Amol Kashikar

• Technical Product Ownership of Walmart SAMS Club Mexico.
• Work with Internal and External Stakeholders to define Product Roadmaps.
• Conduct Planning sessions with Teams and identify PI Deliverables.
• Identify Risks, Dependencies within and outside of the teams.

• Technical Product Ownership of Existing Products
• Accountability to execute Key Technical Enablers like Security, Compliance with various Product Teams
• Responsibility to partner with Sponsors, Stakeholders, and IT to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, Gaining understanding of needs.
• Accountability to serve as direct representative of Business with delivery teams, representing/reinforcing customers' perspective throughout product realization cycle.
• Accountable for Product Leadership to Plan, Design, Development, and Implement Business Solutions
• Experience partnering with senior executive Stakeholders to manage deliverables and dependencies across multiple work-streams.
• Responsible to Communicate with Executive Leadership to represent Overall portfolio, Current Deliverables, Risks/ Issues
• Identify, Highlight and Mitigate Risks associated with IT deliveries.
• Define Product Technical KPIs and ensure Team is regularly on track of measurement.

Key Achievements:
• Successful delivery of Walmart’s several key Business Initiatives like Enabling Weighted Items Sale online, Mobile Order Check ins enabling Revenue of Multi million dollars.
• Enabling Cashi Payments for SAMS Mexico customers to generate additional Revenue for Walmart.

• Technical Product Ownership of Walmart SAMS Club Mexico.
• Work with Internal and External Stakeholders to define Product Roadmaps.
• Conduct Planning sessions with Teams and identify PI Deliverables.
• Identify Risks, Dependencies within and outside of the teams.

• Responsible for end-to-end Product Management Ownership of Three Product areas of UCV
• Responsible to work with stakeholders to define Data requirements and Ingestion Patterns
• Own Definition of Technical & Business Roadmap of UCV Product Areas
• Leading discussions of Overall Strategy Development of Unit
• Branding / Advertising UCV Products to various Allstate Enterprise Systems
• Define overall Product Strategy and Vision
• Collaborate with different Customer Communities to understand Customer needs.
• Overall Be Voice of Customer
• Lead PI Planning across organization as a Product Manager and plan for Product Deliveries across multiple Iterations throughout year
• Work with Data Analytics groups to understand their Data Requirements and ensure their needs are met.

• End to end Product Delivery Ownership of OCE Teams
• Own definition of Technical & Business Roadmap of OCE Product Areas
• Influence and Direct Technical Design, Development Approach, Operations, Maintenance of Product Features
• Ensure smooth production deployments of Product Increments by partnering with Production support Teams.
• Work with Diverse Business stakeholders to define features / Stories for development teams.
• Lead PI planning with the team to plan for sprints and deliverables across year.
• Achievements -
  Delivered Migration of AT&T Homer Solutions Platform Ahead of Schedule.
  Improved Automation percentage of Order automation from 40% to 80%
  Successfully integrated DirectTV orders in existing platform and improved Automation.

• Offshore Senior Project Manager responsible for monitoring Agile Sprint Deliveries for User Stories, Sprint Timelines, Demos to clients, Backlog Grooming, etc
• Monitoring and tracking the Project Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on a regular basis
• Communicating with Business on work prioritization
• Approval of project performance specifications
• Point of escalation to address any issues
• Communicate with Business Users and Business Analysts to get understanding of Projects/ User Stories
• Accounting of Hours/Time lines VS Estimates of projects
• Invoicing and Budgeting of EBS Project
• Involvement in Project Management functions like Project Management Review [PMR], Information Quality Audit, Metrics, etc
• Recruitment of Associates based on project Requirements.

• Technical Project Manager / Delivery Lead for My AT&T Payment Team responsible for tracking, scheduling & monitoring of bimonthly releases/projects
• Working closely with Business Owners, Stakeholders & Development Teams to finalize requirements, conduct requirement workshops, perform & baseline high-level design
• Conducting and leading Release Planning, Iteration Planning meetings with IT Development, Business and Product owners
• Working closely with Technical Architects & development teams to implement enhancements, new requirements, and issue resolutions
• Reviewing and baselining Business and Technical Requirements
• Acting as a Single Point of Contact for System Testing, User Acceptance & Production testing Teams
• Assisting in reported Defects/Issues resolutions
• Reviewing Unit Test Plan, System & UAT Test Scenarios
• Assisting Testing team in Requirement understanding, Domain Knowledge
• Acting as a Mentor to interfacing teams
• Conducting Daily Scrum, Demo, Retrospectives meetings with the team.

• End to end testing of order management system
• Review of test scenarios and test cases
• Execution of test scenarios/test cases
• Collaborating with several applications during execution
• Defect management.