Aug 2024 – Jun 2025 · 10 mos · Remote

Jan 2024 – Jun 2024 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Apr 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos

Nov 2019 – Aug 2020 · 9 mos

Sep 2016 – Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Leading complete product development lifecycle including project kick-off, workshops with customer, scoping, product roadmap planning, daily/weekly status updates, delivery, release planning and support management.
• Working closely with the customer in assessing problems, needs, requirement analysis, product backlog, story grooming, sprint planning, creating wire-frames/designs/prototypes and providing recommendations for solving complex business problems.
• Handling multiple application development initiatives in multiple business domains (Oil and Gas, Education, legal, logistics etc.) with an ability to switch context very quickly in an agile working environment.
• Prioritizing initiatives as per business needs and requirements. Monitoring deliverables to ensure timely completion and ensuring that solutions meet business objectives.
• Leading project initiative by ensuring that the delivery team and organization is aligned and focused on delivering value to the customer.
• Created collaterals and presentation for product strategy, implementation and delivery. Did pre-sales & product delivery related presentations with customer stakeholders (CIOs, CEOs etc..).
• Resource planning, mentoring and grooming development team and business analysts across multiple project engagements.
• Good understanding of SaaS ecosystem and cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure).

Sep 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Customer needs assessment and research to evolve Internet consumer and enterprise products as per market and user needs.
• Product owner for complete portfolio of customer facing web product and internal enterprise products.
• Creating Product roadmap and product strategy to adopt the product to the changing needs of the customer.
• Create user stories, manage product backlog, sprint planning, coordinate scrum meeting and manage sprint review and retrospective.
• Manage and coordinate with cross-functional teams (Technology, Design and marketing) for effective product implementation in agile scrum framework.
• Defining product specifications and work flow by means of wireframes and product specification document.
• Process design/mapping, analysis and implementation of product features using data insights, trends and user feedback.
• Establish and define scope of work, business needs and validate business requirements before release.

May 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Use market feedback and customer inputs for product management and product road-mapping. Devise and drive new initiatives for product evolution and align innovations with organizations vision.
• Define product specifications and capabilities based on market and client’s needs to provide transformative end user experience management using AI and Machine Learning approach.
• Client interfacing for requirement analysis, product documentation, sign-offs, product deployment and user training.
• Coordinating and integrating with cross functional departments within organization and with client in agile scrum framework.
• Own complete product lifecycle in terms of user stories, product backlog, sprint planning, review & evaluation.
• Manage Pre-sales in terms of Scope of Work, Proposals (RFP, RFQ) and client need assessment.
• Defining product placement and positioning strategy with the marketing and communications teams based on market expectation and feedback.
• Planning project priorities, resource and budget. Managing product launch activities and project status.

Oct 2010 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Analyzed and gathered business requirement in OSS/BSS Telecom domain (E-TOM Framework) and identified ways to apply IT technology and products to processes and business needs (FAB Processes).
• Discovered business needs & project requirements through meetings, discussions and workshops with client.
• Defined scope of work, effort estimation and costing.
• Advised a South African telecommunication client in sales, Billing, service delivery & service assurance process
• Analyzed existing process and mapped process to IT systems. Performed as-is and to-be process analysis and mapping.
• Prepared Business Requirements, High & Detailed Design Documents and presentations for onsite delivery.
• Led application development team in IBM Integration WPS & WBI, SOA, POS java & Metasolv PL/SQL.
• Developed scope and budget for delivery projects and performed customer negotiations.
• Managed IT implementations with Client’s Vendors for new product development.
• Expertise in managing all aspects of project lifecycle, including planning, change, risk & release management.
• Facilitated client to expedite their Go-To-Market for 4 critical products without scheduled slippage & systems issues.

Sep 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• IBM SOA fundamentals and WAS certified professional.
• Led application development team in IBM Integration WPS & WBI, SOA, POS java & Metasolv PL/SQL.
• Expertise in IBM integration technologies of WBI and WPS, Service Oriented architecture, Java and PL/SQL.