Asso. Product Manager, Platform

• Feb 2023 - Present

Acting Product Release Manager (Applications)

• Feb 2023 - Present

Asso. Product Manager (Team Lead), Applications

• Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

Roadmap planning----------------------• Owned the Applications Release calendar as an Acting Product Release Manager (Applications)• Introduced planning processes of bucketing roadmap items into Major, Minor & Maintenance releases, highlighted the difference in Plans vs. Actuals, factoring in team capacity & work estimates.• Planned the Application Delivery Roadmap for the year ahead in sync with Divisional OKRs from Product Line VPs/Leadership.• Achieved consensus on release themes with divisional leadership. Collaborated to discuss & negotiate project/initiative prioritisation, resource availability/capacity and product release timelines.• Synced roadmap plans from ProductBoard to implementation projects in JIRA and mapped these back to Divisional OKRs/metrics to provide big picture alignment.Roadmap execution----------------------• Project kick-offs: Conducted knowledge transfer sessions for the cross-functional project teams to capture details on persona definitions, user paths, Jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) and desired outcomes from App launch/enhancement.• Org enablement: Introduced internal release documentation to capture 'Change Logs' for every release. Captured all changes to the application portfolio for org enablement. Set a stepping stone towards building a more mature version of 'Release Notes' which explains the Problem space, the reasoning of prioritisation & Solutions considered and chosen for implementation. Show less

Lead, Product Configuration (Applications, Standard Product Offerings)

• Aug 2021 - Jun 2022

• Technical Product management - Product Ops, UI/UX research, Application engineering. • People leader - coaching, career development, team building, team scale-up, process establishment and improvement.

Product Consultant - Security & Risk Management

• Dec 2020 - Jul 2021

Implementation Consultant - Higher Education and Research Management

• May 2018 - Sep 2019

Role: Solution Consultant, Product Management ————————————————————— • Solution Lead on projects spanning functions of pre, post award - Grants, Funding, Ethics, Student records, Research Publications, Costing & Pricing; digitally transforming University operations. Successfully negotiated an average workload of 4-5+ client implementations and consulting agreements for digital workflow management at Australian Universities. • Gap-analysis of the business process and system process to come up with recommendation improvements/standardizations before they could be automated. Used interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios in designing system details to define future-state design & requirements documentation. • Steered implementation delivery by bringing quality requirements engineering, QA practices to the growing team. Employed rapid-prototyping in creating highly-detailed annotated wireframes, user flows, and process flows using open-source UI tools, Balsamiq, MS-Visio • Implemented deliverables consistently over agile project sprints, staying within time, budgets, calling out scope creep and auditing delivery quality to maintain consistency; highlighted the importance of the project steering committee reports & RASCI – which helped achieve the Go Live on multiple projects. • Used JIRA to document user stories, helped prioritize requirements, charge CR's to customer and prioritize bugs for a successful go live • Helped define requirements on early stage UX work for new product functionalities in contributing to the product roadmap within 6 months via journey mapping. Helped prioritize product feature requirements based on user feedback and create user stories for roadmap sprints using Kanban and other agile methodologies • Helped with pre-sales and tender responses, RFI/RFP, POCs to clients • Chosen as product, brand ambassador for social media marketing, helped with promo videos Show less

Post Graduate Software Programming Student

• Mar 2015 - Aug 2017

As part of my academic coursework I have achieved and studied the following - • Created a portfolio of scalable Java Enterprise Applications using J2EE, JPA, JavaBeans and JForm, JSF technologies which used MVC software patterns and TOGAF Enterprise architecture frameworks. • Created a portfolio of AWS Cloud Computing projects using S3, RDS for storage, EC2 instances for computing and hosting, MapReduce on EMR for parallel computing analytics. • Created a portfolio of SOA Applications demonstrating use of RESTful, SOAP web services integrating BPMN processes to expose service endpoints returning data in XML and JSON. • Studied current research on User Centred Design patterns and principles. Applied UX principles in designing and defining user stories, use cases, wireframing and prototyping. Conducted live usability tests for resultant end product. • Created portfolios for Object Oriented Programming in Java and procedural programming in C, C#. • Created portfolio of projects demonstrating design of relational Db systems. Normalised data, eliminating redundancies and dependencies from 1NF data. • Used MySQL for RDBMS, IDEs such as NetBeans, Eclipse & Apache Tomcat for Web Application builds. • SDLC management using Agile Scrum Product management through Trello and UML 2.0 diagram and documentation using MS-Visio and Visual Paradigm. Show less

Consultant - Enterprise Performance Management

• Mar 2012 - Dec 2014

Role********Pre-sales, BA, Implementation, PMProfile********• Helped transition organisation data from legacy systems to EPM (enterprise performance management) systems for BI (Business Intelligence), planning, reporting, budgeting and forecasting.• Led projects through phases of requirement gathering, planning, design, build, testing, documentation, user, staff training & overall project management.• Contributed to the Data warehousing process by handling the ETL process and metadata dimension hierarchy identification and creation. Created cubes for reporting. • Used iterative semi-waterfall system development methodology.• Designed & built customised ‘Proof of Concepts’ [POC] as per requirements of prospects to demonstrate relevant product capabilitiesProduct Trainings undergone **********************************• Certified Functional, Technical, PreSales & Support Consultant from Infor solutions. Show less

Associate Consultant - Business Process Modelling

• Aug 2011 - Feb 2012

Role*****• Team Leader – XBRL Outsourcings Services• Team Leader – Debt Sychronication Services• Team Member – Business Consulting• Team Member – Corporate Advisory & outsourcing ServicesProfile*******• Delivery of Business Consulting projects such as design of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Business Process Re-engineering(BPR).• Preparation of Project Feasibility report, CMA Analysis, Debt Synchronisation. • Conversion of Financial Statements into XBRL format• Company Formation, requirement gathering• Supervision of Accounts outsourcing services Show less

Chartered Accountant Intern

• Feb 2007 - Feb 2011

Role ***** • Articled Employee & Senior Consultant, Accounts, Audit & Assurance division Work Profile ************** • Single Entry accounts conversion services for major Government Education Sectors. (Directorates, ITTs) • Prior-Period Accounting for major Government Organisations. • Fund Based accounting for various Non-Profit organisations. • Ad-hoc Grant-in-aid Budget variance reports and process audits [Fund Accountability Statements, Cost Sharing Schedules] as per US-GAAP for a Major US-Based NGO, in tie up with State Authorities. • Statutory Audits, Tax Audits, Internal Audits, Process Audits, Bank Audits, Stock Audits, Debt Synchronisation, etc. Show less