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New York, Ny, Us

* Built an inclusive culture centered around remote work, cross-functional collaboration and leveling the playing field in all aspects - for fans, for team members and for partners.* Grew the user base base by more than 20X through partner onboarding, community building and product marketing.* Established a customer data and privacy practice to support CCPA regulations, launched an MVP process for handing CCPA request, and subsequently reduced the resolution time of customer requests by 90%.* Grew the Buzzer team from 27 to over 60 by hiring key talent across Engineering, Operations and Customer Experience.

Glendale, California, Us

* Formulated a product strategy and developed a roadmap for the next generation identity platform that sped up onboarding of new partners and reduced implementation time across web and mobile apps by 20%.* Launched a security feature for mitigating account takeover through credential stuffing by creating a multi-phase Go-To-Market strategy that resulted in 72% of users securing their accounts through password resets.* Introduced low barrier-to-adoption features within mobile SDKs that enabled flexibility for partners to implement their own UI, and support friction-reducing experiences such as SSO and biometrics authentication.* Communicated business value of features, and how they impacted success metrics/KPIs, through clear and concise business writing as part of the SAFe product delivery process.

New York, Ny, Us

* Responsible for managing executive level product roadmap looking 6 to 18 mths in the future.* Developed business cases that further the organizational goals related to increasing subscriber acquisition and retention.* Led a cross-functional team comprising of UX Designers, Tech. Program Managers, Engineers and QA to deliver world-class video streaming experiences that are loved by customers across the globe.* Expert in adopting and implementing Scaled Agile Framework for enterprises (SAFe) to deliver key initiatives spanning multiple value streams.

New York, Ny, Us

* Manage a device portfolio of over 7 digital partner platforms across 13 devices and collaborated on driving the best consumer experience across the board* Partner with cross-departmental stakeholders in setting the Product Vision and Strategy* Lead creation of business cases for new platform and feature launches that included target customer analysis, competitive analysis, cost-benefit analysis, success metrics and relevant KPIs.* Responsible for creating and disseminating a bi-weekly product newsletter to cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders* Developed on-boarding material for new Product Management hires and worked with the peers and supervisors to impart training.

New York, Ny, Us

* Launch Products and Platforms on the GO framework while supporting current in-market products.* Responsible for key client services and relationship management for HBO's International Partners.* Oversee systems integrations with affiliates and provide support for technical issues.* Responsible for information gathering and communication of business rules, product roadmaps, process updates and release cycles.* Manage client expectations through timely communication of process gates, testing cycles and launch timelines.* Responsible for triaging, supporting and guiding internal and external teams on troubleshooting and resolution of production issues.* Partner with Lead Program Manager on Strategic Business Development and Client Service Improvement initiatives.

New York, Ny, Us

* Responsible for coordinating activities and documenting requirements for the entire project infrastructure.* Creating and maintaining Project Plans for Workflow development by collaborating with Architectural and App Dev teams* Responsible for building a Release Management process for weekly builds during the Alpha phase and post Go-Live phase of the application* Defining failure scenarios, test cases and execution plans for all failure points in a high-redundancy, high availability environment.* Maintaining Project Artifacts such as Risk Register, Decision Log, Incident Log, Project Plans, System Design Document, Server Inventory, Datacenter Configurations and overall Architectural Configurations.* Creating and presenting the executive summary relevant to all components of the project to VP-level personnel* Defining operational procedures and documenting SLAs for business groups and technology groups.* Managing the hosting vendor SLAs, action items, follow-ups for service requests, status reporting and escalation of issues.* Participating in security reviews and coordinating set-up of security review environments with third party vendors.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

* Responsible for Knowledge Transfer of Reader’s Digest best practices, standards and methodologies.* Coordinating infrastructure accesses and environment set-up by working with offshore technical team, offshore network resources, RD Network team and Infrastructure Architects.* Managing expectations of key stakeholders and business sponsors while keeping in mind the actual scope of the project.* Resolving conflicts by managing scope creep, documenting key meeting minutes, justifying effort estimates for key deliverables and communicating issues and risks to the clients in a timely manner.* Offering business expertise while the requirements phase to the business users and stakeholders and communicated approved enhancements to the delivery team.* Guiding the offshore team in design and programming approaches, helping the information architects to create content structure and taxonomy for the content repository.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

* Planning schedules, allocating resources, tracking costs, communicating project status to client, coordinating efforts and deliverables, and ensuring the timely delivery of projects.* Conceptualizing business cases to present to the client in the pre-SOW (Planning) phase of the project.* Responsible for analysis of the business requirements and communicating the same to the Development and QA group. * Responsible as a Business Analyst/ PM for estimating efforts, identifying critical path activities, creating project plan, tracking project schedule, demonstrating multiple iterations of the functionality, communicating feedback regarding enhancements, and creating project change requests. * Organizing weekly status meetings with internal team and client. * Keeping track of project activities on a day-to-day basis and communicating status of high impact, high risk issues in a timely manner to client or Program Manager

New York, New York, Us

* Launched a faith-based Social Networking Website – www.PurposeDriven.com with the help of an offshore technical team, offshore network resources, RD Network team and Infrastructure Architects.* Increased new customer subscription counts and online registrations by 15%.* Defined best practices and implemented project delivery processes that made the outsourcing model a success.* Responsible for Knowledge Transfer of Reader’s Digest best practices, standards and methodologies.* Presided over requirement gathering sessions with the design team, business sponsors, stakeholders and the IT Director.* Mentored the offshore team in design and programming approaches and helped the information architects to create content structure and taxonomy for the content repository.

* Coordinated the application development and testing effort, managed offshore development and QA group for multiple projects.* Offered expert advice on programming in VBScript for all automation QTP scripts. * Created and managed BRDs, Project Plans, Status Reports, Test Plans, Traceability Metrics, and Test Cases compliant with the client's specifications.

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

* Demonstrating capabilities of Quick Test Professional and utilizing it in various testing scenarios.* Establishing best practices for programming in VBScript and making the QTP scripts efficient, reusable and future-proof.* Communicating with Business Users regarding functionality of various web applications and client-server applications.* Managing TestDirector at an enterprise level.* Installing QTP and providing expertise and training to other QA and BA groups in Citizens Bank.

* Performed functional testing of the Java-based front end tool GEM-PT (Global Equity Markets – Portfolio Trading) for Web Based Application for testing the VWAP.* Executed manual scripts for Regression Testing and monitored performance across the network, application server and database server.* Managed and utilized TestDirector to create and maintain Test Requirements, Test Plans, Test Scripts and Defect Logs.* Executed queries and services to verify the trade processed during the day through the SmartVWAP (Smart Volume Weighted Average Price) tool.* Coordinated testing efforts through five different teams involved in the project to comply with the test requirements.

Executive Mba, Marketing And Consumer Insights, Corporate Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Corporate Venturing

Ms, Electrical Engineering

B.E., Electrical Engineering

B.E., Electrical Engineering

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