Oct 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr · New York, New York

• First product management hire in a seed-stage funded startup looking to bring digital innovation to back of the house operations in hospitality industry which had largely relied on manual processes since inception.
• Planned the MVP an iOS application for hotel luggage check operations, to deliver on business strategy to get out of cyclicity of business and enter new market segments. Worked on designing and testing 3D prototypes of smart and reusable luggage tags.
• Addressed pain points of different stakeholders (engineering, user experience, and sales) by establishing product management processes to bring alignment and efficiency to the inception->delivery process.
• Put to practice design thinking principles to lead by customer needs and feedback.

Apr 2014 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Managed the roadmap for technology (combination of hardware and software) enabling the enterprise data centers handling mission critical workloads across the world.
• Led the transition of hardware focused to solution focused business strategy. Researched, assessed options, defined pricing and go-to-market strategies, and made product go/no-go recommendations to executives. Brought to market a new software in x-86 security compliance space
• Planned and executed the last and biggest in 5 years release of Integrity rack servers (i6) while working with worldwide cross-functional teams.
• Assessed sales data to extract actionable insights – categorizing customers and efficiently identifying target customers
• Made the drives (HDDs and SSDs) product offerings leaner by reducing SKUs by 75%
• Represented business in major multi-million third-party software vendor contracts
• Revamped and redesigned the third-party relation programs – storage and independent software vendors

Apr 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

• As the sole analyst on the coveted emerging business accelerator (an internal launchpad for new ideas) team of assetSERV, a cloud-based digital asset management paltform, I drove the efficiency of business development.
• Designed industry specific use cases for a targeted approach towards business development.
• Worked closely with engineering and design teams to deliver customized proof of concepts to reduce customer acquisition time.

Apr 2012 – May 2012 · 1 mo · Mumbai

• Project Title: Road map to the public (government-supported channels) market launch of a subdermal implant contraceptive for females in India.
• Highlight: My data-driven and analytical approach helped identify an attractive target market for the product.

Jul 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida

• Adobe Story laid the foundation of my career. A film pre-production software, this was Adobe’s foray into SaaS-based offering and first 1.0 product being built in the India office. Working on the beta and 1.0 versions of the product, in a small and entrepreneurial team set up, gave me opportunities way beyond the regular engineering job description.
• Played a key role in bringing the first enterprise customer, a major UK based broadcaster, onboard by understanding their workflows onsite and then transforming them to technical requirements.
• Owned the collaboration workflow of the product.
• Led the server-side testing automation effort by using PHP Unit.
• Worked with Adobe Labs scientist to adapt an NLP engine to provide accurate results for a film/ tv script. This was a first in industry feature, and this work was then presented in the largest semantic technology conference.