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# Shyam Bhaskaran on Tal

## Headline

Product Management \| Senior Product Manager \- IBM watsonx

## About

Product Management Professional with over 9 years of solid product management skills and experience in serving enterprise and SMB customers across all the geographic locations supporting large multi\-million dollar programs with different organizations\. A certified professional currently working with IBM who excels at product management, messaging, positioning, and carving out a meticulous go\-to\-market strategy for Generative AI capabilities of watsonx across all geographic regions\.

## Location

Kochi

## AI stack

claude code

perplexity

Figma Make

Microsoft Copilot

Milvus

## Work experience

Senior Product Manager at IBM, Apr 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, Working as an Technical Product Manager for watsonx\.data as a SaaS Lead by working with engineering\. clients, sales and marketing across the globe to help launch the watsonx\.data to Enterprise and other customers by excelling in managing products, creating impactful communication and market positioning\. Leading the SaaS portfolio of watsonx\.data and designing a comprehensive strategy for market entry using PLG metrics and current market trends\. Implementing a new strategy BYOC \[Bring Your Own Cloud\] which would seem to have more footprint and interest across enterprise customer\. Working directly with a customer on the initial implementation on a $2M deal and working to support to move their workloads for an easy transition\. Also leading the efforts in compliance and other certifications making sure we are competitive against all geographical and policy based enhancements\.

Product Manager at IBM, Jan 2024 \- Apr 2026 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, Worked as an Inbound Product Manager working with watsonx\.data Engineering Center of Excellence team and worked directly with Top 50 enterprise customers and helped them in onboarding onto the watsonx\.data platform and worked in promoting and enabling customers with in\-house software assets to faster onboarding and between ROI\. Worked on the Outbound Product Management team on the watsonx platform as it includes three core components and a set of AI assistants designed to help you scale and accelerate the impact of AI with your trusted data across your business which include watsonx\.ai\. watsonx\.data and watsonx\.governance\.

Lead \- Product Management & User Experience Engineering at RedBlack Software, Jun 2022 \- Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, Lead the Product Management and User Experience Engineering and managing a team liaising with the Product and Sales Team to drive requirements and generate business value for customers and catering to the latest UX patterns and engineering requirements\.

Senior Product Owner at RedBlack Software, May 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, RedBlack now part of intelliflo, is a leading provider of portfolio rebalancing and trading solutions for asset management firms, wealth managers, registered investment advisors \(RIAs\), brokers, banks and trust companies\.

Staff Digital Product Manager at Baker Hughes, Nov 2018 \- May 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, Cadence™ \- Baker Hughes Cadence Surface Acquisition Software – As a Product Owner for multiple cross functional teams for worked with the different SME’s for the tools and the domain and helped the teams translate them into software requirements\. Cadence is the surface data acquisition software that collects the data coming up from down the drill hole\. In addition to collecting a ton of data about what the structure of the borehole looks like, it also steers the drill head in any direction that it may need to go\. Jewel Suite – Cloud Enablement & Application Commercialization – Working as a Product Manager for multiple cross functional teams under the Jewel Suite Cloud Enablement & Application Commercialization program which leads its efforts to transform the existing reservoir planning and well design software suite \[Jewel Suite\] under the oil and gas domain\. The cloud enablement roadmap currently is migrating the data management system and Volumetric Uncertainty Analysis components for dynamic reservoir modelling and well planning to be migrated onto the Azure and AWS Cloud Services by containerization using Docker and orchestration by Kubernetes\.

Program Product Owner / Solution Delivery Owner at Xerox, Dec 2016 \- Nov 2018 · 2 yrs, Kochi, Kerala, India, Xerox Configure Price Quote: This was a particular application created in collaboration with Oracle to create custom made offerings for Xerox along with rationalization of different workflows across 3 continents\. Xerox Contract To Cash: X CTC, a Service Delivery Integration leading the Delivery Workstream on the Contract to Cash project\. The project cost was over $60M across 4 years, with 35\+ integrations and 4 workstreams\. Xtract – Global Device Customization Center

Senior Product Owner at Xerox, Jul 2014 \- Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, Xtract – Global Device Customization Center – Backend Supply Chain Operations: Was a member of the DCC Core team, in this role, and helped the Steering committee decide by providing a matrix benefits with respect to different LOB’s of Supply Chain Operations by optimization by utilizing optimal resources and efficient time management\. Xerox Services Manager: Was the SPOC for a $ 5BN Application Suite\. Handled multiple project teams with backlog prioritization for optimization and getting FedRAMP certified\. Xerox Services Manager, Suite Automation \- Xerox Profit & Loss Tool \- Xerox Build and Installers

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at Xerox, Jun 2013 \- Jul 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India

Software Engineer at ALTEN India, Jun 2010 \- Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Embedded Device Driver Engineer for Zebra Card Printing Solutions\.

## Education

Masters in Computer Applications, Computer Applications, karpagam college of engineering

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