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Product Owner handling a members self service digital experience via Nationwide.com for All Commercial Users as well as Personal Homeowners

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Business Consulting Analysis in Planning stages of Tier-1 "Go to the Market" Program, enabling delivery of functionality in modernizing Territory Management/Lead Routing/Audience building functions within Marketing and Sales.

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Commenced work on Enterprise Level 360 degree view of Producer information for Nationwide cluster of Applications enabling Nationwide Property-Casualty/Nationwide Financials/Nationwide Emerging Business (Pet insurance) in ensuring System of records is housed for all producers/agencies with regards to their profile, preferences, business groups and hierarchies within Distribution Partnership Information Management System.Leadership Bias : Involved in streamlining of work and reducing churn in the requirements space for better delivery. Practitioner Bias : Empowering requirements discipline to refine their methods to fit into end to end agile practices.

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Dual Role of Initiating Projects from Solution Scoping forward and Orchestrating work from outside to within Agile Line from a requirements/systems analysis perspective. Completed the first 3 phases (3 Million Dollar) Base Camps for an effort to set-up a Duck Creek BookSmart Application in AWS for Nationwide, which facilitates ease of analysis for Books of Business and enabling obtaining Nationwide Quotes for Personal Auto/Home from Guidewire Policy Center for better comparison/analysis in assessing risks and making business decisions to obtain books of business. Leadership Bias : Involved in thought leadership of breaking down work in MVPs. Practitioner Bias : Empowering Agile line resources with concept of MVPs/Base Camps/MMPs for better quality/delivery.

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Dual Role of Initiating Projects from Solution Scoping forward and Orchestrating work from outside to within Agile Line from a requirements/systems analysis perspective. Completed the effort for a 5 Million Dollar Project resulting in Acord to Guidewire translation of Commercial Business quotes for 3 lines of business (Workers Compensation, Business Owner’s line and Business Auto)1. Orchestrate end to end requirements gathering into scope bundles and generate a backlog leading to Features/Epics and User Stories. 2. Collaborate with Third Party Vendor Duck Creek in implementing the project built on Agency Portal platform. 3. Collaborate with Ernst and Young guidewire team in obtaining requirements.4. Translate Guidewire requirements to Acord requirements with Nationwide Commercial business partners. Leadership Bias : Forge a futuristic model within Nationwide for end to end Agile practice, where-in collection of requirements from waterfall methodology and applying to agile lines, is optimized and minimized using levels of abstraction concepts and interactive visual work break down sessions. Practitioner Bias : Empowering Agile line resources with concept of discovery enabling creation of self-driven leaders to achieve better results.

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Responsibility : Performed the role of an Analyst-Coach in a new Agile line “Finite Loop”, moving from “Annuity Financial services” to “Commercial Insurance”, with the following responsibility.5. Speed up discovery process and create a healthy backlog6. Uplift Analyst key and other Analysts to align with Nationwide Analyst’s Agile practice Leadership Bias : Approach the initiative from an “influence without authority” perspective. Practitioner Bias : Incorporate visual tools, like creation of I-0 discovery visual board, visual backlog to help BAO prioritization and end to end visual templates for better collaboration with project troika.

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Responsibility: Performed the role of an Iteration Manager (Interim) ensuring delivery of Deferred Annuity Products. Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. Ensure empowering of resources and guidance on Agile Principles to obtain optimum results.

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Responsibility: Performed the role of an Analyst-Key in orchestrating projects delivering various annuit products worth more than 10 million dollars yearly, for deferred Annuity engine, PALLM. The other major notable efforts were tier 1 projects like, Department of Labor Compliance and enabling real time web-service financial transactions for external firms like Morgan Stanley.Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. Extremely aggressive time-lines resulting in coming up with concepts of iterative scope deliveries to release testing lines and incremental exposure of scope bundles to external firm resulting in completion of a tier 1 effort with an External Firm, Morgan Stanley, on time, and the firm rating Nationwide as #1 carrier for the project experience.2. Reducing Solution Scoping phase drastically by working closely with ADL to find optimal ways to get work into the line faster, by having hybrid model of interaction with project troika resulting in projects getting completed by a month before the scheduled release to testing lines.3. Thought Leadership in supporting ADL’s straight to the line initiatives. Creating optimal intake methods of collaboration to help speed up straight-to-the line initiatives and ensure successful completion of major efforts like Actuarial Modernization within expected time-frames. Practitioner Bias : 1. Recognition as a practitioner coach and getting invited to create and lead IPS University, an initiative from BSA to increase business acumen of resources. 2. Creating innovative visual management artifacts which shows traceability and flux during solution scoping and discovery phase, thereby enabling leaders to understand inherent process improvements, getting accolades from DTO and the approach being adopted by various other lines within SDS.

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Responsibility: Performed the role of an Iteration Manager (Interim) ensuring delivery of Deferred Annuity Products. Leadership Delivery Bias: 2. Ensure empowering of resources and guidance on Agile Principles to obtain optimum results.

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Responsibility: Performed the role of a technical-key in orchestrating multiple projects for deferred annuity engine-PALLM. The major notable project was a 9 million effort, “Fixed Indexed Annuity-New Heights”, as well as successful completion of technically challenging projects like Annuity Maintenance platform of incorporation of real time web-service financial transactions for the external firm Merrill Lynch.Leadership Delivery Bias: 3. Created a renewed collaboration on avoiding handover by pro-actively interacting with project troika upfront in solution scoping for better understanding and speeding up of work.Practitioner Bias : 1. Enabled first 90 days capability uplift of key resources by creating “data driven analysis techniques” to transition developers to designers/technical leaders, resulting in tremendous productivity boost for project delivery with high quality. Within 1 year, resources displayed a capability of 8 to 10 years of subject matter expertise.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Responsibility: Completion of first deferred annuity project collaboration between IPS and SDS. The major project delivery was creation of Annuity Maintenance platform by incorporating real time of web-service financial transactions for external firm Merrill Lynch.Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. Selected from IPS BSA to lead the initiative of collaboration with SDS in uplifting all three disciplines with annuity business as well as technology uplift, in ensuring a successful completion of the first major IPS-BSA collaborative effort. Practitioner Bias : 1. Subject Matter Expertise in Annuities, resulted in healthy sharing of knowledge and exposure to a refined agile practice as part of the BSA-SDS collaboration.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Responsibility: Completion of first deferred annuity project collaboration between IPS and SDS. The major project delivery was creation of Annuity Maintenance platform by incorporating real time of web-service financial transactions for external firm Merrill Lynch.Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. Selected from IPS BSA to lead the initiative of collaboration with SDS in uplifting all three disciplines with annuity business as well as technology uplift, in ensuring a successful completion of the first major IPS-BSA collaborative effort. Practitioner Bias : 1. Subject Matter Expertise in Annuities, resulted in healthy sharing of knowledge and exposure to a refined agile practice as part of the BSA-SDS collaboration.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Responsibility: Responsible for design, development and completion of Single Premium Immediate Annuity product, the very first immediate annuity product in Oracle Insurance Policy Admin engine. Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. A transition opportunity to move across technologies seamlessly (mainframe to oracle) and ensured that end to end development across interfacing system is completed.Practitioner Bias : 1. Refinement of Architectural and Design biases when design principles are applied across technologies. 2. Introduction to Nationwide’s Agile Practices.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Responsibility: Responsible for design and development of deferred annuity projects, predominantly incorporating new products and riders to annuities. Responsibilities included end to end design including interactions with upstream and downstream systems, and working with resources from multiple BSAs to drive delivery within schedule with high quality for multiple parallel efforts.Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. Thought leadership in presentation to BSA of process improvements in interfacing system.2. Member of IIGS Advisory group (newsletter editor).Practitioner Bias : 1. Inaugural leadership group that initiated the designer development program in IPS, including coming up with a curriculum for uplift of design skills within the BSA.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Responsibility: Responsible for development of deferred annuity projects, predominantly incorporating new products and riders to annuities. Leadership Delivery Bias: 1. Absorbed concepts of business architecture.Practitioner Bias : 1. Absorbed data centric concepts of design and understood design concepts like “birth. life,death”, “why/what/how”.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Consulting from Comsys to Nationwide Financial Services

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

Analysis, Design and Programming in IBM ES9000 Mainframe Technology

Ibm Es9000 Mainframe Certification, Computer Science

Post Graduate Diploma, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering