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AMAR LOKESWAR

Product Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced leader with a strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for a collaborative approach and commitment to excellence. A dedicated professional with a history of consistently meeting company goals through organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to enhance the organizational brand effectively.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Manager

Ford India
08.2020 - Current
  • Managed full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures were in place.
  • Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
  • Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
  • Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
  • Managed stakeholder expectations effectively throughout entire product development process.
  • Documented user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
  • Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
  • Analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
  • Implemented Agile methodologies for more efficient project management and team collaboration.
  • Streamlined product release cycles, employing agile project management techniques to accelerate time to market.

Data Engineer

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS CENTER
  • Enhanced data quality by performing thorough cleaning, validation, and transformation tasks.
  • Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
  • Automated routine tasks using Python scripts, increasing team productivity and reducing manual errors.
  • Migrated legacy systems to modern big-data technologies, improving performance and scalability while minimizing business disruption.
  • .Fine-tuned query performance and optimized database structures for faster, more accurate data retrieval and reporting.
  • Designed scalable and maintainable data models to support business intelligence initiatives and reporting needs.
  • Streamlined complex workflows by breaking them down into manageable components for easier implementation and maintenance.
  • Evaluated various tools, technologies, and best practices for potential adoption in the company''s data engineering processes.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams for seamless integration of data sources into the company''s data ecosystem.
  • Increased efficiency of data-driven decision making by creating user-friendly dashboards that enable quick access to key metrics.
  • Gathered, defined and refined requirements, led project design and oversaw implementation.

Senior System Engineer

IBM INDIA
08.2008 - 09.2013
  • Reduced downtime for critical systems by proactively identifying potential issues and conducting preventative maintenance.
  • Identified software issues and handled troubleshooting to resolve quickly.

Managing the team and completing the responsibilities outlined below, as well as motivating the team to work together.

•. Conducting Forums for product teams

• Hive data product creations.

•Retrieving data from third party source and loading into Hadoop

•Setting the process of loading and automating it

•Work with analytics teams and give them data as per their requirements

•Data transformation using Alteryx, Informatica BDM and Spark

• Create Alteryx workflows, Qlik View and Qlik Sense Analytics Dashboard

•Maintenance and support of application data transformation

•Data steward role for the applications data in hive.

•Instituting application support at IST

•Facilitating weekly metrics report generations

•Solving tickets under incident management and extracting incident report from Remedy to develop future course of actions

Senior Software Engineer

COVANSYS INDIA PVT LTD
03.2005 - 07.2008

New enhancements of component designing based on the requirements. Coding, unit test.

  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
  • Tested functional compliance of company products.

Education

B.E Mechanical -

Vijayanagar Engineering College
Bellary, Karnataka
06.1997 - 01.2001

Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations -

Coursera

Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud -

Coursera
08.2023 - 09.2023

Innovating with Data and Google Cloud - undefined

Digital transformation with Google cloud - undefined

Google cloud Big data and Machine learning fundamentals - undefined

Skills

Project Planning

Teamwork and Collaboration

Project Management

Requirements Gathering

End to End Feature Delivery

Prioritization and Execution

Data-driven decision-making

Technical Support

Rally

Product Backlog Management

Stakeholder Communications

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Telugu
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Upper intermediate (B2)
Tamil
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud -

Coursera
08.2023 - 09.2023

Product Manager

Ford India
08.2020 - Current

Senior System Engineer

IBM INDIA
08.2008 - 09.2013

Senior Software Engineer

COVANSYS INDIA PVT LTD
03.2005 - 07.2008

B.E Mechanical -

Vijayanagar Engineering College
06.1997 - 01.2001

Data Engineer

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS CENTER

Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations -

Coursera

Innovating with Data and Google Cloud - undefined

Digital transformation with Google cloud - undefined

Google cloud Big data and Machine learning fundamentals - undefined

AMAR LOKESWARProduct Manager