Anne Sam
Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Summary
With over 15+ years of experience in the IT industry, specializing as an AI/Product Manager, Product Owner, Senior Business Analyst, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach. Expertise in applying SAFe and Scrum Agile methodologies in PDLC to drive Customer feedback, Product success, focusing on Backlog management, Continuous Exploration, Solution Vision and Roadmap development, ART Backlog prioritization, quantifying Value, Enabler, process analysis, PI Planning, PI Objectives, Sprint planning, reviews, retrospective and fostering cross-functional team communication and collaboration.
Operating within Agile environments, continuously refined priorities, outline milestones, and identify opportunities and risks to optimize product delivery. Adeptly addressed daily team impediments related to requirements, ensuring ART and sprint goals and deliverables are met. Also, defined and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of product features.
Collaborate closely with the Business Stakeholders to prioritize backlogs effectively, coordinate with Release Management for seamless deployments, and provide coaching on Agile methodologies to empower teams.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Consultant
Xebia
Dubai , UAE
2022.04 - Current
- Analyzing and deciding the ideas - Collects data to brainstorm ideas for new products and features from 10 business stakeholders including archiving ideas and choosing the ones to work on.
- Market Research - Analyzes market data and competition to determine how to create better products that have a competitive advantage
- Product Strategy - Sets the product vision, product roadmap, product planning, and product positioning.
- Draft, maintain, and edit the product/product line strategy and release schedules.
- Explains the product vision to the product marketing and sales teams to gain market share.
- Requirements Management - Writes the product requirements for the engineering and customer support teams to develop new products or improve existing ones.
- Product Operations and Executions - Maintains equilibrium between customer needs and stakeholder-defined restrictions, Monitors product performance in the market, Manages the product development lifecycle, Keeps the customers in the loop for their feedback to improve the Product.
- Product Quality - Oversees quality and testing to see product bugs are fixed to ensure improvements.
- Coordinates with various stakeholders for product launch.
Product Owner/ Senior Business Analyst
Atologist
Surat , India
2021.09 - 2021.12
- Provided clarity on new features by conducting product training and demos.
- Translated unstructured work requests into actionable user stories, using Jira.
- Prioritized product backlog to achieve goals and targets.
- Ensured accurate understanding of user needs by assessing and analysing feedback.
- Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Managed client expectations by ensuring clear, accurate completion of scoping documentation.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop feasible solutions for product evolution.
- Liaised with Product Management to prioritize product backlog according to business value and ROI.
Product Owner/Scrum Master
Spring Field’s Technical Services LLC
Dubai , UAE
2016.03 - 2018.07
- Drive the project kickoff meetings on Requirements and Agile Way of Working for the project delivery.
- Work closely with development teams to prioritize, plan, and deliver product enhancements in iterative cycles.
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
- Engage with customers, gather feedback, and use insights to drive continuous improvement of the product.
- Act as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams, ensuring clear communication and understanding of requirements.
- Evaluating the proposed solution to ensure business fitment
- Support the Program Manager and Scrum Master/Project Manager in the program/project plan definition
- Requirements gathering and analysis, defining system scope, developing functional specification and Requirements Gap Analysis
- Liaise between Business and Technical teams, and work with stakeholders-to identify business needs and map those business needs to Software requirements.
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
- Support team in handling impediments related to product backlog and project timeline.
- Coordinate with Product Manager and key stakeholders to refine the product backlog and story estimation.
- Adhere to scrum methodology and agile framework to capture, track and communicate metrics
- Test the user stories for accuracy and compliance to ensure a successful demo and facilitate the UAT
- Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.
Business analyst
Cristal Cool LLC
Abu Dhabi , UAE
2012.05 - 2013.12
- Creating a detailed business analysis report, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for business.
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Planning and monitoring
- Variance analysis
- Pricing
- Reporting
- Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders.
- Conducts data gathering and analysis to understand business strategy requirements.
- Communicate requirements to development team and facilitate implementation
Manager Business Partner
ICICI Prudential Life
, India
2008.10 - 2009.03
- Providing an IT interface to business units, Analyzing and defining business requirements.
- Working closely with business units and technical development teams on all proposals.
- Engage in client discussions and capture requirements/specs based on interaction with client business users.
- Trains and develops the knowledge of various personal and commercial lines of insurance products.
Business Development Associate
Reliance Life Insurance
Tamil Nadu , India
2007.02 - 2008.09
- Work with client and the transformation team on design element of the solution.
- Test the solution and handover a ready product to the sales team.
- Executes change requests, Automations, RBI Regulatory changes.
- Execute change request to support customer facing functionalities from digital side.
- Drives engagement of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the Partner’s successful implementation of Application Programming Interfaces (API’s) that are technical foundation of Quoting, Binding and servicing insurance plans.
- Facilitate ongoing requirements prioritization.
- Identify ways to reuse requirements across projects.
- Conduct meetings and presentation to share ideas and findings.
- Performing requirement analysis.
- Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
- Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
Team Leader
Pegasus Telecom Pvt. Ltd
Chennai , India
2006.03 - 2007.01
- Coach teams on IT products
- Achieving sales goals and developing necessary team skills.
- Identify team goals and evaluate team progress.
- Organize team initiatives.
- Determine project completion timeline.
- Communicate progress to Management stakeholders
Supervisor leader
Netvision Cyber Tech
Chennai , India
2004.05 - 2006.03
- Motivate employees on assigned tasks
- Guide employees through work implementation process.
- Hiring and training staffs.
- Evaluate team performance.
Education
High School Diploma - Higher Secondary School
1998.06 - 1999.03
Score: 76.00%
Std X - undefined
Score: 80.00%
M.Sc - Software Engineering
1999.09 - 2004.05
Score: 70.00%
Skills
- Leadership skills
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management
- Operational support
- Customer relationship building
- Competitor analysis
- Strategic research
- Problem-solving
- Communication skills
- Team building
- Leadership
http://linkedin.com/in/anne-sam-18784640
Languages
English
Fluent
Accomplishments
Best Team Award
Best Individual Award
Certification
SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM 6.0)
SAFe Scrum Master (5.0)
Agile Project Management
AI for Product Managers
Do Agile Be Agile
Basics to Advanced SQL.
Timeline
Senior Consultant - Xebia
2022.04 - Current
Product Owner/ Senior Business Analyst - Atologist
2021.09 - 2021.12
Product Owner/Scrum Master - Spring Field’s Technical Services LLC
2016.03 - 2018.07
Business analyst - Cristal Cool LLC
2012.05 - 2013.12
Manager Business Partner - ICICI Prudential Life
2008.10 - 2009.03
Business Development Associate - Reliance Life Insurance
2007.02 - 2008.09
Team Leader - Pegasus Telecom Pvt. Ltd
2006.03 - 2007.01
Supervisor leader - Netvision Cyber Tech
2004.05 - 2006.03
Noorul Islam College of Engineering - M.Sc, Software Engineering
1999.09 - 2004.05
Little Flower Gr.Hr.Sec School - High School Diploma, Higher Secondary School
1998.06 - 1999.03
Little Flower Gr.Hr.Sec School - Std X,
SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM 6.0)
SAFe Scrum Master (5.0)
Agile Project Management
AI for Product Managers
Do Agile Be Agile
Basics to Advanced SQL.
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