ACHYUTH REDDY BHAVANAM
Summary
Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 10+ 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
Work History
Scrum Master/ Product Manager
Travelport
02.2022 - 04.2023
- Worldwide travel-tech company which provides various technology innovations and backend solutions to airlines, rentals, and travel websites across the globe
- Was responsible for planning and delivering projects on time for cross functional teams across the organization
- Designed Project planning mechanisms for various teams involved in the vertical for clear visibility through requirements
- Responsible for gathering business requirements from problem statement
- Retrospect and created project charters/ integrated project management plan with JAD sessions
- Responsible for creating critical paths using the MS-Project for cross functional teams to deliver projects on time
- Handled JIRA boards of multiple teams and projects with daily standup calls with enhanced task tracking metrics
- Created multiple solution designs for projects to smooth out the execution process
- Designed strategies for SFT and MFT file movement strategies for Bigdata teams
- Was instrumental in designing SharePoint and confluence solutions for the team, which were later used as storage and requirement gathering solutions by different teams
- Managed and implemented kanban project implementations for client and internal projects
- Designed mitigation plans for innovation projects
- Was instrumental in creating architecture designs for various projects delivered with 0 failure reports
- Worked on the Auto Insurance flow integration with the Travelport + platform
- Designed the Auto Insurance framework for the different car rental platforms
- Worked on D365 projects for clients to implement the e-commerce platform integrations
- Provided valuable insights on the areas of focus for cars and hotel solutions to entice the new clients for the organization
- Tech Savvy to support and route the breakdowns to the right support teams
- Created multiple Caveats for the team to new technology implementations like GitHub, Cloud, and security screening tools
- Dealt with projects involving EDW and AWS cloud implementation
- Helped the aggregators to design and build backend engines for air-ticket shopping with multiple replication projects and technologies
- Responsible for Smart point execution and data analytics to derive execution metrics for all the teams with PowerBi.
Product Manager/ Sr. Business Analyst
Allegro Coffee, Whole Foods
06.2021 - 02.2022
- Renowned coffee producer and processor in Colorado that has huge customer base and exports market of coffee across the world, with multiple sourcing locations and now operated by wholefoods
- Designed project roadmap and project requirement matrix for the ERP solution design
- Devised communication plans and service provide integration mechanisms to build a robust ERP solution that supports the e-commerce operations
- Designed UAT strategies for the upgrade process QA execution
- Extracted data using SQL queries to analyze the schema to perform revamp and reload
- Worked on the MFT file transfer strategy and timelines
- Responsible for various external party coordination in accordance with the factory teams to test and accept the solution
- Designed Project planning mechanisms for various teams involved in the vertical for clear visibility through requirements using the integrated project management plan
- Helped design integration parameters in building the ERP next gen solution
- Created or introduced JIRA through Agile methodologies to the organization as part of the innovation mechanism
- Designed Organizational RACI chart and Risk Matrix for the client to identify the gaps on the e-commerce side of the things to enhance the funneling techniques.
Gramener Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Data consulting firm working on various client data requirements to create meaningful insights and dashboards towards actionable insights to solve business problems.
Sr. Business Analyst/ Scrum Master
Dell EMC
05.2018 - 04.2021
- Analyzed and synthesized client data to create requirements that will deliver value to the client as insights and streamlined the project requirement gathering
- Modified agile methodologies to plug and play in the organization project execution methods
- Handled daily scrum calls and enhanced the project implementation with RACI matrix
- Was instrumental is client communication for the duration of the project and gathering requirements
- Performed Scrum planning and retrospective sessions for all the project teams
- Worked on ETL activities and data insights to design the project strategy on the visualization using Tableau
- Implemented D365 integration to improve the operations and customer relations process to enhance the CRM side of the things
- Designed Product Strategy to implement solutions with ease
- Was responsible for E2E solution execution which included multi-dimensional team coordination
- Designed actionable insights with python analysis of bigdata and customer feedback
- Worked with higher management at Dell to provide actionable insights to the customer feedback data that is available from various customer segments
- Created various strategies to analyze actionable insights from the project dashboards
- Dashboards created were appreciated and are available on the Dell EMC website till date.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
- Global technology company that builds in IT solutions for tech giants and offer QA services to major BFS clients across the globe, one of the top 5 IT firms in INDIA.
Business Analyst, •Sr
Credit Suisse Bank & EAS
05.2014 - 05.2018
- Analyst leading the project and responsible for delivering the data security implementation for client services and banking information
- Was responsible for creating project plans and devising communication plans to coordinate client interactions, keeping them informed
- Worked on the HCM Module integration to one cognizant and helped migration of data along with various HR functions
- Designed insurance-based investment strategies with umbrella insurance and investment insurance plans CRM modules for the client with PEGA integration
- Was responsible for ETL activities on various projects to process the data
- Lead the effort in coordination with SME’s and security team to deliver the desired result
- Designed project charters and risk matrix to have unified and visible project execution.
Programmer Analyst, •PEGA QA Analyst
Ameriprise Financial Services
08.2013 - 05.2014
- For various BFS processes in upgradation and migration projects for the client
- Lead projects which involved EHR Systems like Cerner and Epic to run the health records of investing clients and plans
- Insurance plans expertise ranging from 401K to joint investments
- Handled various insurance coverages and designed requirements for bundling of services
- Worked on the requirement gathering to invest on the insurance-based plans for the retirement and Umbrella insurance coverages for various BFS clients
- Was leading a data migration project of the client with a secure protocol to prevent data breaches for the financial services offered by the client
- Was instrumental in requirement gathering and cross functional teams’ coordination to deliver the solution desired on time.
Entrepreneurship, Brand Ministers
01.2019 - 08.2021
- Political Branding firm formed to help politicians in election campaigns and social media marketing through data analytics/ market analytics to the large scope
- Co-Founder
- Collaborated with politicians to build ground level campaign strategies with detailed data analysis to derive inputs for the brand campaign
- Successfully created an inclination of more than 3-4% on the electoral votes at different segments by adopting to the continuous feedback mechanism
- Achieved strong success rate with 90% of the candidates served winning the polls with the help of new ways of branding
- Tried modifying the way branding is made for politicians with interesting data and sentiment analysis coverage to understand the insights for branding
- Built engines to work through social media marketing and enhancing the reach of the campaign.
Education
Master of Science - Project Leadership and
Regis University, Anderson College of Business
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Master’s - business administration
ICFAI University
MBA - Marketing
Bachelors - technology- Electronics and Communications Engineering
VIT University
Skills
- Project Management
- PMP Certified Professional
- Agile and Waterfall Methodologies Expertise
- Sprint Planning
- Kanban Expertise
- Lean Methodology Expertise
- Data Analysis & Management
- BFS Client Expertise
- Business Requirement Gathering
- Project Planning and Management
- Product Documentation and SDLC Proficiency
- JIRA Expertise
- Lucid Chart Knowledge
- Insurance Expertise
- D365 sales and Operations Expertise
- Confluence and SharePoint Expertise
- Retrospective and critical path creation Expertise
- Stakeholders’ retention and communication Expertise
- E-commerce Expertise
- SQL and ETL Proficiency
- Data Visualization Proficiency with Tableau and PowerBi
- Data Engineering and Python Proficiency
- MFT and SFT Expertise
- Business Operations and Adminstration
- MS Office with advanced proficiency in Excel ,MS Project ,VISIO and Access
- CMBB certified PEGA tester and ISTQB
- UAT and SIT Expertise
- Business Development
- PMI certified course graduate
- Q-Test Certified Professional
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Ability to multitask and handle multiple projects
Affiliations
Project management professional offering 10 years+ of experience in managing large scale projects with data driven insights and agile methodologies, to help deliver efficient solutions across industries of Banking and Financial Services, Technology Services, E-Commerce, and Travel industries with below skillsets to offer.
Timeline
Scrum Master/ Product Manager
Travelport
02.2022 - 04.2023
Product Manager/ Sr. Business Analyst
Allegro Coffee, Whole Foods
06.2021 - 02.2022
Entrepreneurship, Brand Ministers
01.2019 - 08.2021
Sr. Business Analyst/ Scrum Master
Dell EMC
05.2018 - 04.2021
Business Analyst, •Sr
Credit Suisse Bank & EAS
05.2014 - 05.2018
Programmer Analyst, •PEGA QA Analyst
Ameriprise Financial Services
08.2013 - 05.2014
Gramener Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd
Master of Science - Project Leadership and
Regis University, Anderson College of Business
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Master’s - business administration
ICFAI University
MBA - Marketing
Bachelors - technology- Electronics and Communications Engineering
VIT University