PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 9 years of experience as a product manager/ owner leading cross - functional teams to develop innovative and compelling products. Hands on experience in delivering mobile/ web applications in fast paced startup environments. Extensive experience in Agile development, backed by Certified Scrum Product Owner .

SKILL:

Areas of Expertise: Product Owner/ Product Management, Business Analysis, Product development

Software Development Lifecycle/Tools: Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall; Jira,Confluence, Rally, MS Teams, Sharepoint

Programming Languages: Python (Django, Flask), Java, Apple Swift

Cloud Computing: AWS, Google Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry

CI/CD: Git,TFS, Jenkins, Fastlane

Test Automation: Selenium, Gherkin, Behave, Cucumber

Data Visualization and Reporting: Tableau, Plotly, Excel, Python, Jupyter

EXPERIENCE:

Product Manager (Technical)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 7 iOS/Android/Java developers to deliver mobile/web health care applications used by doctors and nurses in a hospital setting
• Analyze as-is business process to identify process improvements
• Prioritize product features based on business value and ROI, so that minimum viable product is delivered within expected timeline
• Define minimum viable product scope based on budget, timeline and staffing and ratify with project sponsors and other stakeholders
• Create user stories with well defined acceptance criteria
• Manage a prioritized product backlog through backlog grooming, so that the development team can work efficiently
• Validate that features meet customer requirements through rapid prototyping
• Establish foundational processes and tools for product development in a startup environment
• Manual/Automated acceptance testing using Behavior Driven Development (Gherkin/Cucumber)
• Manage and run Agile (Scrum) ceremonies - Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily stand ups, Sprint and Release Demos/retrospectives

Skills Used: Product management, Requirement analysis, Mobile app development, Java micro-services/API, CI/CD - Git/Jenkins/Fastlane

Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Launched a new and innovative SAAS product for reverse logistics with predictive analytics, that enabled traditional retailers to offer advanced eCommerce capabilities to their customers
• Conducted/ evaluated market research and competitive analysis to identify and quantify product opportunity
• Worked with sales, marketing and pricing teams to define pricing models and go-to-market strategy
• Met with external clients regularly to assess business needs and gaps in current offering
• Prioritized, defined and negotiated release scope with product stakeholders and technical leadership for minimum viable product
• Evaluated product features at multiple stages, using rapid prototyping, alpha/beta customer launches
• Created product backlog of use cases and user stories with well defined acceptance criteria, prioritized based on business value
• Led an agile (Scrum/Kanban) product team of 8 UX designers, developers and devops
• Delivered responsive cloud native app for e-commerce returns workflow, based on Google material design
• Manual/Automated acceptance testing using Behavior Driven Development (Gherkin/Behave)

Skills Used: Product strategy, requirement analysis, responsive app development, Java micro-services/API on AWS/GCP/Apigee, CI/CD - Git/Jenkins, Python for custom analytics and machine learning

Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led cross functional agile scrum implementation team of 14 UX designers, developers and systems engineers, to deliver multiple product releases
• Created product vision, strategy and road maps, working with semiconductor engineering/ technical sales and marketing teams
• Identified business needs through focus groups, qualitative and quantitative analysis
• Prioritized, defined and negotiated release scope for minimum viable product for each release cycle
• Documented as-is business process specifications to identify items for process improvements
• Prioritized changes based on business/system impact and return on investment
• Created product backlog of prioritized use cases and user stories with acceptance criteria

Skills Used: Product strategy, requirement gathering, responsive web/app development, Java, Adobe AEM/DAM/Campaign/Target on AWS, CI/CD - Git/Jenkins, Python for text analytics and image classification

Independent iOS Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and deployed text analysis apps on iOS App store

Skills Used: Multi-lingual text detection using machine learning; Image and Audio/Video processing; UIKit, CoreGraphics, AVFoundation, Grand Central Dispatch and Social frameworks

Product Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Launched program services for Confidential channel and developer programs to achieve sales goal of 100K sign-ups
• Simplified process from 50 geographic variants to a single global process
• Unified identity, access management and customer profile data to remove business group specific silos
• Created product backlog of prioritized user stories with acceptance criteria
• Led cross-functional agile scrum implementation team of 8-16 UX designers, developers and QA to deliver multiple product releases

Skills Used: Product strategy, requirement analysis, responsive web/app development, Java, Adobe AEM/Campaign/Target, CI/CD - Git/Jenkins, Python for test automation

Business/Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Launched several successful Confidential marketing/developer programs and promotions in the Asia Pacific region
• Led a team of 4-10 developers/ contractors to deliver custom applications on Linux/ Windows platforms using various technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Java, Ruby, ASP.Net

Skills Used: Business analysis, requirement analysis, custom application development