Headline

Product Management, Software and Device Monetization

About

Product Manager, HELPING producers of software and intelligent device manufacturers, PROTECT their intellectual property and MONETIZE their offerings.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

lovable

openai

Figma Make

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Flexera, Nov 2019 - Present · 7 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, as Product Manager (Flexera) Nov 2019 - Present, Bangalore, IN • Product positioning, strategy, pricing, vision and roadmap for FlexNet Licensing products (Leader of License and Entitlement lifecycle Management). • Stakeholders’ communication, run customer advisory, do market research, competitive analysis and enable marketing/sales, participate in analyst relationship and work with Product Owners. • Own per product strategy that reflects understanding of business unit goals, opportunities, problems in market and value that customer gets. • Deliver battle cards for field, roadmap for product owner, pricing recommendations for sales, material for analysts briefing, product & capability positioning for sales engineering • Data, Reports and Analytics • Event Notifications & Alerts: Compelling up-sell cross-sell overdraft and outcome-based events at their customer accounts for vendors. Value, expiry, compliance, overage and budgeting alerts for end customers. • Own product backlog, converting initiative to Epics, User Stories and breaking into thinnest possible vertical slice • Meeting customers for sprint reviews to demonstrate the incremental value team has delivered. • Talk at Soft Summits, Sales Kickoff, Customer Events • Own Roadmap, run backlog refinement and Run Business reviews with customers

Technical Product Owner at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Oct 2010 - Nov 2019 · 9 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, as Product Owner (HPE) Apr 2014 – Sep 2019, Bangalore, IN • Work with Senior Product Manager to understand the strategy for Call Home Activation, instrumenting licensing & entitlements with compelling events, curating agent that collect events and persona-based dashboards for Usage Hub initiative. • Transform product vision to to Features, User Stories • Vision driven by HPE strategy to capture, Monetization opportunities via usage, overage, denial of service, trial/eval expiry and custom events • Refine User Stories and Acceptance Criteria • Run scrum teams, deliver and demonstrate incremental value at end of each sprint • Inception, Construction, Inspect & Adopt Product Activation Server as Developer, Technical Lead (HPE) Oct 2010 – Mar 2014, Bangalore, IN • Develop Software licensing & Usage collection components written in Java, C#, C++ (To be used by any software written in their own technology). • Develop and Architect license models like SEAT, Floating/Concurrent, Consumable, Virtual User Days • Architect Product Activation Server for call home activation, telemetry and usage collection • Lead the licensing as components interacting with various Order and Entitlement systems

Product Owner, Technical Lead at Keane India Ltd (NTT Data), Jun 2006 - Nov 2010 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, as Product Owner (Keane) Aug 2008 - Sep 2010, London, UK • Work with client business systems managers/ business analysts to envision enhancements that will benefit the business. • Conduct proof of concepts to explore the necessary technology choices in the business environment which will give the maximum ROI. • Produce system architecture/design/integration documents for systems. as Developer, Tech Lead (Keane) Jun 2006 - Jul, 2008 Chennai, IN • Proof Of Concept for occasionally connected Project Planning Product • Application using Windows Mobile 5.0, Active Sync, Replication and Remote Data Access • Delivered: POC Approval, Implementation, Demonstration and Deployment • Domain Model, Use Case Realization, Design, Coding and Test Automation

Education

Master of Science, Software Engineering, Bharathiar University

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