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Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal Member Since
July 26, 2019
For the past several years, Vikas has worked with cutting-edge technology in fields of healthcare, ride-hailing, bike-sharing, and eCommerce. 他曾在Philips Healthcare担任软件工程师，并曾在Ola Cabs工作, India's biggest ride-hailing platform, as a product manager. Vikas还拥有NIT Surathkal和XLRI Jamshedpur的工程和管理学术背景.
Project Highlights
Ola Loyalty | Ola Cabs
Implemented product features and took pricing decisions for a program with 200,000+ subs—brought a swing of +200% in P&L/sub.
Ola Pedal | Ola Cabs
带领8个团队，40多个利益相关者，在10所大学校园推出公共自行车共享项目,000+ students.
Ola Corporate | Ola Cabs
Defined and implemented a product strategy; built a billing-&-payment collection system with revenues of $30+ million/year.
Expertise
Work Experience
Freelance Product Manager
2019 - PRESENT
Plexus Technology
- 进行市场调研，为现场活动地点使用的地图和通信平台定义用户故事.
- Established a proof-of-concept through an MVP product by designing the user flows, wireframes, and mockups to describe the user journey.
- Drafted specifications for API platform to enable messaging and location sharing.
- Designed app flows for communication and location sharing for Android and iOS apps.
- Defined the product roadmap by creating a plan for the implementation and rollout.
Freelance Product and Strategy Consultant
2019 - PRESENT
Meru Cabs
- Created the business proposal for a new category launch; designed the business plan and the go-to-market strategy.
- 为组织建立销售流程和CRM实施.
- 定义产品和营销组合，并为新品类的推出制定推出计划.
Freelance Product Manager
2019 - 2019
LiveSchool
- Analyzed the process and product flows; charted process and data flow diagrams, and data dictionary.
- Conducted interviews to understand the existing onboarding flows; provided recommendations to optimize conversions.
- Identified major bottlenecks in the current process; recommended product and process solutions.
- Defined KPIs and product metrics; also defined the framework for instrumentation of product flows.
- Performed an analysis of the existing CRM system; provided recommendations on tools, process, and schema.
Product Manager, Ola Loyalty
2018 - 2018
Ola Cabs
- Developed product features, took pricing decisions, and managed P&L for a program with 200,000+ subscribers.
- Implemented fair usage policy and lowered prices with a swing of +200% in P&L/subscription for the same user base.
- 为Ola应用建立本地化平台，支持国际发布的语言.
- Maintained the website and Ola Lite mobile app; launched Ola Lite in Hindi for 100,000+ weekly active users.
- Defined KPIs and metrics, executed OKRs, and maintained the product roadmap.
Product Manager, Ola Pedal
2017 - 2018
Ola Cabs
- 通过用户调研定义用例，进行公共共享单车试点，建立商业用例.
- Designed a product flow based on user stories; built components that included an inventory management system, app booking and ride user experience, and support flow for issue redressal.
- 与来自设计、商业和工程的8个不同团队的40多个利益相关者合作.
- 推动与第三方供应商的协作讨论，将智能锁解决方案与内部系统集成.
- 设计一个针对10000 +学生的大学校园的产品发布计划.
Program and Product Manager, Ola Corporate
2016 - 2017
Ola Cabs
- 制定产品战略和产品路线图，负责Ola公司的产品生命周期.
- Built and automated the postpaid billing and collections solutions; opened up an $18 million/year segment and contributes 60% of revenues.
- Created an invoicing system for GST collaborating with tax, finance, and legal to produce 20,000+ invoices every billing cycle.
- 用文档构建了一个API开发人员平台——这可能带来500美元的收入,000/天的细分市场，并协助与合作伙伴和客户进行Ola企业api的技术集成.
- Created a CRM system for sales to manage 3,000+ active accounts with 30+ account managers; built an automated system to track sales metrics— which reduced the presentation creation time from six hours to ten minutes.
- 协助销售团队进行销售宣传和创意，以及销售前景的RFP查询.
Corporate Finance
2015 - 2015
Samsung Research Institute
- Identified gaps in the sample management policy of SRI-B with 20,000+ samples as an intern with the asset management team.
- 采用定性和定量统计技术来分析对访谈反应的反应.
- 根据分析和可能的未来路线图提供重新设计流程的建议.
Senior Software Engineer
2011 - 2014
Philips Healthcare
- 建立一个重建平台，帮助世界各地的研究科学家开发MRI算法.
- 实现了一种SENSE算法，将MRI扫描和图像重建时间降低了8倍.
- Implemented MRI reconstruction algorithms in the image space and Fourier space.
- Built a mDixon node to separate water and fat images post MRI scans.
- Developed UI used to perform MRI scans and view MRI images.
Sofware Engineer
2010 - 2010
IBM
- 在180名符合条件的学生中脱颖而出，成为著名的IBM印度软件实验室实习机会.
- 构建并交付了ISL唯一完全自主构建的组件:Performance Advisor.
- 使用SAX和DOM XML解析器解释性能数据，并使用Apache Tomcat创建报告.
Risk Management Team
2009 - 2009
Xchanging
- 作为风险管理团队的实习生，审查和更新信息系统安全政策.
- Helped develop the business continuity plan.
- 执行风险评估，并与运营团队一起识别和评估与其领域相关的风险.
Project History
Ola Loyalty | Ola Cabs
Implemented product features and took pricing decisions for a program with 200,000+ subs—brought a swing of +200% in P&L/sub.
Ola出租车的Ola忠诚计划指的是基于订阅的服务，如Ola Pass和Ola Select.
在Ola Loyalty项目中，我担任产品经理，负责改进P&L state of the program by operating product and pricing levers.
在Ola Loyalty项目中，我担任产品经理，负责改进P&L state of the program by operating product and pricing levers.
Ola Pedal | Ola Cabs
带领8个团队，40多个利益相关者，在10所大学校园推出公共自行车共享项目,000+ students.
Ola Pedal允许用户通过Ola移动应用程序在印度校园租用自行车.
As the product manager, I led the launch of this program. 它包括运行试点，用MVP建立商业案例，随后利用我们的经验建立一个成熟的项目，同时领导一个40多名成员的团队.
As the product manager, I led the launch of this program. 它包括运行试点，用MVP建立商业案例，随后利用我们的经验建立一个成熟的项目，同时领导一个40多名成员的团队.
Ola Corporate | Ola Cabs
http://corporate.olacabs.com/Defined and implemented a product strategy; built a billing-&-payment collection system with revenues of $30+ million/year.
Ola Corporate是一个基于云的SaaS解决方案，用于管理员工出行.
I was responsible for defining and implementing the product and business strategy, which helped grow the customer base and revenue over tenfold.
I was responsible for defining and implementing the product and business strategy, which helped grow the customer base and revenue over tenfold.
Recon 2.0 | Philips
Built and launched a platform used by MRI research scientists across the world.
Recon 2.0是飞利浦公司为支持跨平台MRI重建算法开发而搭建的平台.
我建立了这个平台，并实现了世界各地科学家使用的MRI重建算法, including geometry correction, SENSE, Dixon water-fat separation, FELIX, Shutter, and more.
The VP commended me for my excellent contributions to the project.
我建立了这个平台，并实现了世界各地科学家使用的MRI重建算法, including geometry correction, SENSE, Dixon water-fat separation, FELIX, Shutter, and more.
The VP commended me for my excellent contributions to the project.
Education
2014 - 2016
Master's Degree in Business Administration
XLRI | Xavier School of Management - Jamshedpur, India
2007 - 2011
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
National Institute of Technology, Karnataka - Surathkal, India
Certifications
MAY 2015 - PRESENT
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Skills
Tools
Google Analytics
Industry Expertise
Transportation & Shipping, Healthcare, Education Technology (Edtech)
Paradigms
Agile Product Management, Design Thinking, Data Science
Other
Product Ownership, New Product Development, eCommerce, Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Development, Subscriptions, Market Research, Mobile Apps, Web
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