Samson Paturi
Cumming
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven AI Product Manager with over 20 years of experience leading enterprise software initiatives across Energy & Utilities, Banking, Telecom, Retail, and Insurance. Adept at translating business needs into scalable AI/ML solutions and data products. Hold CSPO, CSM, and SAFe POPM certifications, with a strong foundation in Product Management, Data Science, and Big Data/Lakehouse technologies. Recognized as an award-winning leader, I excel in guiding cross-functional teams through the end-to-end product lifecycle—from ideation to launch—using Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall methodologies. Proven success in delivering AI/ML-powered platforms, cloud-native applications, and advanced analytics solutions that drive measurable impact and innovation.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Product Manager
Capgemini
02.2023 - Current
- Product Manager - AMI Data Platform (National Grid) National Grid is attempting to modernize its metering infrastructure by deploying AMI (smart) meters across its consumer base. The platform team is tasked with building the ETL framework that captures this data and creates a central storage warehouse that can then be disseminated across the enterprise for various downstream and upstream applications. In my role as a Product Manager, I oversaw the deployment of the initial 100,000 meters (with a completion timeline of 3 years).
- Create, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog for AMI-DIA workstream
- Ensure backlog items clearly reflect business needs and operational requirements
- Efficiently maintained the Jira and Jira Align backlog to ensure the stories and features are prioritized in alignment with business objectives
- Facilitate the PI Planning activity and ensure that our upstream and downstream teams’ data needs are addressed
- Streamline the technical and business teams by reducing conflicts and enabling effective communication between themselves
- Successfully facilitated over 50 Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring efficient team collaboration and adherence to SAFe principles.
- Published and distributed 100+ detailed meeting minutes, enhancing team communication and accountability.
- Led a Scrum team of 6 data engineers and 3 data scientists in the end-to-end delivery of 5 major releases for ETL frameworks and pipelines, predictive models using machine learning, with 100% on-time delivery.
- Applied Agile best practices in 20+ projects, resulting in a 30% improvement in defect management and a 25% increase in sprint velocity.
- Utilized burn-down charts and retrospective formats effectively, enhancing team productivity and identifying areas for process improvement.
- Facilitated cross-team collaborations in a SAFe environment, successfully coordinating with up to 5 teams simultaneously for complex project deliverables.
- Led Release Train Engineer (RTE) initiatives for 3 major product releases, coordinating between multiple teams and ensuring seamless integration of efforts.
- Proficient in using tools like JIRA and Confluence, managing over 2000+ user stories and tasks, enhancing team productivity and project tracking.
- Customized and managed RTC and SharePoint platforms for project documentation, improving document accessibility and collaboration for teams of up to 50 members.
- Demonstrated effective coaching techniques, mentoring 4 junior Scrum Masters and contributing to their professional growth.
Data Science Product Manager
IT Workforce Inc
10.2020 - 01.2023
- Company Overview: Duke Energy The customer mapping engine is part of the iGrid suite of products with the sole purpose of ensuring grid data quality in distribution systems. The objective of the CME product is to ensure that the asset mapping is corrected by leveraging machine learning-based algorithms.
- Managing multiple large programs and work-streams concurrently
- Owned the product features, capabilities, and the JIRA backlog and provided direction to technical teams
- Manage communications and relationships with diverse stakeholders, including executives, engineers, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Customer Service
- Create product/program vision and roadmaps
- Backlog definition: Meet with stakeholders to define the product, define product epics (features), define the product backlog, define acceptance criteria for each backlog item, and prioritize the backlog
- Backlog grooming: Identify dependencies between product backlog items, refine and size the product backlog
- Define requirements: Wrangle details of each story from stakeholders and subject matter experts, support the development of software requirements to meet the acceptance criteria
- Tracking overall program success metrics and integrating with client tableau dashboards for executive reporting
- Duke Energy The customer mapping engine is part of the iGrid suite of products with the sole purpose of ensuring grid data quality in distribution systems. The objective of the CME product is to ensure that the asset mapping is corrected by leveraging machine learning-based algorithms.
Data Science Product Manager
Florida Power and Light
09.2019 - 10.2020
- Company Overview: Predictive Maintenance The RSI team was tasked with reducing the overall cost of the wind turbine operating costs. After extensive analysis and consultations between various stakeholders like the Wind Reliability Engineering team, McKinsey, Wind Technicians, etc and identified that identifying gearbox, generator and main bearing failures will produce the maximum ROI. Initially, my role was as a Lead Data Scientist but eventually moved to a Tech PO with oversight of multiple data scientists and engineers.
- Predictive Maintenance The RSI team was tasked with reducing the overall cost of the wind turbine operating costs. After extensive analysis and consultations between various stakeholders like the Wind Reliability Engineering team, McKinsey, Wind Technicians, etc and identified that identifying gearbox, generator and main bearing failures will produce the maximum ROI. Initially, my role was as a Lead Data Scientist but eventually moved to a Tech PO with oversight of multiple data scientists and engineers.
Senior Data Scientist
Comtec Info
08.2017 - 09.2019
- Company Overview: Vegetation Mgmt (2018-2019) Managing vegetation and tree growth around power lines is an important responsibility of utilities. Historically, utilities have approached veg mgmt using a cyclical, time-based approach—inspecting and trimming the areas around their lines periodically. This project aims to move away from a schedule-based maintenance routine to a more predictive/prescriptive solution.
- Vegetation Mgmt (2018-2019) Managing vegetation and tree growth around power lines is an important responsibility of utilities. Historically, utilities have approached veg mgmt using a cyclical, time-based approach—inspecting and trimming the areas around their lines periodically. This project aims to move away from a schedule-based maintenance routine to a more predictive/prescriptive solution.
Sr Data Scientist
IBM
06.2006 - 08.2017
Graduate Engineer
Dell Technologies
05.2005 - 06.2006
Education
Certificate Program - Business Analytics
Indian School of Business
01.2015
Bachelor’s Degree - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
JNTU
01.2005
Skills
- Python
- R
- Sagemaker
- EC2
- Lambda
- S3
- Glue
- Redshift
- Kubeflow
- Tensorflow Extended (TFX)
- MLFlow
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Mathematical modeling
- Statistical analysis
- Predictive modeling
- Time series forecasting
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Product roadmaps
- Strategic planning
- Project management
- Product metrics
- Stakeholder management
- Customer research
- Product lifecycle management
- Trend analysis
- Data-driven decision making
- Staff management
- Product enhancement strategy
Certification
- Six Sigma Green Belt - RABQSA
- Advisory Product Services Professional - IBM
- ITIL Foundation Level - AXELOS Global Best Practice
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance
- SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager – Scaled Agile Framework Inc
- Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Timeline
Sr Product Manager
Capgemini
02.2023 - Current
Data Science Product Manager
IT Workforce Inc
10.2020 - 01.2023
Data Science Product Manager
Florida Power and Light
09.2019 - 10.2020
Senior Data Scientist
Comtec Info
08.2017 - 09.2019
Sr Data Scientist
IBM
06.2006 - 08.2017
Graduate Engineer
Dell Technologies
05.2005 - 06.2006
Bachelor’s Degree - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
JNTU
Certificate Program - Business Analytics
Indian School of Business
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