Shreekant Khairnar *

SHREEKANT M. KHAIRNAR San Jose, CA

www.linkedin.com/in/imshree 408-***-**** ac0ct1@r.postjobfree.com US Citizen

SUMMARY

• Self-sufficient Product Manager with strong technical skills, high ownership and hands-on leadership. I am a product person who puts energy towards growing and enhancing meaningful products and services. What motivates me is the prospective of applying different sets of professional & technical skills I have learned so far to build meaningful products.

• I have extensive experience in Agile and Scrum software development methodology, which includes gathering and defining software requirements, creating user stories, working with multiple cross- functional teams (on-shore and off-shore) from business to development to QA and training.

• Achievements: Gained client credibility under adverse circumstances, managed the logistics of parallel onsite-offshore execution and teams, implemented large complex projects.

• Functional/Application area includes Product support, e-Commerce, Content Management, International Trade, Supply-Chain Management, Credit Reporting, Product Catalog, GPS database, online solution for customers’ advertising and Customer facing web applications, Setting priorities and measurable objectives.

• Areas of expertise: Product Management, Project Management, Product Development Life Cycle management, Team Management, IT Strategy, Cost Reduction EXPERIENCE

Company: eBay (Consulting) Period: Aug ‘12 – Present Role: Product Manager (GSS team)

Achievements:

• Responsible for APIs, REST services developed to channel the data to various tools

• Single point of contact for various market place projects

• Responsible for multiple initiative projects, cross functional teams, vendor management, change requests

• Work with PMs from internal organizations to hold cross-functional meetings. Using Agile process document requirements in user stories and monitor progress throughout the PDLC and SDLC.

• Designed Disposition Package Configuration tool. Using wire-frames documented new UX flow. This tool allows Policy Managers to manage the disposition packages with minimal help from a development team, saving valuable resources’ time.

• Improved notifications for admin ended items, to reduce bad buyer experience by using action-based email content. Reduced admin ending of item, by allowing teammate to update item listing within legal bounds, which is a win-win for sellers and eBay, as the item stays active for the sellers and eBay saves on admin fee refunds. This has resulted in a GMV increase of $15+ Million as well as reduced over 1 million contacts into Customer Support in an year.

• Manage project deliverables (Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering through User Stories, Work Breadown Structure, Design, Application Development, Quality Assurance, Testing, Documentation etc), Time, People (team management), Risk, Communication (team members and stakeholders).

• Participate in Architectural Design and Code reviews. Company: SmartPillars (Co-founder) Period: Jan ‘10 – May ‘12 Role: Product Management / Operations and Customer Management Developed the product SmartPromote which is an ad distribution system for auto dealers to publish their inventory on different online classified platforms

Achievements:

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• Self-funded startup - revenue reached to $3M per year in 4 years

• Responsible for customer satisfaction by taking care of Customer Support and Operations, that helped increasing customer base

• Worked with customers/partners, understanding their pain points. business needs, application usability issues.

• Defined new processes for end-to-end processing, from receiving raw data to finally get the ads posted on different platforms.

• Developed parsers in PHP and Java, to get the data processed. Developed 100+ templates in PHP to present ads in different formats.

Company: BAE Systems

Role: Lead Business Process Analyst

Achievements:

• Designed eLCM (Life Cycle Management) system to streamline the engineering process

• Designed EOR (Engineering Order Request) system to provide a solution for electronic approval process by having web forms and email notifications to appropriate personnel for pending approvals. Worked with different departments’ functional management teams to get the requirements. Managed end-to-end project from requirements to production deployment, prepared user guide and provided post deployment support.

• Designed Consultant Tracking system to allow management to track the expiry of consultants’ contract and send email notifications to authorities to take appropriate actions. Client: Hewlett Packard (Contract)

Role: Project Manager/Solution Architect

Achievements:

• As a project manager involved in areas of identifying pain points of the customer, proposing a solution, designing and implementing the solution, resource planning for implementing the solution.

• Managed team of 10 consultants to re-architect Customer E-Business Solution CLAR (Customer Login And Registration) to have a customized look-feel and work flow per region to collect 3600 view for HP’s customers while identifying customers across all contact points like Support, Sales, Marketing and channels like Web, Phone.

Client: Capstan Systems (Contract)

Role: Data Architect/Business analyst

The overall project business goal is to provide a Web-based, business-to-business application for managing global supply chain execution.

Achievements:

• Designed and data modeled the complex database of Product Catalog, which was a core of Capstan’s Global Supply Chain Management System.

• Created and developed processes, completed analysis, worked with cross-functional teams.

• Defined Functional Specification based on the requirements gathered from the Functional Domain Business experts.

Client: First American Credco (Contract)

Role: Project Manager

Achievements:

• Managed team of 10 on-site and 20 offshore consultants to make Mach30/Plus, Instant Merge Y2K compliant through seamless process without affecting production

• DBA services for migration from RS6000 to SP2

• Merge Logic, EDI, Filters for Bureau data

Tata Unisys Ltd Mumbai, India

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Role: Senior Lead Analyst

At Tata Unisys, I played different roles from Software Engineer to Lead Analyst on various projects, at various clients like Deloitte & Touche LLP, Unisys, DMV of South Carolina to name few. Technical/Management SKILLS

Business/Management: Strategic planning, Business process improvement, Project management, Change Management, Consulting

Languages: R, Java, C, SQL, PHP, Python, Shell Scripts, No-SQL Markup Languages: XML, HTML, XSLT

Development Methodology: Agile, User story-based development, Scrum OO Methodologies: UML

Case Tools: Visio 2000, Rational Rose, ER-Win, Data Architect Database: MongoDB, Oracle 9i, SQL Server, Informix, No-SQL Services: SaaS, STaaS

Project Management tools: Jira, MS Project

UX design tools: Balsamiq Mockups, Dreamweaver

EDUCATION

• Product Management, Stanford University

• Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Bombay University (VJTI), India

• Master of Financial Management (MFM), Bombay University (JBIMS), India CERTIFICATION:

• Certificate Program in Project Management (with Distinction): UC, Berkeley

• Completed following courses required for Data Science certification offered by John Hopkins Bloomberg School on Coursera (click on course name to see certificate):

- The Data Scientist’s Toolbox

- R Programming

- Getting and Cleaning Data

- Exploratory Data Analysis

- Reproducible Research

- Statistical Inference

- Regression Models

- Practical Machine Learning

- Developing Data Products

ACHIEVEMENTS/TRAINING

• President’s Bronze Award at BAE Systems

• Informix Certified Professional - System Administrator - Online Dynamic Server 7.1

• Informix Certified Professional - Database Specialist

• Big Data Jump Start Course with Hadoop, Spark and Data Science

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