Vinay Karthik, Product Manager in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Vinay Karthik

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Toptal member since September 20, 2024

Bio

Vinay is a data-informed product manager with 13 years of experience in product management and thought leadership, focusing on customer-centric and innovative solutions in digital eCommerce. He has led successful projects, including a 45% increase in adoption rate with 6,000 monthly hits and 1,900 unique users. Vinay has helped achieve $11 million in revenue for a sales team and has generated $6 million through a new product introduction.

Expertise

  • Agile
  • Business Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Data Visualization
  • Documentation
  • Jira
  • Product Roadmaps
  • SQL

Work Experience

Digital Product Manager

2019 - PRESENT
Healthcare IT Company
  • Introduced Agile best practices to company projects as a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
  • Designed the idea conception and implementation of the digital footprint for the organization's new business segment.
  • Integrated a payment engine to provide an end-to-end flow of orders.

Agile Product Owner

2015 - 2019
Amadeus
  • Implemented the Amadeus suite for all big airlines in Asia-Pacific and the Eastern and African regions.
  • Trained and mentored airline desk agents on Amadeus, a front-end application for managing bookings and other airport IT activities.
  • Worked on the Amanda chatbot, a ground-breaking solution to increase airlines' self-service capabilities by reducing the mean time to resolve issues by more than 98.7%.

Senior Business Analyst

2011 - 2015
Accenture
  • Built a center of excellence for business analysis within the eCommerce vertical.
  • Worked with various consultants to define a product roadmap to migrate the organization's legacy application to SAP's suite.
  • Attended International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) conferences representing Accenture's business analysts community.

Project History

KPIs Dashboard for Services Business

Implemented a KPIs dashboard and achieved a 45% adoption rate increase with 6,000 monthly hits and over 1,900 unique users globally.

This project involved developing a KPI dashboard offering a bird's eye view of all the company's KPIs. The solution helped business leaders make informed decisions for the regions under their control through a quick overview of KPIs, including customer satisfaction and workforce utilization.

Chatbot to Address Application Complaints

Led the implementation of and Edison-based chatbot to capture the application errors and provide solutions.

This project involved leading the development and implementation of Amanda, a ground-breaking chatbot solution to increase the self-service capabilities within the airline business. The solution aimed to reduce the mean time to resolve issues by more than 98.7%, and all major international airports hosted on Amadeus currently use it.

Center of Excellence for Accenture

Built a center of excellence for business analysis within the consumer goods and services (CGS) industry.

This project involved implementing a center of excellence for business analysis within the consumer goods and services (CGS) industry at Accenture. It created sustainable knowledge management and documentation opportunities and helped grow in-house business analysis. Through this center, over 80 global knowledge-sharing sessions were conducted on the CGS industry.

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) - Bengaluru, India

Certifications

AUGUST 2019 - PRESENT

French A1

Inlingua

OCTOBER 2016 - OCTOBER 2018

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

DECEMBER 2014 - DECEMBER 2016

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce.com

MAY 2014 - PRESENT

ISEB and BCS Certification

Information Systems Examination Board (ISEB)

Skills

Tools

Rally, Jira, Microsoft Power BI

Paradigms

Agile, Testing, Agile UX, Scrum, Requirements Analysis, Kanban, Agile Project Management

Platforms

SharePoint

Other

Product Roadmaps, Documentation, User Stories, Wireframe to Product, Business Analysis, Business Process Flow (BPF), Product Owner, Flowcharts, Project Management, Technical Requirements, Business Cases, Communication, Process Mapping, Amazon Redshift, SQL, APIs, Data Science, Global Distribution Systems (GDS), Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Customer Journeys, Statistics, Salesforce Sales Cloud, French, Analytics, Chatbots, Leadership, Software Engineering

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