Group Product Manager
Powerschool
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :18 years, 4 أشهر
Managing Naviance, Intersect product line accounting for Annual USD 25 Million Revenue across North America, Middle East, Asia business operations
Managing team of 8 Product Managers and organizational operations focusing product features for upcoming market expansions
Heading Product Management Centre of Excellence and evaluating team member performance and responsible to coach team members for Agile and product management excellence
Identifying customer trends and coming up with Epics based on customer's cutting edge demands along with measuring product performance in comparison with competition.
Managing team dynamics and handle team escalations during routine agile ceremonies along with ensuring minimal Defect leakage and highest backlog readiness KPI parameters
Vendor and Partner Management for Royal Philips
Facilitating end to end partner management comprising Cost of 50 Million Euros and optimizing business operations across globe.
Revenue optimization and cost saving of 20 % for Royal Philips by implementation of Daily Management KPI evaluation systems using Azure Data lake and Microsoft Power Platform
A Sales Cloud based PSA Salesforce application for critical Philips Healthcare for global sales and support operations for Philips healthcare installation (Scanning / Imaging) devices.
A Salesforce Lightning based mobile application for supporting Philips Healthcare PM users to enable managing project critical Key Dates on the go.
Define product scope, requirements, benefits, stakeholders and deliverables that support business goals for B2B and B2C product offerings
Capacity planning based on current Pod’s availability and maturity within system and prioritizing backlog items accordingly
Identification of Key features and ancillary features within product and devising Epics, themes, features and user stories along with charting out development strategy product development for Middle east, European, North American markets
Conducting PI Planning meetings and maintaining product backlog with Value Streams, epics, features, stories and continuously prioritizing as per changing business requirements for 4 unique products
Writing technical and functional Epics, user stories with latest industry standards covering acceptance criteria’s, NFRs, Technical dependencies and categorizing work items as defects, functional stories, technical stories, spikes
Managing day to day sprint activities and clarifying to queries from Development, UI/UX and QA and backend teams and enhancing stories as per business requirements
Conducting demonstration sessions at sprint end and acquiring sign-off on sprint and product deliverables.
identifying risks, issues and technical challenges by continuous synchronization with team and collaborate with business team to come up with risk mitigation actions
Other Organizations Worked (Payroll- Mindtree), AAMC, Deloitte, FlyDubai, Max AeroSpace, TravelKhana, Lufthansa, Srilankan Airline
Successful product implementation of 7 products including Departure control systems merger between Emirates - ASConnect and FlyDubai airlines - Sprint DCS for airport operations for Dubai airport terminal 2
Custom In-flight entertainment solution and Active RFID tag-based baggage tracking solution for attending D+15 baggage unloading scenario from ULD and Pallets
Functionally and technically owning Airline and digital products on Product Owner capacity and leading 42 team members comprising development, QA, UI / UX and specialists.
Managed one of world’s largest cloud based B2B translation suit for industry wide translation requirements focusing fortune 100 customers
Continuously monitor market parameters for competitive products, features and map it with product roadmap to ensure focused product growth at 12% quarter to quarter basis
Identified and managed product risks, issues, chart out action items towards target product penetration and revenue goals
Conducting sprint ceremonies as Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, PI Planning its deliverables and to maintain overall ART deliverables in sync with other release trains to minimize product risks
Manage products with the assigned team of 15 members and deliver the desired outcome in budget and timeline along with coaching team for Agile and Scaled Agile way of working within organizational environment
Identification of team velocity by reviewing sprint performance and prioritization of work items as per team’s capacity and past velocity for upcoming sprints
Come up with product strategy while syncing with different stakeholders & roadmap matching with targeted return on investment and focusing on target niche within market
Identification of standard and premium features and consulting with stakeholders & prepare product packages to be offered at premium cost
Product Manager for mobile and digital initiatives. Engaging with multiple projects and striking balance between project goals and financial budgeting.
Handling multifold responsibility to deliver agile and waterfall projects, preparation of project charter, project plan, and delivery schedules for ongoing projects.
Communication with business stakeholders and identifying business needs and preparing business case, getting business prioritization details and manage day to day delivery challenges
Managing project budget and ensuring project delivery within defined budget scope and timelines
Manage assigned resources and ensure a seamless production activity by ensuring no roadblocks on production
Regular preparation of ROI indicators and project performance- health reports preparation and updating PMO/directors for business evaluation
Preparation of risk management plan and ensuring it’s approval and execution during critical project events.
Successfully managing product enhancements for Airline Flagship booking applications for OLCI enhancements, CUGO Code implementations, Business Rewards - Skywards rewards program merger, Marhaba services integration and loyalty card services.
Functionally owned digital and mobility-based products up to $13 billion budget including Airline service delivery product with AED 3 Billion budget to cater to customers across middle east and Europe region
Come up with a new product concepts and process streamline that saved $10 million in costs & Implementation of product having stakeholders spread across 4 geographic regions
Played a major role in achieving Break-even point for existing products 6 months earlier than targeted and scoring profitability for same 9 months in advance
Digital program and portfolio level understanding and its objectives to be able to relate current initiatives in larger aspects and come up with new digital product features and user stories.
Enjoy the responsibility of functionally lead and provide business solutions to emirates airlines iOS, Android and Cross Platform development initiatives and seeing projects through from conception to delivery including supporting UAT activities to business stakeholders.
Managing mobile and web development products according to Agile and waterfall methodology along with experience in eliciting, analyzing and documenting complex business requirements
Working as Proxy for on-site Product Owner while performing system analysis, developing business cases and user stories/cases/requirements, conduct feature demos, and ensure timely delivery of deliverables
Leverage healthcare domain business knowledge and Conduct JAD Sessions with programming team to Identify & define technical solution, design and system integration points.
Conduct impact analysis on current applications and processes with respect to new requirements to foster reusability.
Conduct demos, training to internal and external users, Trainers, SMEs, UAT teams.
Spearheading company operations to challenge the limits and attracting clients for their mobile development requirements for iOS, Android and 2D/3D games development requirements.
Mentoring the technical team to achieve SLA during project delivery times and query solving and managing operations from Project Management to Delivery management
Experience for client communications across globe, Change management and Experience Developing solutions for large scale mobility projects for iPhone, iPad and Android handheld devices
Requirements Elicitation and understanding clients exact requirements and defining Architecture for large scale mobile technology projects including technology recommendation and Database design
A seasoned professional with hands on Accounts management experience with Technology Solutions Consulting
Mentor and guide Development team to achieve project goals in competitive timelines and better cost attainability.
Developing Interactive Prototypes with Native iOS and Android Controls using prototyping Tools like OmniGraffle, Axure RP.
Populating and defining Use Cases for system and preparing End to End development documentation.
Overall Project’s management and co-ordination from Development stage to Delivery stage of execution
Meticulously managing critical execution issues and successfully managing team of developers and designers.
To understand the iPhone/iPad Software Project Scope and GAP Analysis for Expectations and Deliverables.
Understanding the technical issues status with client at various demonstration stages of project and preparing a brief report for the same and updating the developer for the same to get it done.
Client communication, Negotiations and Relationship Management worldwide to increase client retention.
Client meetings and Communication to understand the issues into existing software Version communicating the same to development team.
Domain specific Solutions with Project Brief
Social Networking: Social networking application for iOS, Android for Food, restaurant and other nearby places
Government: State Government (Mobile web application)
Semiconductor: Custom mobile web solution including various services to promote their respective conferences
Media: Fully customized event management Solutions for both organizations
Travel: A Custom Travel and event solution for USA based large scale client
Overall Project’s management and co-ordination from Development stage to Delivery stage of execution
To understand the iPhone/iPad Software Project Scope and GAP Analysis for Expectations and Deliverables.
iPhone/iPad software demonstration to Client and getting the application approved.
Registering and Achieving Client Feedback for the application for future Project execution references
Overall Project’s management and co-ordination from Development stage to Delivery stage of execution
To understand the iPhone/iPad Software Project Scope and GAP Analysis for Expectations and Deliverables.
Understanding the technical issues status with client at various demonstration stages of project and preparing a brief report for the same and updating the Developer for the same to get it done.
Client communication, Negotiations and Relationship Management worldwide to increase client retention.
Client meetings and Communication to understand the issues into existing software Version communicating the same to development team.
Data mining - analysis and interpretation.
Generate meaningful reports for Various Group owned sites for Web-Traffic Analysis and competitive intelligence analysis from large volume of data generated by Paid Monitoring tools
Responsible for highlighting Market trends for effective counter actions.
Ensuring timely and accurate reports as per defined cycle i.e. weekly, monthly, six monthly Etc.
Responsible for timely delivery of accurate data information
Responsible for archiving all kinds of reports generated for future reference.
Utilization of data derived from monitoring tools to Google Paid search tools.
Decipher trends from the reports and make presentation.
Marketing Strategy & Advertising campaign designing by taking care of Target Segment of company, positioning strategy in the market & Market scope.
Identifying Prospects For Corporate Marketing/promotional Activity
Website Advertising space sales for banner advertisements
Communication Management at CXO level, Client Follow-Up And Business Development Process
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Bachlors course in commerce with advanced accounting and auditing.