SWAROOP ALWAR
Product Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
An experienced professional aiming for senior level assignments in Product Management/ Project Management with an organization of repute.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Product Manager
London Stock Exchange/Refinitiv
London
03.2005 - Current
- Owned and managed products like Significant Developments, Thematic News Pages, and Role-based Suggested Lists
- Created product/content roadmaps in coordination with business and strategy teams for Reuters news
- Improving customer experience of Refinitiv news
- Maintaining and updating key documents like sales aid, content factsheet and glossary, user guides etc
- For internal and external clients.
Content Specialist
London Stock Exchange/Refinitiv
Bengaluru
- Functioned as Business Analyst, Process Expert, and Project Manager
- Handled multiple content sets like Significant Developments, Officers & Directors, Descriptions, Competitors & weblinks
- Collaborated with business and technical teams to define business requirements and implement innovative solutions that meet corporate goals/create new business opportunities
- Generated key project documents such as requirement specs, functional specs, test cases, and data and process models.
Education
MBA - Finance
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi (SSSIHL)
Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh 06.2002 - 03.2004
B.Com. -
SSSIHL, Brindavan, Bangalore
Bangalore, Karnataka 03.1999 - 03.2002
Skills
Product Management
Project Management
Content Management
Business Analysis
Business Strategy
Content Strategy
JIRA
Confluence
Servicenow
Client Relationship Management
Accomplishments
- Received award for curation and launch of COVID-19 App on Eikon/Workspace
- Won the Early Bird Prize and Best Idea award for innovation across Thomson Reuters India, 2009
- Received the Bangalore Site Award for FAST values.
- Nominated for Reuters Wall of Fame for Q4, 2007
Professional Enhancements
- Green Belt Six-Sigma Program
- Business Analysis Training
- Project Management Training
Products Handled
- Significant Developments, Concise descriptions of crucial and tagging of market-moving events provided in near real time.
- Thematic News Applications, News oriented pages in Refinitiv Eikon/Workspace that are focussed on key events like Ukraine war, COVID-19, BREXIT, Elections, etc. happening around the world.
- Role-based Suggested Sources, Suggest most valuable sources for clients based on their user profiles, asset classes or geographies.
Tools Used
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Tableau
- ServiceNow
Projects Handled
- Signal in the Noise, Introduced news Significance tagging for Company news and later for other categories like Fixed Income, Forex, Commodities, Politics, etc. to enable customers discover signal in the noise.
- Website Aggregation, On-boarded web aggregated content from over 3000 sources to Refinitiv platform to improve our news offering.
- News Discovery, Improved discovery of News on Eikon by enhancing the quality of underlying metadata maintained by multiple content teams.
- Green Belt Project for Capacity Planning, Followed STEP approach unlike the usual DMAIC approach. Reduced the lead time involved in capturing corporate officers' data. The project resulted in annual savings of around $44,000.
- CAST, Created process efficiency through reduction of the research time involved in sourcing press releases.
B1 B2 Visa
Yes
Activities
- Part-time teaching experience for MBA students
- Participate regularly in rural and other service camps organized by Sri Sathya Sai Organization
- Managed Hostel Self Reliance Bakery Department during 2000-03
Canada Visa
Yes
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 01/19/82
Timeline
Product Manager
London Stock Exchange/Refinitiv
03.2005 - Current
MBA - Finance
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi (SSSIHL)
06.2002 - 03.2004
B.Com. -
SSSIHL, Brindavan, Bangalore
03.1999 - 03.2002
Content Specialist
London Stock Exchange/Refinitiv