Vittal Ramu, Product Manager in Calgary, AB, Canada
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Vittal Ramu

Verified Expert  in Product Management

Bio

Vittal is a management professional with over 12 years of experience in product management, distributed data management, and team development with various organizational engagements across healthcare, education, retail, cybersecurity, oil and gas, and startups alike. Vittal is a go-getter with hands-on, data-driven product management and analytics experience.

Project Highlights

Demand Planning and Fulfillment
Established foundational teams and roadmaps for data pipelines for integrated actualized demand to ascertain needs and improve supply management.
Risk Rule Engine
Implemented a comprehensive risk rule engine to dynamically tune customer on-boarding and assess new product adoption (NPA) behaviour mapping based on portfolio performance, behaviour and personification.
Order Ticketing, Measures, and Goods & Services Tax (GST)
Led the design and build of a kitchen order ticketing (KOT) functionality to traditional POS platform that enables ticketing, the measurement of volume, ingredients, and wastages, along with automated reporting for GST.

Expertise

  • Agile Delivery
  • Analytics
  • Data Products
  • Digital Product Management
  • Distributed Team Management
  • Product Management
  • Product Roadmaps
  • Technical Product Management

Work Experience

Specialist Digital Product Advisor

2022 - PRESENT
Suncor
  • Worked with senior leadership and category product management to successfully implement data solutions for suggestive tactical pricing for the Petro-Canada retail business.
  • Supported interdepartmental activities for product road mapping, agile product discovery, and development opportunity values. Performed stakeholder reviews, data discovery, and quality review support activities.
  • Understood the oil, gas, and energy domains of operations and leveraged advanced analytics and AI/ML-driven products to predict risk scores and ratios on cash flow in the business.
  • Defined and implemented strategies for extracting and analyzing data, managing and implementing roadmap goals and portfolio plans. Focused on mentoring and coaching, curriculum development, resource planning, and delivery of data products.
  • Guided a team of data product managers toward implementing product-based outcomes, aiding in setting up data-driven AI/ML product teams. Led the AI Product Management Guild - Analytics Centre for Excellence.

Manager, Technical Product Management

2021 - 2022
Nike
  • Led the enterprise data and analytics department. Orchestrated four teams on consumer commerce, demand planning, and connected product foundations.
  • Guided a team of lead product managers and data analytics resources aimed at seamless implementation of the assigned phases.
  • Led the definition and implementation strategies to manage and enforce roadmap goals and portfolio plans. Focused on mentoring and coaching, including curriculum development, resource planning, and deployment.

Technical Product Manager

2019 - 2021
Visa India
  • Worked as a technical product manager on the cybersecurity engineering team involved in developing roadmaps and processes for compliance measures.
  • Focused on the implementation of enrollment and representation of security posture. Worked on stakeholder management, audits, and governance support.
  • Assessed and ensured compliance with policies and procedures in day-to-day operations. Enhanced operational productivity by automating activities across the teams.

Product Manager

2018 - 2019
CapFront
  • Scheduled and delivered strategized-prioritized product features. Designed and developed product features based on delivery targets, including risk engine and abstraction logic patterns, application data storage, and mapping designs.
  • Contributed to data modeling and technical requirement design PRDs, data governance, reporting, and management. Developed vendor relationships with domain-specific stakeholders. Involved in the identification and resolution of risk and automated underwriting.
  • Took responsibility for UI/UX design and risk engine models. Managed the customizable risk/rule engine with NPA and behavior-tracking dashboards. Handled NBFC operations, audit coverage, and RBI reporting engagement.

Project History

Demand Planning and Fulfillment

Established foundational teams and roadmaps for data pipelines for integrated actualized demand to ascertain needs and improve supply management.

I built demand signals for coverage planning and related data with sales orders and stock transfers for coverage analysis. Coverage included analytics and optimization on supply.

I also delivered roadmaps for fulfillment, invoices and carrier gateway analytical solutions for split shipments and buy-online-pick-up in-store orders. Support data solutions for consolidation of consumer orders and fulfillment for demand planning were also a core objective.

Risk Rule Engine

Implemented a comprehensive risk rule engine to dynamically tune customer on-boarding and assess new product adoption (NPA) behaviour mapping based on portfolio performance, behaviour and personification.

I built and prioritized product features and groom feature backlog, while designing and developing product features based on delivery targets. A big part of the project was risk engine design, abstraction logic pattern design with application data storage, and mapping designs. Included the process of data modeling and technical requirement designs, along with data governance, reporting, and management. Vendor relationship management with a variety of domain specific stakeholders, risk management, under-writing automation, proactive error reporting logic, bug fixes, and crash handling for applications kept everything in order.

Order Ticketing, Measures, and Goods & Services Tax (GST)

Led the design and build of a kitchen order ticketing (KOT) functionality to traditional POS platform that enables ticketing, the measurement of volume, ingredients, and wastages, along with automated reporting for GST.

I led a cross-functional development team as a product engineering manager, PE head, team lead, design engineer, and business intelligence solutions architect for a start-up working on hardware and software solutions to enable SMB’s and retailers with feature-rich out-of-the-box solution for eCommerce, POS, web sales, catalog management, kitchen order management, packaging, and delivery. I worked on an omnichannel solution for a next-generation POS system targeting emerging markets.

Education

2010 - 2011

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago, IL

2005 - 2009

Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communications

VTU - Belgaum, India

Certifications

NOVEMBER 2023 - NOVEMBER 2025

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

APRIL 2023 - PRESENT

Product Leader Certification

Product School

SEPTEMBER 2022 - SEPTEMBER 2024

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

Skills

Tools

Jira, ETL, Microsoft Power BI, Trello, Erwin, QuickBooks Online, Figma

Paradigms

Scrum, Agile Project Management, Agile Product Management, Agile, Requirements Analysis

Platforms

Azure, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Industry Expertise

Consumer Products, Footwear

Other

Product Management, Distributed Team Management, Agile Delivery, Data Warehousing, Stakeholder Engagement, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Data Products, Servant Leadership, Proof of Concept (POC), Licensing, Software, Sprint Planning, Requirements, Software Development, A/B Testing, Databases, Resource Allocation, Roadmaps, Analytics, Product Roadmaps, Business Analysis, eCommerce, Product Design, Leadership, Consumer-facing Product Design, Technical Product Management, Program Management, Waterfall Methodology, Product Owner, System Integration, Product Strategy, Product Leadership, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Startups, User Stories, Requirements & Specifications, B2B Product Management, B2B, Software as a Service (SaaS), Business Strategy, Digital Product Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business to Consumer (B2C), Distribution, Product Launch, Master Data Management (MDM), SAP, Project Management, MDM, Strategic Planning, Conceptualization, Direct to Consumer (D2C), User Experience (UX), Enterprise Project Management, Retail Merchandising, Retail & Wholesale, Digital Transformation, Specs, Agile Leadership, Feature Prioritization, Recommendation Systems, Web Design, Business to Business (B2B), Mobile Apps, Product Positioning, Fundraising, Data Analytics, SaaS, Documentation, Project Scheduling, Data Visualization, Dashboards, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Business Intelligence (BI), Software Engineering, Customer Engagement, Product Discovery, Wireframing, Release Management, APIs, Mobile App Development, Feasibility Studies, New Product Development, Feature Roadmaps, Process Flows, Finance APIs, Mockups, Cloud, ServiceNow, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Modeling, Business Setup, New Products, Data, Stakeholder Management, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GuardRails, Audits, Governance, Cybersecurity, MySQL, Stakeholder Interviews, Market Fit, Marketing Research & Analysis, Data Analysis, Android, Data Management, Engineering, IT Management, Ethics, Market Strategy and Research Product Manager, Fintech, Neo4j, Go-to-market Strategy, Strategy, Edtech Design, Merchandising, Jira Administration, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Pricing, Lead Generation, Product Branding, Pricing Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Procurement, Finance Reports, Procure to Pay, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Accounting, Sage ERP, Mobile Applications, Machine Learning, UI Design, UX Design, User Interface (UI), Ideation, Mobile Wallet

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