Hi, I’m
Ramesh Karunanidhi
Product Manager
SSVK Shades Apartment, Poonamallee, Chennai,India
Summary
Over 11 years' of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Market Research, Competitive Intelligence across varied domains in US market.
- Extensive experience in converting business requirements into functional requirements such as user stories and creating/maintaining product backlog items.
- Expertise in product backlog management & prioritizing User Stories in JIRA.
- Well versed in preparing process flow, workflow and component diagrams using Visio, Google drawing and Lucidchart.
- Experienced in Scrum Agile Software Development Life Cycle, having in-depth understanding of various phases such as Discovery, Grooming, Design, Development & Testing.
- Experienced in collaborating with internal & external stakeholders efficiently and effectively throughout the development life-cycle.
- Have hands-on experience in the following Domains US Healthcare, Retail Banking, Retail eCommerce, and Loyalty and Rewards.
Overview
14
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Photon Interactive Private LimitedChennai, India
Product Manager
10.2016 - Current
Job overview
- Providing product management support for strategic and large enterprise transformation programs that are being executed by the company.
- Extensive involvement in defining the foundational components that will set the stage for implementation of a product or solution during the discovery phase of the projects.
- Set goals and formalized policies, establishing business process documents to maximize team performance and keep project on-track.
- Definition of the key features, subfeatures and high level user story elaboration that will be the basis for product backlog.
- Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap determining the minimum viable product and release planning.
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, and use cases analysis.
- Proven track record of delivering large enterprise transformation projects (Retail eCommerce re-platform) worth of over 10 million dollars which involves multiple 30+ systems integration by working with various teams.
- Liaise between the client and delivery team includes (Deign Team, Developers, Tech Lead/Architect, and QA Team).
Client Network Services IndiaChennai, India
Senior Business Analyst
04.2015 - 10.2016
Job overview
- Market research analysis on this product domain.
- Conducted various workshop sessions to build the backlog items based on market analysis.
- Created/Maintained Product backlog items.
- Worked along with Product manager to create road map.
- Assisted the product manager in prioritizing the backlog items.
- Prepared use case documents, business flow diagram and component diagram.
- Lead the scrum meeting and facilitated Sprint Planning, Sprint review & Retrospective meetings.
- Prepared Pre-Sales collaterals such as market-facing slide decks, Prototype with Demo Script.
- Prepared functional specification documents, configuration workbook, User Manual & Release notes.
- Prepared demo script and presented to the client stakeholders.
Athena Health Technology Private LimitedChennai, India
Senior Healthcare Transactions Analyst
11.2010 - 03.2015
Job overview
- Project management and testing of Interface related initiatives, including Demographics, scheduling, Charges, Bi-directional, ADT, Standalone Clinicals custom interfaces etc.
- Utilize strong technical skills and business understanding to solve technical issues and troubleshoot functional issues from Clients.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop novel solutions to operations problem.
- Supporting the recruitment panel to do the first level of screening and mentoring the new hires.
- Identifying operational inefficiencies and process breakdowns; contributing to the design of solutions to address the same.
Ajuba Solutions Private LimitedChennai, India
Senior Account Executive
03.2008 - 10.2010
Job overview
- Followed up with US Health Insurance Companies to resolve the submitted claims on behalf of our providers.
- Ensure the DAR is well within the TAT.
- Handled client responses to modify and rework claims from their buckets Perform maintenance and develop documentation for all developed programs.
- Liaise with offshore operations team and onsite client
Education
The New College, Chennai
Bachelor of Science from Chemistry
07.2005 - 04.2008
Skills
Product development
Additional Information
Business Analysis & Collaboration Tools
MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Lucidchart, Google Drawing, SharePoint, Atlassian (Confluence+JIRA)
RDBMS
MySQL, Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL)
Cloud Technologies
Application Insights, Blob Storage, LogicApp, Function App (Functional Knowledge)
Wireframing tools
Balsamiq, Pencil, Axure RP
eCommerce Platform
Commercetools
CMS
Drupal, Sitecore, WordPress, Adobe Experience Manager
Timeline
Product Manager
Photon Interactive Private Limited
10.2016 - Current
Senior Business Analyst
Client Network Services India
04.2015 - 10.2016
Senior Healthcare Transactions Analyst
Athena Health Technology Private Limited
11.2010 - 03.2015
Senior Account Executive
Ajuba Solutions Private Limited
03.2008 - 10.2010
The New College
Bachelor of Science from Chemistry
07.2005 - 04.2008
Similar Profiles
Christy Daffni TChristy Daffni T
SCRUM MASTER at Photon Interactive Private limitedSCRUM MASTER at Photon Interactive Private limited
Sugeetha VaitheeswaranSugeetha Vaitheeswaran
Senior QA Manager at PHOTON INTERACTIVE PRIVATE LIMITED - L'Oreal AccountSenior QA Manager at PHOTON INTERACTIVE PRIVATE LIMITED - L'Oreal Account
Sundaravadivelan KSundaravadivelan K
Senior SDET Engineer at Photon Interactive Private LimitedSenior SDET Engineer at Photon Interactive Private Limited