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Value-driven product manager with over 13+ yrs of experience in understanding customers
and their problems. Experience leading cross-functional teams to plan, build, launch and
manage world-class SaaS/PaaS solutions. Blend technology skills with extensive Agile/Scrum
practices with the rare capability to complement strategic thinking with strong execution. As
a Product leader, I pride myself on my ability to lead teams into meeting stakeholder-set
goals. Extensive experience working on IoT products for Retail & E-commerce solutions
Product Info: Digital Connected System
Senior Product Manager
2020 - present
Defined Product Vision to key stakeholders with customer research & data analysis to get Buy-ins
Facilitating an increase of 16% in the Sales opportunity qualification by implementing the Business Impact Model
Deployed the Dispatch prediction ML model to achieve a reduction of 32% in the resolution time resulting in savings of $800K
Collaborated with Data Scientists to optimize ML model performance resulting in dispatch reduction for 38000 printers for Retail customers
Collected data-driven feedback to increase the remote resolve rate by 45% with continuous improvements & adding new product features
Revamped the customer-facing dashboard by adding 5 new widgets providing users with more flexibility and enhancing customer experience using A/B testing
Enforced Logic Apps automation to increase the Automated Incident Resolve by 25% by analyzing Knowledge articles with Problem managers
Built Feature Catalog for a New Product Initiative reducing the Go-To-Market time and winning 7 pilot customers
Implemented a long-term Pricing Strategy that improved customer lifetime value by 22%
Collaborating with the Product Marketing to develop the Market Requirement Document and strategized to increase social media reach by 130%
Deployed the Dynamic Incident management to achieve an increment of 15% in the store revenue with a total pilot protected revenue of £53,870 across 159 pilot stores
Performed Gap analysis and led new feature development which increased Product adoption beating expectations by 5 months for onboarding 700 users
Product Manager
2017 - 2020
• Designed detailed Road maps for new products, prioritizing customer reaction and epics through careful analysis
• Strong experience in driving project schedules from design till monthly Releases for the product/projects keeping new technological trends in mind
• Co-ordinated in creating Roadmap for New Products & aligning it with the Roadmap of the legacy product which is going into maintenance mode before sunsetting it
• Leading market launch for software products with executing clear monthly release cutover plans by acting as a SPOC
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22% by implementing process flows inclined towards business rather than functional scope
• Created Dashboards to showcase release progress to SMEs & Stakeholders
• Considerably shortened product development backlog by 40%, initiated product tracking and accountability program
• Accelerated delivery and deployment by streamlining delivery modules. Significantly reduced manual processes by implementing modularity and code reuse
• Feature Ideation by building user empathy through fast, customer-centered and iterative prototyping based on Design Thinking
• Designing solutions with the architects & getting it Implemented in a release aligning to the Product roadmap
• Provides Mock Ups and wireframe which works with creative in development of UI & UX for web-based applications
• Documenting product requirements specification, Technical Specification (TDD) aligning with the business & Systems requirement, Managed and maintained product strategy development through internal and external reviews
• Communicating and presenting in weekly updates to Internal & External stakeholders and program managers and negotiating tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market
• Leading a POD Team & coordinating Backlog Prioritization, Efforts estimation, Capacity planning & Release planning based on business and customer impact taking dollar benefits into account
• Preparation and steering of the relevant milestones regarding the Product Life-cycle Management process
• Write complete and detail-oriented product requirements documents, ensuring clear communication of those requirements to the business, design, architects, usability, development and testing teams
Associate Product Manager
2010 - 2017
• Strong experience and proven track record of building, growing and shaping products in a technological B2B environment
• Implemented Agile ideation plan, collecting and implementing 30% more ideas from employees than the historical best. Overall cost savings of $1.2 million
• Improved UX measures by 25% through increased user feedback collection, synthesis of solutions, and more frequent iteration to customer needs
• Launched 2 new products in two years, for total 16% revenue gain
• Worked with Engineers to design the POC & prototypes for A/B testing • Lead workshops and meetings with stakeholders and team members to accomplish project goals
• Facilitated the transition of the applications (20+ people) from waterfall to Agile as a Coach, while also acting as the Scrum Master for a mixed on/off shore team
• Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation
• Requirement Elicitation & Translating requirements into user stories using INVEST (mnemonic)
• Created PLM project roadmaps according to data migration plans
• Managed the product backlog with detailed and prioritized epics, features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
• Having a good understanding of Client Server Architecture with the middleware technologies
• Project coordination with team & client, Responsible for solving technical issues by providing guidance to the team.
Design & Manufacturing Engineer
2008- 2010
• Generating the concepts and reviewing with customer prior to detailed design
• Generating 3D model from the given 2D Drawings and generate assemblies in Pro-Engineer wildfire 2.0.
• Familiar with practicing ASME Y14.5-M 1994 Standards for drawing documentation.
• Managing vendors to produce parts and assemblies on schedule.
Work
experience
Skills
User Research techniques
Mind Mapping
Personas Creation
Contextual Inquiry
Support Ticket Analytics
NPS Surveys
User Journey Mapping
Design Sprints
Information Architecture
Growth Hacking
Wireframe & Prototypes
Agile Methodology
Product RoadMap
UI-UX
MVP & MDP
Market Research
Usability Testing
Languages
HTML/CSS
R Programming
Java Script
XML
REST API
Tools
JIRA
Rally
Aha
Trello
Mockups
Balsamiq
Tableau
GITHUB
SonarQube
Confluence
ALM
Slack
MySQL
Education
Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi school of management
2015 - 2016
It was an one year executive MBA program specialized in Business Analytics. It was conducted by SDA Bocconi school of management & MISB Bocconi mumbai.
Bachelor of Engineering from Pune University
2004 - 2008
I am a Mechanical Engineering graduate with First class and college was Sinhgad College of engineering, Pune. During the course as an extra curricular activity, I was active member of the Robotics team in college & participated in various national level robotics events.