Feb 2019 – Jan 2020 · 11 mos

• Led discovery, strategy and roadmap for consumer data for The Walt Disney Studios with goal of offering personalized experience to Disney Movie Fans across all digital touch points.
• Led integration planning of data platform space at Fox Studio and Disney Studios.

Jun 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led team of product managers, analysts and engineers serving data analytics needs of business groups in the Studio. Key responsibilities included: problem discovery and definition, setting goals and measuring success, roadmap and strategy, stakeholder engagement, funding and budget oversight, hiring and grooming talent and improve delivery quality.
• Achieved 99+% automation of industry Box Office estimates, forecasts and reporting.
• Led initiative to sell business case to modernize Studio’s data platform resulting in 30% reduced cost.
• Recognized as leader within Disney Studios for consistently delivering business value leading cross
• functional teams of product managers, engineers and analysts .

Feb 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Product Lead for Global Theatrical Sales and Planning portfolio. Led implementation project for sales and holdover tools for domestic market.
• Eliminated tech obsolescence risk of $8 Billion business.
• Achieved 400% user efficiency for sales process resulting in increased annual cost avoidance of $1M.
• Recognized by the president of distribution crediting new tool increasing Box Office and longer holdovers.
• Initiated Product Owners (PO) Squad for 30+ product managers to informally collaborate and learn from each other. 35+ sessions and praise from CTO.
• Led cross functional team of product owners, UX designers, software engineers and quality engineers.

Jul 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Product Manager for the sales planning tool for International Theatrical Sales of The Walt Disney Studios.
• Established 100% automation and compliance of Title and Release Dates across entire ecosystem for 100+ territories.
• Collaborated with the business stakeholders to define the product strategy and roadmap.
• Enabled the UX and UI engineers to design the best-in-class UI for the product.
• Led incremental rollout of the tool across 70+ countries.
• Led migration of historical data.

Jan 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Led multiple consulting engagements from planning to implementation to launch products for clients in three different industries - entertainment, information and toys manufacturing. NBCUniversal, Hasbro and Warner Bros. were key clients
• Won $1.2M media marketing portal project by leading discovery, design and estimation.
• Led a team of 3 consultants to define process flows, specs and user support for the Digital Asset Management (DAM) implementation.
• Picked up the role of a data engineer and migrated metadata of 1 million assets in DAM implementation.
• Led process flow and functional spec design effort for Participations system replacement for Warner Bros.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

• Led strategic product development projects from inception to launch for clients like NBCUniversal, Hasbro, Warner Bros. and RISI.
• Transformed NBCUniversal’s media marketing portal (media village) doubling the visitation and engagement in 6 months..
• Led digital asset creation and management process transformation for Hasbro.
• Led artists payments transformation team for Warner Bros. resulting in reducing the
• late/inaccurate payment backlog by 45%.
• Turned around a team of 12 struggling to launch a pulp and paper forecasting product for RISI. Received unsolicited recommendation from the RISI’s CTO.

Oct 2005 – Sep 2009 · 3 yrs 11 mos · London, United Kingdom || Mumbai, India|| Los Angeles, United States

• Wore a dual hat of software engineer and product manager for first two years before transitioning into full time product manager role even though they didn't have PM title back then :)
• Launched Postal Survey tool 33% under-budget and ahead of schedule (saved 2 months on a 6
• months project) despite losing the tech lead for half of the duration.
• Turned around an under-crisis project by owning functional design and developing core validation
• engine logic.
• Took product manager role in addition to software engineer role on two critical projects