Rahul Tibrewal
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
San Jose, United States
Toptal member since October 6, 2020
Rahul is a hands-on SaaS product manager who loves building high-tech products that solve critical customer problems. With technical and business degrees and experience in design thinking, Agile engineering, product strategy, and program management, Rahul has proficiently engaged cross-functional teams with as many as 50 people to discover and overcome obstacles rapidly. Rahul's background primarily spans telecommunications and garment industries.
Expertise
- Agile Product Management
- CX Strategy
- Cisco
- Design Thinking
- Enterprise SaaS
- Innovation Labs
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Product Management
Work Experience
Product Manager
Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Drove the strategy, design, and development of the end to end process of a growth program for Cisco's SaaS network automation and management platform.
- Led the development of the key CX offerings to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue. Conducted customer and competitive research to build strategy and design the offerings, and worked cross-functionally to launch them.
- Led the productization of Cisco's third-party developer services (serving more than 500,000 developers), securing an opportunity that brought in hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Designed and operated Cisco's hands-on innovation program, thingQbator, to enable grassroots innovations in emerging technologies for more than 25,000 employees. The program was a finalist at the Innovation Leaders Impact Awards in 2018.
- Drove a presales pilot of Cisco's network assurance product at its largest Indian public sector customer to generate tens of millions of dollars in sales. Received over five customer impact awards over the years from sales and marketing teams.
- Mentored top 5% of Cisco's intrapreneurial teams on Lean startup methodologies for the Startup//Cisco program, coaching teams on customer discovery, solution ideation, rapid prototyping, and validation of their product ideas.
Pro Bono Consultant
Self-employed
- Consulted a humanitarian services organization on new products, which made $500 million in revenue.
- Served as a consultant on a growth hacking project for an eCommerce startup with a 10 million dollar funding.
- Prepared a new market entry and a strategic plan for a Moroccan startup in the chemical industry.
- Reduced an Indian textile chemical distributor's order fulfillment time by 20% by digitalizing its order management process.
- Improved an Indian electrical hardware manufacturer's profitability by 25% through the IoT-enabled transformation of its solution offerings.
- Supported applicants through the MBA admissions process at the top business schools in the USA, Europe, and India.
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Drove the design and development of customer-facing web portals and multiple back-end systems integrations for Cisco’s SaaS network automation and management platform growth program.
- Led a team of more than five designers, developers, and network engineers to develop IoT prototypes for remote crop management and smart facilities management. The latter won the Aegis Graham Bell Award in 2016, and the former was a pilot at Cisco.
- Developed network monitoring and assurance features for Cisco Prime Infrastructure and worked with multinational teams to enable software reuse, saving more than 400 hours of engineering effort.
- Built an online portal to improve 75,000 employees' participation by 25% in more than 30 global innovation initiatives. Interviewed users, defined and prioritized requirements, and worked with the engineering team to build and launch the portal.
- Trained more than 100 new hires on product architectures, planned and executed business unit’s first innovation competition, Yukti. Received more than five awards over the years for coaching, mentoring, and developing team members.
Business Technology Analyst
Deloitte Consulting
- Built an Oracle EBS-integrated product data management solution for a Fortune 500 apparel company to save 30% on reporting resources.
- Built a customized financial reporting reports in Oracle EBS for a Fortune 500 semiconductor supplier to reduce their reconciliation time by 10%.
- Trained over 100 junior business technology analysts on multiple components of Oracle EBS.
Project History
IoT-based Remote Crop Management and Smart Facilities Management Solutions
Led the development of solutions for remote crop management and smart facilities management, which won the Aegis Graham Bell Award in 2016.
Interviewed users (facility managers and staff) to uncover key problems in managing large facilities with limited resources.
Engaged UX designers to iterate on multiple prototypes for an intuitive mobile-based facilities management app for the users.
Engaged middleware, networking, back-end, and UI engineers to build a simple, secure end to end facilities management solution.
Leveraged 80% of the solution to a new use case of remote crop management for farmers.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, USA
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication
Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (RVCE), Visvesvaraya Technological University - Bangalore, India
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Skills
Tools
Office 365, Oracle EBS, Oracle ERP
Paradigms
Software-defined Networking (SDN), Design Thinking, Agile Product Management
Platforms
Oracle Database, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Other
Cisco, Product Management, Strategy, Marketing, Networking, Smart Cities, Innovation Labs, IP Networks, Consulting, Routing, Project Lifecycle, Management, Agile Program Management, IT Project Management, CX Strategy, Google, Pricing Strategy, Business Strategy, Finance, Wireless, Internet of Things (IoT), Enterprise SaaS, SaaS Product Management, HTML, JavaScript, Middleware, Databases, APIs, Google Maps API, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Channel Strategy, Network Security, Software, Oracle, SQL, Multimedia, Communication
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