Sowmya Pandlu
Suwanee,GA
Summary
Focused Product Manager, Project Manager, and Business Analyst adept in the full product cycle development process such as design, requirements gathering, defining workflows, resource allocation, budgeting, boosting user engagement, engaging with customers, enhancing onboarding experiences, creating documentation for team members and customers, data cleanup and analysis, as well as personnel training.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Day Trader
Self-employed
08.2017 - Current
- Monitored market trends and developed strategies to capitalize on potential opportunities.
- Utilized various trading strategies to highlight current market sentiment, price points of resistance and support and liquidity characteristics of positions.
- Implemented budgetary monitoring techniques to track expenditures and maximize ROIs.
- Assessed hourly market conditions to look for hedge and arbitrage opportunities.
Business Analyst
Apex Systems
03.2019 - 04.2020
- Facilitated requirements elicitations to create documentation such as user stories and models
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Mapped processes to holistically examine business flow and identify improvement opportunities.
- Assisted the project team in performing functional impact analyses.
- Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
- Designed workflows to enhance onboarding experiences.
Junior Business Analyst
Business Software Inc, BSI
11.2017 - 03.2019
- Participated in data gathering meetings and built strong interpersonal working relationships with stakeholders at multiple levels.
- Analyzed regulatory and business requirements when writing functional and technical specifications for new products or enhancements.
- Worked in an Agile framework to meet multiple project deadlines without sacrificing build quality all while maintaining the project budget, scope, and resources.
- Led team meetings and delivered presentations on product functionality.
- Wrote SQL queries to perform root cause analysis for issues reported by high profile clients.
- Reconciled payroll system discrepancies and responded to inquiries from customers.
- Leveraged working relationships with cross-functional project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation such as product specifications, BRDs, use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria, etc.
- Conducted quality assurance to verify various system functionalities.
- Engaged with customers to gain insights into their troubles and worked to fix them, create new features and modify/delete problematic features in upcoming releases.
Junior Recruiter
MedSide Healthcare
03.2017 - 09.2018
- Operated and maintained applicant tracking and candidate management systems.
- Placed advertisements, evaluated applicant credentials, conducted initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
- Developed recruiting strategies to identify qualified candidates and build network.
- Collaborated with internal teams to continuously improve recruitment processes and execute as efficiently as possible.
- Coordinated schedules to arrange management interviews with applicants.
- Evaluated strengths and weaknesses of candidates through effective screening processes.
- Assisted with onboarding and orientation of new hires to expedite acclimatization process.
- Advertised job opportunities on social media platforms and job boards.
- Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
- Conducted phone and in-person interviews to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
Project Manager Intern
My Basic LLC
05.2017 - 07.2017
- Designed website mockups and conducted JAD sessions
- Guided the development team while following the Agile or Waterfall methodologies
- Identified project scopes, constraints, risks and deadlines.
- Tracked project performance to analyze successful completion of short- and long-term goals.
- Coordinated internal resources for flawless execution of projects
- Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
Education
BBA - Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University, Robinson College of Business
08.2017
Skills
- Trilingual (English, Telugu, and Kannada)
- Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies
- SharePoint
- Microsoft SQL
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft Access
- Sql Reporting
- Project Management
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Creating Roadmaps
- User-Centric Product Development and Design
Timeline
Business Analyst
Apex Systems
03.2019 - 04.2020
Junior Business Analyst
Business Software Inc, BSI
11.2017 - 03.2019
Day Trader
Self-employed
08.2017 - Current
Project Manager Intern
My Basic LLC
05.2017 - 07.2017
Junior Recruiter
MedSide Healthcare
03.2017 - 09.2018
BBA - Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University, Robinson College of Business
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