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Ashish Bajpai

Senior Product Manager, Cisco Systems
Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

Senior Product Manager offering 15 + years of success in IT industry. Extensive experience in defining product strategy, product vision, product roadmap, product documentation, market research,competitor analysis, Go-to-Market strategy, feature delivery & trade offs and end to end product delivery from idea generation to product launch. Highly skilled in stakeholder management & cross-functional team collaborations.

Technical Expertise: Cloud & Security, Containers & Microservices, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Observability, DevOps, Virtualization, Cyber Security, Service Mesh

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
6
6
Certificates

Work History

SE - Product Management

Cisco Systems
Bangalore
09.2020 - Current

Role: Senior Product Manager

  • Document user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams prioritize backlogs.
  • Prepare product related materials and documentation (PRD, PRFAQ, CJM, Content Strategy, OST, User Persona decks etc.) for sales, marketing, and end-users.
  • Work with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Conduct customer Interviews and created customer pain points and opportunity decks
  • Review sales, customer concerns, and new opportunities to drive business strategy at weekly planning sessions.
  • Prioritize roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
  • Collaborate with sales, marketing,UI/UX and support teams to launch products on time and within budget.
  • Monitored market trends and competitor performance to update promotional strategies.
  • Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
  • Reviewed new opportunities to drive business strategy at planning sessions.
  • Spearheaded collaborative efforts to bring products to market.

Product Lead

DXC Technology
Bangalore
08.2015 - 09.2020

ROLE: Technical Product Lead

  • Lead initiatives from product discovery, working closely with design and the engineering technical lead to propose refine and define scope.
  • Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
  • Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
  • Managed product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation.
  • Created content including Videos,Blogs, Use case documents for the Product.
  • Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation
  • Participate in architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale solutions built on AWS and also be part of the development lifecycle.
  • Work with product designers to whiteboard, develop, and refine clear & intuitive user experiences
  • Consulted with buyers to determine projected demand for products and services.
  • Lead market-driven product launches, beta programs and new product introductions including developing GTM strategy
  • Boosted customer base penetration using creative promotional approaches.

Senior System Support Engineer

AllScripts India
Pune
02.2013 - 07.2015

Role: Delivery Lead

  • Designed, Built and configured new AWS, VMWare & Citrix Farm for the customer.
  • Managed Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (Powershell, Ansible, Terraform etc).
  • Configuration management using Puppet/Ansible.
  • Experience building and managing CI/CD workflows and complex system integrations
  • Experience in creating Continuous Integration system using Jenkins, Puppet
  • Experience in creating Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub
  • Automate solutions for repeatable problems
  • Did an onsite Visit to a customer based out at Arkansas, USA to understand their Infrastructure requirements and designed a solution as per their need

IT Service Delivery Consultant II

Hewlett Packard Global Soft India Pvt. Limited
Bengaluru
08.2011 - 02.2013
  • Citrix Presentation/Xenapp Farm wide Management
  • Work on Incident/Change/Problem Management
  • Creating Scripts for automating Health Check report providing detail about overall Citrix farm including disk space utilization on Citrix servers

Corporate Support Engineer

FactSet Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
09.2010 - 07.2011
  • Providing L2 support for multiple infrastructure servers including Citrix/ Windows/ VMWare/Linux/Exchange/SQL/HPDM
  • Sending Reports to related Capacity management of infrastructure servers

Sr. System Support Engineer

Sankhya Infotech Limited
Hyderabad
08.2008 - 09.2010
  • Server Administration & User maintenance in AD (creation, securing, disabling, deletion of user accounts)
  • Upgarded all Windows 2003 servers to Windows Server 2008 R2 including AD/Exchange/Lync/File/Print

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

IEC College of Engineering And Technology
Gr. Noida
Aug 2003 - 07.2007

Skills

    Product Management

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Certification

Certification in Advance Product Management from Indian Institute of Management, Khozikode

Timeline

SE - Product Management

Cisco Systems
09.2020 - Current

Product Lead

DXC Technology
08.2015 - 09.2020

Senior System Support Engineer

AllScripts India
02.2013 - 07.2015

IT Service Delivery Consultant II

Hewlett Packard Global Soft India Pvt. Limited
08.2011 - 02.2013

Corporate Support Engineer

FactSet Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 07.2011

Sr. System Support Engineer

Sankhya Infotech Limited
08.2008 - 09.2010

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

IEC College of Engineering And Technology
Aug 2003 - 07.2007
Ashish BajpaiSenior Product Manager, Cisco Systems