Anand Raphael
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Toptal member since October 21, 2022
Anand is passionate about solving complex problems while using technology. He has worked across domains such as digital cinema and exhibitions and looked for opportunities in technology and processes that could work seamlessly to deliver excellent customer experiences. He has experience building web, mobile, and light progressive web apps. Anand builds systems using business bets that are iteratively worked on using hypothesis-driven development and XP.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Backlog Management
- Business Analysis
- Iteration Management
- Product Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Story Mapping
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- User Stories
Work Experience
Senior Product Consultant
ThoughtWorks
- Built global products with high adoption rates of 95% at the show.
- Led integration with an external hardware vendor for the client to bring in additional lead capture channels at the show resulting in a 30% increase in revenue annually.
- Managed a rollout to France for the client unlocking a new business unit and bringing in $1.5 million in revenue.
- Owned product scope from ideation to execution, delivering customer value based on product vision and organization-level goals.
- Executed multiple experiments to gauge engagement with lightweight models of potential functionality.
Associate Product Manager
Qube Cinema
- Conceptualized a feature that optimized the existing booking flow, reducing average booking time by two minutes.
- Managed ownership of upstream third-party integrations with two booking systems which brought in major Hollywood studios to deliver content resulting in market coverage of 80% for studio distribution in the Middle East and the ANZ regions.
- Worked on delivering a novel solution to deliver ads leveraging 4G technology, resulting in an annual savings of $400,000.
- Performed analysis for a feature in the booking flow that impacted size calculation, pricing, and selection logic. This allowed new content types to be delivered and laid the foundations for additional delivery channels added to the product offering.
- Organized a delivery dashboard's design and execution stages to improve operations monitoring capability and reduce dependency on external tools.
- Owned ideation, design, and execution of a feature that enabled user role access management for theatres that helped large theatre chains to come on board.
Project History
Webapp for Content Distribution
https://www.qubewire.com/Organized a third-party integration with major Hollywood studios to automate content booking and distribution. Built monitoring dashboards for enhanced content monitoring and audit. Designed a seamless rights assignment functionality for content.
For theatres, Qube Wire takes control of your digital cinema operations with an easy-to-use web portal that allows you to manage your device details, provide FLMx data feeds to KDM providers worldwide, and see all content and keys organized sensibly.
Mobile App for Lead Capture
Managed a team of 10 engineers and one experienced designer to build out a lead capture app for the largest exhibitions company in the world
Progressive Web App
Led prototype design and experimentation to build a lightweight progressive web app that works in low network conditions to record interest in a product or service and collect relevant documentation.
The client raised risks and concerns before investing in such an application. Our riskiest assumptions were documented and validated in an iterative and experimental approach.
Skills
Tools
Slack, Zoom, Jira, Confluence
Paradigms
Agile, Kanban
Platforms
Microsoft Power Automate
Other
Product Management, User Stories, Backlog Management, Iteration Management, Product Roadmaps, Feature Prioritization, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Story Mapping, Business Analysis, Facilitation, Software as a Service (SaaS), User Experience (UX), Wireframing, User Journeys, Product Ownership, Teams, Notion, Aha!, Release Management, Web Applications, Analytics, Mobile Apps, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), Data Analysis, Workshop Facilitation, Market Research & Analysis, Project Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Stakeholder Management
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