SUMMARY

• Highly cross functional product executive with 23 years of experience in Product Management, Digital Transformation, building cloud business models around SaaS and IoT platforms, data strategy including big data and augmented (ML & AI) analytics, Human Centered design (UX/UI), P&L, software development and program management.
• Experienced in identifying market opportunities, developing business cases, defining product go - to-market and pricing strategy, and roadmaps to drive revenue and P&L growth.
• Experienced in M&A IT consolidations. Expert in leveraging disruptive technologies to drive product & services differentiation, digital transformation to achieve competitive advantage and operational efficiency.
• Experienced in managing multi-million-dollar strategic product initiatives. Deep domain expertise in pharma, healthcare, e-commerce and technology verticals.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Product Management, Business cases, Roadmap development, Agile Methodologies, SAFe
• Human Centered design, User Centered Design, User Experience (UX)
• Pricing, Revenue Forecasts, P&L, Cost Structure Optimizations, Financial Modeling
• Software as A Service (SaaS), IaaS, PaaS, Internet of Things (IoT), Public Cloud and Hybrid cloud use cases, Amazon Web Services, Azure, FedRAMP, TOGAF
• Data Governance, MDM, Analytics, Big Data, Data Science (ML & AI), HIPAA, HL7, CDISC, ODM

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, JEE, Java Script (angular.js, node.js)

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL, NoSQL databases (Cassandra, HBase, Couche DB, Mongo DB)

Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Management Platforms (Scalr, Right Scale etc.)

Application & Data Platforms: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, JBOSS, ESB products, Big Data, Kafka, Active MQ

Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF), Design Patterns, Micro services, Web Services Map Reduce, Apache Spark, StreamingMachine Learning, AI, Spring, Hibernate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Director of Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Lead Microsoft Azure based Software as a Service (SaaS) product strategy including go-to-market strategy, subscription pricing models for regulatory, clinical and medical device functional areas.
• Develop detailed market opportunity business cases with revenue forecasts, detailed cost models and ROI to justify investment and presented business cases to C-level executives including CEO of Confidential .
• Lead development of SaaS product roadmap to build a high performance, highly scalable, API and analytics enabled cloud native SaaS platform on Azure. Lead cloud native transformation of perpetually licensed products to leverage micro services architecture, containerized & automated deployments, DevOps driven frequent SaaS releases, autoscaling, SSO, Azure based superior auditing, monitoring capabilities and availability SLAs. Developed data science uses cases leveraging Big data/data lakes, Machine Learning (ML) & AI capabilities of Azure cloud to drive product differentiation.
• Leverage human centered design, conduct customer facing workshops to conceptualize, refine and validate “persona driven” UX/UI concepts, user journey prototypes (including A/B tests).
• Improve product P&L and pricing flexibility by leading cost optimizations across all of product cost drivers. In 2019, optimized SaaS hosting cost structure by 65-70% in the SaaS models, and improved overall product margin and pricing flexibility by over 13%.
• Present in industry conferences to improve product visibility and develop customer buzz. Worked with sales and marketing to develop marketing and customer facing collateral.
• Lead a team of product managers and product owners in Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment. Partner with Engineering, Program Management and IT Support to deliver products and ITIL support model.

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Director, Cloud Product Management & Channel Strategy

Responsibilities:

• Lead product strategy and partner development program to grow the markets for Sungard AS managed cloud and disaster recovery products on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and private clouds. Lead a team of product managers to manage ‘SGAS hosted private cloud’ & ‘Managed AWS services product’ go-to-market strategy in Reseller, SaaS, Cloud Distributor and telecom market segments. Responsible for product roadmaps, product differentiation, revenue and P&L for these segments.
• Identified new market opportunities, developed and presented new product business cases including detailed financial projections to executive management for investment justification. Lead development of detailed product requirements, roadmaps including MVP prioritization for approved business cases.
• Managed technology partnerships with VMware, Cisco, AWS to develop start-of-art differentiated features in Sungard AS’ public and private cloud offerings and expand customer use case applicability. Utilized VMware’s Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies to build private clouds.
• Lead UX/UI design of the managed services portal including interaction design, information architecture and user journeys. Leveraged Agile SAFE process in the product management of product/services.
• Provided cross-functional leadership to finance, marketing, solutions engineering and sales teams in efforts related to P&L, industry event participation, marketing collateral development, product bundle pricing, sales training. Lead automation initiatives to support cloud reseller market places.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Senior Manager, Digital API Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed Product vision and roadmap for Amazon Web Services (AWS) based mobile banking digital API and big data analytics products for iOS, Android platforms. Developed mobile product API roadmaps for security, SSO, bank and credit card functionality. Prioritized features in consultation with stakeholders.
• Lead market research into disruptive technology trends, and utilized the insights gained in creating differentiated features in digital products. Prioritized features in consultation with stakeholders.
• Drove customer retention initiatives by aggressively exploiting digital channels to reach customers. Developed use cases to bring high-tech experience to customers by leveraging Apple pay, Touch ID, Remote Deposit Capture, Hadoop/Spark based big data analytics capabilities in mobile digital products.
• Managed 2 product teams in Scaled Agile (SAFe) and DevOps environment.

Confidential, Blue Bell, PA

Senior Manager, Web Services Products

Responsibilities:

• Lead new product development program in the Digital Marketing and web services areas. Conceived and developed Amazon Web Services (AWS) based SaaS product offerings for the Confidential products portfolio. Oversaw product launches in the areas of AWS based SaaS offerings, Hadoop based big data analytics, and iOS Mobile offerings. Managed budget of over $2 million.
• Created Mobile, Big Data analytics and SaaS Product strategy roadmaps using market trends, in line with corporate strategy & CTO Office’s technology strategy direction, market analysis, customer needs. Worked with marketing to develop products launch strategy, pricing and product marketing collateral.
• Managed Program plans and budgets for Mobile and SaaS product development programs. Worked with executive management to prioritize funding and implementation of these programs.
• Lead DevOps initiatives to improve release cycle frequency and deployment efficiency. Oversaw implementation of ITIL based product and service delivery support.

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Director, IT Strategy Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Managed Application Portfolio Rationalization and IT Strategy practice projects at client sites. Lead modernization of subscriber claims management (and adjudication) system including Payer, Payee transaction management.
• Worked with Clients to identify business needs, service gaps and facilitated customer requirements gathering workshops around IT capability design & HL7 compliance. Established Enterprise Architecture and master data management (MDM)and governance best practices to ensure quality deliverables.

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Product Management Consultant, R&D IS Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Lead a product development team of 10 business analysts, software developers in the delivery of multi-million-dollar EDC and CTMS software products utilizing Java/J2EE, open source and data warehousing and analytics technologies. Utilized Scrum and DevOps processes in managing software development.
• As a member of enterprise architecture governance group, established and negotiated best practices including usage of CDISC, ODM and MDM data standards to be implemented across R&D IT projects.
• Conducted market due-diligence and competitor analysis to develop new Clinical Trial Software product strategy that can provide Confidential Clinical Trials Program an edge over competitors. This led to the delivery of two ground breaking capabilities achieved by integrating external Clinical Trail software vendor applications including MEDIDATA RAVE (EDC) and Decision View’s Study Optimizer with inhouse developed EDC and CTMS systems. Received CIO award for the innovative product strategy.
• During Confidential - Wyeth merger, lead due-diligence of M&A IT synergy estimates in R&D IT organization. Worked w/ senior management to develop IT synergy estimates and led execution of synergy initiatives.
• Implemented PMO driven cost-cutting initiatives to enable global service delivery model in the software development projects of R&D IT division using Accenture, and created cost savings of over $3 million.