Strategic martech and data professional with expertise in product vision and stakeholder management. Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and ensure project compliance in dynamic environments. Solutions consistently enhance customer satisfaction and align with organizational objectives.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Senior Product Owner
Humana
Dallas
01.2023 - Current
Defined and communicated product vision, goals, and roadmap aligned with organizational strategy.
Gathered, clarified, and prioritized business and regulatory requirements from stakeholders.
Created and managed product backlog; ensured clarity and actionability of user stories.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive delivery of solutions.
Ensured compliance with Medicaid and HIPAA regulations throughout project lifecycle.
Facilitated sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives for continuous improvement.
Monitored progress toward key milestones, deliverables, and value realization.
Resolved blockers and made timely decisions to maintain team momentum.
Software Engineering Manager
ALSAC/St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis
10.2021 - 01.2023
Developed processes to create high-quality products and customer satisfaction.
Provided technical leadership, guidance, and oversight into the implementation of product features.
Led software teams in optimizing test plans and improving test designs.
Architected design and development of high-visibility customer-specific applications.
Delivered consistent and quality mentoring, training, and onboarding for teams of contractors and staff members.
Managed implementation of application developments by collaborating with overseas technical teams.
Recommended product changes to enhance customer interest and maximize sales.
Leveraged technical knowledge to navigate functional requirements.
Product Owner
ALSAC/St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis
03.2020 - 10.2021
Manage product backend and frontend support and performance, identify and drive opportunities for product enhancements.
Work closely with users and internal stakeholders to ensure all the daily, weekly, monthly, and annual ad-hoc and recurring campaigns are designed, built, tested, and generated.
Work closely with cross-functional designers, engineers, and QA teams to ensure delivery against the product roadmap.
Led multiple high-profile projects.
Create and manage the roadmap, backlog, and refinement/sprint plans for our product team to support the overall product strategy.
Work closely with the platform director on short-term and long-term product roadmaps.
Responsible for product updates and roadmap representation in executive settings and reviews.
Responsible for driving transparency to backlog detail, in-progress, roadblocks, etc. (across partners, agile teams, senior leadership, etc.).
Conducting Scrum meetings and events with the team.
Unica Architect/Product Owner
ALSAC/St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis
01.2018 - 03.2020
Extensive analytical skills to successfully understand goals, identify opportunities, and promptly analyze and solve problems as data moves between databases and systems.
Actively participates in projects, self-manages time, mitigates risk, and absorbs change as needed.
Responsible for professional communication regarding challenges, limitations, planning to the ITS Project Managers, and leadership on time.
Responsible for creating quality technical documentation and specifications for tracking system changes.
Responsible for ensuring appropriate and thorough testing is performed before changes in production systems and compliance with change management procedures.
Provide mentoring and training for others to help build skills, and testing abilities.
Install and modify campaigns as needed by the Program owners.
Coordinate with Business Analysts to understand business requests and provide recommendations to the Product Owner on application code and/or configuration changes to meet business needs.
Strong knowledge of databases and hands-on exposure to Oracle, Teradata, and SQL Server.
Have a thorough understanding of Unica stored objects like table catalogs, custom macros, derived fields, etc.
Have extensive experience in building flowcharts, triggers, automation of ad hoc campaigns, and recurring campaigns.
Strong background in marketing campaigns, customer segmentation, and campaign reporting.
Strong expertise in production support, using views and stored procedures to access data, client interaction, and creating and interpreting business requirements.
Confirming data sent from the line of business and implementing/testing the data in a real-time environment.
Interact with stakeholders – Marketing Managers, line of business, and data team to provide counts validation of the campaign to get their approval before campaigns are pushed to production.
Responsible for estimation, planning, and execution of campaign development, modifications, and maintenance, specifically focusing on requirements analysis and campaign design.
Trained the team resources on advanced UNICA functionalities like derived fields, custom macros, and SQL query tuning.
Created detailed business requirements documents for each of the campaigns.
Created strategic segments for heavily used segmentation criteria, which contained more than 350 segments that were too complex/tedious to achieve in UNICA.
Campaign Manager
Clients: 1800 flowers, Wells Fargo
San Francisco
05.2011 - 06.2015
Converted 56 campaigns to ensure compliance with Wells Fargo guidelines.
Developed business requirements and translated them into technical specifications for campaign developers.
Selected data sources to meet campaign requirements and executed SQL queries to verify data reliability.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Osmania University
India
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Project Management
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