I am a digital executive with more than 10 years of experience in defining/executing the digital strategy, innovating and conceptualizing new products and enhancing existing products for businesses to build great online and mobile products. I am currently working as a Product and Technology Director with Cirrus Media Australia defining/executing the digital strategy and head of both Product Management and Engineering (Product Development) function of the organization. Currently leading teams comprising of .Net, Kentico, Drupal and Wordpress Developers, Business Analysts, DBA, QA Professionals, Designers, Front End Developers, Technical Support Professionals, Salesforce Support Professionals and Integration Architects. Specialties: Leadership and Business Management, Digital Strategy, Director, Head of Product Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Development, Project Management, Agile Scrum Development, SEO & SEM techniques, Search Technologies, User Experience, Wireframing and UI Design, Web Analytics Key Strengths: -Product management skills, innovating and conceptualizing new products & enhancements in existing products, specifically targeted for monetization & increasing traffic. -Defining and executing product strategy in alignment with the Organisation’s goals and objectives, with constant vigilance on proper allocation of resources -I am a collaborative and hands-on leader, with the ability to get the best out of team members -Identifying time to market and accordingly ensuring timely roll out. -Identifying less time and money consuming avenues which have the potential to massively -increase the traffic and monetization especially for the start ups. -Relationship building skills to develop strong alliances with stakeholders. -Continually promoted by employers in recognition of performance excellence. -Good understanding of SDLC and methodologies like Agile, Scrum.

Product and Technology Director @ Driving the Product Strategy, Product Development, Project Management and Technology across Cirrus Media (formerly Reed Business Information). Currently leading teams comprising of .Net, Kentico, Drupal and Wordpress Developers, Business Analysts, DBA, QA Professionals, Designers, Front End Developers, Technical Support Professionals, Salesforce Support Professionals and Integration Architects. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Sydney, AustraliaProduct Director @ Driving the product strategy and product development across Cirrus Media (formerly Reed Business Information) to provide better user experience, site functionality and content to grow the business. Lead a team of 8 direct reports and 7 indirect reports comprising of development, QA, BI, UX, product, support and integration architects. From July 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 8 months) sydney area, australiaSenior Product Manager @ Responsible for Product development and management and respective roll outs for Hotfrog operating in 38 countries worldwide. Managed end to end delivery of the projects. Few of the major accomplishments were conceptualization and successful implementation of an e-commerce product based on sophisticated targeted algorithms which proved highly profitable to the business,both product and project management of integration of FAST search engine to render the results, integration of social tools - sign on, sharing, reviews and comments on the site and conceptualization and fast track implementation of a solution to mitigate Panda algorithm impact. From March 2012 to July 2013 (1 year 5 months) sydney area, australiaProduct Manager @ Product owner of the website for 38 countries. Conceptualized the product which opened new avenues of revenue generation. Defined the pricing and algorithm for all the countries in which the paid product is live. Analyzed performance reports and evolving it further to improve the value add and usability of the product. Introduced new content types in the dashboard to increase user generated content on the site. Revamped the dashboard to create an interactive interface presenting each activity of the user to further entice them to add content. Defined components on the reporting page to inform the user about performance of their listing and paid product. Conceptualized the cut down mobile version of the site and released it in a country. From August 2010 to March 2012 (1 year 8 months) Sydney, AustraliaSenior Manager - Product & Technology @ Innovated new products & technology which helped solve common problems faced by consumers. From March 2010 to July 2010 (5 months) Gurgaon, IndiaProduct Manager - Shiksha.com (a naukri.com group company) @ Identified new and differentiating products based on market needs and took them from concept to launch. Planned promotional avenues for new launches and existing features on the site.Created & Conceptualized algorithms to enhance user experience. Developed product briefs in discussion with management and innovated new features on site. Worked in close co-ordination with Design, QA and Technology to ensure timely roll outs. Co-ordinated releases, evangelization and closely worked with Sales and Operations for feedback. From March 2009 to March 2010 (1 year 1 month) Sr. Software Engineer @ Worked both in the application development/ maintenance and search engine (sphinx).Also acted as Team Lead and rolled out projects involving high end optimization, like implementation of XSLT. Technology worked on: Architecture: LAMP architecture (i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL 5.1 & PHP 5.1.6 +, sphinx) Platform: Linux Languages: PHP, JavaScript, Ajax. GUIs: HTML, DHTML, CSS Web Servers: Apache, IIS Databases: MySQL Others: Symfony Framework, Smarty Engine, CVS, Bugzilla From December 2006 to March 2009 (2 years 4 months) Software Engineer @ Coordinated transition of projects to offshore right from the Initial setup and configuration.Took initiatives at the time of crisis and geared up the team for successful completion of projects well within time. Technology worked on: Platform: Windows Languages: CFML (Cold Fusion Mark-up Language) GUIs: HTML, DHTML, CSS Web Servers: IIS Databases: SQL Server 2000 From September 2005 to December 2006 (1 year 4 months)

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering @ Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University From 2001 to 2005 Rajan Sharma is skilled in: Agile, Scrum, Requirements Analysis, E-commerce, Product Management, Online Marketing, Product Development, Product Strategy, User Experience, Product Marketing, Customer Relations, Consumer Internet, Team Management, Competitive Analysis, PHP