Kamal Middya

** *** ******** **** *****, France. Tel: +33(0) 7 60 17 76 15. aca5ei@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Product manager (leading the design, development and marketing of new products) with 7 years of

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experience in high-tech el industry.

Manage complex P&L and multi-functional/cultural teams in international environment.

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Facilitated the complete execution (as SCRUM master) of different projects in agile and water fall

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development in R&D.

MBA with specialization in International business/strategy/business development.

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AREA OF EXPERTISE

New product launch and development. Strategic planning and execution.

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Product placement strategies. Market and consumer research.

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Budget and roadmap. Consultative and need based selling.

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Pricing and promotion. External communication

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Contract development and negotiation Client presentation and workshop.

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Pre-sales activities

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EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

2011-12 International MBA, EMLYON Business School Lyon,

France

2001-05 Bachelors of Engineering (ECE), B.N.M.I.T, VTU Bangalore,

India

2011 Scrum Master Certification, Scrum Alliance Bangalore,

India

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Product Manager, Amadeus (through Astek) Nice, France

August 2012 till date:

• Understand the product requirement from customer and manage implementation team

throughout the product development phase.

• Working with internal operational marketing team to identify and validate new product

development ideas and to explore different geographical region to identify potential customers

with help of different market research report.

• Visiting customers to arrange different workshop on coming new features and to present

product to potential customers.

• Represent solutions that fit to client’s requirement during the early phase of new project.

• Defining the value proposition, competitive analysis of the product to customer.

• Establish or validate business cases and verify the success after implementation.

• Define the mid-term (up to 3 years) product road map for each product and prioritize the feature

delivery based on customer’s feedback.

• Build key customer relationship with providers and outlining business requirements with a

global deployment plan and product strategy.

• Define the product positioning with the relevant marketing teams and revise the pricing for each

product on quarterly basis.

• Present the budget for concern products to higher management and then distribute the budget

along with development and marketing team.

• Drive branding study for each product for different geographical region.

• Build, update and follow-up of the product line P&L when applicable.

Strategy consultant (from 10/2011 to 07/2012) Amaris group, Geneva

August 2011 to July 2012

• Responsible to analyze and identify suitable solutions to establish uniform corporate

identity across all subsidiaries.

• Identify the opportunities in different market and find suitable market strategy to penetrate

into new region.

• Identify suitable corporate governance and organizational structure that would fit Amaris’s

fast growing expansion.

• Positioning and segmentation of Amaris business in the current consulting industry.

Project coordinator, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN): Bangalore, Munich

September 2007 to August 2011:

• Scrum Master for Network Management System (NMS) of NSN in agile process of execution.

As a Scrum Master, my main responsibility included the followings

o Was accountable for successfully delivering the completed features

o Acted as the team referee, to manage team boundaries and help everyone keep the

Scrum framework's roles, ceremonies, artifacts and rules.

o Initiated the budget estimation and tracking of quality of the project (using JIRA) the

feature during the initial phase of feature implementation.

o Was responsible of presenting the completed features to concerned stakeholders.

Change Request Coordinator (i.e. C.R.K) for different features in water fall model. As CRK my

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responsibility included following

o Contributed to technical aspect of project by analyzing, programming during the

implementation phase of the features.

o Was overall responsible to supervise different phase of feature implementation, testing

and customer delivery.

o Single point of contact to customer for any feature related query and for any negotiation

on new feature requested.

Senior Software Engineer, SIEMENS: Bangalore, Munich

Dec 2005 to August 2007 :

• Being part of R&D team, I was responsible for pre-analysis, analysis and coding phase for

different features of the Network Management System (NMS) for the Siemens Communication

Software.

• Component owner and first point of contact for five server component and whole graphical user

interface of Fault Management (FM) part of NMS.

• Collaborated with a German system test team in acceptance test and in system test of the

complete system before delivering the product and was responsible of demonstrating the

complete product to German clients.

MISCELLANEOUS

Awarded by NSN management for contributing towards @Commander (product of Nokia Siemens

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Networks)

Completed a course in Personality Development, Interpersonal skill and Life Skills from Academy

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for Skill and Knowledge (ASK).

Associated with NGO’s like UNICEF, Oxfam and SOS, supporting education for underprivileged

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children.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: September 25, 1983

Language Proficiency: English, Bengali (Mother Tongue), Hindi, Basic French

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