Shanthala Gorur Ashwath Email & Phone Number

Nevada City, California, US

Project Paper Planes is a nonprofit organization that aims to eliminate set gender roles, gender biases and gender gaps through education and awareness. We envision an open world where every girl has access to opportunities to pursue her dreams and grow into her full potential. We help underprivileged teenage girls in developing countries to pursue.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Product Strategy and Roadmap: Lead product strategy and roadmap for VMware Cloud Foundation HCI and external storage, scaling product reach and business growth.
• Team Development: Mentor new team members and interns to help onboard with required product management skills. Promote diversity and inclusion.
• Research: Led end to end research on new SaaS offering, with customer interviews and surveys reaching 100+ enterprise customers

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Partnership Development: Developed new partnerships and led partner relationships with 9+ industry leading technology companies and led the development of product solutions with multiple partners resulting in increased.
• IoT and Edge Strategy: Built business case and strategy for edge computing and IoT for the cloud platform

San Jose, California, US

• Lead Product Manager: Spearheading the design and launch of next generation all flash storage platforms from conception to go-to-market, with an annual product revenue of $xxx M.
• Data Analytics: Analyzed user data and proposed new product offering to help customers transition to new technologies. The new product offering would increase customer lifetime value with a potential additional revenue.
• Market Research: Analyzed IDC, Gartner and other market data to size market opportunity for NetApp’s next generation NVMe flagship products; presented product revenue forecast and go-to-market strategies to executives.
• Business Strategy: Conducted a comprehensive business analysis on the product portfolio including market trends, customer feedback, competitive analysis and recommended new product introductions and end of life.
• Go-to-Market: Developed go-to-market strategies for new and existing products; worked with cross-organizational teams to introduce strategic promotions, competitive programs and SPIFs.

San Jose, California, US

• Product Metrics: Developed business and product usage metrics for brand new SaaS offering on the cloud and software defined storage products. This metrics dashboard is used organization-wide to make data driven.
• Voice of Customer: Led voice of customer initiative for NetApp’s cloud software offering on Amazon Web Services; influenced product positioning and roadmap with feedback gained by surveying and interviewing 50+.

San Jose, CA, US

• Requirement Analysis: Collaborated with customers to identify gaps in data security, created a PRD and implemented a robust full stack solution to overcome intruder attacks. Received an Excellence Award for the.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Led a group of cross-functional teams to implement a configuration automation solution that reduced system down time by 80%. Received Employee of the Month Award.

Houston, Texas, US

• Competitive Analysis: Conducted competitive analysis and market research on product portfolio and proposed a strategic plan with an MRD on innovative product features to increase the market share by 10%.
• Software Architecture and Design: Identified flaws in system software architecture and implemented a new algorithm that resolved critical customer issues and increased customer satisfaction rating.
• Critical Problem Solving: Resolved last-minute critical technical issues working round-the-clock with cross-functional teams, thereby ensuring the timely production and market entry of a new product; the product.
• Field Enablement: Developed and led new product training for 100+ globally dispersed sales engineers and field reps, increasing their productivity and reducing delays in resolving customer issues by 70%.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Developed an analytics software application for a power distribution network to monitor power usage and dissipation.

Astronomy Summer Program

Stanford Continuing Studies, Introduction To Astrophysics And Cosmology

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electronics And Communications Engineering