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Driving Digital Product Innovation in Global Mobility | Building Scalable SaaS Solutions at ZF Group

About

As the Senior Manager of Products at ZF Group, my role revolves around harmonizing cross-functional teams and leveraging Agile methodologies to expedite product development. With a focus on customer-driven innovation, my efforts have soared user adoption and streamlined the validation process for life science vendors, reflecting my proficiency in Azure DevOps Services, IT Business Analysis, and CRM. At ZF Group, collaboration and stakeholder communication are the cornerstones of my approach, ensuring product goals resonate with market needs and company vision. The transformational intranet modernization project I led with SharePoint not only doubled user engagement but also exemplified my commitment to delivering impactful tech solutions in the mobility space.

Location

Chennai

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Work experience

Senior Product Owner at ZF Group, May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos, India, Product Management | Fleet Orchestration SaaS | Asset Management & Digital Transformation As a Senior Product Owner for SCALAR at ZF, I drive product strategy, execution, and innovation for the Asset Management module of our AI-powered Fleet Orchestration Platform (FOP). SCALAR transforms road transport by automating fleet operations, optimizing resources, and enabling real-time decision-making for enhanced efficiency and profitability. 🔹 Product Strategy & Business Impact – Define and execute the vision and roadmap for Asset Management, ensuring alignment with SCALAR’s mission to orchestrate fleet assets, improve connectivity, and maximize operational efficiency. 🔹 Asset Management & Optimization – Focus on digitizing asset lifecycles, enabling predictive maintenance, and ensuring fleet visibility by leveraging AI-driven insights and real-time data connectivity. 🔹 Customer-Centric Innovation – Understand customer pain points and ensure SCALAR’s solutions provide scalability, transparency, and intelligent fleet asset utilization. 🔹 Cross-Functional Leadership – Collaborate with multiple cross teams like engineering, sales, and product teams to deliver automated workflows, seamless integrations, and cost-effective fleet solutions. I am passionate about shaping the future of connected fleets, digital asset orchestration, and smart mobility solutions.

Product Owner at Mphasis, May 2021 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, BFS SharePoint is an Intranet Modernisation project for a Retail client. Where an Intranet SharePoint built from scratch with new UI and on a no code platform using only OTB web parts. Performed a detailed analysis with the existing On-premises, Online & PHP sites, and complex Nintex workflows which increased the user adoption by 2X. • GEMINI_US- A brokerage application designed to shift the system with traditional clearance processes of shipments to digital using SAFe Agile framework. A Software as a Service (SaaS) application which assist the vendor to automate clearance of shipments from CBP adhering to US Clearance & FDA regulation policy thus by increasing the shipment clearance by 43%.

Senior Business Analyst at ValGenesis, Inc - Paperless Validation Software, Nov 2020 - May 2021 · 7 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, VLMS - A Paperless Validation and quality management product designed to improve the traditional validation processes of Life Science vendors. A Software as a Service (SaaS) validation product implemented at Cloud & On-prem for customer reducing the paper validation by 90%.

Senior Business Analyst at Hexaware Technologies, Jul 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Product Owner for consulting client involved in Assurance, Tax, Transaction and Advisory services. Sequence & SQ Tool application are built to perform Service quality for EY customer on their CRM opportunities and Engagements. To provide quality to people, client and wider community to achieve their potential.

Business Analyst at Cognizant, Jan 2013 - Jul 2019 · 6 yrs 7 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Product Owner for a Clearing and Settlement application for Banking client. Application act as intermediary and assumes roles of buyer and seller for transaction in order to reconcile orders between transacting parties. Application includes clearing processes of reporting / monitoring, risk margin, netting of trades to single position. Product Owner for an in-house tool CSuite that provide Revenue, Margin and Resource forecast system solution with accuracy to Finance leadership team leading into profitable strategies.

Junior Business Analyst at Cognizant, Jun 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Business Analyst for a CRM System(SFDC). Application, which fulfills complete needs of portfolio users using powerful design and development suite, helps in Tracking, capturing Opportunity and lead creations. Win Zone significant features are Creation of Opportunities, Account mapping, approval process and reports.

Information Technology Analyst at Cognizant, Feb 2010 - Aug 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Analyst for a Marketing tracking System. Application, which fulfills complete needs of Field marketing users using powerful design, helps in Tracking, capturing Lead and status tracking.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Technology Management, Anna University Chennai

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Prince Shri Venkateshwara Arts And Science College

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