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Krishna Pandari

Product Management | Data | Analytics | Insights | Strategy

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Customer-focused experienced IT leader, passionate about building data and analytics driven products and solutions that users love. Key Strengths: Product Management | Data Management | Analytics AI, ML | Strategy | Leadership | Big Data | Cloud – AWS | SaaS | Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Aha, Jira, Rally | Product Vision, and Roadmaps | Product Lifecycle Management – PLM | Strategic Partnerships | Product Development | Enabling Business Value | Team Development | Coaching and Mentoring | Performance Management | Conflict Management | Project Management | Change Management | Data Integration, ETL/ELT| Python | Data Governance | Metadata, Data Catalog | Data Protection| Data Quality | Problem Solving

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    Work experience

    1. April 2022 – present

      Bottomline Technologies

      Senior Director Banking Data & Insights Products
    2. December 2019 – present

      Augmented Data Analytics

      Co-founder, Head of Product
      Data Management and Analytics products, solutions to accelerate AI journey
    3. April 2021 – April 2022

      Soaren Management

      Vice President of Data Strategy
      Data Strategy Analytics and Reporting Underwriting FinTech
    4. October 2020 – February 2021

      Total Expert

      Director of Product Management - Data, Reporting, and Analytics
      Accountable for Total Expert’s Data, Reporting, and Analytics vision, strategy, defining capabilities, prioritization, roadmap, and rollout to provide competitive data advantage to customers and to enable improved customer experience.
    5. June 2015 – November 2019

      UnitedHealth Group

      Product Director - Data Solutions
      Accountable for Optum Big Data Management Platform vision, strategy, defining and modernizing capabilities, prioritization, roadmap, pricing, and roll out to accelerate data-driven solutions. • Data and Analytics – Built Data Management as a Service (DMaaS) framework and Data Pipeline products to support real-time data integration, data optimization of EMR, clinical, interoperability, population health, payment products, and to enable advanced analytics. • Machine Learning (AI, ML) – Championed AI, ML adoption into product capabilities to improve scale and adoption. • Team Development and Standards - Built and developed teams across the globe and established standards in documenting well-articulated features, persona-based use cases, story mapping, user stories, UX designs, and acceptance criteria to promote consistency and streamline processes. • P&L – Partnering with cross-functional teams created and managed product P&L, capital, and O&M expenses. Led product pricing, chargeback model and capital committee presentations. • Business Value and Customer Adoption – Increased business value to $12MM annually and Improved customer adoption from 0 to over 40 in 2 years. • Product Modernization – Led organizational effort to modernize product portfolio to align with business strategy, to improve innovation, to simplify operations, and to bend the data cost curve by 35%.
    6. May 2006 – May 2015

      Target

      Product/Project Management - Business Intelligence
      Played multiple strategic, delivery, and technical leadership roles in the Enterprise Business Intelligence Solution Group’s Merchandising, Pharmacy, Credit, and Finance domains. Major efforts include • Digital Platform - Developed Business Intelligence and Analytics platform strategy and high-level architecture for .com and mobile to enable personalization, digital vendor marketing, self-service, and mobile initiatives. • Merchandising Product development - Defined and developed, 3 year $18.44MM, merchandising analytical reporting strategy and capabilities by collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to support merchant strategies for sales growth, inventory management, and to streamline Business Partner analytical & reporting capabilities. • Pharmacy BI - Defined Healthcare BI portfolio strategy to provide enhanced reporting and analytics by partnering with business and technical stakeholders. Managed, $2.4MM information delivery of pharmacy data into Enterprise Data warehouse, $1.2MM compliance data integration & access, and decommission of legacy pharmacy applications & assets to support new pharmacy application rollout to 1500+ stores. • Target Financial Services (TFS) BI Strategy and Leadership - Partnering with business and technical leaders, developed and executed TFS BI Strategy and 5-year roadmap to optimize total cost of ownership of the Credit Data Warehouses, BI infrastructure, applications, reports, and analytics. • Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance - Developed Technical architecture to determine risk based access to remediate sensitive information. Facilitated with auditors to automate the certification and attestation procedures to remain complaint as part of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) remediation and internal compliance program.
    7. June 2004 – April 2006

      UnitedHealth Group / Ingenix

      Application Development Lead
      • Enterprise Information Management Capability – Responsible for the analysis, design, development and implementation of Enterprise Data Warehouse architecture, data integration, capacity planning, data modeling, ETL methodology, design framework, best practices and implementation strategies to enable business unit’s goal of creating a reliable, centralized and easy to access analytical platform. • Platform Migration – Responsible for successful implementation of Audit and Recovery Operations (ARO) Data mart on enterprise supported high available infrastructure to provide ARO business users a faster, reliable analytical platform to identify and pursue the recovery of overpaid claims.
    8. January 2003 – June 2004

      Wells Fargo

      Sr. Database Analyst
      Responsible for design, development and enhancements of Sales Tracking System Reporting Data mart to support reporting & analytics and to measure Personal Bankers effectiveness on profiling customers.

    Education

    1. Present

      Hamline University

      Master of Business Administration (MBA)
    2. Present

      Gulbarga University

      Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Engineering
    3. Present

      University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management

      Business Analytics for Leaders Certification - Optum Data Science University Leadership Program, Machine Learning
    4. Present

      University of St. Thomas

      Mini Master of Big Data
    5. Present

      University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business

      Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
    6. Present

      University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business

      Advanced Certified Professional Project Manager (ACPPM), Project Management
    7. Present

      University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business

      Digital Marketing Certificate
    8. Present

      University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business

      Social Media Marketing Certificate
    9. Present

      The George Washington University - School of Business

      Masters Certificate in Project Management
    10. Present

      Auburn University

      Masters Certificate in Business Analysis