Darrshan Shahh
Mumbai
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Project and Product Manager with over 10+ years of experience in leading product development and managing cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality digital products. Adept at driving product strategy, defining roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with business goals. Expertise in Agile methodologies, user-centered design, and market research to build innovative solutions that meet customer needs and enhance user experience.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Manager
UnicoConnect
10.2023 - Current
- Streamline the product development process for faster time-to-market and improved efficiency.
- Increase product adoption by developing and implementing effective marketing strategies.
- Enhance user experience, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and retention rates.
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget constraints.
- Implement Agile methodologies for more efficient project management and team collaboration.
- Improve product functionality with innovative design solutions, resulting in increased sales conversions.
- Manage the full product lifecycle, from ideation through post-launch support, ensuring consistent quality control measures are in place.
- Continuously monitor customer feedback channels after launch to gather insightful data for future iterations or updates.
- Document user stories, specifications, and product features into detailed work orders to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Develop product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
- Prioritize the roadmap to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Manage product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation.
- Coordinate project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
- Analyze metrics to measure product performance.
Liaise with clients to better understand business needs and the current market landscape.
Technical Project Manager
Locobuzz
07.2023 - 10.2023
- Lead and managed the planning and implementation of assigned projects.
- Defined project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Developed detailed project plans, Project Charter, and schedules, including timelines and budgets. Identified and managed project risks and issues, and develop contingency plans as needed.
- Monitor project progress and communicate status updates to stakeholders. Implemented change practices.
- Gathered and analyzed business requirements, and work with cross-functional teams to develop solutions.
- Developed and implemented project roadmaps and milestones, led key stakeholder engagement and accountability, and communicated project status with relevant stakeholders.
- Liaised between project sponsors, stakeholders, developers, and analysts; established strong professional relations with external IT vendors via internally integrated applications.
- Developed and maintained project performance databases that tracks overall progress and accomplishment of specific milestones.
IT Project Manager | Business Analyst Lead
Intertek
02.2019 - 06.2023
- Created risk mitigation plans Collaborated with participants to determine product timeline.
- Managed operational and system enhancement projects in accordance with corporate goals and initiatives; develop thorough business requirement documents which are utilized to execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scenarios for validation.
- Functioned as a Liaison between the Claims Department, UAT team and other business partners to test and fulfill project requirements on behalf of all stakeholders/business partners.
- Developed strategy and architecture for clients in alignment with business plans.
- Validated modifications to existing systems and procedures to produce anticipated results as well as identify, track, and resolve post-implementation issues.
- Managed end-to-end program delivery. Develop project plans with forecasts, estimates, and resource assignments.
- Collaborated with end-user groups to resolve questions, assess user needs and recommend changes to the automated systems.
Business Analyst | Product Owner
AT&T - (Strategic Staffing & Irvine Technology)
09.2016 - 01.2019
- Interviewed SMEs and stakeholders to get a better understanding of client business processes and gather business requirements.
- Prepared Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Functional Specifications Documentation (FSD) followed the UML based methods by using MS Visio to create use cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and collaboration diagrams.
- Gathered and documented business requirements for existing and future business systems.
- Defined functional test cases, documented and executed manually using the quality center.
- Organized meetings with the development teams to elicit use cases and document them.
- Assisted the Project Manager to develop both high-level and detailed application architecture to meet user requests and business needs.
- Conducted business and/or functional gap analyses through a detailed understanding of the current and future business processes, and application systems.
Project Analyst
Latham & Watkins - (Relativity Accounting and Finance)
04.2016 - 09.2016
Graduate Assistant
California State University, Los Angeles
10.2014 - 12.2015
Executive
Datamatics Global Services Limited
10.2012 - 03.2014
Education
Master's of Science - Management Information Systems - Business Analytics and Project Management
California State University Los Angeles
12.2015
Bachelors pf Engineering - Electronics Engineering
University of Mumbai
12.2012
Skills
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Prioritization and Execution
- Brand building
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Product Roadmaps
- End to End Feature Delivery
- Agile Software Development
- Project Planning
- Product Vision and Strategy
- Business Planning
- Product Metrics Analysis
- Product Backlog Management
- Feature Prioritization
- Strategic Planning and Alignment
- Product Development
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Jira, Atlassian, Rally
- Design thinking
- Go-to-market strategy
Accomplishments
- Quarter of the year Award - Outstanding Peformance, UnicoConnect
- Certificate of Achievement - Outstanding for Q4 of 2020, Intertek
- IAppreciate WOW Certificate for Production Report Data Validation, Intertek
- IAppreciate WOW Certificate - New Client Onboarding, BAU, New Initiatives and BA Leadership, Intertek
- IAppreciate WOW Certificate - Critical Project Requirement Successful Implementation, Intertek
- Award of Appreciation & Participation - Best Employee Award, Latham & Watkins
Certification
Scrum Master Fundamentals, 05/2018
Timeline
Product Manager
UnicoConnect
10.2023 - Current
Technical Project Manager
Locobuzz
07.2023 - 10.2023
IT Project Manager | Business Analyst Lead
Intertek
02.2019 - 06.2023
Business Analyst | Product Owner
AT&T - (Strategic Staffing & Irvine Technology)
09.2016 - 01.2019
Project Analyst
Latham & Watkins - (Relativity Accounting and Finance)
04.2016 - 09.2016
Graduate Assistant
California State University, Los Angeles
10.2014 - 12.2015
Executive
Datamatics Global Services Limited
10.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelors pf Engineering - Electronics Engineering
University of Mumbai
Master's of Science - Management Information Systems - Business Analytics and Project Management
California State University Los Angeles
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