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.

US

• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

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