Prathima R Siddamurthy

[email protected]
503-506-2394
Sr Product Manager

Professional Summary
Highly motivated Certified Scrum Master and Product manager with 9+ years’experience in Agile
methodologies, with broad experience in leading cross-functional teams, implementing Scrum and
Agile principles across the teams, and companies.
 Strong Knowledge of software development lifecycle, ability to lead and influence engineering
teams in adopting agile principles and ensure the correct use of Scrum process.
 Experience in engaging through all the phases of the agile methodology, and providing scrum /
agile mentorship to the wider team, and owning daily meetings, sprint reviews, capacity
planning and quarterly planning.
 Facilitated and is accountable for owing the Scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Sprint
Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups, Product Backlog Grooming for the scrum
teams in Agile development.
 Facilitated multiple teams as a Scrum Master using tools like JIRA, Asana, Notion, TFS etc.
 Experience in leading project execution, integration and implementation Risk Management and
Mitigation Planning Readiness/Change Adoption/Stakeholder Management Quality Assurance,
ensure that all applicable change requirements are satisfied
 Involved in typical analyst responsibilities like writing epics/features, breaking them down to
user stories, coordinating with various stakeholders, conducting regular grooming sessions,
performing ad-hoc testing and working with Line of Business to accept stories
 Empowering the teams by increasing Transparency, Inspection, Adaptation, Focus, Courage and
Respect.
 Involved in assisting users and development team with application testing and troubleshooting,
and may help configure test solutions to validate functional and system needs
 Participated in cross-functional teams to reengineer and improve business processes and
models.
 Worked extensively on requirements gathering, gap analysis, and development of functional
specifications for critical mission accomplishing projects.
 Proficient with Agile and Waterfall methodologies within the Software Development Lifecycles.
 Proficient in Product Management, Agile-Scrum, Business Analysis, Change Management,
Budget Management, Continuous integration, Test Automation, Roadmaps, Process
Improvement and having strong knowledge in cloud technologies and excellent communication
skills.
 Analytical experience – ability to interpret business requirements into technical solutions, issue
resolution, risk mitigation and avoidance
 Used Agile practices like – time boxing, user stories, daily stand ups, frequent demos, test
driven development, retrospective and continuous integration.
 Self-motivation, self-direction, organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities
without sacrificing quality or timelines
 Strong relationship, verbal and written communication, teambuilding, and influencing skills

Skills
Business Partnering |Product Management| Product Owner | Requirements Gathering | Defining
Product | Collaboration |Marketing | Product iteration | Agile | Scrum | SAFe | Cross-Functional
Teams | Time Management | SDLC | Analytical Thinking | Product Design | UI/UX | Scope
Management | Problem Solving | User Stories | Cloud (AWS. Azure, GCP) | Devops |CI-CD | QA/UAT |
Release Management | Jira | Confluence | Research | Effective Communication | Strategy
Tools & Methodologies
Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
Requirements:JIRA, Confluence
Reporting:     Tableau, Microsoft Power BI
Databases: Oracle SQL, MySQL
Others: Jira, Informatica, Cloud(AWS, Azure), Devops tools, CI, MS office tools
Education:
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Certification:
Certified SAFe Scrum Master
Scrum Master specialization certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Move.com Jan 2020- Current
Product Manager
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by 4 scrum teams, as well
as coordinating and facilitating scrum ceremonies.
 Managing all Agile & Scrum Ceremonies including Planning, Refinements, Daily Stand-up,
Retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums
 Integrate with project, technology and business partners to manage the projects and be
proactive in gathering status updates from partners, while minimizing impact
 Involved in the end-to-end integration of various work streams in order to deliver the intended
project solution, the position specific responsibilities.
 Worked on an experimental team to implement a full lean development/discovery framework
and coordinated with remote teams of designers, SMEs, editors, translators, and clients.
 Worked on the rapid preparation of a backlog, designs, and technical solution for highly
challenging features that will serve as a core business of the product.
 Identified the minimum resources needed to successfully deliver the product under a very tight
budget while maximizing the value of the MVP
 Managed a remote and cross-cultural team of developers, helping them stick to the plan as
much as possible and deliver on time.
 Established a communication and transparency framework that allowed visibility and progress
tracking for all stakeholders, resulting in a decrease in missed deadlines with the end users..
 Leading or participating in continuous improvement efforts; Building expertise in creating,
analyzing, and improving processes
 Partnered with stakeholders, document the business requirements, and translate the detailed
scenarios to user stories in Jira, roadmap and prioritizing the feature development work.
 Ownership and proactive risk management for customer onboarding and act as subject matter
expert.
Change health, King of Prussia, PA. Sep 2015- Dec 2019
Sr. Scrum Master
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
 Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and
deliverables.
 Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the
7 agile teams across 3 states.
 Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and
maintain Product Backlogs
 Facilitated Implementation that consisted of multiple work streams that run across the
technical aspects of introducing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery development and
operational techniques and best practices in the areas of Configuration Management,
 Infrastructure, Provisioning, Code Packaging & Deployment, Test Data Management,
Automated validation/testing, Monitoring and Alerting, and Infrastructure as Code that
embraces automation and standardization at every stage of the program
 Collaborated with members of Devops team and Aws Azure Was used by the Devops team in
Creating code branches, linking project tasks to code branches, pulling and pushing code
to/from the cloud, and merging code branches when work is complete.
 Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20%
thus increasing team’s throughput in less than 8 weeks.
 Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by
identifying; tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
 Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided
teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.
 Owned many products across multiple engineering teams collaborating with design, user
research, data analytics and business stakeholders

Sonata Software, Bangalore Mar 2012-Mar 2014

Business Systems Analyst/Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Assisting in the management of vendor resources toward the successful and timely completion
of projects or issues, allowing the highest degree of productivity, thereby ensuring Client and
Shareholder satisfaction
 Eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, operational visits, business
process flows, use cases, and user scenarios. Performing regression testing together with the
Quality Analyst team
 Establish and maintain effective relationships with project sponsors, clients or business units,
and vendors.
 Critically evaluate the information gathered
 Supporting the day-to-day Business Activities for the Business Units of Citi globally and resolve
any application related issues that arise in their day-to-day processing
 Developed detailed BRDs and FRDs using modeling tools following the SDLC structure.
 Performed Risk Analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risk areas for the
project and prioritized the application development and testing.
 Conducted walkthroughs with the end users and stakeholders to gather the modification
requests from the user to upgrade or change the business specifications for the product.
 Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential
business process, business rules, information needs and insured those critical requirements are
not missed.