abhimanyu bhardwaj

9 years experience as Product Owner /Technical Program Manager-Delivery End to End Product lifecycle , Agile Complex Program, Cloud, Budgeting , Planning, Delivery
Certification : Product Owner, PMP , SAFE , Scrum
MBA- Consulting, Telecom, Ecommerce

Bharti Airtel     Ltd                                                                                                                                                                                      (January 22 - Present)

Technical Program Manager- Digital Product 

Key Result Areas:

• Leading End-to-End Program/Product Management (Business, Strategy, Change, GTM) - (Scrum/SAFE Agile)
  • Plan and deliverall the End-to-End Project /Product Plan from PIF (ProjectInitiation forum) till deployment.
  • Leading Product / Program Requirement Grooming meeting with Architects, development team, QA, Customer Experience
  • Orchestrated strategic planning sessions with Engineering Project/Product teams, resulting in a streamlined development process that accelerated feature delivery by 20% and leading to 25% reduction in backlog.
  • Managing Change Requests can be (Business/ Technical) and taking actions accordingly.
  • Led comprehensive analysis and evaluation of project requirements, facilitating productive discussions and decision-making processes to align stakeholders, optimize project architecture, and drive successful execution, resulting in a 15% reduction in project timeline and cost savings of $50k.
  • Leading discussions on Upcoming New Products and Programs that to be targeted, brainstorming on them, understanding its market and customer impact / need. 
  • Applied strategic approach to internal and external dependency mapping, aligning Epics, User Stories, and Test Management Plan, resulting in a 15% reduction in project risks, improved stakeholder communication, and enhanced overall project success rate.
  • Orchestrated the development and implementation of a comprehensive wireframe diagram, providing a visual representation of the product/program and its implications on code, testing, and support. Strategically analyzed upstream and downstream dependencies, guaranteeing seamless API integration and overall functionality across applications.
  • Verifying UI/UX Design with designer and product, Dev Signature / Contract verified with team.
  • Led cross-functional teams in effectively baseline user stories, EPICS, and dependencies, resulting in a 25% increase in project velocity and streamlined product development lifecycle.
• Leading Operations – (Kanban)
  • To mitigate customer experience issues occurs in production. 
  • Led data-driven operational discussions and meetings with Analytics and Customer Experience teams, implementing process improvements that resulted in a 25% reduction in average handling time and a 20% increase in first-call resolution rate.
  • Verifying Kanban & agile practicesare being followed, RCA for issues.
• Tools used.
  • Jira, Confluence, Figma, Gantt chart, Bar chart, NetworkDiagram, SQL, Excel,Pivot. Scrum, Kanban,CI/CD, UML

Tech Mahindra Ltd                                                                                                                                                                                  (October’ 21 – Jan’ 22)

Tech Lead/Product Owner, Client-American Telecom and Telegraph (AT&T)

Key Result Areas:

• Leading End-to-End Program Planning, Strategy, GTM - (Scrum/SAFE Agile)
  • Spearheaded collaboration efforts with diverse development teams, streamlining communication and fostering synergy to deliver projects on time and within budget, resulting in increased productivity and customer satisfaction.
  • Developed and executed the PI Planning project for cross-functional teams, creating a comprehensive product roadmap with clear milestones and project requirements; facilitated alignment and collaboration resulting in on-time delivery and increased customer satisfaction by 20%.
  • Managing Change (Business/ Technical) and takingactions accordingly
  • Implemented Agile methodology for program requirement discussions, enabling cross-functional teams to streamline decision-making, resulting in a 20% reduction in project delivery time.
  • Leading PI meetings, Business Requirements Baselining, Epics, User Stories, Test Management Plan, Dependency Management (External that is third party or Internal)
  • Planning Sprints as per the MVP and requirements in Product backlog

Gemini Solutions Ltd, Gurgaon                                                                                                                                                               (December’ 18 – Oct’21)

Lead Business Analyst/Product Owner, Client-PIMCO 

Key Result Areas:

• Leading End-to-End Project Planning, Scope, Strategy- (Scrum)- (Data Engineering)
  • Led kickoff meetings, baselined business requirements, defined epics and user stories, and managed test cycles for a software development project; increased team efficiency by 20% and delivered project on time and within budget.
  • Eliciting requirements duringreal time collaborative sessions with stakeholders in Agile Development Projects
  • Follow Software development life cycle (Analysis, Development, Testing and Documentation)
  • Dependency Management (External/Internal, AID), Risk Analysis, ScheduleManagement
  • Work closely with development team, Verifying Architecture and applications impacted, verifying change requests,
  • Work effort estimation at project initiation stage/Milestone for BA/ development activities, improve variances
  • Monitor & ControlScrum meetings, Agile process, Iterations, sprints are followed
  • Validate Scope, collaborate with multiple engineering team implementing Product vision.
  • Evaluated critical path variances to ensure projects stayed on target, within budget, and aligned with scope; identified and mitigated potential risks to minimize delays and cost overruns, resulting in a 15% increase in project success rate.
  • Develop Project/Product Road Map, Milestones Planning, Project requirements gathering. Tracking ProjectVia Jira,

IBM Global BusinessServices, Bangalore                                                                                                                                               (June’ 17 – July’ 18)

Product Owner/Business Analyst,Client-American Telecom & Telegraph US 

Key Result Areas:

• Leading End-to-End Project Planning, Product Scope, Changes, Implementation, GTM
  • Business requirements baselining, schedule baseline,follow agile & scrum practices, client reporting.
  • Successfully managed cross-functional teams of developers, architects, and test managers, in sync with key stakeholders ensuring seamless collaboration, resulting in a 20% reduction in production issues 
  • Verifying test strategies (ST/IST/UAT/UCT) and high level and low-level test cases
  • Plan and deliverall the End-to-End Project/Product management activities phase PIF (ProjectInitiation forum) till deployment to client UCT (User Controlled Testing)
  • Manages teamsand helps them to baselineuser stories and EPICS, Schedule,Dependencies, Integrated SolutionDocument
  • Leading delivery teamsand that is application/development teams,System engineers, Architects, Developers, Scrum Masters, testers.
  • Initiated and organized meetings with System Engineers, Testers, and Client Solution Managers to discuss project flow and architecture, fostering active participation and ensuring a comprehensive understanding of requirements among stakeholders.
  • Conducting application design reviews, and the development of major deliverables
  • Evaluating dependencies of AID (Application Interface design) or Test Supportor PWT/UAT for products, can be internal/ external and work with teams to close it with their need by dates.
  • Taking projectfor discussion to Risk ReviewBoard or ChangeControl Board for any upcomingrisk or Changerequest

Publicis Epsilon, Bangalore

Management Trainee, Business Operations (Internship)                                                                                                                       (April’ 16 – May’16)

• Health Report Optimized
• Efficiency and Forecast Report

Raychem RPG (P) Ltd, New Delhi (Tyco Electronics USA)                                                                                                                          (July’ 14 – April’ 15)

Designation – Executive / Product Owner 

Key Result Areas:

• Leading Projects Planning and Pre-Sales
  • Documenting requirements for projects, mapping dependencies and impact 
  • Verifying Engineering designs and development 
  • Updating stakeholders regularly with respect to progress Validating and. Auditing system as per codes & Standards 
  • Overseeing the development and capacity
  • Keeping accurate recordsof products, contracts, pricing information. Carryingout the initialand on-going assessment of the project, RFP, RFQ, RFI
  • Managed and obtained project approvals, including Quality Assurance Plan (QAP) and technical/commercial negotiations; successfully secured client buy-in and approval for a $5M project, surpassing revenue targets by 20%
  • Ensuring compliance as per the projects need,vendor inspections. Coordinating amongst departments to deliver project on time. Lead integrated baseline program.

Sietz Technologies India Ltd                                                                                                                                                                       (May’ 12 – July’ 14)

Designation – Engineer / Product Owner 

Key Result Areas:

• Leading Engineering requirements, Designs & QA Approvals
  • Understanding clients’ needs,developing & designing product as per  business documentand project charter
  • Verifying Quality Assurance Plan, Vendor Procurements, Verifying design data. Vendor qualitychecks
  • Implemented a robust auditing process to ensure adherence to industry codes and standards, resulting in a 15% reduction in compliance issues and improved overall quality and safety standards.
  • Coordinating with marketingteam to achieveon time deliveryof projects.
  • Collaborate and workingclosely with Vendors& Clients to meet requirements including both technicaland commercial issues.

• MBA (Lean Operations and Systems) from Institute of Management, ChristUniversity, Bangalore                                      2017
• B. Tech. in Electrical & Electronics from Uttar Pradesh Technical University                                                                                2011
• Intermediate from Delhi Public School, Vidyut Nagar                                                                                                                  2006
• High School from Delhi Public School,Vidyut Nagar                                                                                                                   2004