AJI KUMAR MADHAVAN PILLAI
Dunlap,IL
Summary
SAFE and (CSPO)Certified Scrum Product Manager with 5+ years of experience leading scrum teams. Expertize in Managing Telematics and Cloud Platforms with complex, high-visibility technical projects.
Expert in interacting with customers and other stakeholders to gather requirements, define scopes and set project plans. Managing a telematics platform that has scaled to supporting over Multi million devices.
Effective at technical support, management and customer relationship development. Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making abilities.
Well-versed in coordinating projects with onshore/offshore teams. Experienced in application development and support of high visible projects covering various domains, like Automotive,Heavy Industry and Locomotive.
Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments.
Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes and supporting team objectives.
Detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments. Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes and supporting team objectives.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Product Manager
Ford
10.2021 - Current
- Technical Product Manager for Multiple applications on Ford Cloud Platform.
- Cloud platform handles more than 50 million Vehicles Data.
- Applications responsible for processing data from more than 30 plants across the world.
- Applications managed enable Service, OTA, FordPass remote commands, Data Analytics for Ford Vehicles.
- Applications migrated from CAAS to GCP platform.
- Managed 10 resources between spread across multiple regions. oversaw schedules in line with stakeholder and Program Manager specifications.
- Maintained close connection with scrum team to quickly identify and resolve problems.
- Worked with other product teams to work on the product vision and product roadmap with pro-active control of schedules and scopes.
- Communicated the product roadmap and vision and any changes to the scrum teams regularly.
- Stakeholder management and risk management.
- Release planning and production deployments.
- Identified and optimized cost of applications by 5%.
- Well versed in scrum ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective.
- Represented team in the PI planning sessions, weekly stakeholder reviews with upper management.
Technical Product Owner
Caterpillar (Accenture)
10.2010 - 10.2021
- Telematics Product Owner for Telematics Gateway responsible for over a million connected devices running on Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
- Platform is response onboarding devices, receiving messages from the connected devices over various supported protocols, parsing, Flashing Over the Air(FOTA), Sending Configurations, Remote Disable and Derate, subscriptions and Wifi Management.
- Defined scopes, managed resources and oversaw schedules in line with stakeholder and Program Manager specifications.
- Oversaw on-site and off-site teams of 30+ professionals working on projects.
- Constant prioritization of product backlog based on customer feedback, priority, project objectives, market changes and staff availability.
- Worked with product teams to work on the product vision and product roadmap with pro-active control of schedules and scopes.
- Communicated the product roadmap and vision and any changes to the scrum teams regularly
Managed pre-production and production product deployments. - Defined customer personas and helped with the UI/UX design.
- Represented team in the PI planning sessions
- Well versed in scrum ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective.
Team Lead
General Electric, John F Welch Technology Center
11.2007 - 10.2010
- Managed a team developing various locomotive telematics applications like, LocoCam, PinPoint and SmartFuel for multiple customers in North America.
- Collaborated closely with the Architects to implement the designs for the applications.
- Responsible for the delivery of locomotive telematics application software.
- Periodically review the progress of the development with the management and Bring up any blockers/issues/challenges to the management.
- Involved in all phases of software development lifecycle.
- Developed C/C++ applications on QNX/Linux Operating Systems.
- Used tools like Microsoft Visio, eclipse IDE, Git and testing tools.
- Received numerous recognitions for the work performed.
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
03.2004 - 11.2007
- Worked on various projects related to automotive Infotainment systems for Johnson Controls which were targetted for multiple Japanese OEMs.
- Developed Hands Free Systems Middleware module.
- Coordinated with project managers across multiple initiatives to align development timelines, plan testing and work with client representatives.
- Developed architectural and system design documents.
- Performed code reviews and helped address the code review comments.
- Performed root cause analysis of problems, documented faults in tracking system and generated daily reports.
- Instrumented and modified unit and integration tests to improve software quality and reliability.
- C/C++ development on QNX and Linux operating systems and also was Linux Admin for the project.
Education
Master of Science - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Diploma - Embedded Systems
CDAC
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Calicut University
Skills
- Delivery Management
- Agile Project Management
- Functional and Business Requirements
- Project Estimation and Planning
- Schedule Management
- Coordination and Negotiation
- Process Improvements
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Git, Jira Confluence
- GCP cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure
- Oracle DB, Postgres DB, Mongo DB
- Backlog Grooming and Prioritization
- Scrum Methodology
- Budgeting and Finance Management
- Complex Problem Resolution
- Team Management
- Microsoft Visio, Miro
- Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Microservices Architectures
- Cloud Platform
- Product Development
- Stakeholder communication
- Release management
Certification
- Scrum Alliance Product Owner (CSPO)
- SAFe Agilist
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Google Digital Leader
Timeline
Technical Product Manager
Ford
10.2021 - Current
Technical Product Owner
Caterpillar (Accenture)
10.2010 - 10.2021
Team Lead
General Electric, John F Welch Technology Center
11.2007 - 10.2010
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
03.2004 - 11.2007
Diploma - Embedded Systems
CDAC
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communications Engineering
Calicut University
Master of Science - Software Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
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