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Hari in a few words
Data-driven product leader with over 16 years of experience in versatile roles at the intersection of business and IT.
Business Skills:
• Portfolio and Product Management
• Strategy and Roadmap
• Consulting and Stakeholder Management
• Leadership and People Management
• Sales and Marketing
• Product Development, Product Launches
• Product Marketing, Product positioning
• Business Analysis and Requirements Management
• Competitor Research and Market Research
• Pricing and Profitability Analysis
• Business Development and Pre-Sales
• Project Management
• Digital Transformation
Technical Skills:
• REST API, SOAP API, Open API
• SAAS, PAAS
• UML (VISIO)
• JIRA, Confluence
• RDBMS, MSSQL, MySQL
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Lean and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) Methodologies
• Prince2 Methodology
• BPMN, ERP, E-Commerce
• UX/UI Research, Balsamiq
• OS: Windows, Linux (Ubuntu)
• AI for Business, ML for Business
• SEPA, SWIFT, Open Banking
• Google AdWords, Google Analytics
• IoT
Domain Expertise:
• Payments: Payment Gateway, Mobile Wallets, Credit card processing, Alternate payments, Chargeback Management
• Credit cards: Pre-paid cards, virtual cards, Contactless cards
• Financing solutions: Leasing services, Lending services, credit rating services, Risk Management
• Energy Management solutions: Building Management System, Energy Monitoring
• IT solutions: NAS, SAN, DAS, security systems (DMZ), Routers (CISCO), Firewalls (Barracuda)
Experience
- Expert NetworksFreelance ConsultantJune 2021 - Today (3 years and 8 months)Munich, GermanyConsultant for commercial advisory marketplaces of GLG, AlphaSights and Dialectica.•Consulted on payment strategy and competitor insights for international launches for enterprise and big five consulting companies in Germany as well as US startups.•Recommended growth and market entry strategy for various business segments in the finance industry such as >100 B$, >100 M$, >250K $.•Consulted and recommended structured delivery process for efficient XaaS scaling up.•Identified industry trends, future and presented concrete recommendations for new business opportunities to C-level and senior leadership.
- TribeLead- Product ManagementJanuary 2021 - June 2021 (5 months)Berlin, GermanyHeaded the product management tribe working on Share Now's Pricing, Payments and Invoicing modules.•Responsible for the product strategy, roadmap definition, OKRs setup, feature delivery, profitability analysis and KPIs reporting; performing people's management, stakeholder management and contract negotiations with vendors.•Successfully rolled out an MVP for AI-based dynamic pricing within 4 months, and measured the impact on incremental sales with A/B testing.•Initiated a PoC for PayPal integration for the app and related UX/UI enhancements.•Eliminated year-on-year bad debt close to 0.5m Eur by detecting and blacklisting fraudulent users.•Involved in the enterprise-wide rollout of SAP S/4 Hana for invoicing modules.
- White Clarke GroupLead Product ManagerJuly 2019 - January 2021 (1 year and 6 months)Munich, GermanyResponsible for Equipment and Asset Finance product portfolio in DACH region. Built functionalities for smart end-to-end automotive, consumer and asset finance software for equipment, retail, fleet and wholesale.•Set the overall product priorities that advanced goals of OEMs and leasing banks with accurate credit line and risk management, contract management and accounting.•Rolled-out a full-stack scalable platform for leasing and finance contract administration that supported all types of leasing structures, assets and processes in collaboration with Scrum teams in Germany and Austria.•Led a PoC for credit risk rating based on AI/Machine Learning (ML).•Partnered with Sales & Marketing on product positioning and commercialization. Tracked product launches against revenue targets.
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Education
- ESIGELEC & Ecole Superieure de Commercede Rouen (Rouen Business School)ESIGELEC & Ecole Superieure de Commerce
- B.E in Industrial and Production Engineering,Manipal Institute of Technology2007B.E in Industrial and Production Engineering,