Data Science / Data Migration
VISWARAJ NADUVATH CHANDRAN
SAFe 6.0 PO/PM
Richmond,VA
Summary
SAFe 6.0 certified Product Owner/Manager having 17 years of experience driving complex IT solutions for healthcare & retail businesses utilizing Mainframe, ETL, Data Science and UI domains. 5+ years of customer facing experience sharing equal space with Business and IT stakeholders, executing projects using Scaled Agile framework.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Onshore Lead Analyst
UST Global
09.2023 - Current
- Responsible for the end-to-end planning and execution from the POR discovery, prioritization, intake & post-implementation support of the Claims run project assigned to the Claims-force Scrum team
- Onshore lead providing serving as the go-to POC End to End decision making & liaison between Business & IT for the Claims Force Scrum team
- Act in a consulting role for the user story discovery, dashboard creation, story prioritization, execution & driving effective collaborations to resolve impediments.
Lead Systems Analyst
UST Global
08.2022 - 08.2023
- Lead the Onshore Technical System analyst team which is responsible for conducting the group brainstorming sessions to prioritize the modules & data elements which needs to be migrated to cloud environment striking the balance between demand & ease of execution
- Act as the liaison between Business and Technical team to understand & document the current Business process, gap analysis, possible scope of modernizations & automations, conducting business user interviews & creating the top features for the product roadmap
- Analyze the current modules for Claims, membership, pricing, and provider systems and create/review the RQ files which is used as the primary intermediary towards cloud migration.
Product owner / Technical Analyst
UST Global
03.2019 - 07.2022
- Act as a servant leader in the Project intake, User story grooming, prioritization, service engineering analysis and guide the team to realize the optimum path to be followed
- Helped in Agile transformation of the team by facilitating & conducting coaching sessions to set the expectations for the SCRUM execution
- Actively collaborate and lead the User story grooming, Design walkthroughs, re-engineering, functional/performance testing & implementation reviews
- USTAR award at organization level for scaling above & beyond expectations of the dedicated role.
Systems analyst
UST Global
08.2017 - 02.2019
- Systems analyst for Anthem Enterprise data warehouse depo ETL project responsible for Revenue & Membership Data transformations
- Managed planning and status reporting directly with client stakeholders
- Served as the key intermediary between Business analysts and developers to elicit the requirements
- Served as the POC for leading the project handover knowledge transition to a different organization belonging to a different domain.
Sr. Developer
UST Global
04.2014 - 07.2017
- Senior developer of the team which transitioned the methodology of running business critical applications from waterfall to agile framework
- Served as the onshore POC for P2P migrations which utilized past accumulator, benefits, and membership data to suggest customized plans during the Open enrolment period.
Sr. Software Developer
UST Global
02.2012 - 03.2014
- Lead -Environment and Data management teams of BJ’s.com CRM site
- Responsible for 24
- 7 support of mainframe applications
- Best project team award at Organization level
Sr. Developer
UST Global
03.2010 - 01.2012
- Offshore lead for Compliance quality reporting application
- Conducted an internal SDLC process review and audit and provided a summary of recommendations.
Sr. Systems Engineer
INFOSYS LTD
10.2006 - 02.2010
- Offshore developer for Logistics & Merchandizing, Store number expansion & credit card masking projects
- Exposure to development, enhancement, maintenance, production support & re-engineering projects
- On the Spot award for outstanding performance in the Store number expansion project
Education
Bachelor of Technology- Electronics & Biomedical Engg -
Model Engineering College, Cochin University of Science & Technology
Kochi, KeralaScience & Math stream - undefined
All India Secondary School Exam (+2)
Thrissur, KeralaSkills
Agile Frameworks: SCRUM, Kanban
Agile Tools: JIRA, Jira-align, Confluence, MS-Project
Agile planning & execution: Forecasting the product roadmap, Story board planning, Backlog refinement, user story prioritizing, dashboard creation, story grooming & demand-based reprioritizing
Requirement elicitation methods: User interview, Business process flow assessment, Gap assessment, automation opportunity & feasibility analysis, Group brainstorming
Business & Technical Analysis: Current state & proposed state analysis, process analysis, Code/Data migration
Mainframe: Cobol, JCL, DB2, Easytrieve, IMS-DB, File-Aid, Abend-aid, Xpeditor, Changeman, Endevor, Control-M, CICS, VSAM
ETL: Teradata, Alteryx
Data Science/ Machine Learning & Gen AI: Python, Tableau, Data visualization, Unsupervised & Supervised Machine learning algorithms, Gen AI foundational level
Databases: DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM, My-SQL, Teradata, Oracle DB
Testing Tools: Postman, SoapUI
Cloud exposure: Azure, AWS
MS-Office-365: Word, PPT, Visio, Excel
Certification
Certified SAFe 6.0 Product Owner/Product Manager - 2023
Accomplishments
- USTAR awards at organization level for scaling above and beyond the assigned designation
- On the Spot” awards at the organization level for delivery excellence
Interests
Cloud - Azure/AWS
Re-engineering
Machine Learning / Gen AI
Timeline
Onshore Lead Analyst
UST Global
09.2023 - Current
Lead Systems Analyst
UST Global
08.2022 - 08.2023
Product owner / Technical Analyst
UST Global
03.2019 - 07.2022
Systems analyst
UST Global
08.2017 - 02.2019
Sr. Developer
UST Global
04.2014 - 07.2017
Sr. Software Developer
UST Global
02.2012 - 03.2014
Sr. Developer
UST Global
03.2010 - 01.2012
Sr. Systems Engineer
INFOSYS LTD
10.2006 - 02.2010
Bachelor of Technology- Electronics & Biomedical Engg -
Model Engineering College, Cochin University of Science & Technology
Science & Math stream - undefined
All India Secondary School Exam (+2)