Prasad J Shenoy

Delivery Leader and Technical Product Manager for pioneering cloud-based enterprise analytics program starting from blueprint and architecture to implementation.

Accomplishments:

• Spearheaded creation and approval of extensible and self-service enabled analytics blueprint and architecture, resulting in accelerated adoption of analytics platform
• Launched first business use case within 6 months of program start, with necessary capabilities and data, delivering business value in short time
• Directed data product delivery and achieved significant milestone of integrating data from over 8 regional data stores, 4 enterprise systems with about 12 months effort; reduced data redundancy by 7 times leading to significant operational cost savings
• Increased quality of data and reduced efforts in manual data validations by working with Business Product Managers and integrating all necessary validations into data processing pipeline
  Improved transparency of data availability and service response times by creating and publishing self-service dashboard, eliminating need to respond to unique stakeholder requests
• Achieved timely delivery of data by collaborating with data product owners, infrastructure experts, and cloud vendor; successfully delivered close to 300TB of historical data and over 10TB of daily incremental data, meeting program non-functional requirements
• Recommended process improvements for product delivery, enabling Scrum Masters to increase value delivery for each program increment from 65% to over 80%
• Increased team productivity and motivation by hosting training and knowledge sharing sessions for Technical, Agile, and Functional topics

Delivery Leader and Technical Product Manager for next generation cost accounting application and profitability analytics that supports all regional operations and regulatory needs.

Accomplishments:

• Evaluated and advised business and IT senior leadership on different solution offerings and guided recommendation process, reducing time-to-market by at least 2 years for program and leveraging best-of-breed solution in market
• Facilitated creation and approval of current and target architecture, increasing confidence of program scope, dependencies, and budget requirements from 25% to over 60%, thus allowing program leadership to get necessary budget approvals
• Assisted formation of Agile program management and product management framework with knowledge of Scaled Agile methodology — first large program within Kaiser to use this methodology
• Accomplished savings of over $600K in support costs and $2.5 million in application upgrade costs; eliminated security risks that could have compromised Kaiser’s data by coming up with innovative approach to stabilize and remediate legacy costing application
• Successfully led proof-of-concept for next generation costing application using software-as-a-service model, providing important inputs for financial modeling as part of business case and technical feasibility analysis
• Accelerated development of operational cost models by integrating necessary data and by partnering with medical groups, leads from finance teams, and regional leadership
  Led technical team in internal data science competition to predict high utilizers, providing team experience of emerging area of analytics and technology space, leading to better solutions for program
• Created online library of resources for team, which was primary source of information; increased dissemination of knowledge across team leading to higher motivation, productivity, and time efficiency

Technical consultant on strategic programs for enterprise. Responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing delivery of solutions.

Accomplishments:

• Instrumental in finalizing scope and technical feasibility of complex federal risk adjustment program, by advocating for and delivering on proof-of-concept within 3 months
• Successfully led team to deliver on time for federal risk adjustment program, ensuring compliance with federal requirements and bringing in additional revenue of over $200M
• Spearheaded effort to build framework for integrated test data management on risk adjustment program, saving more than 6 months of effort on creating test data for various business scenarios
• Devised flexible solution for Fee-schedule program which allowed Pricing Department to do What-if analysis of various fee models, significantly reducing time taken for pricing
  Increased transparency of pricing approach for employer groups by building out dashboards and supporting data, resulting in increased retention of health plan customers
• Consolidated regional data marts into enterprise data warehouse, reducing data footprint and bringing consistency to data processing and reporting
• Engineered fault-tolerance and business user self-help process for data warehouse application, reducing failure rate of analytic queries by over 50% and reducing need for database administrator services by over 40%
• Architected highly reusable and scalable data integration process for analytics, decreasing code footprint by over 30% and reducing testing needs for scaling solution
• Created and oversaw solution review process for portfolio, bringing more consistency to technical solutions and sharing best practices across teams
• Developed best practices for data modelling and data integration and coached development team, increasing team confidence in delivering analytic solutions

Technical Lead responsible for entire software development life cycle on enterprise IT initiatives such as Membership Data warehouse, Episode Treatment Grouping and analysis, Line of Business Profitability analysis, Health Plan Pricing interfaces and reports.

• Organized system infrastructure documentation and operating procedures, strengthening controls and enhancing overall performance.
• Oversaw variety of projects, including budgets, milestones and team performance.
• Developed technical solutions to diverse operational problems.
• Managed team of onshore and offshore personnel focused on implementing solutions and enhancements.
• Delivered in-depth training, imparting knowledge of best practices for designing solutions, protecting data and minimizing errors.
• Evaluated and adopted new technologies to address changing industry needs.
• Investigated and addressed system issues to enhance usability and improve functionality.