Product Manager

Ashwin Kumar

PRODUCT MANAGER · ENTREPRENEUR · PROGRAMMER

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314-***-**** ******.*******@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/ashwin-amkumar/ Objective: Seeking a challenging opportunity to apply my skills and expertise in designing and building customer fo- cused products and technologies that make a positive impact on customers and the organization. Skills

Programming Python, Swift, SQL, Matlab, C++, Java, Javascript, HTML, PHP. Software Jupyter, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Tableau, Amplitude, Docker, Microsoft Office Suite, Git, Eclipse, LaTex, Node.js, AWS, MySQL.

Hard/Soft Skills

Agile / Scrum Methodologies, Market & Competitor Research, Data-Driven Development, Leadership, Data Analysis, Feature Definition, Time Management, UX / UI Design, Usability Testing . Work Experience

Entappia San Jose, CA

PRODUCT MANAGER Apr. 2020 - Present

• Defined and developed database schemas, architecture and API for a Contact Tracing solution and platform.

• Developed product strategy and business model for the product including competitive analysis, pricing strategies and hardware procurement from partner vendors.

• Defined and researched various use cases and functionalities for different industries, and created wireframe designs for the analytics dashboard of the product.

• I serve as the point of contact for vendors, technical partners and customers for requirement gathering and feature roadmapping based on product vision and scope. Flesker St. Louis, MO

CO-FOUNDER & PRODUCT MANAGER Aug. 2019 - Feb 2020

• Led the design and development of a transparent and centralized communication and space management platform for the Realty industry.

• Engaged in all aspects of strategy, design, development, and architecture of the product.

• CreatedwireframesandtranslatedthemtoworkingprototypesandMVPusingprioritizationframeworksand conducting user research and surveys to identify various pain points. Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO

GRADUATE ASSISTANT Aug. 2017 - May 2019

• Worked on various academic projects and coursework while completing my M.S in Computer Science. iDesign Technologies Coimbatore, India

ASSOCIATE PRODUCT MANAGER SOFTWAREDEVELOPER Sep. 2015 - May 2017

• Led the design and development of a location-based note taking and utility app.

• Translated business requirements into user stories while managing, ranking, and prioritizing the backlog to reflect stakeholder’s requirements.

• Created and maintained the product vision, roadmap, and product backlog of work throughout the project’s life cycle while building and integrating various API.

• Planned and headed agile sprints with input from development teams along with daily scrummeetingsthat helped teams deliver MVP’s according to the roadmap and increased velocity by 20%.

• Assistedinthedesignof the UI and UX by using storyboardsandwireframesandtranslatingthemtoworking code using Xcode.

• ConductedA/B testing tomaketheUXmoreintuitiveandengagingbycollectinguserfeedbackandincreased engagement by 35%.

Fuji Xerox Yokohama, Japan

RESEARCH ENGINEER - MULTIMEDIA CONTROL SYSTEMS July 2014 - June 2015

• Researched and implemented theMulti-Media Processing FlowControlSystemswhichloaddynamicallyand executes libraries and commands that handle images, natural languages and OCR.

• Researched and implemented OCR recognition and NLP into the existing software framework. Amazon Chennai, India

SOFTWAREDEVELOPMENT INTERN – LOW LEVEL PLATFORM Dec. 2013 - May 2014

• Designed and developed a P2P file-sharing system app with security and privacy control along with time- based access and user controls.

• Designed and prototyped various custom Android builds on devices and hardware models and tested the feasibility.

• Developed and worked on Text To Speech feature prototypes for the Kindle devices using a Master-Slave protocol, AWS and in-house API and tools.

Education

Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO

MASTERS OF SCIENCE - COMPUTER SCIENCE Aug 2017 - May 2019 College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University Chennai, India BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Aug 2010 - May 2014 Academic Projects

ML/Data Mining Washington University in St. Louis

COLLABORATOR AND PROGRAMMER

• Data Mining – Implemented different algorithms and dimensionality reduction techniques to analyse over 8000 genes of 300+ potential Alzheimer’s patients to find correlations and similarity measures between the samples.

• Machine Learning – Used Tensorflow and Python libraries for object and text recognition using Neural Net- work. I also used multiple data-sets and models to find hidden correlations and association rules to better understand the data.

Crowd-sourcing and Human Computation Washington University in St. Louis PROGRAMMER AND TEAM MEMBER

• Part of a 2 member team where we studied differential privacy by collecting generic (non-identifying) data collected from a survey that was hosted on the MTurk platform about users preferences on footwear using score voting.

• Predicted personal information of individuals by knowing certain preferences of the test group by up to 72% accuracy.

IOS App Development Washington University in St. Louis PROGRAMMER AND TEAM MEMBER

• Part of a 4memberteamwherewecreatedabasicmultipurposephotoeditingappaimedforpeoplelooking for an easy and quick poster creator or conventional image manipulator.

• Created and translated wireframes to functional prototypes and responsible for UI and UX design elements.

• helped with drawing and implementing various tools and poster templates. BS Final Thesis CEG, Anna University

RESEARCHER AND PROGRAMMER Jan 2013 - May 2014

• Android Power management : Created an application framework to help reduce batterydrainusingamodi- fied kernel using a governor and scheduler that prioritized battery life. Extracurricular Activity And Interests

Rotaract Club CEG, Anna University

2010 - 2014

• Organisedandhelpedconduct”Sangarsh”anannualfund-raisingmusicalconcertbysecuringandmanaging funds and organizing and events - All proceeds were used to support paediatric heart surgeries of economi- cally poor children through Dr. Mani Children Heart Foundation.

• Coordinated and took part in various environmental drives. National Sports Organization CEG, Anna University

2010 - 2014

• Organized the Universities first national sports fest (3 day event) by securing funds, setting up food stalls and organizing professional referees for different sports.

• Helped in organizing transport, invitations, boarding of different University teams during the entire duration of the Anna University Sports Fest.

• Captain of the University Soccer team during years 2012 and 2013.

• Represented the State of Tamil Nadu in badminton during the year 2003.

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