
Product Manager
India

Product Manager
India
With close to 6 years in the IT industry, I have been involved in two domains:
ITSM (IT Service Management) Product Management, and
BFSI domain Consulting.
As an ITIL v3 certified Product Manager of ITSM Applications, I am involved in creating the best in the industry service management products to standardize and centralize IT and IT processes. My endeavour is to preempt the requirements that my customer would like to have in the products and enable them to align their IT with the ever changing needs of the business.
As a BFSI domain consultant, I have worked in Retail Banking, Internet Banking, Investment Banking, Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Mortgages, Wealth Management (Mutual Funds) and Foreign Exchange for Fortune 10 companies such as the Citigroup. I also have knowledge in FIX/DMA especially for the SELL side (brokers and I-Banks).
In Project Management, I have worked in multiple projects through all the phases of SDLC. I am experienced in both Spiral and Agile-Scrum methodology of Software development. My experience also include pre-sales activities such as responding to RFPs to the client.
1. ITSM Product Management
2. Project Management
3. BFSI Domain Consulting (Capital Market, Internet Banking etc).
(Public Company; BMC; Computer Software industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
As a Product Manager, I am responsible for -
1. Day to day product management.
2. Discovering the new features that can be included in my products.
3. Working on the future roadmap of my products.
4. Competitor Analysis.
5. Industry (Environment) Analysis.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 10 months)
1. Managed large and medium sized IT Projects comprising of cross-functional and multi-location teams for Fortune 10 clients in BFSI domains.
2. Actively involved in pre-sales and secured strategic client accounts in the banking space.
3. Advised clients in the analysis of the business requirements and the selection of technical solutions for complex projects and also participated in formulating technical roadmap.
4. Subject Managed Expert in Internet (Retail) Banking.
5. Involved in mentoring, in-house training and recruitment.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — June 2006 (3 years 8 months)
1. Led a team of 3 team members through all the phases of SDLC for a particular module.
2. Was an individual contributor of the team.
MBA , General Management , 2008 — 2009
MDP , Marketing and Strategy , 2008 — 2008
I attended 3 weeks' Senior Management Development Programme at the Graduate School of Business. The focus of marketing and strategy.
As a part of the international immersion project, I was a part of the team which proposed the strategy roadmap for the starting a School of Design at Ambedkar University (AUD ; http://www.aud.ac.in/) in Delhi, India. The paper was presented to Prof. Soumitri Varadarajan of RMIT University who in turn shared the same to the Vice Chancellor of Ambedkar University.
BE , Electronics , 1998 — 2002
Product Management, Client Engagement, Capital Market Operations, Following latest trends in IT, Investing, Blogging, Reading non-fiction.
1. TCS Gems - Beyond Performance Award.
2. TCS Gems - On the Spot Award.
3. Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search Scholar - 1999.