Kanmani Somasundaram
Tracy,CA
Summary
- Experienced Business Systems Consultant with over 8 years of experience at Wells Fargo Bank NA. MBA graduate and Certified Professional in Scrum Master and Product Owner
- Expertise in Agile project management methodologies. Effectively tracked sprint milestones and critical path items while communicating with Development and End Business teams
- Conducted daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint reviews and planning meetings to ensure active communication. Successfully created Product Requirement BRD documents for projects and associate in Features, User stories at JIRA Kanban
- Coordinated cross-functional teams of managers, delivery managers, Dev teams, UX Front End Design teams, and end business lines to ensure successful project phases across all types of SDLC projects. Proven track record of delivering successful banking credit card and deposit products as a Scrum Product Owner
- Collaborative and strategic approach to developing and maintaining product backlogs, defining product visions, and managing product releases
- Managed client business team relationships, negotiated terms and deadlines, and maintained appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
- Streamlined business processes from Waterfall to Agile models for efficient project execution. Worked closely with product management team to define product strategy
- Worked with Risks compliance & policy team to manage press release contents for Wells Fargo. Also worked in CMS product for Content Authoring & management with SDL Tridion based on Web Templates for content creation, workflow approval & publish, and managing complete content for the www.wellsfargo.com website
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Business Systems Consultant
Wells Fargo & Co.
01.2013 - 08.2021
- Company Overview: Wells Fargo is diversified, community-based financial services company https://www.wellsfargo.com/
- Develop business requirement document, business plan and roll-out verification and worked core banking application like Credit Card, Payments, Wellsfargo Public site, etc
- Drives optimization and process improvements between product, design, site management, and development team
- Document Functional and Non-Functional requirements for both Waterfall and Agile related projects
- Collaborate with key stakeholders like Development, QA, End Business team and external stakeholders to ensure all digital experiences meet their strategic goals
- Managed complete development cycle in order to release all Wellsfargo products and tracking through JIRA and scrum team
- Walk through all developed requirement BRD document with multiple stakeholders and get approval through Sharepoint sites
- Handled In-Take request and transformed into BRD for requirements and Worked with Development about all effort estimations and triage In-Take requests
- Coached team members on Agile best practices and tool adoption, leading to a 50% increase in task completion rates and consistent sprint success.
- Define the acceptance criteria for user stories; accepts/rejects the delivered code from within each Sprint
- Assist the Development, QA test planning and execution, analyze user stories, use cases and requirements with team for confirmation
- Work with CX Design, IT Deployment team for all deployment and verify changes according to requirement document before QA and UAT test starts
- Articulates the product management vision and defines product requirements for features and stories
- Provided status updates and communicate key messages to senior management and stakeholders
- Manage stakeholders’ expectations
- Content Authoring & Analyst of CMS using SDL Tridion
- Wells Fargo is a diversified, community-based financial services company
- [Website](https://www.wellsfargo.com/)
Finance Analyst
HotRef
01.2012 - 04.2012
- Company Overview: HotRef is a company that specializes in promotional products and custom gifts
- [Website](http://www.hotref.com/)
- Prepared Financial Statements like Income Statement, Cash flow, Balance sheets and Ratio Analysis
- Provided Analysis of profit margin in next 5 years projection
- Understand, Analyzed their Production strategy based this minimize their cost expenditure
- Prepared Final Project Presentation of company and Project Business Report
- Power Point Presentation for Projects
- HotRef is a company that specializes in promotional products and custom gifts
- [Website](http://www.hotref.com/)
Education
MBA - Finance
Northwestern Polytechnic University
California09.2012
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Release and Project Management
- Scrum Master
- Scrum Product Owner
- Agile methodologies and Development
- Strategic and Resource Planning
- SDLC Process improvements
- Waterfall to Agile Execution
- Team Collaboration
- Onsite and Offshore models
- Content Management System
- Documentum
- SDL Tridion
- XMetal Author
- SDL Tridion CME
- Content Authoring, Templates, Publishing
- Bilingual Content Authoring
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Accounting
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft SharePoint
- PowerPoint
- Word
- Excel
- Visio
Accomplishments
- Received “Good Performance Student” and Grade “A” at Capstone MBA/Finance Project.
- Received overall cumulative GPA 3.95 out of 4.00 at MBA
Additional Qualifications
Content Management System(CMS): Business Content Analysis for CMS platform, enforcement of Editorial and Design Standards, Content Migration from Documentum to SDL Tridion, XMetal Author, Content Authoring using SDL Tridion CME(Components,Pages), Content Publish using Bundle with Workflow, Content Templates, Meta data & Preview in Tridion CME, Content Authoring in both English & Spanish contents according to Tridion Blue Prints.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
Timeline
Business Systems Consultant
Wells Fargo & Co.
01.2013 - 08.2021
Finance Analyst
HotRef
01.2012 - 04.2012
MBA - Finance
Northwestern Polytechnic University
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