Bharani Manapragada Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for P&L of 100M USD SMB business unit, and tech adoption. Managed cross-functional teams involving sales, product and marketing to drive all SMB business operations focused on product-driven growth and retention.

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

• Help startups grow by leading the technical discovery of prospective clients' software engineering needs and validating fit to determine client-alignment.• Coach Andela software engineers on best practices for distributed engineering, especially for Agile teams.• Create knowledge assets around Andela engineers’ technical skills and competencies and work closely with Andela’s Sales and Learning departments.• Design and implement agile processes for onboarding developers from the African continent into globally distributed engineering teams

• Served as a Product Owner to define requirements, develop the product backlog and prioritize features for scrum team.• Used JIRA to raise tickets, keep track of the project metrics such as sprint velocity, burn down, quality, etc.• Facilitated constant communication with internal and external stakeholders and managed project deliverables.• Organized sprint planning and retrospective meetings to collect feedback and incorporated it into successive sprints.

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• Designed a unique peer-to-peer mobile app called AccioThat to directly compete with TaskRabbit, Handy, etc.• Led the product life-cycle strategy, market research, competitive analysis, pricing strategy and the overall project execution.• Gathered and analyzed requirements, translated them into features, developed wireframes/mockups to enable development.• Developed product roadmap, measured burn-down and key performance metrics like quality & efficiency using JIRA.

Richmond, Us

To help Applied Frameworks work on their latest product and service offering - Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) Training - as part of a consultant team, we have:• Conducted requirements analysis to analyse the scope of the software-as-a-service model and enriched product backlog by 70%.• Developed the project plan with concrete deliverables and phases for strategic deployment.• Conducted feasibility and market analysis, identified lucrative target segments and provided final market estimates such as TAM(>30 Million USD), annual revenue(>600K) and burndown expenses.• Developed variable cost and pricing models by analysing existing competitive pricing strategies for online training programs and forecasting demand for certified scrum professional training.• Introduced a plan to reduce overheard by ~50% for online and classroom training programs.• Developed a business model canvas and go-to-market strategy• Designed use-cases and activity diagrams using UML to visualize execution of the software and enable development.• Proposed the design of output app to C-level executives by developing wireframes/mockups in Balasmiq & NetBeans IDE.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

• Instructed technical courses such as Software Engineering, JAVA, UX, Web Architecture, RDBMS, etc. to >6000 newly recruited corporate professionals for >800 teaching hours and enabling them to develop software for Infosys.• Managed >2500 trainees across 8 batches by driving product strategy, mentoring careers within Infosys and applying data analytics on trainees’ performances to generate insightful reports.• Led a cross-functional team of 8 towards development of 2 disruptive and scalable e-learning products for Infosys’ corporate training program thereby saving >10000 employee hours and resulting in 3 new product initiatives.• Acted as liaison with internal clients to set the vision, scope, schedule and extract necessary functional, nonfunctional and business requirements for 3 development projects• Co-managed the Infosys’ online training platform – Interactive Learning Center (ILC) – used for all training purposes by E&R in two capacities, as an admin and a subject matter expert.• Executed a high profile R&D project - VIGDM (spearheaded by our Chairman Emeritus) to establish macro level e-learning content on software management and maintenance for project managers and senior management.• Proposed the design of the output web apps by creating wireframes/mockups using Netbeans IDE & Balsamiq and developed unit-tested code in Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS and procedural SQL for in-house software projects.• Drafted training and user manuals to the new-system users and leveraged an existing software portal to track and escalate trainees’ request and provide tech. support• Published 4 papers on business analysis and software development methodologies in international journals and organized 6 extensive ‘Agile using Scrum’ workshops across Infosys and influencing >16000 employees.• Cleared with distinction the international course ‘Advanced Software Engineering – A Practitioner’s Approach’ between Infosys Ltd. & MIS dept. at University of South Florida

• Gathered technical and business requirements for Symbol's Enterprise Mobility Technology by various elicitation techniques such as site calls, interviews, surveys and brainstorming.• Performed basic market analysis for Symbol’s Enterprise Mobility technology in the Agro-Pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and identified scope for market growth, especially in southern India.• Conducted sales calls, co-delivered sales pitches and laid a framework for potential business interactions between Symbol and leading Agro-Pharmaceutical companies in Hyderabad, INDIA.

•Studied the practical applications of the seven-layered OSI protocol, TCP/IP protocol and other fundamental web technologies in field of Wireless Communication and Enterprise Mobility Management technology.•Surmised a paper on understanding technology not only from an engineering perspective but also a business management perspective, to establish a stronger and more interactive dialog between the product engineering and development teams and sales/marketing teams to enhance tech-products and services that are offered.

New Delhi, Delhi, In

•Analysed and studied surveillance technology and various aspects of its application for threat detection.•Studied electro-magnetic fencing, conveyor belt technology and surmised my learnings with a report on its application in other areas of airport logistics and operations.

Master'S Degree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

12Th, Physics, Chemistry And Mathematics