Manager Engineering

VENKATA JAYASIMHA HARI CHIDIRI SPM, CSM

New York City, NY. CELL: +1-862-***-**** Email: *************@*****.*** Linkedin.com/in/venkatajay EDUCATION:

NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Newark, New Jersey 2016 - May 2017 Masters in Engineering Management, ASEM Affiliated, AASCB Accredited GPA: 3.3/4.0 Member, NJIT Innovation Accelerator Club- Advising Teams on Product/market fit and connecting to NJII and NJIT EDS. Major in Software Product Management and Minor in - Business Analytics & corporate Finance and Accounting. Software Specialization: Client Needs & software Requirements, Agile Practices &Planning, Review & Metrics. Certified Scrum Master & Business Analytics Specialization: Customer, Operation, People & Accounting Analytics. CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Technologies - Etherum, ICO, Distributed Ledger, Public &private keys, Mobile wallets.

• Bloomberg Market Concepts from Bloomberg Institute. SRM UNIVERSITY, Chennai, India 2010 - 2014

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, ABET Accredited GPA: 3.2/4.0 SKILLS:

• Proficient: MS Office Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Tableau, MS Project, Salesforce CRM, Business & Tech Acumen.

• Agile-Scrum, XP, Lean, Waterfall, Kanban, SDLC, MVP, KPI’s, AOEM, NPS, UI/UX Mockups & Prototype.

• C++, MATLAB, SQL, XML, sketch & Invision, Python, RESTful APIs, Adobe CQ, Testing: A/B, Alpha & Beta.

• Tools: Asana, Confluence, Slack, JIRA, Google Analytics, Mix panel, Bit Bucket, CPM & PERT charts, WBS.

• Web Technologies: Twitter Bootstrap, Apache Solr, Elastic search, Magneto, Angular JS, DE-centralized App.

• Burn Down chart &Scrum Board, Ship Deliverables, SOS, RAID log, PCI-DSS, ACH, EMV, POS, Tokenization.

• Domain: E-commerce, Fintech(Payments), EdTech, Adtech, Block chain, Health care, Angel-VC Investments. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: (5.5 years Experience)

Product Manager& Scrum Master at University of Alberta Capstone Project(k-12) April 2017-August 2017

• Worked on Digital Product involving Audio, Video and Text content.

• Eliciting Requirements & Design, Client Interaction, Prioritizing product backlog & grooming, UAT, story maps.

• Epics, User Stories, Story Points, Daily standups, Sprint – Velocity, Planning, Review & Retrospective &Release. Engineering Instructor & Math Program Associate at NJIT University, Newark, NJ June 2016 – May 2017

• Taught Basic Engineering course for high school students (9-12 Grade) since summer 2016.

• Create Hands on Engineering Experimentation & Helping them to get financial aid through various programs.

• Coordinating & Implement and manage different program departments like Students, Tutors & Teaching Assistants. Digital Product Manager + Scrum Master at STEPCIRCLES LLP, Chennai, India July 2012 – October 2015

(The Startup Centre Incubator & Accelerator supported) Startup & entrepreneurial mindset Identify Product- market trends & opportunities, execute vision &strategy, roadmap and product lifecycle Management. Built and worked on B2C, B2B, SaaS & Platform - Web/Mobile software products Project 1: E-Gilly (Online Bookstore selling bundle books & eBook’s (semester wise) to college students, B2C)

• Negotiated & Multi-tasked with Various Publishers & Vendors, Distributors & Retailors for a contract deal.

• Designed, Developed & Maintained Digital content database of over 23 million Book titles from various Publishers.

• Wrote Tech, Business, UI & UX - User story, Prioritized and groom them with 6 cross-functional teams.

• Handled and Developed database containing E-books involving video and audio and text content. Project 2: GetCrackers.in (B2C turned into B2B Client Project)

• Innovated new form of Buying & selling fireworks through online channel & distribution.

• Created a collaboration with the biggest distributor in the Chennai city & built product details from scratch.

• Sold the Digital business unit, merged with distributor Traditional Business and leveraged it. Project 3: Juslooking.com (Fashion Aggregator Product Platform) work sample: http://docdro.id/Etp487h

• Aggregated e-commerce product data & Adtech platform to allow social shopping & sharing cart products.

• Partnership with 18 e-commerce sites to get product feeds Via API’s & FTP’s, manage product updates and credit.

• Angel funding offer at the beta stage from The Stern Fisher Group & Interest from cashkaro.com for Acquisition. Associate Product Manager Intern at Kobster.com (PayPal Incubator Startup) October 2011-May 2012

• Eliciting SME client Requirements and writing user stories working on feasible Budget based solutions.

• Coordinating operation, Supply chain & Logistic department to make the fulfillment happen on Subscription Basis.

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