Avi Tankaria Aspiring Product Manager 9987767914 avitankaria@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/avitankaria Mumbai
SUMMARY Middleware application product developer (Cloud Application Innovation) at IBM looking to become a Product manager, having total 5+ years of experience in application development and management using AGILE methodology. I possess crossfunctional skills such as requirement gathering, documentation of the requirements, technical assessment of the requirements, development of product vision and strategy, building product roadmap, documenting technical design, low level design, high level design.
KEY SKILLS • AGILE Product Development & Management • Creating Personas Resource Planning & Estimation • Plan Procurement Management • Risk Analysis & Mitigation • Client Relationship Management • API Development • Cross-Vertical Team Leadership • Feature Integration
TECHNICAL SKILLS Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search Programming Languages: ESQL, Java, SQL, NoSQL Unit Testing Frameworks: Postman, JMeter, SOAP UI, Integration toolkit debugger, Manual Testing Integrated Development Environment: Eclipse, IBM ACE, IIB, IBM API Connect, and IntelliJ IDEA Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, MS Azure. DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub and Gitea Operating System: Linux, Windows, and Mac Additional tools: JIRA, Slack
CERTIFICATIONS
EDUCATION Product Management Certification Program Duke Corporate Education & UpGrad
Aug '21 - Feb '22 Mumbai, IN
Course Modules Market Research for B2B 0-1 Product | User Research for a 0-1 Product | Create Artefacts User Design for 1-N Product |Wireframing| Sketching| Prototyping | MVP + Usability Testing | Product Analytics | Excel & SQL Growth, Engagement & Monetisation | GTM Strategy | Product Planning & Development | Tech 101 for PMS Currently pursuing Digital Transformation Specialization course from Duke CE
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology University of Mumbai
Aug '12 - Aug '16 Mumbai, IN
Secured 6.75
PROJECTS AND CASE STUDIES Conducted competitor Analysis for Pharm Easy Analysis of the product adoption lifecycle for Music streaming services in India User research for online furniture rental space in India Creation of business model canvas and value proposition canvas for ride sharing app Lyft Product critique for a travel experience app Headout Sketching and wireframing for fitness application Building MVP for money manager app Walnut Product Analytics for RedBus Product planning and Go-To-Market strategy for track a workplace collaboration tool. Building an industry project on food delivery application from start to end including market research to product prototyping of the whole application. Growth Strategy of Disney+Hostar, also a medium article on the summary of the project can be viewed by clicking on https://medium.com/@avitankaria/growthstrategies-for-disney-hotstar-7cff4b98e951 Digital transformation framework for Zoho Healthcare service(Hypothetical organization). Tools used in this program are Mixpanel, Marvel, Google Analyatics, Wireframe| CC, Whimsical, UXPressia, Miro, Figma, Balsamiq, Proto.io, Google analytics.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Senior Systems Engineer IBM
Dec '20 - Present Mumbai, IN
Product Management & Team Leadership Facilitated requirement gathering from the clients (of BFSI domain) and technical assessment of the requirements. Designed product strategy, product roadmap and technical documents. Development of the application using AGILE methodology. Co-ordinated with the testing team to validate test cases for the application Responsible for deployment of application on Hybrid cloud (MS Azure and Open Shift) using DevOps tools. Responsible for real Time analysis of the middleware applications using Elastic search and Kibana to track user activity as well as the health of the applications. Implemented digitization of corporate banking operations using APIs for Bill Payment, FastTag, remittance, e-sign, message holding, bulk payments etc. has led to increase in revenue for the banking client as time overhead is reduced because
• Entry Skills – Industry Level Banking (IBM). • Banking Industry Hub (IBM)Corporate Banking Industry Primer and Retail Banking Global Industry Primer. • SQL-MySQL for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence (Udemy). • Statistics for Business Analytics and Data Science (Udemy). • Complete SEO Training with top SEO expert Peter Kent! (Udemy).
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. Interests: Reading, Cycling, and Surfing
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