Product Manager

Summary

. Over * years of experience in IT with 2+ years of experience in

Product Management and 5+ years of experience in Software

Development/ Quality Assurance.

. Demonstrated success in turning new ideas into launched products and

managing products developed in Agile/Scrum environment such as web-

based products, desktop application, online social community, mobile

apps and mobile website.

. Passed Series 7 examination in August 2013.

. Winner of Q3-2013 Business Excellence Award for leading Forex re-

launch project on assigned products.

. Excellent in verbal and written communication, pragmatic team player

with a combination of business acumen and technical skills.

. Excellent problem solving skills, quick learner with good analytical

skills, self-motivated and detail oriented.

. Strengths: Product Roadmap, Product Adoption and Engagement Strategy,

Product Retirement, Competitive Analysis & Market Research, Product

Performance Metric Analysis & Reporting, Software Development Life

Cycle Management, and Test Methodologies.

Experience

Charles Schwab - optionsXpress, Chicago, IL (Telecommuting since Sept.

2013)

Product Manager

May 2011 - Present

Working as Product Manager with one of the leading and largest online

stocks & options brokers and investment bankers

Responsibilities:

. Headed development of an innovative web-based tool - Streaming Xtend,

from concept to launch. Streaming Xtend implemented in Adobe/AIR, is

a customizable real-time trading application embedded within

optionsXpress website.

. Managing Xtend, a desktop trading platform and also managing oXSocial,

an online social community for optionsXpress customers.

. Lead development and release of mobile apps (iPhone, Android,

Blackberry, Windows, iPad) and mobile website.

. Selected in Q4 2012 Innovation team, responsible for outlining a new

innovative product and presenting it to the senior management.

. Working closely with Customer Service, Education, Marketing, Trading

and IT teams to define the product roadmap as well as to ensure that

product marketing and development efforts Support Company's overall

strategy and goals.

. As Product Owner managing day-to-day process of translating product

roadmap into launched product - writing PRDs, prioritizing agile

iterations, working hands-on with on-site/offshore developers and QA,

and maintaining prioritized backlog.

. Executing continual competitive analysis and market research for

assigned products and using key findings to guide the product roadmap.

. Developing product adoption and engagement strategies as well as

working with marketing team to guide products positioning strategy.

. Proficient in data analytics and in using SQL. Working closely with

DBA team to define requirements for products performance metric

report. Analyzing metric report on monthly basis to keep track of

tools usage and understand customer behavior. And sharing reports with

various business partners.

. Working with UX developers to create wireframes and iterate based on

feedback from various business partners.

. Executing user acceptance testing prior to a product release. Working

closely with QA members to ensure that accurate test suite and test

cases are developed.

. Developed successful product retirement strategy by understanding

customer activity, performing product gap analysis, leveraging various

stakeholders to build a retirement roadmap and migrating users to new

platforms.

. Experience in creating PowerPoint presentations and presenting project

updates to senior management.

. Experience in tools such as Omniture (SiteCatalyst), SharePoint,

Microsoft Office (including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access),

DevTrack, and BugZilla.

MEDIABANK, CHICAGO, IL

Team Lead/Application Developer

March 2007- May

2011

MediaBank is a leading provider of integrated procurement technology with

unprecedented cross-media analytics and intelligence through superior

planning, buying, workflow and data warehousing tools

Team Lead - QA Automation

July 2010-May

2011

Responsibilities:

. Headed Automation testing team including consultants and off shore

team members.

. Was responsible for building timeline and automation testing project

plan for each release based on input gathered from Business lead,

Development leads, and QA leads.

. Worked with Atlassian JIRA for tracking defects and new

functionalities.

. Worked closely with Manual tester, Development team and Team leads

assist in reviewing Test Plans, Test cases, GUI and backend SQL

validations, Test Scenarios, Test Reports for both manual and

automated tests.

. Along with team members, was responsible for developing automation

testing scripts using Keyword driven framework, descriptive

programming, MS Access and Excel.

. Assisted team members with questions and decision making.

. Development experience in Java, VB script, MS access, PL/SQL,

QuicktTest professional.

Application Developer

March 2007 - June 2010

Responsibilities:

. Worked as Application Developer on .Net 2.0 + and Java platforms.

. Developed windows and web applications for the company per clients'

requirements.

. Implemented "Universal File Interchange" interface engine using .Net

2005 and Altova MapForce.

. Designed and implemented PL/SQL stored procedure, views, triggers, and

tables.

. Developed presentation layer and business layer in JForm Designer and

Java.

. Experience in Clarity Framework to build applet oriented applications

in JAVA.

. Worked closely with Product Managers to gain better understanding of

client requirements and assisted them in decision making for GUI

layout.

. Platforms : VS 2005, C#, Java, JForm Designer, Oracle 10g, Eclipse,

JDK 1.5, SQL Developer, MS SQL Manager, CuteFtp, Mapforce, Tortoise

SVN.

SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL

Graduate intern -- Molecular Imaging Division

June 2006 - March 2007

Siemens Healthcare is one of the leading companies to bring together

medical imaging and therapy, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare IT

solutions.

Responsibilities:

. Worked on development of a Graph Generation Generic Tool - TREND TOOL.

. Was responsible for gathering the requirements and framing a

generalized logic for graphs generation, based on inputs.

. Assisted Project Supervisor in writing, editing and maintaining

technical documentation.

HCL TECHNOLOGIES, NOIDA, INDIA

Junior Software Developer

July 2004 -

February 2005

Responsibilities:

. Underwent training on Web technologies including J2EE.

. Worked with the development team on a product for Pentasoft and

implemented user interfaces.

. Platforms : Eclipse, JDK 1.4.1, Oracle 9i

USIT- STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA, DELHI, INDIA

Intern

June 2001-September 2001

Responsibilities:

. Underwent an exhaustive training on Oracle 9i Oracle.

. Assisted Project lead in framing PL-SQL functions, queries and

commands.

Education

. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, IL

July 2007

Masters in Computer Sciences

GPA 3.7/4.0

. Bachelors of Information Technology, India

June 2004

Technical Skill Set

Languages JAVA, C#, HTML 4.0, XML, VB Script, ASP.NET,

JavaScript and JDBC

Frameworks .Net .2.0+, Clarity, Java version, QTP Keyword Driven

Framework

Packages MS OFFICE, MS Project, Microsoft Visual Studio

6.0

Database Oracle8i, SQLSever, Microsoft Access, PL/SQL,

Oracle 10g, MS Access

Tools/IDE Eclipse, MS Project 2000,

Visual Studio.Net 2005, SQL Developer, SQL Manager,

MapForce, CuteFtp, SVN Tortoise, SharePoint, BugZilla, Omniture, Jira

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