Canada
Strategic Product management consultant with 9+ years of experience specializing in Data Platforms, and Life Sciences/Healthcare technology. Proven success in product strategy, defining and executing roadmaps that translate complex business requirements into validated, high-impact cloud and ML/AI solutions. Expert in technical product discovery, data analysis, and leading globally distributed, cross-functional engineering teams in regulated environments.
- Defined the initial product vision, segmentation, and strategy for a startup, translating ambitious concepts into an executable roadmap and prioritized backlog. - Provided strategic and hands-on consulting for AI strategy and agile development , securing SOWs that clearly defined project costs, timelines, and technical requirements (RAG, call bot). - Spearheaded technology and vendor evaluation processes, managing budget allocation and team formation to ensure optimal resource utilization and low-cost product delivery. - Managed end-to-end product building efforts, collaborating with cross-functional teams and external vendors to drive innovation while maintaining quality standards. - Collaborated directly with UX professionals and management to design user-friendly web application interfaces, ensuring high-impact solutions for clinical operations and customer adoption. Key Achievements: - Delivered a fully functional, user-friendly web application MVP within a strict budget (under $3,000) and an aggressive four-month timeline, significantly accelerating market entry. - Conducted user surveys & interviews to identify areas of improvements and acceptability of digital product - Created clear segment prioritization and established product OKRs to derive the initial roadmap, successfully guiding the startup from vision to a tangible MVP launch. - Pioneered an AI application POC for quality improvement (RAG and call bot), leveraging LangChain and open-source Gemma models to enhance clinic operations. - Consulted on low-cost, high-impact solutions, resulting in streamlined workflows and increased operational efficiency for clients, supported by feasibility studies and SOWs
- Defined and managed the multi-quarter product roadmap for the regulated, cloud-based Scientific Processing System, working closely with leadership and organizational vision. - Conducted detailed system analysis and utilized technical fluency to replace inefficient, manual R&D data processes with modern cloud solutions. - Acted as the primary liaison between data owners, executive leadership, and a globally distributed cross-functional engineering team (15+). - Led discovery sessions with architects, technical leads, UX designers, and scientists to formulate high-level solutions integrating emerging technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Cloud solutions, Data Mesh, and Data Products). - Applied Agile/Scrum practices to define Epics, prioritize the backlog, and ensure alignment with organizational strategic objectives. - Coached the scrum team on Agile practices, and defined standardized scrum. Trained the support team to maintain and resolve user concerns for the adoption of the delivered product. Authored GxP Documentation and guided BAs to develop AOMs and content for Internal marketing Key Achievements: - Delivered a validated cloud platform that significantly reduced operational expenses by eliminating up to 15+ Petabytes (PB) of excessive legacy data storage costs. - Transformed R&D data processing efficiency from months to minutes across the global organization. - Ensured solution functionality and data quality met stringent GXP regulatory compliance and achieved high user adoption post-launch within aggressive timelines. - Drove internal team excellence by leading an Agile transformation that resulted in a 70% improvement in team velocity. - Mentored, led, and coached team members (BA, Dev, QA) on technical terms and Agile practices, minimizing development noise, clarifying backlog horizon, sprint goal, and improving output quality with 30% fewer bugs. - Successfully defined data platform integrations standards with various downstream data-consuming applications.
- Managed multi-quarter product strategy and roadmap for two concurrent R&D platforms: a Data Engineering/Storage solution and a Data Science/Management platform working closely with experts - Served as the voice of the customer (scientists/computational biologists) to synthesize complex R&D challenges into actionable, prioritized product requirements. - Drove product discovery, user surveys & interviews and design decisions in partnership with UX to optimize usability and feature prioritization (e.g., MoSCoW, weighted systems). - Provided decisive product and design inputs during technical discovery, enabling engineering teams to accurately size the backlog and forecast releases. - Led and aligned three globally distributed development teams and multiple cross-functional stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. Key Achievements: - Delivered time-sensitive features critical for drug discovery, resulting in improvement in R&D operational efficiency and accelerating scientific outcomes. - Accelerated Time-to-Value by standardizing Agile practices, reducing major release delays from quarterly cycles to frequent monthly or on-demand deployments. - Drove data-driven decision-making by implementing automated reporting for quantitative studies and usability research for qualitative studies, resulting in the identification of 10+ new product improvement opportunities. - Enhanced the quality of product requirements by 30% via focused discovery and scoping workshops, ensuring optimal quality and development velocity. - Increased product adoption and satisfaction by streamlining the support workflow and empowering internal teams with training and necessary operational insights.
•Working with Health Care professional to understand problems and then develop complex multilayered window functions, analytical products for prioritizing patient outreach. •Promoted and guided stakeholders toward lean-agile methods to identify MVP (minimum viable product) and then incrementally or iteratively deliver features to improve key business functions. •Facilitate dashboard workshops to collaborate with business owners and SMEs to understand key metrics to strategically develop multi-faceted dashboard for productivity & effectiveness of care delivery •Collaborated with stakeholders from 3 essential functions of operations - Member Services, Health services & quality to iteratively enhance comprehensive member profile dashboard that improved patient engagement significantly. •Managed product •Collaborated with Business & Technology to successfully create population health management segmentation engine for higher quality of patient care. •Stepped-in as a pseudo-SME and product owner to manage development of PHM segments, dashboards and operational reports •Work with vendors to manage data delivery, seek opportunities to automate data exchanges •Consulted on department strategies to adapt SDLC process to changing requirements and meet deadlines. •Contributed in process improvement for SDLC •Developed and demonstrated concepts of machine learning application for health care using regression, random forest, Naïve Bayes & SVM algorithms for readmission predictions(POC) to strategize implementation.
•Create process flow diagrams to capture department process for identifying gaps and seek opportunities to automate. •Reporting product development for various aspects like departmental operations, aggregational dashboards, data objects, data exchange and correspondences. •Collaborated with various departs like Finance, Quality, Health services, Medical Economics, provider network management, Member services, vendor management & compliance. •Setup and attended various design/JAD sessions to discuss and guide delivery of data solutions as liaison between business and data solutions. •Worked with Quality team and other stakeholders for development of Quality Opportunity Score engine to improve company Star rating & VBP measures. •Working with Vendors to generate and establish critical file exchange connections for automation of member eligibility, agent broker compensations, patient outreach and member/provider portals. •Gathered and managed requirements for technology enablement projects like claims & authorization adjudication correspondence, printed directory book, and UM compliance. •Wrote draft queries, performed functional testing and conducted through UAT to assure quality of health services products. •Automated generation of provider & pharmacy directory book for Medicare & Medicaid members.
•Resource management maintenance and reporting at a project and program level to managers to drive data driven understanding of utilization, impediments, and scope. •Participate in strategy discuss to track productivity and transition to agile-scrum methodology •Successfully guided Product manager/ owners and 5 Scrum teams to align towards sustainable methods of prioritization, sizing user stories driven size stories as a Certified Scrum Master. •Created custom metrics to measure productivity for PMO. Track and monitory cycle and lead times to take transitional step to agile scrum practices •Providing insights to program management for decision making using excel dashboards, TFS (Team Foundation Services) dashboards, TFS-data warehouse extracts, TFS - OLAP cubes. •Facilitated training and discussions with product management of LTSS (Long-term services and supports) systems to develop sustainable practices by data driven means. •Demonstrating lean methods to Product management teams to create and maintain features along with breaking down to stories for Scrum teams. •Adoption of creative methods to engage various scrum team members to contribute in product development. •Collaborated with program management with work orders and coordinating project status documentation on a monthly. •Evangelizing scrum though empirical, data driven means along with exploration of SAFe implementation.