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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for overall product strategy, including new features and functionality to accelerate the growth of Artez, an online Peer-to-Peer fundraising product for non-profits and a core piece of FrontStream’s.
• Developed detailed business requirements/user stories for Artex UI/UX overhaul creating better end-user flow, ease of use, clean designs as well as sunsetting features that didn’t deliver value to clients or were not.
• Solicited continuous feedback from clients as each major feature/design was built.
• Lead Sprint Planning meetings and owned overall delivery of sprint/releases for Artez.
• Worked with the Design team to create mock-up screens and wire frames
• Provided agile development and QA teams with in-sprint guidance and performed functional testing, walk through UAT’s and demos

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for developing and executing on the product roadmap for Pricemetrix’s practice intelligence product suite (CommissionCheck, FeeCheck, and ValueOne) catering to retail brokerage firms across US and Canada.
• Managed end to end product release which included: ideation, scoping, planning, timeline management, execution, and deployment.
• Completed multiple projects within defined timelines & budget including a product’s trial initiative (6 clients/prospect), enhancements to support upcoming regulatory change such as DOL fiduciary rule, safe harbor.
• Successfully planned and rolled out a new version of FeeCheck product bringing it to the latest technology platform. Integrated the product with Partner's proposal generation system to provide seamless access to its.
• Solicited feedback from various stakeholders including users, prospects, marketing and client services team to understand user needs and market problems, researched current industry trends to generate ideas.
• Created concept documents with quick prototypes/sketches for selected ideas, validated them with users, internal stakeholders making sure they meet or exceed user expectations.

Greater New York City Area

• Gather business requirement for a reporting/analytics tool Gross Revenue Engine (GRE) that was used to calculate and store gross revenue based on product wide standard rates using volumes received from various systems..
• Studied treasury and security service business lines for which revenue-generating activity is undertaken. For eg. Custody, Fund Accounting, Benefit Payments etc.
• Acted as liaison between business and vendor technology team, translated business requirements to functional/non-functional specification, use cases, and UI mock-ups.
• Designed an intuitive reporting interface for additional analysis and ability to calculate revenue based on a custom scenario to price the clients effectively.
• Used SQL queries to extract data from multiple databases, analyzed the data establishing a link to integrate all these revenues with the standard revenue calculated for reporting.
• Coordinated user acceptance testing of systems (UAT) and ensured end-user feedback was documented and prioritized for system refinement.

Mumbai Area, India

• Worked for BT Retail's Strategic convergent billing platform called as BReCon Platform
• Prepared rapid impact assessment that involves proposing a high-level solution with one or more solutions. It stated the impacted systems, impacts, estimated cost, and timescale.
• Prepare the High-Level design document for agreed functional/non-functional requirement involving o Geneva System Static Configuration Designo Geneva Product, Rating Tariff & Billing Tariff Design for various product.
• Organized design review with requirement owner, development team, VVT, an end to end testing team by conducting walkthroughs of the designs delivered and taking sign-offs on deliverables.
• Involved in the test plan and test case preparation with testing team and UAT to ascertain functionalities meet business specifications and quality requirements.

Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible for analysis & feasibility of new prepaid products. Prepared detailed system requirements specification.
• Documented test scenarios to ensure all prepaid products have been simulated with the various calling scenarios.
• Managed complete project including estimations, status reporting, and successful implementation by ensuring and validating all project deliverables.
• Led a team of 8 members, involved in the recruitment process, training of new members and coordinating with team members regarding work assigned.

Mumbai Area, India

• Act as a single point of contact for all request/issues related to applications, database, security, backup and network. Record, track and escalate incidents, requests and queries using Remedy.
• Co-ordinate with various application groups during planned events/maintenance informing them the Schedule, Plan of Action and follow up for their concurrence.

Exec-Mba, Finance

B.E, Instrumentation