Manoj Kumar
Product Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Diligent Product Manager offering 5 plus years of success in product development, market research, creating and managing roadmap & product backlog items and data analysis. Having 15 plus years of experience in IT industry. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch. Highly experienced, results-focused Agile and Scrum Coach, Trainer, and Consultant with an outstanding track record of success accelerating enterprise-wide performance and development quality. Proven ability to guide and coach diverse teams through integration of Agile methods, mindsets, and best practices. Leverage comprehensive knowledge of evolving DevOps, Agile, and Product Management tools to navigate emerging obstacles. Skilled communicator and collaborator, able to forge strong working relationships with key stakeholders and internal team members to promote cohesion and enhance capacity.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
9
9
Certificates
Work History
Product Manager
DevOn
Bangalore
01.2022 - Current
- Work closely with key stakeholders to understand and document their product visions, needs and requirements.
- Manage and maintained product roadmap aligned with the company vision with regular updates and revision.
- Translate product ideas and vision into actionable work for our development team, including use cases, workflows, epics, stories, tasks, and product wireframes.
- Managed a highly effective product development team consisting of one technical team lead, 7 developers and 2 QA engineers.
- Worked with cross-functional teams on Product Development from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, deployment, and performance measurement.
Product Owner
Retail Kloud9 Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
07.2021 - 12.2021
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Manage Business Requirements. Client Communication, Requirement Understanding and converting requirements into technical documents (BRD & User Story)
- Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications & change request.
- Assisted the quality management team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed
- Developed wireframes, site maps and content inventories for new website designs
Associate Product Manager
Merck India
Bangalore
12.2017 - 07.2021
- Develop detailed product requirements that define the user capabilities, specific functional specifications, data and analytics and additional details that show how the user stories are to be satisfied.
- Partnered with IT to ensure alignment and realization of business requirements during the development process.
- Product planning eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, business process descriptions, user stories, and scenarios.
- Spearhead the overhaul of the entire user experience and user interface.
- Manage and maintained product roadmap aligned with the company vision with regular updates and revision.
- Managed healthy product backlog for smooth delivery of requirement sprint on sprint.
- Achieved increase in product revenue growth in last 2 years by planning and launching many new key features.
- Improved user activation rate by 11% year on year and boosted conversions to premium plans by17% by strategizing and implementing a new user on boarding flow.
- Conducted customer interviews for product feedback, with suggested improvements leading to an increased customer satisfaction level.
- Worked closely with customers & marketing team and presented key upcoming features quarterly to the management before pushing them into product backlog.
- Worked with cross-functional teams on Product Development from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, deployment, and performance measurement.
- Managed the requirements over JIRA & JAMA requirement management tools.
Product Owner
Marlabs Innovation Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
12.2015 - 12.2017
- Managed detailed product requirements that define the user capabilities, specific functional specifications, data and analytics and additional details that show how the user stories are to be satisfied.
- Product planning eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, business process descriptions, user stories, and scenarios.
- Spearhead the overhaul of the entire user experience and user interface.
- Manage and maintained product roadmap aligned with the company vision with regular updates and revision.
- Managed healthy product backlog for smooth delivery of requirement sprint on sprint.
Sr. Business Analyst
Emids Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
12.2014 - 09.2015
- Manage Business Requirements. Client Communication, Requirement Understanding and converting requirements into technical documents (BRD, Epic & User Story).
- Conducted and facilitated workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with internal & external stakeholder.
- Worked closely with the product manager and the management team to understand business requirements and thus bridge the gap between As Is & To Be process.
- Participated in various testing related review meetings. And handling queries of internal and external stakeholders on day to day basis.
- Managed grooming session with the team before the start of the each sprints.
- Presented the sprint deliverables to the business at the end of each sprints.
- Proposed recommendation over the product to improve the business.
Business Analyst
HCL Infotech Ltd. (A subsidiary of HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD.)
Bangalore
10.2012 - 10.2014
- Manage Business Requirements. Client Communication, Requirement Understanding and converting requirements into technical documents (BRD, FSD, SSD).
- Conducted and facilitated workshops and requirement elicitation sessions with internal & external stakeholder.
- Worked closely with the product/project manager and the management team to understand business requirements and thus bridge the gap between As Is & To Be process.
- Working closely with the test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure that the testing is done according to the project plan & deliveries.
- I assisted the quality management team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into test plans and ensure that the proper testing plans have been completed.
- Participated in various testing related review meetings. And handling queries of internal and external stakeholders on day to day basis.
Business Analyst
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
08.2011 - 10.2012
- Managed requirement and translated requirement into BRD & User stories
- Collaborated on all stages of agile development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to production releases
- Created wireframes & mockup to give more clarity to the requirement
- Groomed stories to team and presented the sprint deliverable to business stakeholder
- Participated in various testing related review meetings. And handling queries of internal and external stakeholders on day to day basis
Business Analyst
Icreon Communication Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 08.2011
- Managed requirement at all levels of agile development life cycle
- Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance
Business Analyst
ANMsoft Online Pvt. Ltd.
05.2008 - 08.2010
- Analyzed secondary data to understand the business need and propose business solution
- Understand and gathered business requirement in the requirement phase of waterfall development cycle.
- Documented Needs/Vision document, BRD, FSD, SSD & TMD.
- Handled day to day queries of internal and external stakeholder
- Worked closely with the test team to develop system integration test scripts and ensure that the testing is done according to the planned functional specification document
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science (PGDDS) - Data Science
International Institute of Information Technology (IIITB)
Bangalore, India 12.2018 - 2019.03
MBA - Systems Management
National Institute of Technology (NIT, Durgapur)
Durgapur, West Bengal 06.2006 - 2008.05
B. Tech - Electronics & Communication
G.L.A. Institute of Technology & Management
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh 06.2001 - 2005.06
Skills
Stakeholder Management
undefinedAccomplishments
- Conceived & launched new features for Exact Online HR & NieuweStroom
- Conceived & launched UI/UX design for MyMilliQ application for Merck India.
- Conceived & launched new features for My Milli Q
- Conceived & launched new ePOS features for Gate Gourmet
- Created and conducted Agile & Scrum Induction program for new joiners. Took more than 12 sessions in a year.
- Conducted DevOps Certification Training Program for DevOn employees. Provided DevOps training to 65 employees in the year 2023.
- Conducted DevOps Certification Training program to 9 European customers.
- Created & Managed HPTA framework for teams.
- Received prestigious in-house Saraswati Award for creating whitepapers for High Performance Team Assessment (HPTA) framework.
- Conducted Scrum Bootcamp and trained 15 scrum masters. This helped the Scrum masters to manage scrum practices more efficiently and effectively within the team.
- Created & Managed WoW Next Framework for teams. Worked closely with the 25 teams for implementation of WoW framework.
- Created reporting structure to govern and manage implementation of WoW framework with the teams.
- Facilitated the transition of 3 development teams to the Scrum framework. This helped in Increased project delivery.
Certification
Product Development & Management Certification from Indian School of Business (ISB)
Functional Domain Expertise
- Human Resource IT Solutions (Manage Employer, Manage Employee, Recruitment, Salary, Contracts, Training & Assets)
- Travel (Airlines: End 2 End Booking & Ticketing for Airlines, GDS (Galileo, Amadeus & Farelogix) Integration, Loyalty Management System)
- In-flight Catering Management System (Inflight Catering, Onboard Retail & Food Service Provisioning)
- Healthcare (US Healthcare)
- E-Governance (UIDAI Aadhar)
- E-Commerce (B2B, B2C & D2C)
- Retail (Sports Merchandise, Food, Airlines)
- Power Distribution Management System (Electricity & Gas)
- Life Science & IoT (Internet Of Things)
IT Skills
Database: My SQL
Language: UML, XML, JSON, R & Octave
Visualization Tool: Tableau
Prototyping Tools: MS Visio & Axure RP Pro
Requirement Management Tools: JAMA, JIRA, RALLY & Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)
UML Modeling Tools : StarUML, Rational Rose 2002, Rational Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect
Others: MS Office, MS Excel, R Studio, Bigdata (Hive & SparkR), SoapUI
Timeline
Product Manager
DevOn
01.2022 - Current
Product Owner
Retail Kloud9 Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2021 - 12.2021
Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science (PGDDS) - Data Science
International Institute of Information Technology (IIITB)
12.2018 - 2019.03
Associate Product Manager
Merck India
12.2017 - 07.2021
Product Owner
Marlabs Innovation Pvt. Ltd.
12.2015 - 12.2017
Sr. Business Analyst
Emids Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
12.2014 - 09.2015
Business Analyst
HCL Infotech Ltd. (A subsidiary of HCL INFOSYSTEMS LTD.)
10.2012 - 10.2014
Business Analyst
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
08.2011 - 10.2012
Business Analyst
Icreon Communication Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 08.2011
Business Analyst
ANMsoft Online Pvt. Ltd.
05.2008 - 08.2010
MBA - Systems Management
National Institute of Technology (NIT, Durgapur)
06.2006 - 2008.05
B. Tech - Electronics & Communication
G.L.A. Institute of Technology & Management
06.2001 - 2005.06
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