Bheeshm Kumar, Pspo I Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

New York, NY, US

• Technical Product Manager for our Personalized learning platform for several of our newest online K-12 programs
• Launched an enhanced and accessible Presentation Player utilized by thousands of K-12 users, boosting feature adoption from 7% to 38%.
• Launched an enhanced search experience enabling teachers to efficiently find Course Resources on our digital learning platform.
• Helped build a repository of re-usable accessible components of common UX patterns used across ourdigital learning platform.
• Spearheaded an effort spanning more than 2 years to achieve WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance for our widely used K-12 digital learning platform, which includes over 18 applications and boasts an average of more than.
• Launched two new features that are actively utilized in over 80% of new assignments created by teachers across the U.S. They directly contribute to our North Star Metric—number of assignments created—and were.

New York, NY, US

• Technical Product Manager facilitating development of a new product using JavaScript which focuses on using visualizations to help developers debug applications based on Angular and React
• Managing the vision, roadmap, iterative sprint deliveries, product backlog and scrum activities of the agile development team and the product.
• Brainstormed and identified key technical features to be developed for the product with key stakeholders and users
• Created and managed the delivery roadmap for the MVP and presented the ideas to executive leadership
• Elicited and captured requirements in the form of user stories in JIRA
• Lead product refinement sessions, story grooming sessions and contributed in product design sessions

New York, NY, US

• Scrum Business Systems Analyst working in the Digital Space with scrum development teams building applications on JavaScript and Java
• Lead Product Analyst for Code Quality application that scored development teams based on the severity of their code’s violations, number of introduced and fixed bugs and ultimately encouraged code linting
• Brainstormed product requirements with Product Manager and captured high level requirements in Confluence for implementing gamification, creating leaderboards for cross functional teams and for identifying new features.
• Decomposed features into epics and user stories and captured acceptance criteria in the user stories by using JIRA
• Groomed multiple user stories simultaneously and maintained the product backlog
• Tested the delivered iterative functionality to identify bugs

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Scrum Requirements Analyst for a major Retirement Plan annuities application based on Java and Mainframe
• Handled requirements of all change requests and projects coming to the Annuities application related to Actuaries, Wealth management, fund transfers and withdrawals.
• Lead solution scoping and preliminary project requirements brainstorming sessions with Business and IT delivery executives, business application owners, tech leads, and SME’s from both sides
• Elicited, defined and documented business and technical requirements, process flows, current and to-be processes from the business customers.
• Collaborated with the application architect and the tech lead to perform gap analysis and document ed the impact of the project or change request to the existing application.
• Lead I0 activities to plan and create prioritized backlog of work coming to the dev team.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Project Requirements Analyst for a Reserving application based on Java and mainframe
• Work with the Nationwide Bank business owners and the tech team to elicit an existing regulatory compliance report filing product’s business and functional requirements, conduct gap analysis and prepare a Request for.
• Work with the Property & Casualty (P&C) Actuarial Reserving and Finance IT tech team to integrate a major Nationwide subsidiary’s processes related to Data Management, Actuarial Analysis, IBNR Management, and.
• Lead Requirements Analyst for a project to monitor and control changes to data and financial transactions across business processes like Procure to pay, Accounts Receivables, Asset Management, Financial Close and IT.
• Collaborate with the business customers across various finance and IT teams, elicit requirements and processes, document them and collaborate with third party vendor’s development team as requirements SME.
• Collaborate with project Business Leads to identify, document and manage the scope-related change requests requirements for the OAC project

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Requirements Analyst intern for Finance IT’s People Soft application team
• Mentor with the Senior Application business systems analyst and work on projects from - Accounts Payable, General Ledger, eProcurement & ETL. Collaborated with teams from Accounting, Billing, and Purchasing &.
• Facilitate requirements sessions with Business customers and Technical teams, translated business and system needs into solution requirements and ensured business alignment.
• Document requirements and partner for business approval for enhancements and medium scale projects. Well-versed about the SDLC.
• Collaborate with development and testing teams on minor defect fixes, enhancements and development of new functionalities
• Help prepare RRC governance document along with the Finance IT Requirements Analysts. Collaborated with other requirements analysts to define and build the current state requirements for Finance IT business solution.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Work in a team of 3 analysts to elicit business requirements from Senior IT executive team for a reporting and metrics application
• Collaborate with business and IT application teams across organization to document requirements and processes for a new reporting application that would enable reporting capabilities of application crucial to leadership.
• Optimize crucial IT Processes across various IT teams by leveraging Lean Six Sigma and SAP Business Objects to reduce defect resolution time by at least 20%, remove rework and increase customer satisfaction.
• Use DMAIC improvement cycle to define the system, measure key aspects of the current processes, analyze the data, optimize the processes and build control around the future state processes.
• Learn to deliver the most important information in the most concise form.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Partner with business customers from a major Australian Bank to interview and document business requirements.
• Participate in JAD session to identify business rules and current pain points
• Leverage UML and BPMN, to write Use cases and prepare Process Maps.
• Understand and Document various business processes related to banks business and document training manuals for application users. Create business requirements documents and systems requirements specification for.
• Validate system requirements against business requirements to derive defect resolution following SDLC.

Master Of Science (Ms), Management Information Systems, Data Analytics

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer Science And Engineering