Avi Vijh Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Focused learning on topics of interest - professional (Artificial Intelligence) and personal (Neuroscience of learning, Brain Health, Bilingualism, Foreign language learning). In Q2 2024, I was impacted by a restructuring at SAP that impacted 8,000 employees globally. I chose to leave and take a sabbatical to upskill and strategize on my next career move.How I'm going about learning:★ I'm leveraging multiple LLMs and AI tools to accelerate my learning speed and the quality of learning. NotebookLM from Google and Notion are my favorites!★ Taking courses on Coursera, Deeplearning.AI, LinkedIn Learning and other sources.★ Ongoing, active tinkering with LLMs and leveraging them to consolidate learning.★ Listening to many audiobooks, following experts on LinkedIn, pursuing certifications, leveraging newsletters that aggregate updates, etc.★ Picking the brains of experts in my network.My Progress*:★ Completed multiple courses in Generative AI offered by IIT Bombay Alumni Association and Coursera.★ Completed the AI for Product Management specialization offered by Duke University on Coursera.★ Completed the Explainable AI (XAI) specialization offered by Duke University on Coursera.★ Completed Responsible AI related courses on LinkedIn Learning.★ Completed Brain Story Certification to understand the science of brain development. ★ Completed Duolingo French CEFR B2 level and now I'm focused on building conversational fluency.* All completed courses, certifications are listed under the Licenses & Certifications section of my profile.

Reston, Virginia, United States

Principal Product Manager: June, 2019 to May, 2024.Senior Product Manager: April, 2014 to June, 2019.★ Delivered the first machine learning feature in SAP SuccessFactors, Personalized Course Recommendations.★ Solved a complex, long-festering challenge to standardize the customer SaaS landscape that had arisen after the Learning product was integrated into the SuccessFactors platform. ★ Led efforts for multiple enhancements to the Learning product in the core platform, security, DPP/GDPR, export control & sanctions compliance.★ Leveraged advanced SQL skills to develop product usage dashboards, providing actionable insights that enabled product teams to make data-driven strategic decisions and optimally allocate resources.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Senior business analyst on client project to develop a bank closing application for the FDIC and on internal company projects.★ On FDIC project contributed to agile process improvements, project managed performance stress testing initiative, researched metrics to benchmark performance improvements and introduced changes to testing procedures to improve product quality. ★ Product Owner for company website re-launch - researched CMSs, interviewed stakeholders, and created product backlog.

Mumbai, India And Washington, Dc

Conceptualized and implemented a functional prototype of a language learning web app using PHP, MongoDB, Bootstrap and jQuery.Technologies and tools used: PHP, MongoDB, jQuery, Google Analytics, MixPanel, Google consumer surveys, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design, Twitter Bootstrap, Memcached, Pingdom, Browserstack, Appcelerator and Titanium.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Orchestrated a comprehensive product development process transformation and managed a successful transition of products from on-premises software to a SaaS platform.★ Increased predictability of new releases by championing the switch from waterfall to agile methodology and increased product quality by incorporating usability testing in the development process.★ Conceived and designed a customer-centered usage insights dashboard to empower account teams to drive increase in product usage by customer with the goal to increase subscription renewal. ★ Incorporated UX design into the product development process to deliver a consistent, user-friendly and visually appealing user experience. ★ Created new forums and channels to incorporate the voice of the customer into the product development process including an online Idea Exchange and design advisory forums. ★ Initiated and executed company’s first-ever annual satisfaction survey to establish a customer happiness benchmark and create a new channel for input from the entire customer base. ★ Led initiative for Section 508 product accessibility – developed roadmap and internal QA procedures. ★ Managed QA team for a complex matrix of multiple supported on-premises, SaaS platform and extensions (LMS connectors). ★ Directed the development of training program, training materials and product documentation targeting administrators, instructional technologists and end users.★ Led product accessibility initiative (Section 508 compliance) - created roadmap for updates and developed procedures for QA.

Harrisonburg, Va

Steered the development and growth of next-generation language learning product, successfully launching new add-ons and features that drove increased average selling prices and solidified the product's premium market position.★ Managed Rosetta Stone’s next generation language learning product, Version 3, launched in 10 languages on CD-ROM and as an online subscription replacing products that accounted for 80% of consumer revenues.★ Launched within 6 months Rosetta Stone’s first ever audio product, Audio Companion, in 14 languages. Drove all aspects from market research, prototyping, end-user experience design, live in-market testing and packaging design. ★ Promoted a data-driven approach for making business decisions within the company. Developed business intelligence reports and business metrics to aid in decision-making. ★ Collaborated with the market research team on over 20 research projects to validate product prototypes, understand customer behavior and to identify user problems and new features. ★ Pitched successfully to Chief Legal Officer and managed the combination of 4 international end-user license agreements into a single global version, improving user experience and simplifying the maintenance. ★ Played key role in filing a patent application for inventions related to Rosetta Stone Version 3. Wrote a substantial proportion of the patent application in collaboration with the CTO. ★ Produced a 3-minute multimedia video introducing the product and its methodology within 3 weeks. The video was included in the software product and viewed by every customer.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech

Graduate Certificate, Latin American Studies