Suresh Thammina

Product Manager at Cisco Systems

• United Arab Emirates
• My current job since April 2015

Technical Leader at Avesta Computers(Cisco Systems)

• February 2013 to April 2015

Associate Consultant at TCS

• United Arab Emirates
• March 2011 to February 2013

Technical Leader at Infinite Computers

• August 2008 to March 2011

solution architect

• May 2003 to July 2008

Functional Areas

•Agile Product Owner-Scrum, SAfE agile Development, Market Research, Competitive Analysis, Design Thinking, UX Design / Prototyping, Conducting Usability Study, Product Analytics, AB Testing, Product Documentation, Release Notes, Training Technical Support- Teams, Beta-Program Management, Release Management

Special Mentions
•Designed an automated system for UCS, Umbrella and Collaboration deployments which resulted in reduction of 85% of manual work and helped in scaling server deployments for 35k customers base
•Facilitated platform extensions from standalone systems to virtualized environments which resulted in exponential scaling of customer base with improved user experience.
•Drove analytics assessment deliverables in data centre, Security and collaboration products.
• Applied design principles for various products which reduced the workflows to 1/10th when compared to traditional designs.
•Security Advisor and PSIRT evaluator for Data Centre & Collaboration tools
•Proposed a AI / ML solution for language and platform translation to leadership team for pivot
•Participated in several hackathons to bring new IC’s to solutions and wrote white papers for several technical solutions
•Worked with several clients as a

Product Owner at Cisco Systems

• United Arab Emirates
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Envision requirements to align customers and business needs.
•Experience in creating and updating roadmaps/ frameworks
•Coordinate with stakeholders to prioritize the product backlog.
•Responsible for Backlog grooming.
•Experiment with prototypes and validate outcomes.
•Conduct Cognitive Walkthrough.
•Benchmark product against competitive products
•Feature AB testing.
•Define and conduct experiments to test the hypothesis.
•Work with cross-functional teams. Localization, Marketing, Documentation and Support to ensure feature delivery.
•Drive/Monitor/optimize pre-release users, for effective Program.
•Attract new users and industry experts to pre-release program.
•Actively engage users on forums to create curiosity among users with features and get the feedback early in the cycle.
•Design surveys on new features analyze feedback to gather insights.


Career Progression

Software Engineer at CFIL

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