Kumar Vivek Chandra

Product Owner

  Pune, Maharashtra, India

12+ years of experience in Software industry spanning across different roles and responsibilities. I am into product management for the last 6+ years.

Currently playing the role of Product owner in JP Morgan and chase and contributing to the happiness of millions of users worldwide through digital offerings for their everyday needs. 


Results-driven and customer-focused Product Professional with a proven track record of successfully bringing innovative products to market. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, defining product strategies, and driving product development from concept to launch. Skilled in user research, and product roadmap planning to deliver solutions that meet both business goals and user needs.

    [email protected]      +91- 9036825633      Vivek Chandra

Work Experience

December 2021 - Present

Product Owner

JP Morgan and Chase

Achievements/Tasks
Building highly scalable, highly available and resilient services on AWS Cloud for 50+ clients, many of which are part of Fortune 50 companies in the domain of BFSI - banking, financial services and insurance.

  • Responsible for innovating a web-based loyalty redemption white labelled platform called "ORXe" which is used by more than 4.5 million unique users worldwide.
  • The platform handled close to 2 million order transactions in 2021 alone.
  • Working with 3 scrum teams, having altogether 21 scrum engineers focused on improving the application with respect to end to end Order Management and Payment Management systems.
  • Using concepts of AWS, APIs and micro-services and migrating on-premises applications to AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Closely work with different stakeholders to work out a release plan, client roll out sequence, prioritising backlog items, communicating the timeline and product risk to different stakeholders.
  • Do competitor analysis/industry standard practices and derive improvement ideas and plan the product roadmap.
  • All other product owner's responsibilities - Backlog management, Defining and tracking success KPIs ,Sprint planning, reviewing the work done by the dev team, stakeholder engagement , roadmap planning.
  • Writing release notes and communicating release information to different stakeholders. 

October 2020 - December 2021

Product Owner

Siemens - ( Client Lab)

Achievements/Tasks

  • Delivering value with a product named "Client Lab" right from Discovery to deployment  following Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
  • Released 1 major version of the application in June 2021.
  • The product has a user base of approx. 2,000 with a demographic presence in 2 countries. The target user base of this product is approximately 10,000 users and a presence in 5 countries and 3 continents.
  • The product saved revenue of 1 million $  per year for Siemens.
  • Defining the product vision and communicating it to the development team and stakeholders.
  • Defining a short and long term roadmap and strategy aligned with the defined product vision.
  • Meet with customers, partners, peers and stakeholders to understand and discuss requirements, define the scope of work and derive opportunities, EPICs, Requirements and Features.
  • Refining the backlog item and explaining the EPICS/Requirements/Features to the development team.
  • Define the business model of a product (Lean Canvas)

September 2018 - October 2020

Product Owner

Siemens - (TEXaS)

Achievements/Tasks

  • Successfully launched a product called "TEXaS" which solves the problem of software engineers getting faster feedback for their check-ins.
  • This is a product based on virtualization platforms - VMware and Hyper-V.
  • Released 4 stable versions for a user base of close to 1000.
  • The product is being used by users across the globe and is widely used in Germany, Hungary, India and Turkey.

March 2016 - August 2018

Product Owner

Siemens - (TIA Cloud)

Achievements/Tasks

  • Worked with different product managers to realize an opportunity, which finally resulted in a product called TIA Cloud.
  • It is a B2B cloud based application which provides enough flexibility for the end users in using the TIA portal.
  • Until 2018,  there were more than 30 businesses who had hands on a freemium edition.

November 2014 - March 2016

Technical  Lead

Siemens

Achievements/Tasks

  • Lead and guide the organization with my virtualization domain expertise to move its application to Cloud infrastructure.
  • Automate and mentor the team members on automating test cases using Python.
  • Mentor team members for usage and implementation of public and private clouds.

Aug 2011 - Nov 2014

Senior Test Engineer

Microsoft and TomTom(Payroll - Mindtree)

Achievements/Tasks

  • Worked on Microsoft Azure billing adapter.
  • Understanding software specifications, writing and executing test cases.
  • Raising Bugs/Defects and ensuring its closure.

Skills

Product

  • Product Vision
  • Product Roadmap
  • Backlog management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Competitor analysis
  • Product Release
  • Agile, SAFe and Scrum
  • Data Driven Decision making

Technical

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft DevOps
  • Cloud - AWS, Azure, Hyper-V and VMware
  • APIs, Micro services
  • Miro
  • Trello
  • Microsoft test management (MTM)
  • Python and Selenium

Soft Skills

  • Punctual, Disciplined - On time every time.
  • Cross functional leadership
  • Customer Empathy
  • Effective communicator
  • Go getter
  • Status-quo challenger
  • Critical thinker

Certifications

  • AWS Cloud practisioner 
  • Professional Scrum product owner (PSPO1) 
  • ISTQB Advanced level

Education


Bapujee Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Engineering 

79% 

Guru Gobind Singh Public school

All India senior school certification examination (10+2)

70%

Delhi model public school

All India Secondary school  examination (10th)

84%

Interests

  • Travelling and knowing different cultures
  • Cricket