Ansar Kanhiroli, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, Product Manager / Agile Coach

Ansar Kanhiroli, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO

Product Manager / Agile Coach

Landmark Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, International Business
Experience
15 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 11 Months

Product Manager / Agile Coach at Landmark Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2015

Responsible in driving LandmarkShops.com's
- Omni-channel initiatives
- Mobile strategy
- Agile transformation
- Revenue optimization

Product Manager/Head of Product (eCommerce/IT Services), PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO at McFadyen Consulting INC
  • India
  • June 2012 to June 2015

McFadyen Consulting is a US based technology company focusing on Oracle ATG E-Commerce Suite Implementation and consulting. All major fortune 500 customers use Oracle ATG as their E-Commerce Platform.

• Product lead for My Outfit Designer web & native mobile apps.
• Re-launched the platform with a new technology stack and user interface: from idea to launch within a quarter in all major platforms - Android, iOS and responsive web.
• Leading a team of 15 people tailored into 2 tracks with a product team in US.
• Reporting to CEO and CFO.
• Applying LeanStartup principles to define and validate features for the product to define the product-market fit.
• Full stack implementation of LeanStartup principles in ideation, Scrum for execution and then Kanban for supporting the product


Product Owner for Oracle ATG based E-Commerce Platform Implementation for Retail/Travel.
 Responsible for defining E-Commerce business requirements and streamlining the product.
 Managing a distributed team across in USA and INDIA.
 Directly handled US customers and a team of 24 members in implementation and delivery
 Requirements Engineering Team Lead.
 Oracle ATG Commerce Suite: Oracle ATG web Commerce, DPS, DSS, CSC, BCC, Workflows, Merchandizing, Oracle ATG Search, Multisite, and Internationalization.
 Defining Personas and building roles in a Scrum Environment.
 Understand the business strategy and work on initiatives, present them to decision makers within the customer business unit.
 Product demos, presentations and workshops.
 Instrumental in creating document in the Discovery Phase.
 Developing Approach Documents and SRS documents.
 Responsible to solution Business Problems.
 Expertise in Customer handling activities.
 Developing Functional Use cases and interface documents.
 Responsible for Mitigating Project Risks.
 Project management.
 Part of the team, defining strategy for International business development.
 Solid Understanding on Agile Methodology - Scrum.
 Real time Scrum experience as a Product Owner.
 User Story Creation, grooming Exposure.
 Involved in Business Report analysis.

Business Analyst - Airline Passenger Services at IBS Software Services
  • India
  • May 2010 to June 2012

**Requirements management for Booking module and its interfacing**
Responsible for translating the business requirements to the development team.
Documentation of all Booking functional specification documents which would serve as reference for technical development specifications
Responsible for addressing reservation, GDS, Interline business clarifications from development team.
Certifying functionalities after functional and system testing prior to customer delivery
Planning, Coordinating and Tracking Training Manual updates and Help file updates for entire project.
Training and Support to the development team and testers on requirement changes
Responsible for clarifying the business requirements with the customer and onsite team
Responsible for translating the business requirements to the development team.
Involved in UAT and onsite user training on the Application.
Responsible for designing test cases.
Responsible for defining SAAG test cases and processes.

**Customer Handling of iFly Res (PSS) Customer Airlines**
Change management for iFly Res and its interfacing.
Responsible for translating the business queries to the development team.
Responsible for addressing issues in the live environment.
Coordinating various stake holders.
Planning, coordinating the product support team.
Handling customers from Japan, Italy, USA, Maldives, and Albania.

Business Analyst - ERP / E-Business at Cybrosys Technologies
  • India
  • June 2008 to April 2010

Responsible for defining ERP business requirements and streamlining the product.
Requirements Engineering
Developing Approach Documents and SRS documents.
Responsible for Solution Business Problems to bottle necks.
Responsible for ERP product operations in Dubai.
Customer handling activities.
Developing Use cases and interface documents.
Responsible for Mitigating Risks.
Project management.
International business development and strategy.
Report analysis and strategy development.
Achieving maximum productivity through IT.
New IT implementations for maximum profit.

Education

Master's degree, International Business
  • at Bharthiar University
  • May 2011
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science And Engineering
  • at Cochin University of Science and Technology,CUSAT
  • March 2008

75%-percentage, Received ‘Best Manager Award’ , ‘ Management Guru Award’, ‘IT QUIZ TOPPER’,’Best Research Paper’, ‘Best Seminar presenter Award’ in All India Technical Festival 2007-2008. Also has been awarded with many prizes in English Essay competitions and Hindi story writing contests.

Diploma, Science
  • at Higher Secondary School (+2- Science)
  • March 2004

89%percantage, School Topper..

High school or equivalent, Schooling
  • at SSLC (Secondary School)
  • April 2002

85% percentage , Gold medal winner

Specialties & Skills

Office Operations
Product Management
Project Management
Business Analysis
Marketing Management
Windows
MS Office
Project Management
HTML, DHTML
Software Consulting

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
Urdu
Intermediate

Memberships

Open Source Foundation
  • Promotions Coordinator
  • May 2007

Training and Certifications

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Valid Until:
March 2013
CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 2013
PMI - ACP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
May 2013
Oracle University - Sales/Pre Sales Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2013
Valid Until:
February 2013
PMP - Project Management Institute (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
April 2013