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AKASH PATEL

AKASH PATEL

Lead Web Developer / Product Manager
Washington, DC,NW

Summary

High-achieving Entrepreneurial Product Manager offering 3+ years of industry experience in product management and marketing. Well-versed in identifying significant opportunities, research, market analysis, building products, creating product strategy, brainstorming creative solutions, and working with cross-functional teams including engineers, designers and marketeers. Concise and decisive communicator with organizational, multitasking and project management talents.

Overview

6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Web Developer / Technical Head

Wexler - A Young Marketing Firm
Alexandria, VA
07.2017 - Current
  • Working closely with our leadership team to analyze market opportunities & create strategies in context with our company's strategic direction for business growth. Lead client meetings to define project vision, create roadmaps, budgets & timelines.
  • Managing & Developing custom micro-sites & large scale websites using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and PHP on CMS like WordPress etc, with sleek animations, and integrating payment gateways. All websites are SEO optimized, mobile responsive, secure and cross-browser compatible with high PageSpeed.
  • Driving Wexler's tech team by leading 2 interns and 3 vendors. Acting as a webmaster for over 25 clients, managing domain and server management, product development and deployment, system and email migrations, and implementing SEO ranking strategies for organic growth.
  • Contractors Depot (Marketplace for Contractors): Managed a cross-functional team to create an Android & an iOS mobile app with a budget of $60K. Spearheaded requirement gathering, resource allocation, setting milestones, feature prioritization, quality assurance etc. Collaborated with the designers to form strong UI/UX, wireframes and mockups. Conducted functional testing process over the course of the product lifecycle & oversaw the successful deployment of the beta version.
  • The Effect- Giving Tuesday: Developed a donation website and led the marketing interns to implement the competitive SEO and SM strategy. The campaign raised $104k in just 3 days.
  • Dare to Dream Again - Book Launch: Developed the Author's official website to strengthen the promotion campaign. Collaborated with the CMO and the creative director to form and implement a creative content and SM strategy. This resulted in the book being Amazon's #1 New Release.
  • LinkBoost: Debugged and Updated our in-house Google Chrome extension LinkBoost v1.5.8 & deployed and managed the version control using Git. Active installs: ~90 per month
  • Breth - Kickstarter Project: Developed the product website & the e-commerce component using Woo-Commerce. Assisted in hardware-software integration process for the PCB & the mobile app. Led the SM strategy focusing on brand building and tracking metrics to increase sales. Had a significant impact in the marketing campaign by an integral part of the product shoot, advertising & product launch event. Raised $140k in 30 days.

Freelance

Others
  • W&H Experience: Created the product roadmap and delivered an end-to-end medical product registration website with a team of 3 developers. Tech: PHP, CodeIgniter, JQuery, MySQL etc.
  • 365DaysOfHustle: Personal Instagram campaign where I posted one hustle story everyday in 2019 (also 2021) to keep myself accountable and get more productive. IG - @goforakash
  • Android Applications: Developed two Android applications, Know India Better and Meme Maker. Successfully deployed Know India Better on the Google Play Store. Downloads: 525+

Education

Master of Science - Project Management

Harrisburg University Of Science And Technology
Harrisburg, PA
08.2020 - Current

Master of Science - Computer Science

George Washington University
Washington, DC
08.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

K J Somaiya College Of Engineering
08.2011 - 05.2015

Skills

    Languages - React, Ruby, Java, Python, Java, HTML5, PHP, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Android, Material, Design and SQL

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Timeline

Master of Science - Project Management

Harrisburg University Of Science And Technology
08.2020 - Current

Lead Web Developer / Technical Head

Wexler - A Young Marketing Firm
07.2017 - Current

Master of Science - Computer Science

George Washington University
08.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

K J Somaiya College Of Engineering
08.2011 - 05.2015

Freelance

Others

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