Ravikanth Boggarapu
Product Manager
Sector: IT-Software
Member Since, November 6, 2020About Me
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Academic Level Master’s Degree
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Experience 4.8
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Gender Male
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Industry Management
Description
Highly capable product manager with close to 5 years of experience managing all aspects of a product through
its lifecycle ensuring continuous improvement and relevance in the market and to the business
Education
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Executive MBA in Product Leadership (2019 - Present) Institute of Product Leadership
The Executive MBA program at the Institute of Product Leadership is an 18-month experiential degree program that focuses on transforming senior professionals & managers into C-suite product executives. The program helps nurture strategic decision making & execution skills as well as the leadership competencies necessary for career path acceleration.
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Master of Sciences in Physics (2011 - 2013) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
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Bachelor of Sciences in Physics (2008 - 2011) Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
Work & Experience
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Startups (2020 - 2020 ) Pro Bono Consultant
Product Management consulting for stealth mode startups
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2017 - 2019 ) Product Manager
Defined product strategy, roadmap, and their execution across internal and external stakeholder teams >Managed concept to launch of virtualization software. Acquired 750+ customers with $30M+ yearly revenue >Decreased operational costs by 20% by optimizing the new product launch and ordering processes. >Improved the adoption rate by 15% by developing a solid GTM strategy for new features and products >Collaborated with pricing, finance teams to devise pricing strategy, forecast revenue, and achieve target margins >Achieved $150M revenue target every year with a consistent growth by launching 10+ new features and products in 2 years
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Cisco Systems Inc (2016 - 2017 ) Product Manager
>Upgraded 15+ customers from legacy to new platforms by devising a migration strategy >Improved the platform stability by 17% by collaborating with engineering, support and customer success teams >Decreased the inventory write off costs by 75% by devising an End of life strategy for legacy platforms. >Enabled sales and support teams through customer requests, product collateral and training
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Vayu Group LLC at Cisco Systems Inc (2015 - 2016 ) Systems Engineer
>Impressed by my work in this role, cisco offered me the full-time product manager role >Designed and provided optimized network solutions for 70+ customers based on their requirements >Responded to customer RFPs/RFQs and provided solution proposals, helping sales teams to win 30+ customer deals >Assisted product managers in developing sales and marketing collateral >Provided trainings and demos to customers, sales, and partners
Expertise
Honors & awards
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2019 Talentathon Winner
Winner of the Product Labs talentathon conducted by Insitute of Product Leadership
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2017 End of Life Strategy
Rewarded for a well planned and executed end of life strategy for Cisco\'s legacy products
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2016 Sify Network Design and Optimisation
Rewarded for my contribution in winning Sify, major customer deal for cisco