as on when required
- Submit the BRD to procurement team for RFP, to Service integrator for detailed specification
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
Sr. Application Development Analyst
Accenture Solutions (P) Ltd
Pune
06.2016 - 12.2017
- Designed best practice documentation for development.
- Participated in design and planning exercises for future software rollouts..
- Updated technical documentation, product specifications and technical training materials.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement new technology features.
- Delivered support training to help customers learn key features of applications.
- Explained project technical risks and benefits during project kick-off.
- Created software applications in test-driven development environment.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
Business Analyst
Intelegain InfoTech (P) Ltd
Mumbai
08.2015 - 06.2016
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Surveyed clients to ascertain requirements and expectations for product.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Utilized data visualization techniques to present and explain complex data sets.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
Business Analyst
Volga InfoTech (P) Ltd
Mumbai
12.2014 - 06.2015
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Generated ad-hoc reports to evaluate specific business requirements.
- Created data models to support decision-making processes.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
Project Analyst
Cygnet InfoTech (P) Ltd
Ahmedabad
04.2013 - 09.2014
- Web & Mobile Application Analyst
- Read the BRD and draft the specification document using interactive wireframe tool called Azure RP
- Conduct the project kick off and help dev team throughout the project delivery with respect to requirements
- Reporting daily , weekly, monthly project updates to all the stakeholders
Education
Bachelor Of Technology - Information Technology
CITM
Vizianagaram 06.2008 - 04.2012
Skills
Mock-up Tools Balsamiq, Axure 70,Just in Mind, Visio, UML star plus, Moqupsundefined
Accomplishments
- Resolved virtual meet up issue in quick turnaround time through existing platform offerings which increased the sales by 20%.
- Supervised team of 20+ staff members.
- Collaborated with more than 10 + cross functional in the development of UCI
- Achieved 50% reduction in requirement gathering , documentation, collaboration time by introducing Interactive prototyping tool called Azure RP
- Documented and resolved data extensive grid UX challenge which led to drastic increase NPS by 60%
Timeline
Sr Product Analyst/ TPM
Optum Global Solutions, UHG
10.2019 - Current
Sr. Business Analyst
E-Pragati, AP State Govt, Payroll: Extranet
12.2017 - 07.2019
Sr. Application Development Analyst
Accenture Solutions (P) Ltd
06.2016 - 12.2017
Business Analyst
Intelegain InfoTech (P) Ltd
08.2015 - 06.2016
Business Analyst
Volga InfoTech (P) Ltd
12.2014 - 06.2015
Project Analyst
Cygnet InfoTech (P) Ltd
04.2013 - 09.2014
Bachelor Of Technology - Information Technology
CITM
06.2008 - 04.2012
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