Balasubramanian K V

Global Product Manager

Sector: Health Care

Member Since, March 18, 2022

About Me

  • Academic Level Master’s Degree
  • Experience 17
  • Gender Male
  • Industry Management
  • Date of Birth 13091983

Description

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