Proven track record of building enterprise class SaaS products. Extremely data oriented, with great collaboration & interpersonal skills.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head of Product
Congruent Solutions Inc.
06.2019 - Current
Built from ground up, multiple products for the US Retirement industry, used today by leading Retirement plan providers - https://www.congruentsolutions.com/core-solutions/
Increased user adoption – 15X users in 3 years across products
Built the Product Management practice (4 Product Managers & 15 Business Analysts) and coached them on skills needed to succeed like driving with high degree of ownership and advocating customer needs.
Identified an un-served market need and launched the CORE Mapper product. Led to ~ USD1 Million increase in annual license revenue (~15% of product revenue)
Identified product upgrade as a priority and convinced the leadership to invest in a UX refresh and move to micro services architecture from SOA
Identified new monetization opportunities – multi-tenant version of existing products for the small plan market and launching UXaaS while leveraging existing end user capabilities
Enhanced product capabilities & lowered time to market through adoption of tools and partnerships – Personal rate of return, Retirement readiness tools, DocuSign, GIACT, SendGrid and Payroll provider integrations
Retired a product that had some inefficiencies, and replaced it with a combination of offerings from products within our current suite – leading to 2X efficiency gains for customers and reduced internal spends on maintenance and upkeep
Product Manager
Congruent Solutions Inc.
01.2016 - 12.2019
Envisioned, built and shipped multiple product features based on customer feedback, user & market research and regulations, many of which were instrumental in initial client sign-ups.
Worked through some tight timeframes during product launch and convinced the leadership to go with a light MVP and reduced go to market time by one quarter
Got all stakeholders to agree on need for customized front ends and dashboards across users and worked with UX and engineering teams to develop this
Championed test automation, resulting in partial automation (60%) of our test suites, saving us ~7 days effort with each regression run
Lead BA (2014-15)/ Senior BA/ BA (2011-13)
Congruent Solutions Inc.
05.2011 - 12.2015
Worked on multiple agile teams formulating complex user journeys and functions in the Retirement and Financial domains.
Education
MBA -
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Chennai, TN
05.2010 - 05.2011
Masters in Computer Applications -
SSN College of Engineering
Chennai, TN
04.2004 - 05.2007
Skills
Product Management
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Timeline
Head of Product
Congruent Solutions Inc.
06.2019 - Current
Product Manager
Congruent Solutions Inc.
01.2016 - 12.2019
Lead BA (2014-15)/ Senior BA/ BA (2011-13)
Congruent Solutions Inc.
05.2011 - 12.2015
MBA -
Great Lakes Institute of Management
05.2010 - 05.2011
Masters in Computer Applications -
SSN College of Engineering
04.2004 - 05.2007
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