Amrita Thakur Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Kitchener, On, Ca

Kitchener, On, Ca

Kitchener, On, Ca

Princeton, Nj, Us

•Led product strategy, design, development and launch of HighWire’s next generation direct-to-web content publishing, custom collection and eCommerce platforms from concept to launch within a year.•Led product strategy, design and development of Folio (HighWire’s eBooks Platform).•Collaborated closely with Publishers, Product Strategy, Business Development and Engineering to define and implement best practices for product development, unified user experience and architecture across HighWire.•Conducted in-depth competitive analysis and gathered extensive user feedback via surveys and in-person interviews.•Received the first HighWire Winners Circle Peer Recognition Award for outstanding achievement.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, Us

Malvern, Pennsylvania, Us

••Led design, development and delivery of Teachscape Reflect™, a product line comprising of web and mobile applications enabling State Department of Educations and School Districts to:•Collect multiple data points across different dimensions to determine teacher effectiveness in classrooms based on district policies and processes. •Provide in-depth analytics to facilitate conversations about teacher performance in classrooms. •Drive professional learning recommendations for individual and groups of teachers based on score distribution and skills data. •Allow administrators to gather, tag and assess live and video based classroom observation data.•Developed and maintained a strategic product roadmap for Teachscape Reflect™ by soliciting feedback from key customers, partners, sales and marketing. ••Worked with engineering to design a data warehouse and develop key analytics for Reflect customers. •Managed strategic relationships with multiple school districts; key design partners in the development process. ••Collaborated closely with engineering to make key decisions on architecture and product feature definition. ••Managed day-to-day process of translating product roadmap into launched product features; • • Write product requirement documents and user stories. •Created wireframes, prioritized 3-week agile iterations, and worked hands on with Engineering and UX to design and develop the overall user experience of Reflect.

• Conducted interviews with small focus groups and individuals. Surveyed smart phone users to collect detailed qualitative and quantitative data to understand current use of smartphone applications and its subsequent translation from personal to business use.• Designed, prototyped and tested mobile application concepts for business users with a focus on indoor location based apps.

• Conducted user interviews, created wireframes, and collaborated on product features with engineering.• Designed solutions for categorizing content.

Melbourne, Fl, Us

• Core member of the engineering team responsible for defining product strategy, roadmap and priorities for IRI.• Managed the engineering design and development of various features for CoSort, IRI’s large data processing solution.• Designed and developed technologies for high speed, cross, platform ETL solutions.• Executed feature design and development for multiple projects related to CoSort’s custom language SortCL.

Clemson, Sc, Us

• Wrote database modules to capture data from mobile phones; Developed custom reports and dashboards.

Ma, Education

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science