Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos · California, United States · Remote

• I provide
• Strategic guidance to scale.jobs leadership team on product development, go-to-market strategies, and industry best practices
• Expertise in digital marketing, with a proven track record of successful campaigns across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and email newsletters. My approach integrates creative content strategies with data-driven analysis to enhance brand visibility and engagement.
• Leadership in social media marketing initiatives, designing and executing strategies that amplify our digital presence and drive meaningful interactions with our target audience.
• Insights from my engagements with job seekers, recruiters, career coaches, and industry thought leaders
• Feedback and guidance on long-term roadmap, overarching strategy, exploring potential expansions into adjacent verticals and emerging markets

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · United States

Apr 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · United States

• I drive strategic and cross-functional initiatives.
• I drive all aspects of program management (planning incorporating dependencies, key milestones and deliverables, data gathering, analysis, communication, risk management and mitigation, status tracking and reporting, implementation, monitoring, execution, and delivery of the initiative/program.
• I influence and collaborate across organizations including engineering, product, security, legal, compliance, finance, go-to-market, and more to effectively build commitment with delivery teams, negotiate competing requirements, ensure alignment and program progress, and improve processes.
• At Auto Approve we build solutions that innovates and simplify the auto refinance process using the modern technology suite (Microservices, React, Springboot, GCP, Sonar Cloud, Testrail, GitLab, etc)
• Work with Engineering and Product to develop and manage the work intake process for new requests
• Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan
• Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress
• Manage contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables

Jan 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Led an onshore team of 6+ software developers to develop our core product and support new and existing clients using technologies like .net, java, node, angular, microservices, service fabric, etc.
• Reduced $25000 cost by leading a project of moving the client facing team of 50+ members from old time tracking system to existing project management tool - JIRA.
• Improved the overall release quality and delivery time by 40% by introducing and influencing code review and code freeze process which also eliminated last minute scope creeps.
• Managed the project with a scrum team of 7+ engineers to build a mobile application which increased client’s users efficiency by 60% as it lets you connect offline when they are on the field.
• Designed and executed the beta release process with our clients to increase the quality by over 50% and saving 500+ hours by reducing the number of releases.
• Executed product manager’s vision by transforming and leading 5+ cross functional teams from waterfall to agile teams using SCRUM framework.
• Led 5 scrum teams for the entire product development lifecycle from the discovery of new features to releasing and maintaining them.
• Administered the Atlassian products like JIRA, Confluence and Bitbucket for the 500+ users by designing the workflows, configurations, automating a 15+ processes by using scriptrunner plugin, etc.
• Executed product manager’s vision by leading an offshore team of 23+ engineers who delivers monthly maintenance releases and quarterly feature releases.

Mar 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Managing and leading team both onshore in Chico (8 team members) and in India (25 team members).
• Provided Agile/Scrum/Kanban training to several departments and offshore team which improved the software product
• development process by 40%
• Managed multiple product implementation project with the budget of $700,000+
• Created release management tool saving 2000+ hours labor annually.
• Served as JIRA administrator - upgrade JIRA/Confluence softwares, create process workflows, resolving in-house bugs.
• Led the agile implementation and training.

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Served as Scrum Master to facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, demos and other Scrum-related meetings).
• Provided Agile/Scrum/Kanban training to several departments and offshore team which improved the software product development process by 40%
• Managed multiple product implementation project with the budget of $700,000+
• Created release management tool saving 2000+ hours labor annually.
• Led the UI Automation project to develop automated test cases which reduced the manual regression testing by 250+ hours at the end of every release.
• Served as JIRA administrator - upgrade JIRA/Confluence softwares, create process workflows, resolving in-house bugs.
• Led the agile implementation and training.
• Managed the JIRA in-house implementation project.
• Delivered key milestone for major initiative 3 weeks early.
• Facilitated the implementation of 1st product Beta release with client involvement to enhance the quality
• Standardized several project management artifacts – defect and issue tracking tool, project charter, RACI matrix, and communication plan.

Jun 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Served as Scrum Master to facilitate scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, demos and other Scrum-related meetings).
• Delivered key milestone for major initiative 3 weeks early.
• Created release management tool saving 2000 hours labor annually.
• Standardized several project management artifacts – defect and issue tracking tool, project charter, RACI matrix, and communication plan.

Apr 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chico, California Area

• OrgSync Subject Matter Expert:
• Managed, trained and advised use for the web portal, OrgSync (16000+ users, 250 organizations).
• Leveraged marketing initiative management skills to increase user base by 28%.
• Consulted various departments for customization of the tool to eliminate the manual processes.
• Successfully created and facilitated more than 20 leadership and soft skills training workshops.

Aug 2013 – May 2014 · 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Improved productivity and maximized performance by developing and optimizing the web-based application to track payroll management system for the offshore bank.
• Applied Agile methodology to deliver products through performing meticulous unit testing, resulting in 13% contribution to offshore development center.

May 2012 – May 2014 · 2 yrs · United States

• Worked with multiple clients to help them set up their e-commerce business resulting in 30-40% of revenue growth.
• Provided excellent customer service resulting in 100% of customer retention.
• Gathered Product/Business requirement, Designed, developed the web application.

Jan 2012 – Aug 2012 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Served as Scrum Master and delivered the in-house project before a month.
• Delivered the product demo which contributes 20% of overall revenue.
• Automated testing scripts saving 1000 hours.