
Vishal Vichare
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Peterborough, United Kingdom
Toptal member since August 31, 2022
Vishal is a project management expert in leading teams to understand complex business and technology requirements while transforming high-level vision into scalable solutions and driving ROI and performance for fintech and startup companies. Vishal's strengths are driving product vision while creating go-to-market strategies and MVPs to quickly confirm business capabilities, aiding stakeholders to ensure product propositions resonate with target audiences and optimize ROI.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Feature Backlog Prioritization
- IT Product Management
- Progress Reporting
- Scrum
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Technical Product Management
- Technical Project Management
- Web & Mobile Applications
Work Experience
Product Owner
Stonegate Group
- Led Microsoft Dynamics CRM decommissioning and redevelopment, improving operational efficiency by 18%.
- Developed AI-powered web scraping solutions for competitor analysis, providing actionable insights.
- Led stakeholder engagement workshops to refine product strategy and ensure continuous feedback loops for Agile roadmap execution.
- Conducted data analysis to improve forecasting and decision-making.
Senior Technical Project Manager
SVJC TRUST
- Implemented a Centralized Project Management System – Introduced and configured a project management tool to streamline communication, task tracking, and volunteer coordination, reducing administrative workload by 40%.
- Led the end-to-end revamp of the charity’s website, improving user experience, site performance, and accessibility, resulting in a 30% increase in online engagement.
- Created a secure web-based system to automate volunteer onboarding, cutting down manual processing time by 50% and improving data accuracy.
- Integrated donation processing features and optimized fundraising campaign pages, leading to a 25% increase in online donations within six months.
- Coordinated efforts between UK-based doctors, donors, and technical teams to align digital initiatives with the charity’s mission, improving operational efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Implemented data visualization dashboards to track volunteer participation, surgical impact, and fundraising metrics, providing real-time insights that improved decision-making and transparency.
- Designed and deployed a mobile-responsive web interface, enabling volunteers and donors to access key information and contribute seamlessly, increasing mobile traffic by 40%.
Technical Project Manager
PANZ Lumber International Inc
- Created a proposal for a consolidated billing platform, integrating recurring billing services from multiple providers, improving SMBs' financial transparency. Ensured platform scalability and data redundancy by selecting cloud-based solutions.
- Led proposal development, including technology stack recommendations, cost breakdowns, and implementation strategies, securing stakeholder buy-in and resource allocations to ensure on-time delivery of platform releases.
- Presented cost-benefit analyses to stakeholders, justifying technical investments and achieving budget approvals for key platform components.
- Developed detailed platform demonstration materials, securing buy-in from enterprise clients and potential investors.
Technical Project Manager
Apped, LLC
- Implemented project management methodologies, resulting in a significant increase in team productivity, as measured by the number of user stories completed. Also implemented a standardized issue-tracking system.
- Executed a communication plan that included regular status updates and weekly meetings with stakeholders, resulting in an improvement in stakeholder satisfaction using Asana and Jira boards for communicating with the development team.
- Collaborated with technical leads to establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for projects, enabling data-driven decision-making and tracking against project milestones.
Technical Project Manager
Corporate Games and Events UK Ltd.
- Acted as a technical project manager and helped launch an MVP for a scheduling system for people participating in multi-disciplinary sports. Maintained ongoing improvements while leading external stakeholder relationships.
- Used Agile methodology and the workflow for architects and engineering teams and regularly updated the stakeholders about the work process.
- Defined project scope, plan, tracking, and road maps and managed full software lifecycle, assessing systems and associated portals and implemented changes while presenting solutions to stakeholders and ensuring data consistency and quality maintained.
Technical Product Manager
Eezi
- Served as a technical product manager and managed teams of developers, aided the creation and delivery of unique software solutions with a team.
- Developed business case while overseeing software roadmap. Managed sprints, including backlog, specification, and prioritization. I also aided in ceremonies, presenting sprint estimation and planning capabilities with scheduled needs.
- Managed and developed a product backlog to prioritize initiatives according to their specific business value and also managed resources for the delivery of the projects.
- Supported wider strategy to ensure capabilities for product sets are independent, owned, and scalable. Oversaw the development of customer connections to drive business growth.
Technical Project Manager
Sensations English
- Engaged as technical project manager, overseeing the full delivery of business-critical projects, including website applications and third-party integrations.
- Defined project plans and PID, tracked progress, and managed complex internal and external stakeholder priorities while resolving resourcing, budgeting, monitoring, and control issues.
- Used Jira boards for workflow management and for managing sprints. Used monday.com for prioritizing tasks and Jira boards to carry them out.
- Interacted with various offshore and third-party vendors, adjusting communication strategies for the project.
Project History
Digital Transformation Project
https://www.stonegategroup.co.uk/Led the digital transformation of Microsoft Dynamics CRM by decommissioning legacy systems and developing new applications. Improved compliance reporting accuracy with Power BI dashboards for better insights.
• Optimized backlog prioritization in Jira, ensuring seamless Agile execution and feature alignment.
• Developed Power BI dashboards, enhancing compliance reporting accuracy by 30%.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define product strategy, roadmap execution, and business impact assessment.
• Created wireframes and process flows in Miro and Visio, reducing feature development time by 25%.
• Analysed large datasets (Power BI, SQL) to improve forecasting, risk assessment, and decision-making, reducing user friction by 20%.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Led Microsoft Dynamics CRM decommissioning and redevelopment, improving efficiency by 18%.
• Spearheaded competitor pricing analysis, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Automated data workflows, reducing manual effort by 40% and improving reporting accuracy.
• Developed interactive dashboards that provided actionable insights, improving reporting accuracy and decision-making for cross-functional teams.
Scheduling System
https://www.corporate-games.com/Managed sprints for the scheduling system incorporating functions including results and participants entries for a successful release of an MVP.
EPOS Integration
http://myeezi.comUsed Web APIs to manage EPOS integration of several stores in the UK for topping up their mobile phones and gaming e-vouchers.
I also led scrum meetings, gathered and prioritized requirements, verified Web APIs requests and responses, launched a project communicating with internal teams while performing UAT, and transformed the app to track user exit points.
MVP of Teaching English Online
https://sensationsenglish.com/Led and managed two teams of developers, QA, and a solution architect to launch a website for non-English speakers to learn English successfully.
I was accountable for working within teams to determine solutions to meet current and upcoming requirements measured by monthly users per feature or transaction volume. I delivered on time, team velocity and accuracy, support tickets, testing, support, retention, churn, and customer lifetime value. In addition, I defined project scope and plan, presented business cases, identified and mitigated risks while prioritizing requirements, led scrum meetings, implemented solutions, set and managed budget, executed project liaising with internal teams, and performed UAT.
Finally, I successfully utilized mixpanel to track customer journey while implementing different website pages to drive digital marketing campaigns that significantly boosted website registrations.
Application Launch
Led a team of developers to design, build, and launch a fully functional application, enhancing the charity’s operational efficiency and user engagement.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration
Newcastle Business School - Newcastle, England
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication
University of Mumbai - Mumbai, India
Certifications
SAFe Product Manager
Scaled Agile Inc.
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification
PeopleCert
Certified Scrum Master
Exin
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack, Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Scrum, Agile Product Management, Agile, HIPAA Compliance, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), UX Design
Industry Expertise
Pets, Health Insurance
Platforms
WordPress, Microsoft Dynamics 365
Other
Technical Project Management, ChatGPT, Project Planning, Sprint Planning, Risk Management, Roadmaps, Stakeholder Management, Resource Allocation, Solution Design, Technical Writing, Technical Documentation, API Documentation, CSS, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), HTML, Business Analysis, Process Improvement, SOP Development, Web Development, Estimation & Planning, Feature Planning, Feature Prioritization, Product Roadmaps, User Workflows, Delivery, Microsoft, Consulting, Contract Management, Communication Management, Teamwork, Web Scraping, API Applications, API Platforms, Request for Proposal (RFP), Vendor Selection, Implementation, POS, Platforms, Mobile Development, Web Technologies, Business Process Optimization, Workflow Automation & System Integration, Quality Assurance (QA), Dashboards, Scrum Master, Programming, Stakeholder Engagement, Progress Reporting, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Task Management, Web & Mobile Applications, Web Project Management, Web App Development, Product Management, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Technical Requirements, Estimation & Planning, Mobile App Development, Project Tracking, Artificial Intelligence (AI), APIs, IT Product Management, User Stories, Software Development, Software as a Service (SaaS), API Integration, Software Implementation, Cybersecurity, Project Delivery, Scope of Work (SOW), Client Delivery Management, Startups, IT Project Management, Fintech, Vendor Management, Technical Product Management, UI Design, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Databases, Project Rescue, User Journeys, Project Reporting, JavaScript, Product Roadmaps, Reporting, ERP Implementation, System Integration, C#, Business Intelligence (BI), Content Management Systems (CMS), Digital Transformation, Project Scoping, Backlog Grooming, Feature Analysis, APIs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, OpenAI GPT-4 API, Customer Insights, Finance, Document Parsing, SOC 2, SAP Delivery Management, SAP Implementation, Large Language Models (LLMs), Low Code, No-code Development, OpenAI, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Zapier, Agile Coaching, Pitch Decks, Legal Technology (Legaltech), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Python, BI Reporting, Business Processes, UX Wireframes, Interactive Prototypes, Digital Transformation Program Management, GAP Analysis, Resourcing, Business Process Analysis, Keyword Analysis, Strategy, Feature Prioritization, Sprints
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