Sagar Ayare

Product Manager

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany13 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 13 years of experience in product management.
  • Led successful product launches increasing user base by 40%.
  • Expert in Agile methodologies and stakeholder management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Manager with expertise in SaaS and Industrial Automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadershipProduct StrategyUser EngagementSoftware DevelopmentProject Implementation

Other Skills

ASPICEAgileAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsAttention to DetailAutomationAutomotive SPICE (ASPICE)Backlog ManagementBuild Strong RelationshipsBusiness AnalysisClient InteractionCommunicationConfluenceCross-functional Collaborations

About

All of my activity/posts on Linkedin are my personal opinions and do not represent my employer (both past and current) • 13 years of work experience • Sagar is Senior Product Manager at Daimler Truck AG - Mercedes Benz Trucks • SKILLS: Leadership, roadmap, Product Management, Agile Methodologies, Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, Product owner, User Interface Design • Professional experience in software development lifecycle management that includes software design, iteration planning, defining user requirements, functional and technical design documentation, testing and Validation • Innovative, result-oriented with exceptional management and research and analysis skills. • Certified Scrum Product Owner & Scrum Master • He pursued M.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Irvine and holds a GPA of 3.58 Sagar is actively involved in: • Managing relationship with business partners & key stakeholders • Sagar has good understanding of multiple work cultures and was a Single point of contact at client location for most of the projects worked on. Specialties: • Strong Leadership, inter-personal skills and a team player.

Experience

13 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Daimler truck ag

Senior Product Manager

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · Hybrid

  • Mercedes Benz Trucks
LeadershipProduct ManagementAgile MethodologiesRequirements GatheringBusiness AnalysisUser Interface Design

Here technologies

3 roles

Principal Technical Product Manager

Promoted

May 2023Jan 2024 · 8 mos

  • HERE technologies- Majorly owned by a consortium of German automotive companies (namely Audi, BMW, the Mercedes-Benz Group)
  • Launched and managed multiple products in core map engineering group
  • Devised product strategy and envisioned product roadmap
  • Built a product from scratch that replaced legacy product which increased user base by 40% and resulted in annual savings of $ 500k
  • Defined and executed MVP for various products
  • Identified metrics and monitored them
  • Responsible for feature definition and conceptualization
  • Hosted workshops with stakeholders to gather business requirements and priorities
  • Initiated and lead the Early Adopter Program for the product which resulted in stable release
  • Identified customer pain points and addressed them by building new self-serve tools
  • Kick-started agile; Built and managed new processes for emerging team and the product
  • Responsible for making product decisions, release planning, Created mockups
  • Owned product backlog, groomed stories, defined acceptance criteria
  • Created mockups and worked with the developers to design UI for new features of the product
  • Worked with cross functional teams for organization wide projects
  • Timely coordination and communication with stakeholders, Identified risks and escalated it
  • Created released notes, tested features, supported operations team, monthly newsletter for the pod
  • Demonstrated new functionalities in the product, hosted webinars
  • Passed external audit (TÜV SÜD) without any non- conformance
Product StrategyProduct Road MappingFeature DefinitionStakeholder ManagementAgileMVP Execution+2

Lead Technical Product Manager

Apr 2020Apr 2023 · 3 yrs

Senior Technical Product Manager

May 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Esri

2 roles

Sr. Software Product Engineer- Product mgmt

Promoted

Jan 2016Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • Lead software Product Engineer for ‘Big Data Storage & Visualization’ in the Real-time GIS team
  • Introduced new innovative ideas that got realized into product features
  • Product presentation/ Demo/ technical sessions at User conferences and Dev Summits
  • Authored tutorials and product blogs which reduced escalated call volumes to the product team from about 3-4 calls a week to 1 call a week
  • Assisted Product owner to plan and formulate PBIs
  • Engaged with users to understand product needs, Created and tested user stories
  • Actively participated in design meetings and identified the acceptance criteria
  • Team Representative while working across teams
  • Promptly responded to the community questions regarding Big data and
  • Go-To person for multi-machine architecture (on-premise & cloud) that manages big data related queries
  • Worked in synergy with enterprise customers for system architecture with primary focus on multi-machine architecture & security certificates
  • Managed relationships with business partners & key stakeholders
  • Mentored interns and new entrants in the team
  • Formally underwent Esri classroom training for ArcGIS suite of products
Product ManagementUser EngagementTechnical PresentationsUser Story Creation

Software Product Engineer- Product mgmt

Mar 2015Dec 2015 · 9 mos · On-site

  • Suggested enhancements to streamline the workflow and performance
  • Identified and articulated use cases, Functional testing the new features introduced in GeoEvent Extension
  • Leveraged OSIsoft PI experience to setup virtual learning environment for PI server template within ESRI.
  • Reviewed tutorials released on the ArcGIS Online Gallery
  • Created and maintaining Virtual Machines for QA testing purposes
  • Section 508 compliance testing
  • Attended conferences and Interacted with the customers to understand their functional requirements and pain points.

Thales inc. in-flight entertainment

Intern Product Management

Jun 2014Sep 2014 · 3 mos · Orange County, California Area · On-site

  • Improved the existing android application to include new features
  • Proposed new ideas which improved the aesthetics of the existing system

Larsen & toubro

Technical Consultant- Senior Engineer

Sep 2010Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Houston TX & Navi Mumbai · On-site

  • 3 years of professional experience in software development that includes design, development, testing and commissioning at site of Industrial Automation Projects using OSIsoft Plant Information (PI) System
  • Involved in Site survey, Software Design, Development, Testing and Validation at site , Interaction with Clients for power, Oil & Gas Industry
  • Part of team for “world’s first OSI PI” historian implementation on a Port
  • End-to-end project implementation using OSIsoft PI historian suite
  • Received customer appreciation certificates from them for meeting expectations and timely completion of project
  • Trained customers and mentored new team members
  • Installed & configured PI servers, AF server, HA between PI Servers, DCOM Communication, various PI interfaces & their failover
  • Developed customized PI Processbook & Coresight screens based on Element Relative feature, customized Excel reports using PI Datalink
  • Project Documentation and provided administrative training to PI user
  • Clients worked:
  • BHP Billiton Petroleum, USA
  • Oman Gas SAOC, Muscat
  • Tata Power CGPL,Gujarat
  • Adani Port, Mundra Gujarat.
  • Tata Power Jamshedpur
  • GPEC, A CLP Company
  • Experience in:
  • Oil & Gas Upstream
  • Power Generation
  • Power Metering
  • Specialties
  • Experience in working on the following OSISoft Products:
  • PI Enterprise Server
  • PI Asset Framework (AF)
  • PI High Availability
  • PI ACE
  • Interfaces- Modbus, OPC, RDBMS, PI to PI, HTML, Perf Mon
  • PI Universal File Loader (UFL)
  • PI Manual Logger
  • RtWebParts
  • PI Processbook
  • PI Datalink
  • PI Notifications
  • PI Alarmview
Software DevelopmentClient InteractionProject Implementation

Education

University of California, Irvine

Master of Science (M.S.) — Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology (VESIT), University of Mumbai.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Electronics & Telecommunication Engg.

K. J. Somaiya Polytechnic, Vidyavihar Mumbai

Diploma — Industrial Electronics

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