Basant Shanker
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Saama
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Director of Product Management
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Apr 2022 - Present
Boston, Massachusetts, United States Working as Senior Director of Product Management for Saama Platform's Data Hub and Foundation & Framework. In this capacity, I orchestrate the development of strategic product roadmaps, meticulously prioritizing features and enhancements based on customer feedback and business impact. My role involves collaborative engagement with Sales, Marketing, and cross-functional teams, ensuring the alignment of product strategies. With a commitment to seamless execution, I work closely with Operations… Show more Working as Senior Director of Product Management for Saama Platform's Data Hub and Foundation & Framework. In this capacity, I orchestrate the development of strategic product roadmaps, meticulously prioritizing features and enhancements based on customer feedback and business impact. My role involves collaborative engagement with Sales, Marketing, and cross-functional teams, ensuring the alignment of product strategies. With a commitment to seamless execution, I work closely with Operations, Quality Assurance, Engineering, and Delivery teams. I am dedicated to fostering an innovative culture within the product team, nurturing creative solutions and novel ideas. My leadership extends to guiding and empowering the product management team.
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Director of Product Management
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Apr 2020 - May 2022
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Cognizant
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Engineer
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Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
Greater Boston Area In Current role, I worked as product architect and help team to design the product with current technologies and architecture. I help team in assessment of current architecture and advise the new architecture on AWS cloud using Java, Node.js, oracle, PostgreSQL, Python, R etc.
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Product Engineering Lead - Associate Director
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Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
Greater Boston Area Working as Product Engineering Lead for Patient Data Repository and Central Admin Product of SmartTrials Platform.
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Solutions Architect - Sr. Manager
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May 2015 - Sep 2016
Greater Boston Area Working as solution architect for Patient Data Repository product of SmartTrials platform. SmartTrials product provides real-time, proactive and regulatory-compliant risk assessment and global trial oversight using Patient Data Repository and Operational Data Repository as data layer. Patient Data Repository provides easy integration with Rave and other source system, high security on data access, complete traceability of data, intelligence on auto mapping to convert source data to SDTM+… Show more Working as solution architect for Patient Data Repository product of SmartTrials platform. SmartTrials product provides real-time, proactive and regulatory-compliant risk assessment and global trial oversight using Patient Data Repository and Operational Data Repository as data layer. Patient Data Repository provides easy integration with Rave and other source system, high security on data access, complete traceability of data, intelligence on auto mapping to convert source data to SDTM+ format, support generation of submission output and provide KRI report on patient data.
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Project Quality Manager - Sr. Manager
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Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Greater Boston Area
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Delivery Manager - Sr. Manager
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Mumbai Area, India Managed end to end delivery of Data Management (Study Setup, analysis and reporting) for one of top 5 pharmaceutical company. Responsibilities included driving global delivery, P&L, Resource Management, Synchronization between IT & BPS and Customer satisfaction.
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Delivery Manager - Sr. Manager
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May 2012 - Jun 2013
Mumbai Worked as Delivery Manager for group of approximate 35 application and 10 development projects for one of largest pharma company. a) Responsibility of resource management (approximately 180 resources): Conflict resolution, Team motivation, People development, b) Single accountability of all delivery c) All other Project Management activities d) Responsible for Client Management e) Accountable for P&L
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Project Manager
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Jun 2011 - May 2012
Mumbai Responsible for RFP response, LSH Training for new resource, Project reporting to Cognizant Higher management, Involved in building competency on LSH, Contributing in Business Development. Also responsible for Resource management, Project delivery and Project Management activity of LSH Support project and System design of project which is designed to implement LSH for Clinical Data Supply data for one of top 5 pharmaceutical company
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Project Manager
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Nov 2009 - May 2011
Basel Area, Switzerland Responsible for RFP response, LSH Training for new resource, Project reporting to Cognizant Higher management, Involved in building competency on LSH, Contributing in Business Development. Also responsible for Resource management, Project delivery and Project Management activity of Clinical Trial Management System for one of top 5 pharmaceutical company.
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Onsite Co-ordinator
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Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
Hartford, Connecticut Area Worked as Onsite Project Co-ordinator: I worked as Onsite Project Coordinator of Wipro for Specialty IT Business of Client and also as the single point of contact between different Teams (Infrastructure, Business and IT). I was involved in Project Management, Weekly Status Reporting, Job Allocation between Team Members, preparation & updation of Project Plan and Resource Allocation.
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Wipro
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Onsite Co-ordinator
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Nov 2005 - Dec 2008
Hartford, Connecticut Area Worked as Onsite Project Co-ordinator: I worked as Onsite Project Coordinator of Wipro for Specialty IT Business of Client and also as the single point of contact between different Teams (Infrastructure, Business and IT). I was involved in Project Management, Job execution in compliance to Processes, Weekly Status Reporting, Job Allocation between Team Members, preparation & updation of Project Plan and Resource Allocation. I was also involved in System design and architecture… Show more Worked as Onsite Project Co-ordinator: I worked as Onsite Project Coordinator of Wipro for Specialty IT Business of Client and also as the single point of contact between different Teams (Infrastructure, Business and IT). I was involved in Project Management, Job execution in compliance to Processes, Weekly Status Reporting, Job Allocation between Team Members, preparation & updation of Project Plan and Resource Allocation. I was also involved in System design and architecture of the system. I Participated in POC for Forms 10g, Java, MQ and .NET integration. Show less
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Tech Mahindra
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Lead
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Jul 2003 - Oct 2005
Hartford, Connecticut Area Worked as Technical Lead / Onsite Technical Lead I was responsible for preparing the Functional Requirement Document, understanding the existing VAS system and designing of the new System. I was also responsible for Client Interaction, System study at Offshore and Onsite, preparation of Impact Analysis Document. I also provided Technical Assistance to the Team Members.
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Astt. Manager
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Sep 2000 - Jun 2003
·System study at client location ·Design of system including Data Flow Diagram, Functional Diagram ·Implementation team leader ·Coding and testing
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Education
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University of Hartford
MBA, Finance -
National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur
BE, Computer Sc. and Engg.