Bhawana M.

About Bhawana M.

As a Technical Product Owner at Crucial Learning, I lead the platform roadmap, development, and deployment process for the company\'s innovative technology platform that delivers engaging and effective digital learning solutions. With over five years of experience in managing and coordinating high-value projects, I excel at planning roadmaps, managing backlogs, analysis, documentation, quality assurance, and implementation.I have a strong background in information systems, business intelligence, and project management, as well as certifications in Scrum Product Ownership and Cybersecurity Fundamentals. I partner with the VP of Product Technology, the Digital Learning leadership, and other cross-functional teams to build understanding, alignment, and adoption of the platform with business stakeholders, sales and operations, marketing, and product technologists. I am passionate about creating and optimizing user interface design, identifying and mitigating risks, and delivering world-class applications that meet the users\' needs and the company\'s goals.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Product Owner

   Crucial Learning

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Lead the platform roadmap, development, and deployment process for the Crucial Learning Technology Platform.•Lead end-to-end product development of prioritized enhancements, new features, and test efforts, from initial hypotheses and strategy development, requirements definition, design, development, testing and reporting. •Partner with the VP of Product Technology to plan technical resource needs and assignments to enable agile product development and continuous releases. •Build understanding, alignment, and adoption of the Crucial Learning Technology Platform with business stakeholders, sales and operations, marketing, and product technologists.•Partner with Digital Learning leadership to gather, validate, and document VoC (internal and external) needs and requirements and transform into succinct and actionable requirements, flows, and user stories.•Partner with Digital Learning leadership to architect focus groups, testing groups, and feedback loops that ensure Crucial Learning content and courses are meeting the needs of intended audiences.•Write product requirements, release notes, and workflows for distribution to internal and external audiences. Build and groom backlog.•Create and vet product positioning documents for sales and marketing enablement.•Report to senior management on the progress of the company’s digital offerings and customer satisfaction.•Be innovative and visionary, considering brand and modern user experiences, while also being comfortable with the challenges in releasing a new product internally and externally.•Design, build and maintain high volume data processing system that serves analytics applications, visualizations and real time online application.•Coordinates product planning and support on larger highly complex projects typically involving multi-product customer environments, where design is highly complex, to ensure client business needs are met.•Keep current on technology business and customer trends.

Education

• University of Colorado Denver

  Bachelors of Science in Psychology; Minors in Biology and Ethnic Studies, Major: Pre-Med Track, Biology; Minor: Psychology and Ethnic Studies

  2010 — 2014

• University of Colorado Denver

  Master of Science - MS, Information Systems, Business Intelligence

• University of Colorado Denver

  Master of Education (M.Ed.), Curriculum and Instruction

  2015 — 2016