RAJESH KUMAR M
Castle Rock,CO
Summary
Experienced IT Product Manager with over 10 + years of experience in BFSI domain. Proven leadership, financial responsibility and technical agility to accomplish transformational change. Strong collaboration within multi-cultural team dynamics for support of global initiatives. Experience in strategic planning, blueprinting, road maps, backlog grooming, sprint planning, analysis and collaboration with business, external vendors, and Information Technology across all phases of software development life cycle. In-depth knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies. Mastery in writing business Initiatives, Business requirements, epics, user stories, test scenarios, test cases, system testing, regression testing and maintaining traceability matrices. Expertise in writing and implementing policies, procedures, configuration and design specifications. Around 6 + years in Agile and 4+ in SAFe
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager, IT Product Manager
Charles Schwab bank
01.2023 - Current
- Domains: TDA -Schwab merger, Transaction History conversion, Portfolio Accounting Data loads, Aerospike.
- Plan product reviews with engineering teams and reviews with leadership.
- Work on roadmap, backlog, and deliverables and create initiatives based on the business priority and need.
- Gather data from JIRA to measure the effectiveness of new features and identify areas of improvement.
- Create and socialize artifacts that clearly communicate requirements including BRDs, user flows, and prototypes.
- Formulate hypotheses and quickly validate with prototypes, user feedback, and experimentation.
- Work closely with technical leads to ensure data from other upstream systems are loaded, available, and accurate within the Aerospike data store for many critical downstream accounting and trading processes, whether for an existing process or new project.
- Take a detail-oriented approach to requirements gathering while challenging business partners to improve process and eliminate waste.
IT Product Manager /Product Owner
Charles Schwab bank
07.2021 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Contract through Sapphire Software Solutions, Denver, CO
- Domains: TDA -Schwab merger, Transaction History conversion, Portfolio Accounting Data loads, Aerospike; Client: Charles Schwab.
- Leads product definition and prioritization by working with stakeholders, developers, and internal/external customers.
- Participates/facilitates agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demonstrations and Retrospectives.
- Engages the development teams on agile values, principles and practices.
- Maintains feature backlog and life cycle of features from inception to completion.
- Assists with risk, change, and dependency management.
- Delivers business requirements via artifacts such as epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, mockups/demos, etc.
- Assist with developing/clarifying the business case and prioritization of features and enhancements.
- Grooms and prioritizes User Story backlog.
- Contract through Sapphire Software Solutions, Denver, CO
IT Product Manager /Product Owner
Charles Schwab bank
06.2016 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Contract through Wipro Technologies, Denver, CO
- Domains: Loan Origination (Origins), ALS, Deposits/FIS Profile, Bank Data Import (Core Banking), Rocket Mortgage; Client: Charles Schwab.
- Managing 3 BFSI project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
- Increased IT productivity, efficiency, agility and responsiveness, leading team of 20.
- Analyze architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project requirements.
- Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
- Led and assisted technical implementation of projects for clients by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
- Contract through Wipro Technologies, Denver, CO
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Wipro Technologies
10.2009 - 05.2016
- Assessed business needs and problem areas to create focused solutions for applications.
- Was responsible for requirement gathering and functional over seeing for multiple BFSI Projects.
- Determined operational objectives by studying business functions, gathering information and evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Provided and supported implementation of business solutions by identifying business needs and carrying out necessary practices and processes and documenting associated requirements.
- Utilized change management techniques to provide smooth transitions during implementations.
- Conducted interviews with potential clients to assess application needs, budgets and other factors.
- Documented procedures and business processes and shared information with appropriate stakeholders.
- Collaborated closely with upper management to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes.
- Oversaw installation of software applications to meet functional requirements.
- Applied knowledge of data modeling and statistical analysis to note trends and draw conclusions for non functional requirements.
- Analyzed proposed and extant systems for technological limitations and conformation with current technology needs.
Education
MBA - International Business
INDIAN INSTITUTE of FOREIGN TRADE
05.2005
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
05.2001
Skills
- Project Management
- Confluence
- Business Process
- SAFe
- Product Manager
- PI Planning
- Solution Planning
- Hardware and Software Installation
- Process Implementation
- Gap Analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Quality Assurance
- Scrum
- Business Analysis
- Jira
Certification
- 06/2020, PMP-Project Management Professional
- 01/2022, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
Timeline
Senior Manager, IT Product Manager
Charles Schwab bank
01.2023 - Current
IT Product Manager /Product Owner
Charles Schwab bank
07.2021 - 12.2022
IT Product Manager /Product Owner
Charles Schwab bank
06.2016 - 07.2021
Senior Business Systems Analyst
Wipro Technologies
10.2009 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
MBA - International Business
INDIAN INSTITUTE of FOREIGN TRADE
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