Aamir Nagaria
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Houston, United States
Toptal member since June 21, 2022
Aamir's passion is bringing products to life. Digital products create value for stakeholders and consumers, and using an iterative approach while collecting feedback from the consumer, is the key to products that have a lasting impact. He is driven by working with the stakeholders and development teams with a dynamic approach.
Expertise
- Business Analysis
- Business Process Analysis
- Business Requirements
- Functional Design
- Product Owner
- Product Roadmaps
- Project Delivery
- User Requirements
Work Experience
Product Owner
Freelance
- Developed a live streaming and video-on-demand product roadmap and use cases with a startup's technology and stakeholders.
- Led a software vendor selection process and defined customizations and pricing.
- Prioritized use cases by importance, impact, and financial metrics with stakeholders.
Director of Commercial Applications
CVR Energy
- Managed a program to implement renewable Diesel into client's commercial applications, including the purchase, logistics, and inventory of soybean oil, refinery consumption, and production, as well as the third-party sale of renewable Diesel.
- Reduced the IT systems portfolio's total cost of ownership by 30% and developed a roadmap for an additional 20% reduction in price.
- Built stakeholder confidence in clients' commercial applications and a team to support the strategic use of these applications.
Manager
Accenture
- Advocated product's vision and designed an RPA and machine learning use case and proof-of-concept for a client. Demonstrated an organization's natural gas logistics unit's $50 million costs and revenue benefit.
- Acted as delivery lead to improve project results. Empowered a team to adjust our approach using an Agile methodology to establish an operating model, processes, and compliance framework. Reached its $100 million target in the first year.
- Defined product requirements, business processes, and clarity to dependencies during the implementation of new technology solutions for a company during a divestiture.
- Translated features into user stories within the team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog to reflect stakeholders' requirements for a digital transformation with a vendor application, which improved revenue by 25%.
- Collaborated in product development, providing tactical objectives to scrum teams, decisions, and system questions. Participated in defect triage and unit testing in developing a company's digital transformation of its value chain.
- Engaged with C-level executives and stakeholders to develop a product roadmap that demonstrates short- and long-term business strategy and technology goals solutions to support entering a new market.
Manager
Opportune
- Assembled and guided business managers in multiple sessions to develop and document end-to-end business processes from product purchase, sale, logistics distribution, and invoicing. This led to C-level executives improving upon business strategy.
- Collaborated with client COO and CFO to develop operational models and processes as they acquired and integrated multiple companies. This ensured the client had a streamlined process and profit and loss reporting across all their subsidiaries.
- Performed as a subject matter expert on enhancements, upgrades, and bug fix issues for a refinery's logistics and trading app. It ensured the client could optimize the consumption and production of crude and refined products across five refineries.
Product Owner
BP
- Served as business development lead, creating a strategy and service offerings for a new business purchasing natural gas from producers in the Marcellus Shale. Exceeded our profit target by year three of the year five goal.
- Engaged all stakeholders from business executives, deal structuring, invoicing, and logistics on every energy purchase to ensure the contract fits the investment goal and offers a portfolio of BP.
- Negotiated and coordinated the successful delivery of products and services with end-users.
Product Owner
Shell
- Empowered, trained, and led a team by gathering front office requirements to implement and configure a gas trading solution, which allowed traders to accurately track, report, and manage a profit of $550 million in the first year.
- Analyzed application portfolios and identified dependencies and interfaces to design deal entry, scheduling, and risk and invoicing processes to drive $30 million in cost savings.
- Reported progress regularly to executives, including opportunities to reduce impediments and options to improve the chances for success according to external and internal factors.
Product Owner
ConocoPhillips
- Collaborated with developers to design a data warehouse to allow energy traders to run effective market and price analytics, allowing for better trading decisions and an increase of 30% in profitability.
- Performed as the lead functional architect in designing and developing a custom application for a logistics and inventory management platform used at 70 terminals across the USA.
- Designed and developed a report suite allowing for real-time product pricing visibility.
Project History
Crude Logistics and Inventory Management
Functional architect in designing and developing a custom solution that accurately captures crude transportation costs from wellhead to the customer, improving the trading team’s profit by $10 million a year.
I started at the client by creating reports that gave visibility into their operations. The product vision for a custom solution to accurately track and optimize their logistics came from the analysis of this data with the stakeholders.
I led the process of defining the product roadmap and held design sessions to develop the use cases and requirements. Brought together a team of developers working in an iterative approach to develop the solution. We completed the project successfully, allowing the business to reduce costs and improve revenue.
Video on Demand and Live Trading Network
Led a tech startup through the process of developing a product from a simple problem statement that involved creating a platform for video on demand and live streaming.
With his team, through further design sessions, we developed use cases, a product backlog, requirements, and prioritization based on capital funding.
Working through the decision of build vs. buy, I led the vendor analysis and platform selection process. Since the client needed further customizations, I worked with the team to prioritize and cost out the requirements in the product backlog with the vendor. The client was able to launch the product and had a three-year product roadmap and backlog.
The platform developed was like Twitch, but for traders. Individuals trading in the financial markets can create subscription plans for their content, including video-on-demand and live streaming.
Agricultural Mergers and Acquisitions
Led the process of integrating many local companies bought up by a commodity hedge fund to develop a streamlined purchase, logistics, and inventory management system and reporting capability.
I led the process of streamlining the technology platforms between the regional companies, both software and hardware, and implementing commodity management software at all the regional companies that would streamline the purchasing, selling, shipping, and tracking financials processes.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
University of Houston - Houston, Texas, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems
University of Houston - Houston, Texas, USA
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Office 365
Paradigms
Agile, Scrum
Platforms
ProductPlan
Other
Business Analysis, Product Owner, Design Requirements, Business Requirements, Functional Design, User Stories, Use Cases, Product Roadmaps, User Requirements, Vendor Selection, Information Gathering, Business Process Modeling, Project Delivery, Strategic Design, Business Systems Analysis, Business Process Analysis, IT Business Analysis, Data Gathering, Business Process Flow (BPF), Business Processes, Data Analysis, Functional Requirements, Product Management, Project Management, IT Projects, Product Mapping, Strategic Planning, Design, Product Delivery, GAP Analysis, Strategic Planning & Execution, RFP Negotiation, Financial Modeling, Request for Proposal (RFP), SQL, Business Development, Negotiation, Price Negotiations, Contract Negotiation, Sales, Marketing, Databases, Technical Reports, Technical Design, Requirements, Product Ownership
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