TAMIL ARASU SHANMUGAM

301-***-**** • adf0b1@r.postjobfree.com • linkedin.com/in/tamil-arasu-s/ • Mountain View, CA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Product Lead Sep 2017 – Aug 2018

Worked as a product lead for a startup focused on delivering EdTech and AgriTech solutions. My core responsibilities are as follows:

• Launched a digital EdTech business to move the STEM workshop model to subscription-based web content model. Increased the new users by ~6X. Led the product cycle on Ideation, build, and launch.

• Conducted usability studies and iterated features that increased the user engagement ~25%.

• Collaborated with schools and educators to have the subscription model co-exist with curriculum that increased subscriptions ~10%.

• Conducted market and competitive analysis for launch of new business sector in drone operated weed mapping for agriculture.

• Developed strategies and product plan to launch a platform to collaborate individual drone operators with farm owners.

• Led the cross functional teams for both the EdTech and agriTech business. Increased the revenue ~300%.

• Managed the roadmap for both the business and conducted A/B hypothesis for key feature launches.

• Led the weekly sprints, maintained the product analytics and KPI’s for both products. Prioritized backlogs with Agile frameworks. TCS Engineering Services Chennai, IN

Product Owner, GE power Aug 2013 – Aug 2017

Worked as a Product designer, Product engineer and Product owner on steam turbine and generator releases for General Electric North America across the span of 4 years.

• Led agile initiatives in automating the process workflow of engineering changes and creating digital tools to optimize the workflow.

• Led weekly scrum meetings for clearing the high priority design releases, and backlogs in PLM ERP.

• Led 3 six sigma projects for creating digital tools with a cost savings of more than $100K each and lead reduction time ~30%.

• Coached engineering and design team on six sigma projects and green belt certification.

• Increased the team strength and revenue ~100% by expanding the project scope to new businesses.

• Led the offshore team during the migration of ERP tools Enovia and SAP. Managed weekly sprint meetings for both PLM consulting and migration process.

• Maintained the metrics for the entire steam process and lead the offshore metrics meetings for cross functional teams across North America, Europe and Asia.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of Maryland College Park, MD

Research Scholar, Robotics Realization lab and Maryland Robotics center Aug 2018 - Sep 2019

• Worked on building a highly dexterous anthropomorphic robotic hand capable of picking fruits.

• Worked on autonomous flight of crazyflie 2.0 with optical flow cameras and onboard processing. PUBLICATIONS

• Designing of self-management technologies for managing PCOS. The research is completed and in the final stages of the draft before submission to CHI’21.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools Jira, Trello, Mixpanel, Product Pad, Type Form, Invision, Minitab, Tableau, Git. Frameworks and Methodologies Agile, Scrum, Lean six sigma, Prioritization, Design Thinking, HEART. Programming Python, MATLAB, HTML, ROS, OpenCV, Tensorflow. EDUCATION

• University of Maryland at College Park College Park, M.Eng. in Robotics Aug 2018 – May 2020

Coursework: Deep Learning, Data Science, HCI, Personal Health Informatics.

• Government College of Technology Coimbatore, IN

B.E Production Engineering Aug 2009 – May 2013

Certification

• Lead six sigma green belt (2013 - RABQSA & 2014 - TCS GE Internal)

• Certified Scrum practitioner (2015 - TCS internal)

• Certified Agile practitioner (2016 - TCS GE Internal)

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