Biography
Suman Bhowmick
Product Owner - Pegasystems
Summary
More than 10 years of rich and diverse experience in the field of Software Development, Product Management, Innovation and Project Management, Quite proficient in Project Management and People Management skills. Experience of both Waterfall and Agile projects. Extremely well versed with financial domain solutions. An experienced Lean and Scrum practitioner with Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Scrum Master (CSM) certification from Scrum Alliance.
Specialties:
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Developing solutions requirements
- Scrum Practitioner
- Rapid prototyping
- Financial Self Service domain
- Innovation
- People Management
- Team Leadership
- Performance appraisal
- New product development
- Microsoft technologies (C#.NET, VB.NET, VB)
Experience
Product Owner, APTRA Advance NDC at NCR Corporation
September 2014 - Present (8 months)
Responsibilities includes,
• Envision the product.
• Understand and decide the product’s value proposition and the desired business benefits.
• Collaborate closely with the development team and the Scrum Master.
• Describe the desired the product features to the development teams
• Ensure the product is developed as per user’s requirement
• Determine what needs to be done next and select the right sprint goal.
• Manage the product backlog and prioritize them
Project Manager - Applied Innovation Group at NCR Corporation
February 2013 - August 2014 (1 year 7 months)
Applied Innovation team is the Innovation & Advanced Development group of NCR. It acts as the innovation catalyst and development accelerator for NCR.
• Developing solutions requirements
• Rapid prototyping through SCRUM
• Technology transition from concept to development
• Agile Scrum practitioner
• Ideation workshops
• Conducting Innovation Challenges
• Conducting and helping other teams to conduct Code-a-Thons
Project Manager - Financial Line of Business at NCR Corporation
April 2011 - January 2013 (1 year 10 months)
Technical & People leadership role in building a multi-vendor ATM software product targeted for North American market.
• Agile Scrum practitioner - Scrum Master
• People management
• Hire, train, and mentor
• Performance management
Senior Software Specialist, Financial Line of Business at NCR Corporation
May 2008 - March 2011 (2 years 11 months)
Software Engineer at NCR Corporation
February 2005 - May 2008 (3 years 4 months)
Organizations
NCR Corporation Limited
Product Owner, Project Manager, Senior Software Specialist, Software Engineer
February 2005 to Present
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Performer Award Global R&D
NCR Corporation
November 2007
Best Inventor of the Year 2013
NCR Corporation
December 2013
Distinguished R&D Excellence Award - 2013
NCR Corporation
May 2014
Languages
English (Full professional proficiency)
Hindi (Limited working proficiency)
Odiya (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance License 000214025 October 2012 to September 2016
Software Lean Six-Sigma Green Belt
NCR Corporation November 2013
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance March 2015 to March 2017
Education
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
PGDBM, Business Administration and Management, General Management, 2012 - 2014
Grade: CGPA-3.87 on 4
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), IT, 2000 - 2004
Bhadrak Autonomous College, Bhadrak
1997 - 1999
Interests
Innovation, Agile software development, Design for Six Sigma, Team building, Leadership, Movies, Cricket,
Photography
Patents
Methods and System for Passive Authentication
United States Patent Application 14-5675 (433) 14/633,731
Inventors: Suman Bhowmick
It is a concept using which an user can be authenticated passively. Here passively means, user doesn't have to do anything explicitly to get himself authenticated. Here a determination is made, at given point in time, as to whether a user is to be passively authenticated for access to a second resource based on the user’s information in the system.
Methods and System for Continuous Automated Authentication
United States Patent Application 14-5678 (459) 14/633,768
Inventors: Suman Bhowmick
This patent provides a method for continuous automated authentication of a user. Specifically, sensor data is obtained from a sensor interfaced to various devices. Next, a confidence value is generated from the sensor data. Finally, the confidence value is provided for authenticating a resource for access to one or more of: the device, a second resource, and a transaction operation.
Methods and a System for Authentication through User Attributes
United States Patent Application 14-5679 (460) 14/633,806
Inventors: Suman Bhowmick
This patent is all about capturing various user attributes and getting them validated with his past attributes. Here a variety of data relevant to attributes of a user is collected. This patent covers a quite a good number of possible attributes of a human being through his he can be authenticated.