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Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area

- Driving product strategy & vision, roadmaps, requirements prioritization, release content management, trade off decisions, oversight of specs and development life cycle, release criteria management, strategic partners liaison for development/ releases- Managing complete P&L ownership for the portal portfolio with licensed revenue potential of tens of million dollars- Leading projects to enhance the in-house AP recovery audit software that stores and manages trusted supplier data. Portal products oversee $5 trillion in spend and prevent or recover over $3 billion in overpayments annually, and our client portals actively support over 3 million suppliers.- Providing leadership and overall direction for Product Architecture, Design and Releases, in lieu of rapidly changing, highly competitive marketplace- Responsible for orchestrating product roadmap of the supplier portal tool- Streamlined Ways of Working (WOW) for Scrum teams to improve efficiency in executing sprints- Conducting the requirements gathering workshop for next gen UI that will drastically improve the user experience of the in-house supplier portal

Overland Park, Ks, United States

- Driving business strategy & 'big picture' focus for the assigned business unit; ensuring that product owners contribute to the overall product roadmap & portfolio objectives- Collaborating with other product managers, product owners and global teams, located across multiple geographies, for integrated solution offerings- Fostering a culture of learning in the agile team by delivering the business domain trainings within the team, thereby enhancing team’s productivity- Spearheading the product transformation team which did Current State Analysis, Stakeholder Management, RCAs and proposed customized solutions- Organizing Problem Framing workshops, Socialization Workshops, Prioritization Workshops etc.- Accountable for projects within an annual strategic budget ranging from 5 to 7 million dollars- Led Back-End Cloud Data Lake Migration from Azure Hyperscale, Teradata and SQL server to Snowflake- Spearheaded the implementation of a tableau-based web analytics tool that provides valuable insights to 1000 daily users- Successfully delivered an Automation Project utilizing Tableau that provides insights to executives on data anomalies and deviants,thus reducing extensive hours to pull the reports manually and from multiple sources- Efficiently implemented a major program utilizing Data Analytics that forecasts the impact on decommissioning excess towers, which reduced network operational expenses of the company by 35%- Administered a national level IT program involving multiple cross functional teams to validate 5G & LTE coverage in 75 urban and rural markets, impacting 100 million subscribers- Recognized by the CTO and SVP for leading contributions in the Sprint/T-Mobile merger and FCC commitments

Overland Park, Kansas

Managed roadmap for National Optimization Tools with focus on application integration and synergies- Defined Product Backlog and deployed chunk of deliverables using Agile SAFe framework- Co-ordinated software upgrades and releases in partnership with Samsung- Conducted Pilot testing with clients, resulting in 30% increase in customer adoption- Shut down >50 complex legacy applications which led to OpEx savings of more than $10 million per year- Effectively Managed E2E program management of QoE (Quality of Experience) which lowered churn by 1%- Monitored key metrics and identified a 48% increase in data load efficiency- Worked on Proof of Concepts to improve vendor resource management for vendors like Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson- Led a team of 5 technical product managers-

Overland Park, Ks

Client : Sprint Corporation- Responsible for Sprint in-house Performance Tools which provided valuable reports to network engineers- Planned and prioritized product feature backlog based on data-driven insights- Served as the single point of contact for all the Scrum Masters and Product Owners to ensure that the application teams are successfully able to meet their production timelines- Continuously refined processes for optimized product development and high levels of customer retention- Enhanced Software lifecycle processes by implementing automated testing procedures and data quality checks

South Riding, Va

- Worked as a Business Analyst in prioritizing the backlog for engineering teams- Developed SaaS based product lifestyle solutions for US network providers and vendors- Led teams spanning across product development and coordinated with sales and marketing teams on new features releases to Network operators such as Verizon, Sprint and Vendors like Nokia- Provide Technical Sales/Demos, Training and Customer/Vendor Management.Heavily involved in the product development and technical requirements of LTE, EVDO RevB and HSPA+.- Responsible for working closely with the developers and management in delivering quality product releases in a timely manner.• Core, integrating and collaborative role with 'ownership' involvement in all aspects of making product successful within a challenging and extremely resource limited environment.- Writing Software Feature requirement and supervising Testing and Quality Assurance of the newly released products before delivery to customer.-

Dulles, Virginia

Managed a team of drive test engineers and data quality analysts for AT&T network benchmarking project - Supervised UAT sessions for deliverables, tested the implemented features and analyzed data using SQL- Post-processed quality assurance data and identified irregularities with said data. - Analyzed layer 3 messaging for various technologies including CDMA, GSM, WCDMA, HSPA, EVDO and LTE- Monitored performance of equipments and advised on issues regarding equipments to the Data Collection and Quality Assurance team leads to improve quality and efficiency of Data collection.- Reviewed market-level data and identify actions to resolve irregularities with collection data- Researched new RF technologies as needed to understand parameters and data as provided by varying collection equipment and technologies

Master'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering