Product Manager

KAUSHIK BANDARU

248-***-**** **************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/kaushikbandaru

Professional Summary

An ambitious data-driven product manager having 3 years of expertise in product management, led cross-functional business units and spearheaded new features such as Robotic Process Automation Recommendations, BI dashboards, Fintech loan assistance and wellness tracking subscription generated around 3M$ annual profit.

Product Management and Data Experience

Product Manager, Ismile Technologies, Chicago, IL 2020

●Led a cross-functional team of 15 developers, 5 designers & 3 sales executives to successfully overhaul how small enterprises operate by automating their HR functions such as onboarding, performance reviews decreased work hours by 8 hours per week and operational costs by 30% during the pandemic.

●Conducted a market survey of 30 products, performed product discovery based on industry trends, market research and developed a unique product which increased revenue by $600k in the first 3 months.

●Oversaw user research (for better UI/UX), product wireframing and project management tasks of reporting and data analytics dashboard tools which helped improve employee performance by 40%.

●Comprehended business requirements into technical specifications by writing detailed user stories, created 100’s of use case diagrams and various test cases which reduced bugs by 20% during QA & QC

Associate Product Manager, Mhites, LLC, India 2016 – 2018

●Performed sprint planning with engineers, prioritized product backlog, created epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance criteria for 3 digital products which had a scalable architecture.

●I owned around 15 features such as property recommendations, realtor automation and increased profits by 5M USD collectively for 10 real estate companies by taking a process improvement approach.

●Created Product Roadmap and Identified around 70 features while doing so which increased user base from 1.3M to 5.8M and led product strategy and other project documentation based on customer needs.

●Analyzed user feedback and performed user research to Introduce push notifications and increased user retention rate by 30% and improved key product metrics like reducing churn rate by 10% by decreasing the number of steps taken for registering and eventually decreased the time taken to sign up.

IT Operations Technician, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 2019 – 2020

●Created interactive dashboards on Tableau to analyze 30,000 error tickets and identified issues faced while streaming around 1,300 classes online

●Visualized 100’s of KPIs on Tableau to perform quality control tests based on technical issues reported by 15,000 students across the university

Skills & Certifications

●Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance)

●Technologies and Programming Languages: JavaScript, R, Microsoft Office, Visio, SQL.

●Tools: Tableau, Google Analytics, Jira, Azure, Figma, Confluence

Education

Master of Science, Information Systems (Specialization: Business Intelligence), DePaul University, Dec 2020

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Engineering, Osmania University.

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