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Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Product Manager handling a suit of products majorly in the K12 industry.Key Responsibilities include- Envision and conceptualize product/product portfolio- Product solution development- Work closely with multi-skilled teams to lead and manage product development- Drive business value in the B2B sales process- Product presentations- Customer onboarding and release management- Lead scrum meetingsMajor Achievements- Quickly turnaround to utilize opportunity and conceptualize products- Added multiple large School Districts and Universities as customers- Set up Scrum processes and adopted Agile development framework- Recognized by Zuckerberg foundation

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Lead Business Data Analyst for an analytical project in Telematics area for a world’s largest car selling OEM.Responsibilities undertaken:- Backed by numbers, developed business case for the project- Developed data requirements for various Telematics service providers- Facilitated the development of Business Intelligence system providing the marketing team with targeted insights aiding them to plan and tune marketing strategies- Create and prioritize user stories along with maintaining the backlog

Greater Los Angeles Area

Product lead representing the marketing group for Incentives Systems at Toyota Motor Sales.Responsibilities included- Solution development- Creation and prioritization of business requirements- Strategized the implementation of tier wise credit rating & repayment duration in the area of Incentive planning to aid better financial decision making- End user training- Lead prototype and functional requirement development

Hong Kong

1) Onsite functional consultant for a global Apparel branding and label manufacturing firm. Primary responsibilities included:- Conducting business workshops with heads of product development and customer services team to build end to end process diagrams- Conducting domain training sessions- Business impact analysis- Conceptualizing application landscape along with process mapping2) “Define and facilitate” the creation of a KM process and platform for the consulting practice at Infosys. The initiative was recognized as the best KM practice globally across the organization.As a KM consultant his responsibilities include - Defining the KM roadmap- Communication of requirements through wireframes- Creation of policy & user manual documents - Conducting socialization and awareness sessions within the group as part of OCM- Constant monitoring group's KM behavior to add various dynamics for increased knowledge maturity levels among the group members

Bengaluru Area, India

Business Analyst for the development of knowledge management portal in the after sales area for a US networking giant.Responsibilities included:- Conceptualize business requirements- Development of wire-frames and functional requirements

Bhutan

Studied the project management and monitoring techniques at a leading power corporation in Bhutan and made recommendations for an intranet portal for effective project management and communication.Methodologies used include Literary review, Exploratory research, Questionnaire survey, Mean analysis.

Being a part of the requirement gathering team, developed functional specification document using use case and sequence diagrams for an adverse event reporting system for a leading European pharmaceutical company. Also developed the prototype to showcase the requirements.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science