• Working closely with the product team to formulate product road maps, converting them in MVP based projects and estimate timelines.• Managing Sprint Backlog - Consolidating the product and engineering backlogs and creating a prioritized project list ready for sprint planning.• Project Plan Creation, Tracking and Reporting – Coordinating with the engineering teams to identifytimelines and estimates, creating project plans and timeline tracking. Sending regular updates to keep the involved stakeholders informed on the project status.• Project dependency resolution/risk mitigation - Identifying project dependencies/risks, coordinating with external teams to get the dependencies resolved. Act as a SPOC for overall project health and blocker resolution.• Assisting in UAT and Demo– Working closely with the product team for UAT and demos of large sizedprojects to Business and leadership team.• Process Owner and Scrum Master – Convening daily stand ups and other agile ceremonies. Managingprojects in Jira and ensuring timely closure of sprint and status updates for easy reference of multiplestakeholders.• Training and Hand holding for New Joiners – Giving the new joiners in the team an overview of Projectarchitecture, getting them familiarized with the org structure and arranging training on the requiredProcesses/toolsSkills: Interpersonal Skills · Problem Solving · Analytical Skills · Resource Allocation · Customer Communication · Risk Assessment · Information Gathering · Due Diligence · Cross-functional Collaborations · Teamwork · Release Management · Project Documentation · Cross-team Collaboration · Cross-functional Team Leadership · Leading transformational change · Digital Strategy · Conflict Resolution · Resolving Issues · Project Control · Programmes · Digital Transformation · New Business Development · Business Transformation · Stakeholder Management

As Technical Product Manager – of Voice Commerce, I was entrusted with the overall accountability of managing the voice banking application lifecycle that uses voice interception for performing banking-related functions such as fund transfer, bill payments, recharges, and account information on Alexa-enabled devices, like the Amazon Echo, using a range of voice-based commandsBuilt Veal-time voice banking platform with scalable ,resilient and serverless architecture based onAI/ML techniques .Skills :Lambda computing environment and programming model (AWS Lambda) AWS Alexa

As Engineering Product Manager – AI/ML, I was responsible for developing and driving an Automated Speech Recognition solution suitable for various business scenarios by performing research on clients/industries. My other job duties include the following: Dexterously steered the teams to shift an in-house application to GCP cloud-based solution and developed Prototype/PoC to demonstrate the conversion of business cases into scalable solutions. Reported to the Director of Technology. Led complete design and development of a conversational chatbot engine for the telecom domain, based on IBM Watson/dialogue flow, involving intent/entity recognition.

As Manager – Of Product Engineering, I played a stellar role in driving the development of speech recognition engines & toolkits – Google Speech API, IBM Watson, Nuance ASR and Nuance Transcription Engine (NTE), adopting Scrum methodologies and liaising with other product teams on clarifications. I also contributed to studying operations, designing, developing, implementing and supporting software solutions, including technical solutions for preparing the information systems and building the software team

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Basic Research in Computer Science*C. Prabhu, R. Baskaran & C. Chellappan - “Convolutive Blind Speech Separation in a room using Cross Spectral Density Matrix”, published in IEEE ICCIC December 2010 *C. Prabhu, R. Baskaran & C. Chellappan - “Convolutive Blind Speech Separation using Cross Spectral Density Matrix & Clustering for Resolving Permutation”, published in IJCA (0975 – 8887) Volume 7– No.2, September 2010 *R. Dhanalakshmi, C. Prabhu & C. Chellappan - “Integrated Techniques Mitigating Cyber Crimes – Phishing Attacks”, has been accepted in the SASCV, January 15 - 17, 2011 - Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. *T. Ruso, C. Prabhu & C. Chellappan - NetRawALM: Network Based Resource Aware Application Layer Multicast for Multiparty Video Conference, IJDPS, Vol.2, No.5, DOI: 10.5121/ijdps.2011.2503, September 2011. *C. Prabhu, C. Chellappan & R. Baskaran, “Conference Management & Speech Enhancement for Multiparty Video Conference over the MPLS Networks”, Information Technology Journal, Vol. 11, pp. 85-93, 2011.*Venkatesan S., Chellappan C., Anurika Vaish, Dhavachelvan P. & Prabhu C. -, “A Collaborative Model to Mitigate the TCP SYN Flood Attack in IPv4/IPv6 Environment” – Published by Inderscience Publishers, 2012.

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