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Shruti Deshpande

Product Owner
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Systematic Product Manager with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers.
Rich experience in working as a product manager with various technologies like Big data, Master data and Data Governance, Chatbot and AR/VR
 Awarded as the best team player by the customer for bringing out an end to end picture of the landscape for the supply chain division for a CPG major, there by streamlining the business requirement and roadmap.
 Helped build a unique modular identity system platform there by bringing about a innovative product for various counties and government to utilize.
 Involved in developing an in-house product chatbot across Retail, CPG & Manufacturing industries which thereby helped in increasing the revenues emerging out of chatbot build by $ 3M
o Create multiple product road maps for multiple CPG , HiTech & Media industries for their Innovation strategy by understand in depth the customer problems and requirements through prioritization
 Worked as a product Manager and MDM consultant there by audited and Identified the cost drivers with respect to Business Process & Master data Management and implemented a solution which optimized the cost by 25%
o Involved in BUILD vs BUY strategic decision for implementing MDM solution at Unilever at a global scale.
o Automated the business to create Data Syndication , set up hierarchies , taxonomies and workflow to help increase the operational efficiencies by 15%
 Collaborated across functional & technical team across multiple geographies during the execution of the programs
Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of B2C products. Ready to offer 11+ years of experience and take on a dynamic new position.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner

Mindtree Ltd.
Bengaluru, Karnataka
09.2017 - Current
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work including mocks for the customer
  • Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
  • Took part in UAT and demo.
  • Interacted and coordinated with various business and internal teams to bring out an efficient product.

Projects:

Digital Identity System

  • Helped in creating a very unique solution which is robust and secure open source Digital Identity system to enable any country to provision unique Digital Identities for their resident and non resident citizens
  • In envisioning a platform as a service for unique identity management system
  • End-to-end business solution for enrolment, pre enrolment to authentication
  • Identified the key epics and stories, based on the product features and business needs
  • Prioritized the usecase for MVP and future releases
  • Help in sprint planning and team building.
  • Worked with UX teams on designing the user journeys and detailed the user stories
  • Trained SI partners on the product developed

AR Solution for Paint Company:

  • Understanding customer problems and business needs and created Road Map with the detailed out MVP
  • Helped in creating a plan to roll out onto 42 counties based on Platform based build approach
  • Worked with business to define, map user requirements like downloading various wall images from different social media platform and creating mocks
  • Managed cross functional teams and multiple stakeholders across geographies during the execution of the program
  • Created a three year roadmap as per business needs
  • Helped in identifying usecase and prioritizing the same as per the business needs and technical complexity
  • Planned the execution strategy then included team sizing and structure, location, timelines

Product Owner

Unilever
Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.2014 - 06.2017

Projects:

Standardizing processes for packaging products across countries:

  • Involved in Preparation of Product Road map for an enterprise Master Data Management
  • Project planning and managed multiple agile delivery teams
  • Helped in formulating the user stories and outlined the scenarios that needs to be tested during the POC's to till actual implementation
  • Give UAT Sign off once the product was tested and ready for deployment.
  • Prioritized the requests in the backlog based on the technical complexity, business value and market needs for Short term vs long term needs
  • Worked with the Cross-functional team and multiple stakeholders across the globe to ensure the requests are prioritized and delivered On-Time

Project Lead

Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2009 - 04.2014
  • Worked across various verticals like manufacturing, retail, healthcare and telecom for implementing, upgrading and supporting SAP MDM technically.
  • Helped in Planning, release and rollout for projects
  • Worked on agile projects with stringent timelines for global rollout projects.
  • Was key in identifying the project requirements, features and prioritization of features for a seamless release.
  • SAP MDM Data Modeling for Material, vendor and customer.
  • Creation ports, import systems
  • Designing workflows for MDM –BPM
  • Building maps, schemas and integrating Interfaces for MDM – ECC
  • Migration of data into MDM and export of data to ECC and non-SAP systems
  • Worked on configurations, matching merging techniques, creation of qualified tables
  • Creating test cases and other attributes for upgrade
  • Maintaining tuples, hierarchy and taxonomy tables

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

BITS Pilani

Bachelors of Computer Application - Computer And Information Sciences

PESIT

Skills

Stakeholder relationship management

Accomplishments

  • Involved in developing various business models for AR/VR and chatbot across Retail, CPG & Manufacturing industries which helped in increasing the revenues by $ 3M
  • Create multiple product road maps for multiple CPG , HiTech & Media industries for their Innovation strategy
  • Created multiple Business Models across industries using the proprietary Chatbot framework to help the customers to Reduce operating expense and increase sales
  • Created an innovative AR solution to help Professionals and end consumers to visualize and select the right paint
  • Audited and Identified the cost drivers with respect to Business Process & Master data Management and implemented a solution which optimized the cost by 25%
  • Alternative solution in bringing down cost incurred to the organization through master data
  • Involved in BUILD vs BUY strategic decision for implementing MDM solution at Unilever at a global scale.
  • Automated the business to create Data Syndication , set up hierarchies , taxonomies and workflow to help increase the operational efficiencies by 15%
  • Collaborated across functional & technical team across multiple geographies during the execution of the programs
  • Managed a team in a high risk transition MDM project during a take over from the incumbent with no escalations and helped in increasing the revenues

Timeline

Product Owner

Mindtree Ltd.
09.2017 - Current

Product Owner

Unilever
11.2014 - 06.2017

Project Lead

Wipro Technologies
08.2009 - 04.2014

Master of Science - Software Engineering

BITS Pilani

Bachelors of Computer Application - Computer And Information Sciences

PESIT
Shruti DeshpandeProduct Owner