Kapil Rajurkar
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Austin, TX, United States
Toptal member since January 20, 2020
Kapil is a product management leader with experience in creating and deploying consumer and enterprise offerings within the educational and B2B space. He has ten highly successful years of leading businesses through the complete product lifecycle—from building requirements, functional specifications, wireframes, testing, to roll-out. In teams, Kapil has implemented complex softwares using waterfall, kanban, and scrum frameworks. Kapil is a Certified Scrum Master.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- Data-informed Visual Design
- IT Projects
- Know Your Customer (KYC)
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Roadmaps
- Sales
Work Experience
Head of Product
Akido Labs
- Built a product strategy for build, rolling out, and adopting multiple product lines for clinics, patients, and street medicine for value-based care.
- Led user research by working with physicians, clinicians, patients, caseworkers, and outreach workers.
- Established product management operations for a fast-growing organization.
- Cooperated deeply with public agencies and outreach workers in LA County on the implementation of the biggest homeless count and other initiatives.
- Mentored a group of product managers and designers to define KPI-driven frameworks and processes.
Head of Product
Smartcare
- Owned and executed the product roadmap and delivery process as the CEO. Used the product to drive growth.
- Articulated the product vision and strategy, and the impact of new product development in the company, our go-to-market organization, customer base, and the broader market.
- Approved product roadmap and priorities, represented the voice of the marketplace in product discussions, drove the level of spend on all product delivery functions relative to other company priorities.
- Collaborated with product leaders to prepare and present executive presentations that articulate the product vision and strategy.
- Implemented complex software development cycles through Scrum or Kanban. Worked with product owners and a software team of seven. Ran monthly sprints.
- Performed a feature comparison between Smartcare and Preschool2me to come up with the best feature set. Collaborated with internal (executives, development, product owners, support) and external (customers) to perform discovery and analysis.
- Led a team of four, including a designer and product managers, to implement several new product features.
Product Owner and Business Analyst
Toptal Client
- Created user stories including epic links, summary, acceptance criteria, dependencies. Captured wireframes and screenshots. Uploaded these user stories to Jira.
- Worked with project managers and product owners to validate requirements.
- Collaborated with the scrum master and the development team on removing impediments and following the project plan.
Founder and Head of Product
Preschool2me
- Led the company from the startup stage to over 500,000 customers in less than three years. Managed product management, sales, operations, and customer support.
- Managed investor and partner relationships and successfully raised funds for the startup.
- Owned and executed product roadmap with the outsourced development team.
- Used the Scrum methodology with the remote development team to execute monthly sprints.
Program Management Consultant
Dell
- Performed the role of Dell’s Demand and Supply Planning track lead to convert the legacy system to Oracle’s supply chain platform.
- Collaborated with the implementation partner, in-house development team, and Oracle to customize the solution for Dell’s supply chain processes.
- Mentored the Dell development team on Oracle Demantra and ASCP for customizations and desired features.
Project Manager and Solution Architect
Inspirage, LLC.
- Performed the role of project manager and solution architect for global Demantra implementation. Managed a team of six consultants and more than 50 users through design, requirements gathering, configuration, development, testing, and go-live.
- Led project team through implementation and solution design of Advanced Supply Chain Planning and Advance Planning Command Center.
- Led project through design, architecture, and the execution phase. I was the project manager and functional and technical lead for Demantra and RTSOP. I managed a team of three onshore/offshore consultants and coordinated with over 15 client team members.
- Performed end-to-end solution design, configuration, technical development, training and support for Demantra as the functional and technical lead.
- Implemented global pioneer Demantra model in LATAM countries and provided on-site production support as the functional and technical consultant.
Project Manager and Solution Architect
IBM Corporation
- Managed and led workshops, configuration activities, technical development, training programs for Demand Planning, forecasting, and Oracle Demantra as the lead functional and technical consultant and solution architect.
- Conducted workshops for business requirements and data mapping with the client business and technical teams as the functional and technical consultant. Assisted in Demantra configuration activities and ensured that data requirements were met on time.
- Implemented global pioneer Demantra model in LATAM countries and provided on-site production support as the functional and technical consultant.
Project History
Preschool2me
http://www.preschool2me.comFounded company. Grew the app to over 500,000 users.
KidKiosk
http://www.kidkiosk.comLed the design and development for KidKiosk from conceptualization to delivery.
Product Manager
Worked with cross-functional teams for documenting use cases, data attribute mapping, information gathering, and discovery. Spoke to customers and staff to create an initial requirements list and use cases. Analytical reporting on progress and risks.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Operations Management
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering
Nirma Institute of Technology - Ahmedabad, India
Certifications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for Product Management
Udacity
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
APICS CPIM
APICS
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Confluence, ProdPad
Paradigms
Data-informed Visual Design, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Product Management, Agile, Requirements Analysis
Industry Expertise
Childcare
Other
Product Ownership, Scope of Work (SOW), Business Analysis, Product Management, IT Projects, Project Management, Roadmaps, User Experience (UX), Product Owner, iOS, Android, UX Design, Web, Visual Design, Know Your Customer (KYC), APIs, Scrum Master, Pendo, FullStory, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Customer Analysis, Market Research & Analysis, Pricing Strategy, Wireframing, Use Cases, CEO, Pricing Software, Product-market Fit, Agile Leadership, Sales, Customer Support, Software, Patient Engagement, Public Health, Healthcare IT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning
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