PSPO®, PMP®, CSPO®, CSM®, ITIL®- Certified with years of strong Product Ownership, Product & Program Management skills in leading & managing multidisciplinary teams across all Product/Project phases from idea to productization, including design, User Experience & User Interface (UX/UI), rollout & support. 20+ years career in Information Technology: Technical Product and Project management, with extensive focus on building & delivering world class products and Enterprise solutions across several business domains and platforms using Waterfall, and Iterative & Agile methodologies. Lead successful Agile delivery teams & provide guidance in Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies. Manage mid to large sized Global engineering teams overseeing the delivery of large, cross-functional, complex enterprise-level applications and systems. Successful in defining Product vision & road maps, strategically & cost effectively evaluating and aligning technology investments with business goals, and overseeing the design of global enterprise technology solutions to achieve strong ROI and TCO. Consistently improve delivery times and service levels while reducing operational costs and increasing revenues. Skilled in partnering with Business Stakeholders, Vendors, and teams to identify needs, define risks, create strategy, and deliver integrated business and open source systems, platforms and services to meet evolving business needs. Experienced in facilitating business case development & SOWs, planning & priority setting, risk management, financial budgeting and forecasting, resource planning & delegating; interfacing with executive C-level leadership, project sponsors, business owners, cross-functional teams and negotiating trade-offs. Experienced in Vendor/Partner Management (Microsoft, Amazon, Infosys, Cognizant, Slalom, Booz Allen Hamilton, etc.), People/Resource Management, Quality & Change Management, Services/Operations Management, Time/Scope/Cost Management, Risk Management, and other important Project management areas.
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Product LeaderConfidentialSeattle, Wa, Us
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Chief Product ManagerVritusa Feb 2016 - PresentSeattle, Washington, United StatesVRITUSA focuses mainly on providing cloud based solutions and services for cloud application development, cloud platform architecture design, cloud migration, IaaS Solutions, SaaS services, DevOps, service orchestration and much more across private, public and multi-cloud/hybrid environments. Also help clients make the Digital transformation and overcome the complexity of the Digitalization: Digital Strategy, Digital Enablement, Digital Marketing & Digital Transformation.• Responsible for all the IT initiatives of the organization focusing mainly on the Product vision & strategy, product roadmap, stakeholder management & Go-to-market strategy. • Collaborate with stakeholders, including customers, executives, and internal teams, to gather feedback, prioritize requirements, and ensure alignment on the product vision and priorities.• Work with the development team and other stakeholders to plan and coordinate product releases, including defining release goals, scope, and timelines.• Work closely with the C level executive, Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery team leads• Monitor and analyze product performance metrics, such as user engagement, customer satisfaction, and business KPIs, to identify areas for improvement and inform future product decisions.• Develop and maintain relationships with key internal/external customers & vendors, stakeholders, etc.• Identify and mitigate risks related to the product, such as technical challenges, market competition, or changing customer needs, to ensure successful product delivery.• Major Clients: Amazon AWS, Verizon/NFL, Toyota Connected -
Chief Product Owner / Senior Technical Product ManagerToyota Connected North America Aug 2014 - Feb 2016Plano, Texas, United StatesReporting directly to the CEO, and working alongside with CFO & COO, responsible for the overall Design, Architecture, and Engineering of the Toyota Global Big Data Center - a Data Lake to ingest, store & compute the Telemetric & diagnostic data to further the functions & services of the Mobility Services Platform (MSPF) as part of Toyota's MaaS (Mobility as a Service) global strategy in the Connected Car market (Ride sharing, Car sharing, etc.), Automobile Insurance Management (Driving behavior, Driver score, etc.), Safety Prediction initiatives (Crash detection, Mechanical breakdowns, etc.), Toyota Dealers, Toyota Financials, Govt. Agencies, and many more (confidential initiatives). • Work with other Chief Product Owners for the overall Product road map, Strategy, Big Data development, delivery, and support. • Work across product teams to coordinate dependencies, keep track of the critical path, expose risk to the overall roadmap and to drive decisions around priorities that come in conflict with a cross-team wide versus a product team centric set of priorities.• Work extensively with Microsoft Product team, Microsoft Azure & Engineering teams, Azure rapid response team, and Premier Mission critical teams.• Liaison between multiple Toyota business units/entities & work closely with the Toyota Research teams to support the ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) system towards building Autonomous cars.• Work towards establishment of a new Toyota entity - Toyota Insurance Management system (TIMS), offering revolutionary Insurance products to Toyota’s customers. • Travel extensively and work, train with Toyota Motor Corporation teams in Japan.• Facilitate the establishment of other Toyota Connected global regions in Europe and Australia.• Travel extensively to all Toyota offices & off-shore teams working across US, Japan, Europe, Australia, & India.• Managing programs consisting of over 50 technical & business experts with budgets totaling over $25M+ -
Sr Engagement & Delivery ManagerCapgemini Aug 2012 - Jul 2014United StatesResponsible for planning, solutioning, transitioning, developing, implementing, and managing large IT initiatives for various clients to solve their complex business issues and help them generate more revenue opportunities and returns on their investments. Strategically allianced with JDA to develop, deliver, and manage advanced planning solutions for all of its clients. Successful deployments using Cloud/On-premise/SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery models. Responsible for the overall technology strategy, budget; people/resource and risk management strategies; architecture, development, implementation & support teams.Major responsibilities include, but not limited to:• Liaison with project’s executive sponsors, client’s management, vendors, and other business partners.• Create & maintain high level project plans; work to manage issues, timelines, and costs.• Manage project cadence & communications; facilitate workshops & other key project activities. • Act as a supervisor, training and monitoring team’s performance to ensure job responsibilities and IT initiatives are accomplished.• Liaison between several business groups, both internal & external, outsourced manufacturers (CMOs) both domestic and international, Data Warehousing team, Finance team, and the IT groups. • Set up status reporting and conduct risk management workshops• Proactively prioritizes needs and effectively manages resources• Establish and maintain long-term customer relationships, build trust and respect by consistently meeting and exceeding client/customer expectations.• Create business requirement documents based on SOW; Create proposals and business cases for new initiatives -
It DirectorTargetorate Partner Solutions Dec 2009 - Jul 2012• Work directly with the CIO, the steering committee members, project stakeholders, project sponsors in identifying, defining, strategizing, and formulating the IT needs and the path to be followed using proven efficient models for achieving optimum results reduce costs and increase their returns on investments.• Negotiate the best quality and delivery at the most reasonable cost, consistent with accepted standards. Manage vendor performance and conduct reviews and periodic meetings to address unresolved issues and areas of improvement. Define business flow assessments, Business Plans/business cases and assure the plans meet company goals and integrate these with the project/program plans & the project/program solutions.• Formulate new and creative ways of performing various business analyses in a matrixed environment. Lead large cross-functional project teams on challenging projects. Responsible for creating PMO and defining guidelines on par with the industry standards focusing on the PMBOK® methodologies of Project/Program management. Key leadership role in managing customer/client relationships.
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It Project ManagerMichaels Stores Jun 2001 - Oct 2008Responsible for leading and monitoring works of different projects/project teams. Implement and monitor adherence to IS standards & procedures. Supervise Project leads on a day-to-day basis; evaluate performance & mentor/coach as necessary. Conduct performance appraisals & reviews. Provide inputs to the budget planning committee. Work with Project sponsors & lead the effort to formulate project’s scope & objectives. Monitor project development through all phases of SDLC, monitor progress against the plan, acceptance testing, implementation/rollout plans, etc., and keep senior management/IT executive management & business partners updated of the progress.
Ram Vishwas H. Education Details
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Management Information Systems And Services -
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Math & Computer Science
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