Sumana Gopalakrishna

About Sumana Gopalakrishna

Director of Technical products for Specialty pharmacy processing products with 23 years’ experience in healthcare, managing high impact projects and driving business transformation. Experience managing complex portfolio worth $$ millions, delivering on Margin, Bad Debt and cost to fill targets. Demonstrated implementation of agile methodologies, experienced in SAFe and scrum frameworks. Experienced and recognized frequently for forming, grooming high performance teams. Adept at visioning, setting product roadmaps, strategy, product planning and prioritization based on value, time to market. Drive cross functional teams on strategic initiatives. Proven ability to adapt to changing organizational goals, delivering incrementally to achieve benefit targets. Trusted advisor to business partners, team members. People leader with focus on people development and growth. Accountable, self driven and outcome focused.

Experience

1. Director - Technology Product Management

   Cigna Healthcare

   Jul 2019 — Present

   Manage a multi-million dollar portfolio of legacy and modernized tech stack catering to pharmacy processing and finance areasServant leader focused on building strong teams, advocating growth for membersPortfolio strategy alignment, prioritization, requirement gathering, planning and executionCross domain orchestration, program increment planning, process implementation, standardization and improvementsStakeholder management, leadership messaging, escalation management Budget planning, staffing forecast

Education

• Bangalore University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Medical Electronics

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Pharmacy Benefit Management
• Business Requirements
• Strategic Leadership
• Testing
• Waterfall
• Rumba
• Strategic Vision
• Medical Devices
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Team Management
• Test Management
• Integration
• Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Clearquest
• Requirements Analysis
• Performance Management
• Cmmi
• Microsoft Office
• Requirements Traceability
• Business Analysis
• Mainframe
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Test Planning
• Agile Methodologies
• Strategy Execution
• Regression Testing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Test Cases
• Software Development
• Scrum
• IT Strategy
• Software Quality Assurance
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Leadership
• Technical Product Management
• Data Analysis