Professional Summary

A result-oriented and data-driven full-stack Product Manager leveraging 4.5 years of product management experience and 11 plus years of digital transformation experience in the fintech and automotive industries. I bring a comprehensive understanding of product management, having led cross-functional teams to nurture a consumer-facing, a business-facing, an enterprise platform product, and a data catalog product from concept to launch and beyond while achieving progressive growth from owning a feature to owning a problem area, spanning multiple products. Work History

Product Manager 05/2021 – 08/2023

Altimetrik Atlanta, GA (Remote)

• Spearheaded building, launch, and growth of an enterprise Platform-as-a-Product for one of the leading EV automakers in the US, empowering internal product teams to manage the entire lifecycle of early access programs, avoiding 95% product recalls, and improving adoption.

• Directed platform growth from a pilot of 1 team to 160+ internal teams improving product adoption while scaling from 20K to 1.4M campaigns and surveys per month across 700+ programs.

• Led a data catalog product from concept to launch which aids in data discovery, improves data governance, and democratizes data usage, reducing time to first data access by 60%.

• Enhanced customer engagement and acquisition for early access programs by 5x adding a new acquisition channel through integrating a gamified community platform.

• Aided product leadership in identifying and executing strategic and tactical product decisions, aligning with the product vision and organizational goals; assessing success by defining and measuring objectives and key results (OKRs).

• Directed multiple integrations to enrich the platform with data from diverse sources of truth and to build key platform capabilities.

• Orchestrated platform integration, building and exposing capabilities through RESTful and event-based APIs; led onboarding of APIs to APIGEE for managing access, securing endpoints, and analyzing performance.

• Led cross-functional teams to plan and execute prioritized roadmaps; aided in customer research, UX development, and owned product backlog.

• Collaborated with engineering to analyze useability, negotiate performance trade-offs, and define and measure service level objectives and baseline non-functional requirements.

• led a diverse team of business analysts, UX, and a data engineer fostering learning, transparency, innovation, and collaboration, resulting in an improved client satisfaction score. Product Manager 01/2021 - 05/2021

Amplifi Loyalty Solutions Naperville, IL

• Validated an opportunity to improve customer engagement by integrating card-linked offers to the credit card loyalty program, confirming technical feasibility and financial viability.

• Led a team of data engineers to build and deploy ML models for predicting future redemption rate for 8.7 Billion loyalty points, aiding in identifying up-sell opportunities.

• Oversaw launch of the pilot by integrating with a 3rd party vendor, managing risks and trade- offs.

Product Skills

• Vision/Strategy

• Market & UX Research

• Roadmap Planning and

execution

• Cross-Functional

Leadership

• Go To Market strategies

• Design Thinking

• Prioritization

• Validated Learning

through OKRs

• A/B Testing

• Usability Testing

• Agile Methodologies

• Behavioral Driven

Development (BDD)

• Jira & Confluence

• Critical Thinking

• Effective

Communication

Technical Skills

• Understanding of Web

Development

• Systems Integrations

• Cloud Technologies

• API Management

• APIGEE and Swagger

• RBAC, OAuth

• Validation (Postman)

• Business Continuity

Data Skills

• SQL, Python, MS-Excel

• Data Warehouse

• Data Governance

• Exposure to ML and AI

• Power BI/Looker

• Data Quality

• Statistical concepts

ad3hcz@r.postjobfree.com +1-217-***-**** Atlanta, GA Guru Mishra

www.linkedin.com/in/namelyguru

Software Product Manager 03/2019 - 09/2020

Molex LLC Lisle, IL

• Led development of a high-speed In-Vehicle Ethernet solution that realizes safety, redundancy, and low latency in Autonomous Vehicles, driving revenue growth of USD 2.1 M and entering a niche market.

• Steered product discovery through prototyping and converted RFQs into contracts from OEMs to build a business case for product funding.

• Built a successful Go to market strategy through product differentiation, and product demo setup, expanding Serviceable Addressable Market.

• Led an initiative to transition from cost-based to value-based pricing, leveraging conjoint analysis to identify optimal pricing structures, resulting in improved operating margins.

• Managed multiple software vendors through selection, contract negotiation, writing SoW while building a strong strategic partnership.

• Led an Agile transformation initiative within the business unit; conducted knowledge sessions, pilot projects, reducing learning gap.

Sr. IT Project Manager 10/2018 - 02/2019

Fidelity Investments Smithfield, RI

• Managed multiple IT projects to integrate Fidelity's wealth management portal with eMoney’s wealth planning portal, impacting 25+ institutional customers and 750k+ investment advisors.

• Managed cross functional IT team in a Scaled Agile environment. Product Development Lead 09/2015 - 08/2016

Tech Mahindra Bangalore, India

• Participated in development of an enterprise product, that manages end-to-end IT-Governance, Risk, & Compliance.

• Led Scrum sprints in a scaled-Agile model and liaised with business analysts to break down requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Co-led a cross-disciplinary team on a POC project to validate a passive RFID based innovative solution for the out-of-stock problem in Mahindra's retail stores; the solution, projected to save USD 2.7 M revenue loss annually, was approved for pilot implementation. Technology Analyst. 06/2014 - 07/2015

HCL Technologies Bangalore, India

• Helped digitize back-office operations of a global retail bank related to document management systems that realizes 16% cost savings annually; led development of a major module for the digitization project.

• Engaged key stakeholders of a large investment bank client to identify operational bottlenecks and optimize business processes.

Senior Systems Engineer 07/2010 - 06/2014

Infosys Ltd Mangalore, India

• Secured a crucial project deal of $550K amid competition from other IT vendors, by leading a team of 4 engineers to create a value-added web utility that consolidates client metrics to aid in decision making

• Proposed and Led a cross-vendor initiative for minimizing transition time and information loss between implementation and QA phases, reducing a typical QA cycle by 2 weeks

• Participated in development of multiple internal applications for a Fortune 5 client, improving internal business processes and overhauling legacy tools and technologies. Education

Master of Business

Administration

University of Illinois

Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, IL

2016 - 2018

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science

Veer Surendra Sai

University of Technology

(VSSUT)

Burla, India

2006 - 2010

Ph.D. (Executive)

Information Security

University of the

Cumberlands

Williamsburg, Kentucky

2021 - 2025 (Expected)

Certifications

Digital Cloud Leader –

Google Cloud Platform

Google

July 2023

Professional Scrum

Product Owner (PSPO I)

Scrum.org

Sep 2020

Certified SAFe® 5

Professional

Scaled Agile Inc.

Nov 2022

IBM Cloud for Enterprise

IBM

April 2023

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