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Yogesh Ranjan Mobile: 425-***-****

MBA ’** University of Washington, Seattle Email:******.******@*****.***

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Results oriented, decisive, and energetic product/project management professional with 7 (Seven) years of experience in requirements gathering, business case, MRDs, PRDs creation.

• Experience in product strategy, planning and product roadmaps; budget forecasting, cost analysis, resource management, risk analysis/management, team building, conflict management, and process analysis/re-engineering.

• Demonstrated leader of virtual and cross-functional teams and proven relationship-builder with exceptional interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with extensive international experience.

• Signification experience in Product marketing with strong exposure to Market research, Competitive Analysis, STP - Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning, GTM strategies.

• Marketing Planning and Strategy with expertise in mobile VAS business, Forecasting, Analysis, Insights, Dashboards, Business Intelligence.

• Strong business analysis skills with proficiency with RDBMS, Business Objects, SQL, TOAD, Report Info, Crystal Report, MS Excel, Pivot tables, Vlookup etc. Exposure to SQL server, SSAS, SSRS, OLAP.

• Experience in Project scheduling, resource management, project planning and estimation. MPP, RPM, Visio, Project and SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, RUP, AGILE etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb’09- Current GlobalScholar

Product Manager, B2B Bellevue, WA

• Perform competitive analysis, industry and product evaluations; cost/benefit analysis, GTM (Go-to-Market) strategies.

• Lead Product Manager Mobile Edition: Launched mobile edition of current e-learning platform and create product map and prioritizing features based on GlobalScholar’s strategic fit.

• Launched Dashboard and Reporting solution for K-12 users.

• Manage customer relationships, gather business requirement and create business case and product deliverables like BRD, MRD, PRD etc.

• Collaborate with UI designers, Information architects, Marketing, Sales and Product development to create Functional Specs (FSD) and GTM (Go-to-Market) strategies.

• Build and lead teams involved in product development and perform all program management tasks and produce project management deliverables.

• Responsible for creating new processes and align current processes at all levels in organization.

• Collaborate with marketing and senior management to re-design corporate website.

Jun ’08- Oct’08 T-Mobile

Program Manager, Marketing Planning and Analysis Bellevue, WA

• Led revenue forecasting and reporting efforts for $2.5 B Value Added Services business for Marketing Planning and Analysis group

• Worked with internal customers and business owners to assist in Business Requirement Document creation.

• Created and maintained corporate dashboards, VAS Postpaid dashboards and reports to perform revenue forecasting, churn forecasting and trend analysis.

• Led Program management efforts and tracked PMO, EIT and Product development for their status on VAS project and performed UAT on VAS Reporting and Analysis tool using SQL and Business Objects

• Created ad-hoc reports for senior management and worked on various data quality issues and ad-hoc reports using Teradata SQL and Business Objects assigned to me.

• Conducted Functionality Testing and UAT using Business Object, SQL, TOAD etc. and documented defects and worked with team member to resolve issues.

Jan ’08-Apr’08 Clearwire

Product Marketing Manager (MBA Project Intern), WiMax PC Card Kirkland, WA

• Identify potential markets for Clearwire WiMax PC Card (PCMCIA) in the SMB space and create positioning strategy for them.

• Designed, created and published surveys to obtain the market research data.

• Develop market research and competitive analysis by analyzing the data obtained from survey and with input from the sales team.

• Worked across various cross-functional teams including product management, finance and marketing and create a GTM strategy including marketing collaterals and positioning statements for various market segments.

• Identified new and leveraged existing distribution network and sales channels to increase the penetration of PC card service.

2006-2007 LG Electronics Bangalore, India/Seoul, Korea

Product Manager (Technical), Messaging

• Worked closely with both internal and external partner clients to identify and propose new capabilities in Messaging space.

• Created Proof of Concept, Market Requirement Document (MRD) and Product Requirement Document (PRD) from market research, account executive feedback and prioritized those requirements based on LG’s strategic fit.

• Used internal and external resources for competitive analysis of product and created GTM and positioning of messaging products.

• Worked with consumer insights team to identify core consumer needs in messaging space and further translated these into must-have requirements in the product definition phase

• Provided direct support to Sales to visit customers and partners to promote product strategy

Onsite Project Manager, IP Multimedia Subsystems

• Created Product Analysis document from RFC 3261, RFC 3266 and RFC 3409 to replace existing third party SIP stack with LGE’s stack for Instant Messaging (IM) and MMS streaming.

• Partially created Product Requirement Document and Functional Specification document for SIP and SDP.

• Managed three micro teams (total 15 members) involved in development and design of SIP stack including SIP parser, SDP and RTP protocols.

• Prepared budget proposals and cost estimation for the SIP stack project.

• Created project plan using MS Project including project charter, scope, resource estimation, project schedule, risk mitigation and cost estimation.

Onsite Project Manager, Multimedia Messaging Service

• Directly managed Multimedia Messaging product development and QA team and tracked them for project status (18-20 engineers).

• Gathered project requirements and converted them into PRD, establishing the Project Charter, Work Breakdown Structure, Communication Plans, and Cost-Benefit Analysis.

• Led a 5 member Change Control Board team to bring handsets integrated with MMS applications to market 95% ahead of schedule.

• Represented Messaging team consisting of 120 people at the Weekly Status Meetings, Readiness Review sessions and All hands meet for ‘Unified Messaging and Connectivity’ group

• Worked cross-functionally across teams of analysts, product managers, project managers and CXD (Customer Experience and design) towards the completion of the project.

• Launched a highly successful English Language Program for senior executives in LG, Korea which was replicated in Indian subsidiary.

2005-2006 Motorola Inc. Bangalore, India

Product Realization Lead

• Managed, coached and grew teams of 6-8 engineers involved in product development focused on enhancing consumer experience.

• Led development and delivery of various Value Added Services/applications like Voice Message service, MMS Postcard etc. for Motorola Handsets to Motorola USA, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

• Conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility determination.

• Initiated Six Sigma pilot project for Software development life cycle and worked closely with quality assurance team for success of ‘Six Sigma’ project and to take the learning and apply it to future products.

• Interacted with and tracked teams worldwide (Brazil, India (2), US, Italy, Russia, China) and led efforts to ensure milestones completion and final successful delivery of Voice Message feature.

2003-2005 LG Electronics Bangalore, India/Seoul, S.Korea

Module Lead, Research Engineer

• Designed and developed MMS application on C platform to be delivered on LG handsets in global markets. This application replaced LG’s existing MMS application (built by Magic 4) thus saving a royalty of an estimated value of 1.2 Billion USD.

• Led co-ordination efforts during design phase discussions with partner clients in Korea.

• Created SRS, HLD, LLD and sequence and data flow diagram for Message DB module for MMS application.

• Worked closely with User Interface Experience to create user interface requirement and develop those requirements on C++ and WINCE platform.

Associate Research Engineer

• Unit tested the MMS application and resolved issues reported by testing team.

• Developed Used Cases, Functional Specification documents, Test Cases.

• Partial development of Message DB module for MMS application on C platform.

• Worked closely with partner clients on beta stage of the module for smooth delivery of project.

2002-2003 Essar Telecom Haryana, India

Project Manager, Engineering

• Project management activities including planning, tracking, coordinating, and communication.

• Created project plans, detailed activity matrix including task planning and resource allocation using MPP.

• Assisted the business project manager in cost estimation for the various Engineering Projects.

Associate Project Manager, Engineering

• Resource management and coordination with other collaborative teams.

• Owned and facilitated review meetings with business and project teams.

• Coordinated meetings with developer, analysts for functional scope resolution.

• Prepared team schedules and estimated efforts for projects with project team.

SKILL SET SUMMARY

Project Management Tools MPP, RPM, Clearcase, VSS, Visio, MS Office Tools including MS Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word

Methodologies Waterfall, Iterative, CMMI, Onsite–Offshore models

Programming Skills C, C++, SMIL, SQL, WINCE

RDBMS Teradata

Reporting Tools Business Objects, TOAD, SQL, Report Info

Operating Systems Windows, Unix, REX, U-COS

Other tools Bounds Checker, Trace 32, Arm Develop Suite, Qualcomm propriety: QXDM, QPST

Technologies GSM, MMS, SMIL, CDMA, DRM, SIP, WAP, XML, HTML, SMS,

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

March 2009 The Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington Seattle, WA

• Master of Business Administration, General Management

June 2002 Kurukshetra University Haryana, India

• Bachelor of Technology, Electronics (Graduated with distinction)

ACHIEVEMENTS

• President – techConnect Club, University of Washington Business School

• Several ‘Star Performer of the month awards for leadership and technical excellence while working at Motorola India.

• Client Appreciation Letter for excellent work at LGE Korea.

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