Pavan Kota

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 17 years of IT experience in product management.
  • Proven ability in leading end-to-end package implementations.
  • Certified in APICS CPIM and CSCP.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management expert in Supply Chain and Enterprise Software.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyProduct Road MappingCompetitive Analysis

Other Skills

User StoriesData AnalysisAPICSCPIMRequirements AnalysisBusiness AnalysisProduct Lifecycle ManagementSDLCSoftware Project ManagementRequirements GatheringSolution ArchitecturePre-salesOracleCSCPSupply Chain Management

About

• Over 17 years of IT experience, spanning across product management, business process reengineering, functional data model design, technology integration, and project management. • Proven ability in leading business/product owner functions across product development and end-to-end package implementation Supply Chain and Extended Supply Chain projects with latest internet technologies • Over 5 years of experience in working at client sites in North America and Europe. • Certified in APICS CPIM (all levels) and CSCP. • Certified in ISM’s Effective Supply Management Performance (CPSM, Lvl–2) • Deep process knowledge in the in the areas of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Process Management (MPM), Product LifeCycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Solutions. • Possess rich industry knowledge in verticals such as CPG, Hi-Tech, Apparel retail and Automotive Manufacturing.

Experience

18 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Walmart global tech india

2 roles

Principal Product Manager

Promoted

Aug 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Product Road MappingUser StoriesProduct StrategyData Analysis

Senior Product Manager

Oct 2019Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Product Road MappingUser StoriesProduct StrategyData Analysis

Honeywell technology solutions lab private limited

Sr. Product Owner

Aug 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Competitive AnalysisData Analysis

Jda software

Sr. Functional Architect

May 2013Aug 2018 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Involved in persona development, roles and responsibilities based on user research
  • Responsible for design, development and implementation of critical roles (personas) in the new UI.
  • Instrumental in guiding the CoE on functional/product knowledge and established myself as functional expert on the product for both development and ancillary teams.
  • Liaising with UX, development and market function teams with an objective to create a usable, responsive and performant new generation UX.
  • Stakeholder in creating the minimum viable product (MVP) for the release, creating use cases and end-to-end scenarios for the product.
  • Working with the technical writing team to guide and review the release documentation.
Competitive AnalysisData Analysis

Apple

Senior Consultant, Infosys Ltd

Apr 2012Apr 2013 · 1 yr · Cupertino, CA

  • Led a team of 8 members (4 at customer site and 4 in India), responsible for smooth transition from Development to Production, application and integration process improvement, providing weekly, monthly, quarterly status reports to client management and driving application roadmap initiatives.
  • Demonstrated a strong process improvement of 8% on quarter-on-quarter basis by introducing automation and alerts on any failures in the application and integration workflows.
  • Redefined the data mapping between Agile PLM and a stand-alone Costing tool to improve the exchange of unreleased BOM (Bill Of Materials) data to eliminate the data inconsistency.
  • Conducted a feasibility study for PLM application to be the source of truth for vendor information and for generating supplier analytics such as performance, on-time approvals and supplier scorecards, replacing a legacy stand-alone application.
  • Efforts and success in this project resulted in Infosys bagging a $300k FMD (Full Material Disclosure) implementation and integration project.

Underwriters laboratories

Senior Consultant, Infosys Ltd

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Northbrook, IL

  • UL is an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization that implemented Agile PLM for tracking the certification workflow for its customers.
  • As a functional/project lead, I was responsible for project initiation, requirements gathering, planning, execution and successful completion of package implementation, customization, integration and data migration.

Gap inc.

Consultant, Infosys Ltd

Jan 2009Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · San Francisco, CA

  • GAP Inc, a multi-billion dollar, multi-brand retail and apparel company had implemented the Enovia based Apparel accelerator to provide standardized BOM, instill consistent design & workflow processes among all brands.
  • As a techno-functional lead at onsite, I
  • Managed the technical team at offshore to drive the application support, enhancements and process/performance improvement.
  • Designed a customized framework for reporting business analytics for various brands under GAP Inc.
  • Worked on the functional specs for PLM- i2's Vendor Profile integration

Xilinx

Programmer Analyst, Infosys Ltd

Jan 2007Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · San Jose, CA & Dublin, Ireland

  • Xilinx is a fabless semiconductor company with footprint in FPGA chips. This project was a turnkey end-to-end implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), using Camstar’s Insite Tool.
  • As an MES consultant, I've implemented manufacturing execution workflow that includes modules such as Purchase tracking, Lot tracking, Wafer and Piecepart tracking, Genealogy and Cost management and Test cycle management across multiple sites in America, Ireland and Singapore.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

M.E — Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering

Bachelor's degree — Mechanical Engineering

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