SUMMARY:

• 10 years of progressive experience in Product Development and Agile project delivery
• 5 years Technical Product Owner for Confidential ’s IP Networking and Network Management Solution
• 2 years as a Product Manager, Web and Mobile Apps

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Product Requirements Gathering and Analysis
• Product Roadmaps and Strategy
• Product Backlog tuning
• Agile Delivery Metrics reporting
• Product feature Prioritization
• Product Feature Specs and Marketing Collaterals
• Customer Success and Retention Strategies
• Data Analytics for Audience growth

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies/ Framework: Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, Struts, JSP, C++, QT, XML, Clear Case, Web Services

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Windows

Programming languages: Java, COBRA, SQL, PL/SQL, UML, HTML, C, C++, QT

Scripting Languages: Perl, Shell, JavaScript

XML Technologies: DTD, Schemas, XSLT, DOM, SAX

Relational DB: MySQL, Sybase, Ingres

Agile Tools and Frameworks: TDD, XP, Kanban, Scrum, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a sole Product Manager responsible for enhancements for Confidential .TV’s responsive website and Audience and Social Media growth
• Lead the development and launch of Android and iOS apps and a fully responsive web site within a span of 8 months
• Responsible for Setting up and Driving Scrum Product backlogs and ensured the features are delivered against a set Product Roadmap
• Responsible for integration Website into a custom built Java based CMS from scratch
• Responsible for Integrating Confidential .TV to Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP, Apple News and Google Newsstand
• Lead the Migration of Confidential .TV Website and backstage to AWS
• Tuned web analytics implementation and identified the niche target segment for our business that increased the Website UMVs ( Unique Monthly Visitors) from 650K to 1.2M in 12 months
• Increased ROI of Facebook Advertising by 45% through audience tracking and re - targeting
• Drove content partnership efforts with Reuters, Huffington Post, Jewish Voice for Peace among others

Confidential

Product Marketing and Sales Intern

Responsibilities:

• Guided sales teams with customer onboarding and other technical issues and helped expedite solution deployments and ensured quick turnaround in solving Integration issues.
• Led technical discussions and effectively communicated the product value proposition to C suite executives of prospective clients.
• Spearheaded sales outreach Campaigns and handled Opportunity management in Salesforce.
• Laid out Customer acquisition and retention strategies for the Subscription revenue model for PubNub and indirectly reduced customer churn rate from 40% to 25%
• Managed product direction through market research, enhanced value propositions and customer life time value analysis.
• Handled lead generation and nurturing for the Business development team and analyzed and tracked conversion and metrics related to churns and renewals.

Confidential

Technical Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Laid out short-term and long term product strategies, maintained and monitored product portfolio roadmaps for 4 product lines: SPO 1400, SPO 1460, OMS 800 and MINI-LINK
• As a Technical Product Owner and SME for New Product Development, I was responsible for preparing User stories and maintaining Product backlog and Estimation of the feature set
• Handled transforming business requirements into User stories, Technical and functional specifications, MRD, release notes and handling Internal and external communications with stakeholders.
• Provided strategic direction for product development team of 25 engineers and delivered outstanding value addition by reducing time to market by 25% for all the products I managed
• Managed and facilitated product user groups and performance enhancement workshops as product evangelist and client advocate.
• Handled transforming business requirements into User stories, Technical and functional specifications, MRD, release notes and handling Internal and external communications with stakeholders.

Confidential

Agile Transformation Lead

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated 10 projects from waterfall to Agile process within 18 months
• Helped establish Agile delivery process and served as the Scrum master for Sprint-0
• Formulated strategy and implemented Continuous Integration and Automated testing ensuring Sprint deliveries are seamless and of highest quality
• Prepared Scrum artifacts such as Product Backlog, Scrum backlog, Sprint Planning and Retrospective frameworks
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%

Confidential

Tech Lead | Java Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the System software development by using technologies such as (Java/J2EE), Spring Framework, Hibernate, XML-RPC, shell and Perl scripting.
• Spearheaded a 10-member Performance tuning team that condensed memory footprint by 80%
• Improved response time of critical features by 200% by providing technical assistance to a 10-member code refactoring team
• Handled complete product development life-cycle from Requirements’ gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding through unit-testing, shipping and maintenance.
• Consolidated Systemic requirements, thus improving memory footprint, performance and scalability of applications through Java Profiling and Memory Analyzer tools.
• Managed large project both as Onsite coordinator (Denmark, UK and Italy) and offshore development lead.
• Authored various proof of concepts - both technical and telecom domain related.
• Received ‘Star of the Month’ and ‘Star of the Quarter’ for excellence in Product development.
• Recognized for outstanding achievement three times in three years for my relentless focus on customer satisfaction and ability to solve strategic business challenges.