SUMMARY:

• Passionate Product Manager with 10 years of experience in building ; Computer Science engineering background; and Field experience seeking a challenging career in product management/strategy to leverage my knowledge, skills & experience and contribute to the company’s success, through innovative and best practice strategies.
• Manage and own all aspects from Product strategy through execution and customer success.
• Passionate about prototyping, building and evolving products that enable customers to become market leaders.
• Founding product manager for different products & Trusted advisor to senior leadership on Product Strategy.
• Proven leadership abilities in multi - cultural, cross functional environments with great adaptability to ever changing requirements.
• Effective listener, keen observer, good negotiator and influential team player.
• Partner with Engineering teams and drive execution based on SAFe, Agile and Scrum methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Principal Product Manager, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Drive Incubation efforts in cognitive & Robotic Process Confidential (RPA) and build business case for new investments/acquisitions/partnerships
• Analyze market landscape and direction, ensure feature parity, competitive pricing and product positioning.

Engineering Lead

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Engineering integration efforts for the $635M acquisition
• Define & Drive Product direction & Engineering Execution for Workload Confidential, Process Confidential, Release Confidential and Service Orchestration offerings

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• The Confidential is designed to foster and cultivate next generation of leaders. Entry into the program is only by recommendation and acceptance of the executive management team at Confidential
• This year-long program includes various face to face meetings with executives, shadowing them, peer group training, mentoring and a plan for continuous improvement beyond the course.

Principal Product Manager

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• P&L ownership for Confidential /Analytics product portfolio used by Confidential 500 companies across Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing and Retail to automate and orchestrate critical business processes.
• Introduced new product offerings in the Big Data & SAP space that drove revenues > 5M within the first year
• Defined/Evangelized Product roadmaps and value propositions to internal stakeholders, analysts, customers and prospects
• Drove product direction, engineering innovation and Identified & eliminated barriers to customer adoption of software
• Helped shape new and upsell opportunities working with Pre-Sales and identified different monetization opportunities
• Led & mentored junior Product Managers

Senior Product Manager

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Prioritized the product, release and sprint backlogs; Managed scope and customer commitments and ensured successful delivery of a product portfolio comprising over 12 different products.
• Championed customer beta programs, ensure go-to-market alignment partnering with Marketing, Support and Partners
• Led engineering teams globally across multiple product lines & released differentiating integrations around BigData, Hadoop & SAP
• Led customer demos and defined critical success factors and key performance indicators
• Reduced product issues by 83% with focus on key gaps and initiating various process improvements

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with customer executives on a daily basis - Travel for 75% or more to be on-site for a customer
• Contributed my product & solution expertise and add value to sales process by conveying complex ideas via simple, easy to understand presentations and product demos
• Planned, architected & implemented Virtualization & Confidential solutions for cross-business unit, multi-product integrated solution
• Interacted with marketing, sales, support & product management in order to exchange product ideas

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered & analyzed market requirements by interacting with customers, partners, sales & senior management
• Prepared business plans & use cases to prioritize opportunity and influence product strategy
• Developed & reported on operational measurements to support business analytics across the product team

IT Operations Manager

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Responsibilities:

• Defined, analyzed and created critical business process flows for the end to end (quote to ship) processes of all Confidential orders, required for the enablement of electronic licensing for Confidential ’s flagship product - Confidential .
• Led discussions with marketing, sales, services & several other functional groups; reviewed existing processes & identified gaps
• Prepared documentation for ensuring successful adoption of the new product release, including business communication and UAT

Confidential, GREEN Newton, MA

Product Strategy Consultant Intern

Responsibilities:

• Developed new product market opportunity model for an innovative idea by an entrepreneur.
• Researched market, defined market strategies, projected energy savings and calculated payback period
• Analyzed competitive differentiation & various scales of production & distribution that impact product cost
• Conducted in-person interviews at potential sales zones like Home Depot, Wal-Mart
• Analyzed feedback surveys from probable customers & partners and presented market opportunity analysis

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 1 of 5% of students hired by CA during campus recruitment (among 2300 interviewed)
• Involved in design, development and implementation of an enhancement for the product suite - Enterprise Confidential AutoSys which reduced the product maintenance cycle by 2 months.
• Provided post-production support activities - enhancement & bug fixing for the core scheduler module of the entire product suite
• Evaluated project risks and provided regular status reports detailing open and closed action items and launch status to clients and senior management, enabling them to make decisions on future strategy
• Co-led 4 Associate Software Engineers in testing and worldwide production roll out of critical applications
• Received multiple individual contributors making a difference awards for performing above and beyond my expected targets

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Trained in major maintenance & testing tools like EZFIX, STAR, QTP, HARVEST etc.
• Evaluated all phases of software development cycle - design, development, enhancement, maintenance, testing and production rollout of applications
• Performed unit testing for the product Enterprise Data Modeling suite - Erwin
• Managed peer to peer review and regression testing to ensure bug free application for user acceptance testing
• Maintained nightly build environments & published patches to customers and partners

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 8 students while working to bridge the gap between industry and the colleges
• Planned entire event of visiting 10 rural colleges and interacting with students from diverse backgrounds to understand their perspectives and viewpoints and prepared recommendations to act on.