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- Define product strategy and roadmap by leveraging data analysis, competitive analysis, user research and beta testing.- Partner with engineering, marketing and sales teams to establish detailed and prioritized businessrequirements and critical feature sets and translate them into user stories.- Build functional specification documents detailing use cases, user journies and interaction designs.- Collaborate cross-functionally with teams to ship products & features successfully. - Coordinate with sales teams for product demos and beta testing with customers.- Manage release communications for customers for new product features.- Onboarded multiple new hires in the team and helped them get on to speed with the process andresponsibilities.- Drive scrum process and management.

Palo Alto, California

San Francisco Bay Area

• Conducted in-depth competitive analysis for the enterprise and datacenter SSDs developed by Toshiba.• Developed a detailed customer solution matrix, entailing all the server and storage products that install Toshiba’s SSDs as well as the competitor SSDs.• Devised a report on High-Performance Computing, performing market sizing, messaging, forecasting, trend analysis, and offering recommendations on the product-market fit for Toshiba’s SSDs.

• Collaborated with a five-person team to determine the pricing strategy for their product suite that offers AI-driven solutions to law enforcement agencies.• Conducted competitive research about existing solutions and potential solutions used by police departments and other law enforcement agencies.• Conducted in-person and remote customer interviews to gauge their needs, budget and market potential.• Designed and recommended the pricing framework for the product suite.

Intuit India Product Development Centre (Oct 2010 to Jan 2013) as Software Engineer – IIProject : DASH (Data Acquisition Support Hub) - DASH provides a single platform interface to manage and support data required by all the Personal Finance Management products.Responsibilities : Requirement Analysis | Prototype Development | Presentation layer & business logic implementation | Mentor | Scrum Master | Complete end-to-end documentation involving customer interaction| Resolution of many critical customer escalations after the project go-live | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Test CasesTechnology:Rally Dev | GWT | Spring DAO with JPA | RestEasy | JUnit | Oracle

CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Private Ltd. (Oct 2009 to Oct 2010) as Software EngineerProject : Migration of archive database from Sybase ASE to Sybase IQ. - The project emphasizes the migration of archive database, of the I-Delta Historical Reporting Services Platform, from Sybase ASE 15.0 to Sybase IQ 15.1Client: Deutsche BankResponsibilities:Modification and optimization stored procedures | Code enhancements in Java | Test Cases.Technology:Java | Unix | Sybase ASE | Sybase IQ

Goldman Sachs Services Pvt. Ltd (Jun 2007 to Aug 2009) as NAPA & Analyst Developer IProject : AISE (Alternative Investments Subscription Engine) - AISE is a trading platform in providing traders to manage subscriptions, redemptions, brokerage account transfers etc. on alternative investments like hedge funds etc. on behalf of high net worth individuals.Responsibilities:Requirement gathering from business users | single-handed implementation of many major project enhancements and workflows till UAT and sign-offTechnology:Java| J2EE | Perl | Sybase | Weblogic | JIRA.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Key Courses : New Product Innovation | Account-Based Marketing | Marketing Strategies.

B.E, Information Technology