PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of product management experience in delivering high volume e - commerce and consumer/enterprise mobile apps
• Seasoned IT professional with 16 years of progressive experience in mobile-web application development, architecture, product management and business analysis
• Increased the e-commerce traffic by 40 % adopting responsive design principle and focusing on UI/UX designs
• Grew the user adoption of mobility and web products from 25 to 40% for clients by focusing on customer trends(User Analytics) and ratings in playstore and appstore
• Reduced the go-to market timeline by 25 % by using agile scrum methodologies and delivering incremental user experience
• Played the role of scrum master and product owner for various mobile apps and e-commerce product launches
• Managed cross functional teams ( Engineering, Architects, developers and QA) spread across the globe
• Managed international vendors and negotiated cost reductions of 30-40% in annual savings
• Excellent communicator able to translate technical issues/details in business terms to the client and complex business processes to IT resources
• Owned and managed the product roadmaps for multiple clients in Telecom,Pharma and retail industry
• Catalogued the product features from 3rd party vendors like VMWare (AirWatch),Mocana and Mobile Iron to help drive the internal product innovation
• Developed wireframes and UI design prototypes for various mobile/Web products to set clear guidelines to development teams and obtain executive signoff on designs
• Partnered with Research & Development to drive and oversee the development of the Mobile product set, resulting in products receiving high customer feedbacks post launch
• Developed Product performance score cards to track the launches and calculate the ROI
• Delivered key products features and upgrades using Agile methodologies resulting in faster time to market and reducing product backlogs
• Doubled ecommerce and mobile product teams efficiency by rolling out JIRA issue management system, delivering optimized web pages faster in half the time

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Product Manager

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated the current market trends, needs and emerging opportunities in the Enterprise Mobility world and identified potential area for EMP product growth
• Catalogued the product features from 3rd party vendors like VMWare (AirWatch),Mocana and Mobile Iron to help drive the internal product innovation
• Delivered key server components via SOA and API methodology resulting in faster time to market
• Owned and Managed the iOS and Android platforms product roadmap(backlog prioritization, refinement and identifying release candidates), technology discussion, overall release and UX design of the EMP product
• Closely worked with various Verizon business units in gathering their business requirements and successfully converted them to product specifications for internal engineering teams. Worked with multiple cross functional teams (Sales,marketing and engineering teams) in developing product road map and roll out details
• Established the relationship with various MDM vendors (Afaria/MobileIron/Mocana) and successfully integrated them with EMP resulting in faster turn arounds on the integration issues
• Managed the team of 35 development, engineering and QA teams spread across the globe
• Developed key product adoption metrics and behavioral metrics based on this analytic tools(Countly, Site Catalyst) and Splunk logs
• Automated the release management sanity checks using “Perfecto Mobile” suite resulting faster and efficient production release validation saving 200 man days across all major releases
• Baked in the HP fortify(Security) scan mechanism to release engineering resulting in EMP maintaining the “Gold” standards in Verizon security scan process for last 6 months, resulting in saving of 50 K USD savings for major releases
• Developed business cases for various Verizon business units to help drive their budgetary allocation and monitor the ROI

Environment: Eclipse, iOS/Android, Bugzilla, Perfecto Mobiles, Splunk,Wily, IBM DP,IBM WS, Clarity,JIRA

Senior Manager

Confidential, NJ

Key Responsibilities include:

• Owned and Managed the iOS and Android platforms product roadmap, technology discussion, overall release and UX design of the Pharma app
• Led the cross functional team of UX designers, Server team members and iOS/Android developers during the duration of the project
• Coordinated strategies and tactics with various stakeholders including marketing, UI Development, Benefits and CDH teams to build product requirements and drive successful launches of mobile app product.
• Develop mockup wireframe for business and executive team to get their signoff on the major UX designs for mobile app
• Reviewed the customer feedbacks on Appstore and Playstore to gather the next set of enhancements for the product
• Anchored the daily standup meetings and help bridge the business priority with the agile scrum methodology framework followed by the team
• Established post production support model (Team structure, tools and process) using Agile based developmental model
• Monitored the appropriate levels of project governance to ensure risks, issues, and critical dependencies are being addressed
• Weekly reporting to executive leadership on status, KPI, risks and budgets. Managed the budget, overall scope, change request / gaps

Environment: Eclipse, iOS/Android, Bugzilla, Perfecto Mobiles, IBM WS, Clarity, JIRA

Senior Product Manage

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established the mobile strategy for ELC online mobile sites and mobile applications for their various products across the globe
• Worked with business teams in ideation, product launch roadmaps and rollout schedules
• Developed customized solutions involving mobile and cloud to test multi-brand E-Comm sites
• Integrated with multiple mobile payment solution providers like Paypal,Softbank and other regional mobile payment players
• Established cloud based automation and performance labs leveraging ‘Perfecto’ and ‘DeviceAnywhere’ solution and reduced the physical hardware inventory
• Developed Product performance score cards to track the launches and calculate the ROI
• Standardized overall organization procedure for production and cross browser compatibility testing, reducing overall testing effort by 5 % YOY
• Provide consultation and recommendations in roll out of automation/performance tools to test E-commerce and Mobile commerce sites rollout