Director Product Management @ Hotstar – Novi Digital Entertainment Private Limited
Product Management Lead @ Housing.com
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Technology @
Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute
About:
+ Product Management Lead with rich and diverse experience shipping products across consumer internet and enterprise segments
+ Proven track record in defining and executing product roadmaps across web and mobile applications on Android, iOS and Windows platforms.
+ Seasoned in hiring, mentoring and growing product teams
Product Management Lead @ + Overseeing conceptualization, design, execution and delivery
+ Product Management Lead with rich and diverse experience shipping products across consumer internet and enterprise segments
+ Proven track record in defining and executing product roadmaps across web and mobile applications on Android, iOS and Windows platforms.
+ Seasoned in hiring, mentoring and growing product teams
Product Management Lead @ + Overseeing conceptualization, design, execution and delivery of the most delightful online property buying experience. Responsibilities across the spectrum from hiring, setting & reviewing product roadmap with leadership team and execution using agile practices
+ Launched unified listings platform (unification of what once existed as two separate services “buy/resale" and "New Projects”)
+ Launched industry-first “quick view” experience to make the process of checking out a particular property more seamless, which lead to significant improvements (double digit % growth) in conversions
+ Launched curated property collections to facilitate property discovery
+ Lead a process of continuous experimentation to understand and inform product iterations.
+ Complete responsibility of the buying experience on Android and iOS mobile app
+ Launched New Projects on Android and iOS apps
+ Lead the setup of agile engineering processes towards more continuous, predictable and timely delivery of products/features
+ Involved in recruitment and growing the product team at Housing, having conducted >100 interviews across junior and senior product positions From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Mumbai Area, IndiaProgram Manager @ + Launched in-game experience for Major League Baseball with Bing Sports application on Windows 8.1
+ Designed and executed on content strategies to drive up engagement metrics for Bing Sports application on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8
+ Launched streamlined process for covering topical sporting events of interest in a market through dedicated news cluster driven by an in-house global sporting calendar
+ Partnered with Microsoft Research to automate sports entity extraction from a news story to scale content programming algorithmically From February 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 8 months) Hyderabad Area, IndiaProgram Manager @ + Launched safe and seamless virtualization experience for Active Directory Domain Controllers with Windows Server 8
+ Led cross team collaboration to frame the necessary operational semantics
+ Led discussions with virtualization partners in the industry such as VMWare, Citrix, etc to ensure consistent semantics across all hypervisors
+ Launched uniquely powerful deployment capability called cloning for virtual domain controllers in Windows Server 8 to enable rapid provisioning in time-critical scenarios such as disaster recovery. From February 2011 to February 2013 (2 years 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Design Engineer @ + Led development of Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.1 and 3.2 (C, C++, COM)
+ Developed migration support for Managed Service Accounts (MSAs), a feature released with Windows Server 2008 R2, to facilitate adoption of MSAs over legacy service accounts
+ Collaborated across teams to evaluate and implement migration support for additional features introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 From March 2007 to February 2011 (4 years) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Developer Internship @ From June 2005 to August 2005 (3 months) Greater New York City Area
Master of Science, Computer Science, GPA 3.7 @ State University of New York at Buffalo From 2004 to 2006 Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Technology @ Veermata Jijabai Technical Institute From 1998 to 2002
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