Duraisamy Kandasamy
Product Manager at REACH | Vantage Solutions- Claim this Profile
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Dom Gore
I have had the pleasure of managing Duraisamy since august 2021, and seeing him grow from senior product owner to rounded product manager. Durai possesses good analytical skills allowing him to manage complex projects, and excellent communication skills allowing him to engage with internal and external stakeholders well. Durai has adapted well to the product changes and direction that has been set before him, which is a clear reflection of his ability at work.
Moses Antony
Mr. Durai - I've learnt a lot working with you. During the start of the product, your aggressive nature in learning the products and coming up to speed along with other experienced colleagues is amazing. Even now, you continue to do the same and your contribution to the scrum team as a product owner is extraordinary - few items that i would like to highlight (i) the focused followups that you make on the feature stories in Jira (ii) the kind of support for the scrum team boost their velocity (iiI) you are a amazing catalyst between product management and engineering team. Overall your commitment and smart work keeps you always outstanding! Keep up your great work!!
Dom Gore
I have had the pleasure of managing Duraisamy since august 2021, and seeing him grow from senior product owner to rounded product manager. Durai possesses good analytical skills allowing him to manage complex projects, and excellent communication skills allowing him to engage with internal and external stakeholders well. Durai has adapted well to the product changes and direction that has been set before him, which is a clear reflection of his ability at work.
Moses Antony
Mr. Durai - I've learnt a lot working with you. During the start of the product, your aggressive nature in learning the products and coming up to speed along with other experienced colleagues is amazing. Even now, you continue to do the same and your contribution to the scrum team as a product owner is extraordinary - few items that i would like to highlight (i) the focused followups that you make on the feature stories in Jira (ii) the kind of support for the scrum team boost their velocity (iiI) you are a amazing catalyst between product management and engineering team. Overall your commitment and smart work keeps you always outstanding! Keep up your great work!!
Dom Gore
I have had the pleasure of managing Duraisamy since august 2021, and seeing him grow from senior product owner to rounded product manager. Durai possesses good analytical skills allowing him to manage complex projects, and excellent communication skills allowing him to engage with internal and external stakeholders well. Durai has adapted well to the product changes and direction that has been set before him, which is a clear reflection of his ability at work.
Moses Antony
Mr. Durai - I've learnt a lot working with you. During the start of the product, your aggressive nature in learning the products and coming up to speed along with other experienced colleagues is amazing. Even now, you continue to do the same and your contribution to the scrum team as a product owner is extraordinary - few items that i would like to highlight (i) the focused followups that you make on the feature stories in Jira (ii) the kind of support for the scrum team boost their velocity (iiI) you are a amazing catalyst between product management and engineering team. Overall your commitment and smart work keeps you always outstanding! Keep up your great work!!
Dom Gore
I have had the pleasure of managing Duraisamy since august 2021, and seeing him grow from senior product owner to rounded product manager. Durai possesses good analytical skills allowing him to manage complex projects, and excellent communication skills allowing him to engage with internal and external stakeholders well. Durai has adapted well to the product changes and direction that has been set before him, which is a clear reflection of his ability at work.
Moses Antony
Mr. Durai - I've learnt a lot working with you. During the start of the product, your aggressive nature in learning the products and coming up to speed along with other experienced colleagues is amazing. Even now, you continue to do the same and your contribution to the scrum team as a product owner is extraordinary - few items that i would like to highlight (i) the focused followups that you make on the feature stories in Jira (ii) the kind of support for the scrum team boost their velocity (iiI) you are a amazing catalyst between product management and engineering team. Overall your commitment and smart work keeps you always outstanding! Keep up your great work!!
Experience
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REACH | Vantage Solutions
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United States
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Truck Transportation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Manager
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Aug 2022 - Present
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Blackboard
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Manager
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Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
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Staff Product Owner
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Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Responsible for the overall success of Teaching and Learning Mobile Apps. A go-to person for any questions or communication related to the product and closely and effectively work with the numerous and varied teams and individuals contributing to the product, including product design, engineering, quality assurance, marketing, sales, and support.
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Senior Product Owner
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Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
As Senior Product Owner of Mobile Development team, am responsible for collaborating with Product Management, engineering leadership, and the engineering team to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria. I work with internal and external stakeholders to analyze, define, and document business needs while maintaining a continued commitment to team improvement and productivity.
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Mindtree
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India
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Owner
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Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert throughout the entire project lifecycle.• Work with a cross-discipline team to develop overall strategy and vision for a variety of digital projects.• Define the vision for the product line, understanding and influencing the business plan.• Work closely with Project Management to manage project scope.• Responsible for communication of releases, features, roadmap and schedule to internal users, stakeholders and executives.• Responsible for the preparation and delivery of board updates as to the progress of this key initiative.• Gather and prioritize business requirements from diverse stakeholder groups.• Build Product Backlogs from requirements gathering activities.• Work with other disciplines to size and scope features in the Product Backlog.• Conduct Product Backlog grooming sessions throughout the project lifecycle.• Document business requirements via user stories and process flows.• Document functional requirements including writing wireframe/comp annotations, user stories and acceptance criteria.• Handoff specifications to Engineering teams.• Work closely with team leads to plan, size and manage sprints.• Provides development teams clear direction and criteria for development features developed within the platform.• Provides consistent and frequent feedback on the development of features in accordance with Agile software development principles.• Responsible for maintaining a clear, prioritized backlog and working with development teams to manage the execution of the backlog.• Review completed development to ensure it is built to specification.
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Consultant
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Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Consultant in MindTree working for the US leading relocation service company offering end to end solutions.Cartus has more than 60 years of demonstrated solutions in relocation services. Its Product & Services cover every phase of the relocation process, from selling a home, finding a new home, and shipping household goods to settling in and adjusting to new communities around the world. As part of this project, we are providing an automated solution for the existing manual process and provide an effective platform for the Cartus clients to help their employees relocate from one location to other.Major Responsibilities include;- Discuss the business user needs and analyze the business processes that need to be part of the automation. - Perform GAP analysis (existing manual processes and the processes that need to be automated) and prioritize the business need.- Prepare business requirements based on the need and get it sign off.- Chalk down the out-of scope processes and get it sign off. Anchor the “To-be” automated process sign-off discussion with the business, operation and leadership team. - Prepare UI mockup screen and validate with the business users on the flows and navigations.- Analyze the requirements and detailing the solutions in the form of User Stories. Walk through the User stories with mockup screen with business user and get it sign off.- Provide business overview to the team and being the single point of contact for all queries and clarifications.- Assist project manager in arriving at an Execution Plan.- Anchor requirement workshops with end users and perform functional testing of the modules/features I own.- Identify the key issues/risks and provide the mitigation plan on the same.- Maintain the history of changes, whenever there is a change raised by the client.
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Mindtree
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India
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant
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Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
Consultant in MindTree working for the US leading residential real estate brokerage offering end to end solutions.Have been part of a truly globalized and successful team working with Product Team in US having end users of the application across 110 countries around the globe.Major Responsibilities include;- Preparing BRD and problem statements after having discussion with key stake holders.- Analyzing the requirements and detailing the solutions in the form of Functional Specification/Use Cases- Working with UI team, business user and usability testing team to finalize the mocks and user flows- Providing business overview to the team and being the single point of contact for all queries and clarifications- Performing GAP analysis (product features vs customer requirements) and prioritization of requirements - Assisting project manager in arriving at an Execution Plan- Anchoring requirement workshops with end users- Functional testing of the modules/features I own
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Business Analyst
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Aug 2010 - Dec 2013
Business Analyst in MindTree working for the worlds leading Retail Execution solution provider offering mobile based solutions to most of the leading players in the CPG/Retail Industry. Have been part of a truly globalized and successful team working with Product Team in Australia having end users of the application across different countries around the globe.Major Responsibilities include;- Analyzing the requirements and detailing the solutions in the form of Functional Specification/Use Cases- Providing the mocks and user flows and finalize the same with key stakeholders- Performing GAP analysis (product features vs customer requirements) and prioritization of requirements - Providing business overview to the team and being the single point of contact for all queries and clarifications- Performing Functional testing of the application- Preparing test plan and system test cases- Performing Defect tracking and defect reporting
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Test Engineer
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Aug 2009 - Aug 2010
Roles Played: Functional Tester1) Testing of complete process of installation and configuration of IMS network elements by OMU client (Operation and Management Unit) by executing MML (Man Machine Language) commands. 2) User acceptance testing to validate the IMS registration procedure and the Basic call flow. 3) Functional testing of the SIP message flow between the entities like P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF, HSS and ATS by using the Tracing console. 4) Service provisioning of the subscribers. 5) Upgrade, Patch and Rollback operations are performed on the test environment by using OMU Web UI as per the client requirement. 6) Perform Health Check operation before and after the upgrade on NEs by using M2000. Analyze the Health Check Report and perform troubleshooting on the alarms raised by the OMU. 7) Periodic check on the consistency and usability of the NE by the Performance management console. 8) Defect Tracking using CMM Tool (related to Lotus notes) & DTS (Defect Tracking System). 9) Preparation of monthly analysis and test reports for the IMS team.
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Education
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Anna University
B.E, Electronics and Communication