Meghana Deshpande

 Meghana Deshpande

CSP, CSPO, KMP, PSM-I

Summary

Agile Software Delivery Expert with experience in delivering Web and Mobile solutions. Offers distinctive leadership abilities coupled with exceptional hands-on technical skills. Excellent written and oral communication along with refined interpersonal skills. Personal Kanban practitioner. 

Professional Experience 

    Fiserv Inc., Alpharetta, GA                              09/2008 – Current

Product Owner         Product Development    

• As a key Core Product Team (CPT) member in an Enterprise Agile environment, responsible for managing product backlog for pivotal product within Electronic Payments.  
• Strategizing with Product Management to drive feature planning and influence decisions affecting the product roadmap. 
• Managing technical dependencies and risks by collaborating with other CPTs. 

Technical Architect

• Designing registry solutions connecting multiple products to present a unified payment experience.
• Architecting payment solutions enabling real-time person to person payments using Microsoft technologies (.NET, WCF, REST) 
• Implementing software design and engineering practices like Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Test First Development (TFD). 
• Collaborating with Application and Platform Service teams to integrate and align product delivery across functional areas. 

Scrum Master

• As a team coach, improved adoption of Scrum framework - values and ceremonies. 
• As servant-leader, guided the team to establish a predictable delivery rate. 

Tech Lead      Professional Services

• Subject Matter Expert responsible for making technical decisions involving integration of  different Fiserv products (Corillian Online Licensed (COL), Mobiliti, BillPay, etc.) as per the specific implementation need of the Financial Institution.  
• As hands-on Technical Lead for Mobile Banking, managed implementations of COL solutions for several small and mid-sized Financial Institutions.
• Mentored development teams. Created reusable solutions that are being utilized within PS. 
• Received recognition for individual contribution for high quality, timely deliverables with efficient risk management (identify, make visible, mitigate). 

Patni AMERICAS Inc., Bloomington, IL    07/2000 – 09/2008

Software Specialist

• Writing .NET related white papers and drafting Request for Proposals. Providing technical guidance and recommendations for new and existing implementations. 
• Subject Matter Coordinator and Dev Lead. Liaison between business partners and technical teams.
• Creating best practices including coding standards and guidelines for code review.
• Software development using iterative development models. 

Publications

Co-author of “Migrating to .NET: A Pragmatic Path” published in October 2002. ISBN: 0131009621.