Global Product Manager with 17 years of experience in conceptualizing and building products. Worked in software development and sales before transitioning into product management.

Work Experience

Global Product Manager| Siemens Healthineers| Oct ’22 – Present

 AT Flight Simulator – Digital twin of cathlab and patient for education

• Strategized the product roadmap and convinced the business and tech teams on the priorities.
• Identified pilot countries for the product based on user behaviour and the likely business impact.

 Tech Product Manager| Siemens Healthineers| Nov’11 – Sep’22

 AI-Rad Companion Brain MR – An AI radiologist for segmenting human brain

• Led a 10-member team in building AI SaaS product for identifying Multiple Sclerosis from MR images.
• Drove cross-functional teams (test, regulatory, data science, research, software, quality ) in getting FDA approval for the product.
• Doubled subscription revenue by incorporating effective feature bundles that included novel workflow in the existing product.

 Sensis Vibe  – A cathlab recording and documentation system

• Increased product’s annual sales revenue by 50 mil US $ by launching FlashDoc feature. Led user experience, development teams in validating the idea and productization.
• 30% reduction in procedure documentation time by coming up with workflow intelligence in the product.
• Stalled a product proposal with a detailed whitepaper indicating strategic flaws in the approach.

Senior Design Engr | GE Healthcare| Jul’08 – Nov’11

Generalized and incorporated multiple stakeholder’s need into the middleware component that reduced turnaround time by 50%.

Senior Marketing Executive | Godrej | Jun ’05 – Jun’06

• Received special recognition for generating 6 million INR revenue.
• Generated 10 high-volume enquiries by creating awareness of the security product in conferences, corporate, government institutions.
• Created 5x profitability in convincing and executing a customized blast resistant door order.

Founder – VouchBuy

• Validated the trusted word-of-mouth marketplace solution with 60 signups and 10 transactions.
• Onboarded relevant influencers & early adopters for organic growth.

Patents and Publications

• US Granted Patent #8897513: Method of selecting a stent based on stress of a blood vessel.
• Co-Author of Indian Patent Application (Application no: 751/KOL/2014): Method and system for representing electrophysiological databased on an abnormality condition.
• US Patent #20160166309: Method and System for Determining Ablation Parameters for Ablating a tissue.
• Publication: Method for finding out the volume of scarred tissues around an infarcted area of the heart in a basic pre-test. Prior Art Journal 2016 #05.

Accomplishments

• Inducted into the esteemed “Wall of Fame” from a 3000 strong Siemens workforce.
• “Innovation” award winner within the 200-member team for the year 2013.
• Conferred with First prize in Siemens Hackathon (2016) after being shortlisted as one of the 12 contestants from 155 submitted ideas.
• “Champion” Award for phenomenal contributions to product within the 250-member team in 2017

Initiatives

• Finalist in IPL’s Skillathon – “EveryIDay- A wholesome meal kit” for iD’s business expansion.
• Reduced cardiologists follow up diagnosis time by 30% with “Reference ECG” – An app to compare patient’s heart rhythm across timepoints.
• Volunteered in product leadership forums, helped product aspirants, created product awareness in communities such as ProductStar.

Academic Details

• 2020:M.B.A. (Product Management) from Institute of Product Leadership, Bangalore.
• 2008:Tech. (Information Technology) from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B).
• 2005:E. (Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering) from Anna University, Chennai.

Tools & Languages

• CaliberRM, Azure Devops for Requirement Management
• Balsamiq, Figma, Marvel for UX design
• Lumen5, filmora for video creation
• Languages: Java, J2EE, Javascript, C
• Rational Rose, Clearcase, eclipse
• Freemind, MS Office suite