Product Manager

Raksha Vasisht www.linkedin.com/in/rakshavasisht

**** *** *** *** #*** Seattle 98121 585-***-**** ******.*******@*****.***

EDUCATION

University of San Diego, School of Business Administration, San Diego, CA Aug ’13 - Jul ’15

Master of Business Administration, Marketing, GPA: 3.79/4.0

Graduate Research Assistant & Dean’s Graduate Merit Scholar

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India Sep ’03 - May ’07

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science, GPA: 3.96/4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nashville Pain Center

Business Strategy Manager, Seattle, WA Sep ’15 – Present

Developing and driving a comprehensive marketing strategy for growth and customer base expansion.

Hewlett Packard Sep ’14 - Mar ‘15

Product Management Intern for Printer and Personal Systems, San Diego (Palo Alto), CA

Developed a comprehensive report of customer insights and shaped the feature roadmaps, prioritization, and key action items for development teams.

Provided key inputs for target market definition, feature design, and technical feasibility for Sprout; collaborated cross-functionally with senior managers to shape future strategy, design, and development of the product.

Evangelized future customer experiences within HP and drove the strategy research for collaborative tools that would enhance product capabilities.

Intel Corporation Jun ’14 - Aug ‘14

Technical Product Analyst Intern for Advanced Computing Systems, Portland, OR

Provided a comprehensive market analysis report on smart home technology, including the competitive landscape, potential market size, market window, positioning, and potential user base.

Conducted a user experience study identifying differentiators, deterrence factors, and business/deployment challenges.

Created a product roadmap by prioritizing usages based on user requirements, technical feasibility, and comparative analysis.

Presented to stakeholders the proposed value proposition for the product and synergies identified for potential partnerships.

IBM Nov ’08 - Feb’12

Senior Product Developer & Component Lead for Rational Eclipse, Bangalore, India

Owned product design and development globally for various UI components of the open source Eclipse Java Development Toolkit for three major product releases.

Led various stages of product life cycle from planning component roadmaps, customer requirements gathering, design and implementation, feature and product testing, documentation and release engineering.

Created unique value propositions to increase the visibility of the newly formed Eclipse team to over 300 Eclipse based product teams in IBM through large-scale initiatives.

Awarded ‘Performer of the year’ at a worldwide level in 2010.

Speaker at premium global technology conferences Eclipse Day India 2009, Eclipse Day India 2010 and EclipseCon-2011 at Santa Clara and hosted other customer outreach programs.

IBM Jul ’07 - Nov ’08

Associate Software Engineer for Rational PurifyPlus, Bangalore, India

Led the quality management as well as development efforts on PurifyPlus by taking up a dual role on HP-UX/IA platforms.

Increased automation of workflows and quality tasks by 20% with efficient design and set up of quality management framework and addressing critical customer issues and escalations

Won the ‘Bravo’ Fresher award at India Software Lab for outstanding performance and contribution.

Presented at QSE Asia Pacific symposium and IBM Innovate 2008.

Hewlett Packard Feb ’07 - May ’07

Software Developer Intern for System Technology Software Division, Bangalore, India

Developed solutions for HP, as a team of 2, for handling failovers in transactions involving application servers and databases through efficient replication of those components.

Presented at the HP- University Conference along with 20 top projects and won the ‘Best Project Poster’ award.

LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY

President, Strategy & Marketing for Women International Business Network; Student Ambassador, USD

Volunteer and lead for fund raising events at Ashraya Ashram (Old Age Home) in Bangalore

Founder, Lead for Music team, Badminton team, New Hire club and women’s Throw ball team at IBM.

Specialties: Product Management, Market Analysis, User Experience, Agile & Open Source Development, Quality Management, Marketing Communications, Strategic Planning, Customer Engagement, and Techno-managerial Presentations.

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