Sai Manisha Mikkilineni
Frisco,TX
Summary
Results-driven Product Owner and Business Analyst with 6 years of experience in healthcare and insurance. Expertise in compliance, automation, and process optimization, with a proven ability to deliver scalable solutions aligned with regulatory and business requirements. Experienced in managing system implementations and ensuring audit readiness.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Pyramid Technologies Inc
Indianapolis, IN
11.2022 - 11.2024
- Drove product adoption (+50%) and reduced turnaround time by 30% by prioritizing high-impact features and delivering user-focused solutions.
- Owned product roadmap and delivery for two compliance platforms, reducing manual workflows by 70% and improving operational efficiency by 40%.
- Managed a 200+ item backlog and led Agile ceremonies, increasing team velocity by 20% and achieving 95% on-time releases.
- Created and maintained user stories, prioritized backlog, and facilitated Agile ceremonies to enhance product delivery and team collaboration.
- Coordinated release planning activities, aligning feature sets, launch dates, and marketing campaigns with strategic goals.
- Partnered with Compliance, Legal, Finance, and Engineering teams to define system controls and implement configurations that ensured compliance with evolving regulations and minimized risk.
- Led data migration efforts from legacy systems to a scalable platform, ensuring reconciliation accuracy and supporting audit readiness, parallel to payroll system transitions.
- Built KPI dashboards (SQL/Power BI) to monitor performance, cutting issue detection time by 50% and enabling faster decision-making.
- Provided mentorship across teams during release cycles and supported change management in system rule updates.
- Communicated regularly with stakeholders to ensure alignment on product strategy and vision.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define product vision and roadmap.
Business Analyst
XT Global Inc
Dallas, TX
07.2022 - 11.2022
- Automated billing workflows, saving 80+ hours/month and improving accuracy of rate mapping, reducing billing errors by 30%.
- Managed JIRA backlog and sprint ceremonies, coordinating UAT with stakeholders, resulting in 95%+ defect-free releases.
- Collaborated with compliance and reporting teams to define audit dashboards, enhancing visibility and addressing data gaps.
- Led end-to-end data migration from a RIMS platform to a cloud-based vendor system, ensuring 99%+ data integrity, zero critical data loss, and full regulatory compliance.
Product Owner
Fluent Grid Ltd
India
07.2018 - 12.2020
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies, crafted user stories, and prioritized feature delivery to align with business timelines.
- Defined product requirements and user flows for a claims and billing platform, reducing processing time by 40% and improving operational efficiency.
- Validated regulatory rule implementations with QA and stakeholders, reducing post-production defects by 35% and improving release quality.
- Partnered with UI/UX teams to enhance usability, boosting user satisfaction and ensuring compliance traceability.
- Managed sprints and monitored progress against project timelines.
- Engaged stakeholders to communicate product updates and gather requirements.
Education
Master's - Information Technology and Management
University of Texas At Dallas
05-2022
Skills
- Backlog Management
- Sprint Planning
- Release Planning
- Requirements gathering
- Stakeholder engagement
- Cross-functional teamwork
- Agile methodologies
- Data reporting
- SQL
- Power BI
- Dashboards
- Anomaly identification
- Workflow improvement
- Regression
- Test Cases
- JIRA
- Azure DevOps
- Confluence
- SharePoint
- MS Teams
- Compliance automation
- Regulatory enhancements
Certification
- Certified AI-Empowered SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
- SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
- Mendix Rapid Developer Certificate
Timeline
Product Owner
Pyramid Technologies Inc
11.2022 - 11.2024
Business Analyst
XT Global Inc
07.2022 - 11.2022
Product Owner
Fluent Grid Ltd
07.2018 - 12.2020
Master's - Information Technology and Management
University of Texas At Dallas