Anupam Kundu
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Anupam is an innovative, entrepreneurial leader known for driving change, delivering business-critical solutions built around user-client needs, and creating high-performing teams. Anupam has 20+ years of experience in the software/hi-tech industry working with teams and clients across five continents. Anupam was a speaker at Innovation Centre Denmark, Silicon Valley, on AI Do's and Don'ts in 2020 and a finalist of the AI4Good Innovation Factory Silicon Valley pitch in 2021.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Operator and Founder
Calcul.ai
- Conceived, product managed, and sold a computer vision-powered visual intelligence solution to multiple customers in France, the Czech Republic, and South Africa.
- Served as product manager for the ID check app used in COP26 to verify the identity of 22,000+ invited delegates participating in the virtual COP26 platform.
- Acted as an interface between different UN agencies across seven different product workstreams.
- Conceived and built a mobile solution, a 3D face scan using a depth camera, to create custom-fit eyewear for children with facial deformities.
- Spearheaded a strategic change program for a growing North American company, helping distill organizational culture and introducing them to the world of OKRs. Target: 10X impact by 2027.
- Piloted a shoppable video product with a boutique designer in LA that allowed influencers to sell products from their events digitally.
- Ran collaborative workshops with multiple customers, industry organizations, and universities to uncover and fund AI-fueled initiatives.
- Worked with a growth equity firm in the UK to run remote workshops and co-craft the UX and technology choices for a last-mile delivery venture in India. Currently, a different team is building and launching the actual solution.
- Provided product management for an analytics dashboard for sensors measuring indoor air quality.
Product Manager
Skygo Marketing Corporation
- Worked with senior client executives and Toptal team to create and implement a roadmap from discovery to pilot launch of a brand-new motorcycle renting platform.
- Facilitated multiple conversations around business opportunities and how they could translate into software features (or not).
- Led a well-coordinated handover of digital assets and facilitated knowledge transfer to the customer technical team.
Head of Products (Computer Vision)
RealValue SaSu
- Created and managed a roadmap with inputs from customers and global trends. Ran the product marketing and successfully pitched the product, the company, and the business several times. Secured funding for the business and scaling product initiatives.
- Achieved successful, paid engagements with different international customers in South Africa, the Czech Republic, France, and Spain and built case studies.
- Collaborated with a clean cosmetics customer team to build a loyalty management system that used computer vision to detect a customer's smile during the e-checkout process.
- Won multiple hackathons and competitions to secure funding and grants from Google Cloud and accelerators like REACH. Our Trust and Safety solution, SafeAccess, won the business continuity challenge in the #EuVsVirus hackathon among over 2,100 teams.
- Successfully implemented a human-density and crowd monitoring solution for the city of Cannes (France) while they host large-scale events.
Global Client Relationships Strategy and Growth
EPAM Systems
- Steered a program portfolio of $40 million for product consulting, marketing, and strategic tech partnerships in EPAM Systems. The global team has a footprint in eight countries and 240+ people. Clients: Google, Ericsson, Ooyala, and customers.
- Acted as the engagement lead for different Google senior directors and VPs to craft and hone a vendor management framework, location strategy for managed services, and cloud partnerships to sustain revenue north of $30 million.
- Product managed a digital events management platform for Google to automate, track, and report on internal annual spending of half a billion dollars on various events. Participated in product design, development, and software delivery for 18+ months.
- Successfully delivered on multiple digital product initiatives at leading media companies, namely Google (YouTube, DoubleClick, Fiber, Google Cloud), Ooyala and Ericsson.
Global Strategy Leader
ThoughtWorks
- Oversaw relationship management and governance of engagements to build a transformative products-platforms-change strategy with the top five global banking and finance companies— Fidelity, Vanguard, JP Morgan Asset Management, and Credit Suisse.
- Scaled a global portfolio of work with UNICEF, including driving the global data management strategy across 25 countries (India and sub-Saharan Africa) and $50 million in investments collaborating with the most senior stakeholders in UNICEF.
- Defined and implemented digital solutions for socially impactful organizations: UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, Mercy Corps, Democracy Now, Wikileaks, United We Dream, and Cool Culture.
- Founded Raptor, a creative, collaborative, and intense product accelerator service offering for ThoughtWorks, ground-up, leading to growth in net new revenue of $8 million, 20+ people within 16 months.
- Co-founded Digital Prototype Opportunity through collaborative alliances with venture funds and design university. Expanded the social impact opportunities leads pipeline by 400% in the local market within four months.
- Led multiple teams involved in digital products and platforms at media companies like Cox Media, Democracy Now, CBS, MTV, Guardian, and Lonely Planet.
- Obtained significant experience in the edtech sector with several educational ventures like Brooklyn Charter School, Ed-Fi Alliance, Amplify, and Learn With Homer. Involved in various product consulting capacities.
Senior Project Manager
Bridgeline
- Managed multiple strategic projects for several clients, particularly in the finance domain, worth $5 million in revenue.
- Learned and implemented UX wireframes and usability testing for various customers.
- Onboarded new project managers into the small team and helped build out best practices documentation.
Portfolio Applications Lead
Lionbridge
- Served as a key member of the program delivery management team, overseeing program managers, systems analysts, business process analysts, tech architects, UX/UI members, and QA and testing teams (headcount: 50 between offshore and onsite).
- Managed portfolio delivery assurance for multiple software projects and releases on time and within budget for a Fortune 500 Healthcare provider headquartered in Arkansas.
- Led initiatives with new customers to comprehend system requirements and coordinate the design and development with the offshore teams, resulting in a well-written, intuitive application that fully met the users' expectations.
IT Specialist and Onsite Project Coordinator
IBM
- Managed and mentored global delivery project teams (team sizes spanning 8-40) from India and USA.
- Worked both offshore at IBM eBusiness Application Development and Wireless and Web Services group and at different US client locations across seven various projects.
- Assisted key clients such as Fidelity National Financial, Illinois State Board of Education, PACCAR, and UNDP.
Assistant Manager, Product Development -Telecom BACC
Usha Communications Technology (UBEST)
- Designed, developed, and implemented the communication architecture for next-generation convergence telecommunications billing and discounting platform targeted to telephony providers with 1+ million subscribers.
- Implemented the same product solution with a large cross-functional team at a Puerto Rico telephone company.
- Learned telecommunications billing and operations nuances for convergent telephony.
Project History
ID Check for COP26 Event
https://www.unicc.org/news/2022/02/01/bringing-together-unicc-digital-solutions-to-a-historic-climate-change-event-in-glasgow-uk/Product managed a mobile ID check app for COP26 (Climate Change conference) in Glasgow 2021. The app was used by 22,000+ delegates within four weeks to verify themselves to participate in the climate negotiation process.
I delivered a suite of AI-powered mobile applications to issue virtual badges for all participants by capturing attendee face biometrics against their official ID photos. Built a dedicated support team for ID verification.
Developed a reusable service to provision virtual meetings from UNFCCC booking systems to approved third-party conference platforms. Developed and managed interactive dashboards, reports, and feedback tools.
Computer Vision for Physical Spaces (humans, vehicles, and objects)
https://business.lesechos.fr/entrepreneurs/numerique-cybersecurite/0603240630724-hackathon-realvalue-developpe-une-solution-de-detection-de-port-de-masque-337677.phpHead of products and co-founder of a visual intelligence platform that won the #EUvsVirus hackathon for Business Continuity during the COVID-19 epidemic.
Cool Culture App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSdqujWulHQCo-founded Digital Prototype Opportunity through collaborative alliances with venture funds and a design university (Parsons) to bring new age digital technologies to deserving non-profits.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Operations Management
IGNOU - India
Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management in MIS, Software programming, Team Building
National Institute of Information Technology - India
Certifications
Certificate of Completion - Systems Thinking
Linkedin Learning
Statement of Accomplishment - Venture Deals Spring 2021
Kauffman Fellows & TechStars
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy
MIT Sloan Executive Education
Technology Entrepreneurship (Certificate)
Stanford University. Department of Management Science and Engineering
Certificate in Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Rutgers BEST
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Slack
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications
Paradigms
Agile Workflow, Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Agile Product Management, Requirements Analysis, B2B2C, Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C)
Other
Product Management, Business Systems Analysis, Business Process Analysis, Team Building, Communication, Artificial Intelligence Product Manager, Lean Startups, Startups, Product Roadmaps, Digital Product Management, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Consulting, Pitch Decks, Strategy, Computer Vision, IT Consulting, Portfolio Management, Operations, Entrepreneurship, Operations & Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS), Retail & Wholesale, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Business Strategy, Media, Project Finance, Management, Investor Relations, Startup Funding, Venture Funding, Systems Thinking, Social Impact, Marketing, Hackathons, IT Business Analysis, Technical Design, Programming, Client Services, Technical Writing, Architecture, Technical Business Analysis, Software, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Teams, System Requirements, Product Portfolio Manager, IT Project Management, Annotated Wireframes, P&L Management, Partnership Strategies, Distributed Team Management, Virtual Work, Stakeholder Management, SaaS, Strategic Partnerships, Software Project Management, User Interviews, Business to Business (B2B), Business Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, International Data Privacy Regulations, IT Operations Management (ITOM), SaaS Product Management, Culture Management, Global Operations, Sales Operations, IT Recruitment, New Products, New Product Development, User Needs, Business Process Re-engineering, Agile Program Management, Agile Product Delivery, IT Strategy, Incubator Management, International Projects, Lean IT, Program Management, Sales Forecasting, Stakeholder Engagement, Discovery Workshops, Customer Discovery, Feature Roadmaps, Early-stage Startups, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), MVP Design, Technical Product Management, Technical Project Management, Workshop Facilitation, Mobile App Development, Rentals, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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