Gorakhnath Ghadage — Product Manager

 An Intrapreneur with 20+ years of experience delivering values to customer, profitability to business by leading Technically Complex Strategic Account with entrepreneurial mindset focused on big picture, focus on bottom line ~20%.  A diversely skilled, experienced practitioner in management, leadership (~10+ years), java full stack development, Amdocs CRM / Clarify CRM products solution, design & development (~10+years) in telecom, manufacturing domains. Served the customers like Vodafone UK, Clearwire USA, Bridgestone IT, Stellantis FR.  A preemptive techno-functional leader excels in results with focus on stakeholder, cost, quality, time enabling cross functional teams to achieve desired results optimizing cost by ~5-10%. Able to anticipate stakeholder needs and respond in decisive impactful manner.  As a continuous learner certified in Project /Product Management - (PMP®, PSPO-I®, PSM-I®), in Leadership Atos-Harvard Business -Leader in Digital Age (LIDA®), ESCP - Advanced SDM® in < 3 years. AREAS OF EXPERTISE  Technical Leadership  Program Delivery  Planning, Execution  Risks, Cost Control P&L  Budget & Forecasting  Solution Design  Technical Architecture  Design Patterns  Agile, Waterfall  Web Development  Java, JEE, Spring, Spring-boot,  Angular, HTML, CSS, NESTJS  SQL, Hibernate, Mongo DB  Amdocs / Clarify CRM, GenAI, Agentic AI, MCP, python  Microservices, Firebase, CI CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Python #Delivery DIrector #Associate Director #Program Director #Product Manager #Product Owner #Techno Functional Leader #Entrepreneur #Financial Management, #Risk Management, #Stakeholder Management, #Schedule Management, #Quality Management, #Agile Delivery, #Product Owner, #Agile Leader #Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) #NLP coach #Financial Analyst #Financial Planner

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecommunications expert with strong technical leadership and project management skills.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 20 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Program Management
Technical Leadership
Project Portfolio Management
Artificial Intelligence (ai)
Technical Delivery Management
Technical Project Management
Service Delivery Management
Product Development
Java
Software Development

Career Highlights

20+ years of experience in technical leadership.
Proven track record in managing complex strategic accounts.
Certified in Project/Product Management and Leadership.

Work Experience

Persistent Systems

Program Director | Principal EM - Enterprise Integration (2 yrs 5 mos)

Nitor Infotech

Associate Director (1 yr 7 mos)

Atos

Delivery Manager (3 yrs 8 mos)

Project Manager (3 yrs)

Technical Leader (3 yrs 5 mos)

Tech Mahindra

Development Team Lead (1 yr)

Amdocs

Senior Subject Matter Expert (4 yrs 1 mo)

Indicus Software Pvt. Ltd.

Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at PCCOE

AISSCE (XII) Standard at Kendriya Vidyalaya Ahmednagar

Gorakhnath Ghadage

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India20 yrs 7 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

20+ years of experience in technical leadership.
Proven track record in managing complex strategic accounts.
Certified in Project/Product Management and Leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Telecommunications expert with strong technical leadership and project management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementTechnical LeadershipProject Portfolio ManagementArtificial Intelligence (ai)Technical Delivery ManagementTechnical Project ManagementService Delivery ManagementProduct DevelopmentJavaSoftware Development

Other Skills

Project ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipAgile SDLCAgile PracticeProduct DesignSpringAnthropic ClaudeDeep LearningSnowflakePresentation SkillsProduct LeadershipAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesTelecommunicationsRequirements AnalysisWeb Services

About

Experience

20 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Persistent systems

Program Director | Principal EM - Enterprise Integration

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Manage end-to-end Programs Delivery with higher complexity in terms of number of people/teams to be managed, (Overall Program / Project Management-across all life cycle stages). To create and manage a strong team of Technical Project Managers to contribute and Implement best practices. Own and be accountable for scope, effort, budget and delivery.
Drive continuous improvement in project deliveries and individual/team performance.
Handle Line Manager responsibilities and oversee activities of delivery team and provide direction and guidance as needed.

Program ManagementProject ManagementTechnical Leadership

Nitor infotech

Associate Director

Apr 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Leading strategic initiatives of the delivery unit, focused on organization vision, profitability, tackle the most
challenging, high-visibility assignments, often in environment with ambiguity to stringent deadlines, managing
escalation, directing the program teams to achieve objectives, stakeholder management, account mining, RFPs.
E2E complex strategic engagements to develop products handling yearly revenue of ~3m$ with
team of 80+ of varied skills, culture, and experience from novice, leads, architects, managers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cross-functional Team LeadershipProject Portfolio Management

Atos

3 roles

Delivery Manager

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Program Management | Technical Delivery Manager | Techno-Functional Leader | Financial, Risks, Stakeholder, Schedule, Quality Management
Consistently tackle the most challenging, high-visibility assignments, often in environment with ambiguity to stringent deadlines, promoted to take up this hybrid role which involves technical delivery, customer interaction, leading the technical teams, sought after by higher management to help resolve crisis.
Delivery of complex strategic program to develop products handling revenue of 0.5 – 2m€ with team of 60+ of varied skills, culture, and experience from novice to project managers.
Instrumental in improving processes in Waterfall, Agile SDLC, DevOps practices, thus bringing value to customer, leading automation initiative
o build reduce deployment efforts by 20% by using CI/CD build automation.
o test automation to reduce efforts on regression tests, increasing test cycles 5 times.
Resolving Technical impediments leveraging strong technical skills. Contributing to RFPs, estimations, forecast, P&L, cost reduction and other management initiatives.

Program ManagementTechnical Delivery ManagementAgile SDLC

Project Manager

Jul 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs

Technical Project Management | Service Delivery Management | Product Delivery | Angular UI
Considering demonstrated daily innate problem-solving capabilities, strength in managing complex projects/ events; technical, functional, team leading skills, promoted to project manager role to manage service delivery & product development.
Managed multiple development projects ~1 m€ revenue yearly with team of 15+ developers, 3 tech leads using Agile practice. Involved in code, design artefact reviews.
Managed Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) of 9-9.5, Service Delivery of 1 Mission, 4 Business Critical applications, amounting ~2 m€ yearly revenue. Collaborated with multiple stakeholders, cross functional, Service Delivery Manager (SDM) of respective applications teams to ensure 99% applications availability & timely deliveries.

Technical Project ManagementService Delivery ManagementAgile Practice

Technical Leader

Jan 2012 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Technical Leader | Amdocs CRM | Product Design | Product Development |Java | Spring | REST
Consistently utilized product design, development skills, experienced gained while working on Amdocs products, contributed to deliveries without or minimal supervision from management.
Lead the quarterly maintenance releases worth 400 k€, technically leading 10+ developers, business analysts. Responsible for design and delivery of the releases for the same. Hands-on development on complex use-cases of the customized Amdocs CRM products. Worked functional requirement specification, technical solution, continuously working on adding value to the product.

Technical LeadershipProduct DesignProduct Development

Tech mahindra

Development Team Lead

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr

Technical Leader | Amdocs CRM | Product Design | Product Development | Java | Spring | REST
Played active role in refining the existing processes in development cycle & optimized deployment processes for the product. Involved in technical, functional support, Hands-on design, development of complex use-cases.

Technical LeadershipProduct DesignProduct Development

Amdocs

Senior Subject Matter Expert

Dec 2006 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Amdocs CRM | Product Design | Product Development | Java | Spring | Design Patterns
Promoted to Senior Subject Matter Expert considering the design, development, quick learning capabilities, attention to the details, customer end user focus while designing & development of the product.
Contributed to design, development of major projects worth > 10 m€. Analyzed product requirements, proposed solutions to stakeholders, high level design and created updated technical design artifacts.
Hands-on product development supported customer during UAT phase, fixing issues timely for Go-Live..
Visited onsite 5 times to UK for UAT support to Vodafone UK, once to Clearwire USA, once to XLCOM Indonesia for requirement workshops.

Product DesignProduct DevelopmentJava

Indicus software pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Jul 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos

Developed the module assigned to me and fixed defects, contributing to ensure quality delivery.
It involved understanding functional specification, creating technical documentation, test cases, coding, unit testing, deployment of the assigned modules.
Supported ST, SIT, UAT phases of the project, learnt & practiced Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, EJB, Web Services

Software DevelopmentJavaSpring