Amruta Gadre Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

For millions of business owners and decision-makers, Penton makes the difference every day. We engage our professional users by providing actionable ideas and insights, data and workflow tools, community and networking, both in person and virtually, all with deep relevance to their specific industries. We then activate this engagement by connecting users with tens of thousands of targeted providers of products and services to help drive business.The role of VP Product Management involves leading a group of highly skilled and motivated product managers to build and add successful products to the Penton brand. It involves working closely with Senior Management & Business Units to build implementation strategies and with Engineering and Data teams to roll out technical solutions.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Avagen Ventures is comprised of a group of experienced professionals that invest seed and early stage capital into start-ups focused on building consumer and enterprise technologies and services.

Hoboken,Nj

Managed & led a cross-functional team (creative, technology, marketing, infrastructure ) ensuring that the team is working in a directed manner towards one objective. Reported directly to the COO.Was involved in UI/UX/branding decisions with respect to site navigation, responsive design, marketing campaigns, landing pages etc.Was extensively involved in site architecture design discussions with the web/digital team.Developed extensive project plan documents like timelines, scope documents, process documents and kept them updated as required. Built a huge credibility, established a rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels on a regular basis.Led and kept detailed minutes of daily status meetings with various groups to ensure that the all stakeholders/groups involved are aware of the complete picture. Extremely motivated and a self starter project manager who is on top on each task that needs to be completed and believes that communication is a key player in successful execution of a project.Also authored requirements documents for new products and features, created wireframes and oversaw integration, user acceptance testing, and other QA operations of product development. Oversaw the integration and flow of development, testing, deployment of various releases of the website.

Princeton Nj

Managed & led a cross-functional team (creative, technology, marketing, infrastructure, external vendors, finance, operations, sales) ensuring that the team is working in a directed manner towards one objective.Followed program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality, communications, human resource, cost, procurement, risk and change management. Was extensively involved in site architecture design discussions with the web/digital team.Was involved in coordination and execution of focus group testing.Oversaw the integration and flow of development, testing, deployment of the various releases of the website.Authored requirements documents for new features, created wireframes and oversaw integration, user acceptance testing, and other QA operations of product development. Managed application issues through daily development staff meetings. Handled resolution of web errors by working with the development team to identify issues, determine a course of action, and implement solutions. Effectively managed project issues and builds plans for risk management.Coordinated with the Business users and the stakeholders on a regular basis keeping them up to date with the project status, issues, risks that arose in the development of this product.Led & kept detailed minutes of daily status meetings with various groups to ensure that the all stakeholders/groups involved are aware of the complete picture.

Managed & led a cross-functional team (creative, technology, marketing, infrastructure, knowledge services) ensuring that the team is working in a directed manner towards one objective Reported directly to the CEO.Was extensively involved in site architecture design discussions with the web/digital team.Followed program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality, communications, human resource, cost, procurement, risk and change management. Exhibited high level of skill in project prioritization, systems development, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC processes , Agile methodologies. Oversaw the integration and flow of development, testing, deployment of the various releases of the website.Developed project plans and assumes responsibility for project profit and loss. Built a huge credibility, established a rapport, and maintained communication with stakeholders at multiple levels.Authored requirements documents for new products and features, created wireframes and oversaw integration, user acceptance testing, and other QA operations of product development. Managed application issues through daily development staff meetings and direct participation in code reviews. Handled resolution of web errors by working with development team to identify issues, determine a course of action, and implement solutions. Effectively managed project issues and build plans for risk management.

Involved in gathering business requirements from the clients & preparing SOW/quotations for the projects.Involved in defining the phases and building the schedule for each project. Created various project related plans and documentation like the project plan, test plan, training plan, resource plan, risk plan, design documents, business requirement document.Identified, tracked, managed and resolved various project issues. Extremely proactive about disseminating project information to all stakeholders. Successfully identified, managed and mitigated all project risks. Oversaw the integration and flow of development, testing, deployment of the various releases of the website.Maintained a high bar of quality control while managing the QA & develoment teams thereby delivering an almost bug-free product. Defined and collected various project management metrics to get a sense for schedule, cost, resources, scope, quality and actions. Made modifications to the different criteria to ensure successful execution of projects based on the metrics.Reported directly to the CTO and was accountable for the status/state of each project. Set reasonable, challenging and clear expectations for the team members, and held them accountable for meeting the expectations whilst providing good performance feedback to team members. Introduced team-building skills so that the team works together well, and feel motivated to work hard for the sake of the project and their other team members. Extensive use of leadership skills; sense of discipline and general management skillsManaged offshore/remote team(s) for a some projects.