Ganesh Kumar Balusamy

Product Manager

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India19 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Reduced product development cycle time significantly.
Led award-winning developer experience project.
Extensive experience in digital transformation roles.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a strong focus on digital transformation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct Leadership

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementBusiness AnalysisCRMCloud ApplicationsEdiscoveryFunctional SpecificationsGap AnalysisGo-to-Market StrategyIntegrationMicrosoft ExcelProduct DiscoveryProduct VisionProject ManagementRFP

About

In my 16 years of professional experience I have played a variety of roles at software firms that specialized in digital transformation, digital platforms, home automation, CRM, capital market, e-discovery, and disclosure management, including Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, and Sales Executive. In the waterfall development period, I used to write BRD, FSD, detailed use case documents, and supporting materials. Then, in agile processes like Scrum and XP, those have been changed to user stories, workflow designs, and digital prototypes. The software requirements are currently being defined using hypothesis cards, lean value trees, and outcome-based product development.

Experience

Thoughtworks

2 roles

Lead Product Manager

Promoted

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

Reduced the initial iteration cycle time of product development from two weeks to just a few hours by building an in-house self-service developer experience portal NEO. NEO unifies and streamlines all digital platform capabilities, allowing developers to focus on their core task which is building applications.
Designed, developed, and implemented a comprehensive internal developer platform program in a short span of time from the ground up, establishing the framework, tools, and processes to support the development teams and collaboration with stakeholders, leads, and other partner teams.
Led a team of 14 members in the development of a platform designed to assist staffing leads in identifying global opportunities and staffing people for long-term assignments.
Being part of the NEO team from its inception, playing a pivotal role in its development and success, which culminated in NEO receiving the esteemed CIO100 award in 2022

User ResearchProduct DiscoveryProduct VisionStrategyProduct LeadershipProduct Management

Senior Business Analyst

Jul 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Worked on very short term internal innovations like, for candidates to share their interview feedback, for recruiters to schedule right interviews, for global staffing people to identify the global staffing opportunity, smart speakers to start the zoom meeting, and smart system to sense the meeting room environment and availability, etc
This gives a very immense opportunity to work with different teams on multiple domains to understand the overall organization ecosystem and operations.
Primary roles:
Work with the relevant stakeholders to understand the business process and problem statement
Facilitate and curate the ideas or process improvements recommended by the stakeholders and team members
Responsible to build the right product to deliver maximum value to the users
Showcase to the right user groups and onboard them to the new process/product

Harman international india pvt. ltd.

Lead Program Manager

Jun 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater Coimbatore Area

Harman is my first service company. The way it operates is different from my earlier software product companies. First time I experienced the bench concept (where I don’t need to work instead I can spend time on learning and professional development).
One of the leading technology providers for global Merger & Acquisition
Helped to build the software by working closely with multiple offshore delivery teams
Played a proxy product owner role
Basic Business Analyst role, from requirement understanding, story map preparation, story building, story kick off, early validation, showcases and support to the clients and onshore team
Supported the Tech leads and Architects on building the tech architecture and to take decisions
Was part of the discovery and inception with clients
One of the leading global home automation provider
Played the Business Analyst and Scrum Master role
Managed a small team of developers and testers
Worked closely with the offshore client team and made sure the continuous communication happens
Responsible for the delivery

Exterro inc

Lead Business Analyst

Jan 2012 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater Coimbatore Area

Exterro is a software product company primarily in the legal / e-discovery domain. Joined this company with a very limited BA experience and no experience on legal domain but it turned out to be my turning point in my professional career.
Exterro taught me the actual roles and responsibilities of a BA (earlier I used to do whatever things comes on my way), gave client exposure, worked with different stakeholders, for sure the domain and it introduced me to different technologies.
I too brought few changes into the organization, like the way in which BAs and other roles interacted in their day to day business, organising stories, development process, etc.
I joined as a senior business analyst and was promoted as a lead. I was a core contributor and parallely led a small team.

Bny mellon | pershing

Senior Business Analyst

Sep 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos

My primary role in BNY Mellon was to understand the business processes of AML & Compliance and improvise it by bringing the right level of automation.
In this short period, I built a two step automation on data aggregation which can reduce a 6 hours to a 30 mins manual process. The first step is an ETL where it extracts data from different sources, transforms it into a common format which can be understood by the processor and loads it into a common database. The second step is an Analyzer which works on the data in the database and produces the report which can be used for the manual review.

Ebix

Business Analyst

Oct 2009 – Sep 2010 · 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ebix acquired PTG on Oct'09 and I continued my service with Ebix in Investment integration team.
Involved in design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and support of DAS (Data Aggregation Service) platform built for the SmartOffice integrations.

Premier technology group

Business Analyst

Oct 2006 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

I started my career as a Sales Executive in Premier Technology Group and I was marketing, promoting and selling a windows based CRM application CDS to Indian insurance and investment financial advisors.
I got promoted as a Business Analyst in 2007, and I was a part of the investment integration team for a web based CRM application, SmartOffice. I am involved in a full software development life cycle in DST, Pershing, Investigo and Albridge data integration projects.
Involved in design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and support of DAS (Data Aggregation Service) platform built for the SmartOffice integrations.