Akhil Bhimala
Technical Product Management
Portland,OR
Summary
Expert thought leader and team builder, with proven experience in building enterprise-scale Analytical Products at Nike
Experienced and established leader and individual contributor across multiple Nike Domains in the space of BI Reporting, Self-serve Analytics, Domain Data Products and Advanced Analytics
Experienced Product Leader in building Vision, Roadmaps, OKRs, KPI and practicing SAFe and Agile Methodology
Over 14 years of building Analytics solutions for Business Operations
Passionate team player, involved coach and a servant leader
My favorite Nike Maxim - 'Do the Right Thing'
Excellence in designing complex business use cases into technical solutions
Streamline conflicting priorities based on strategic direction, Engineering effort and business value matrix
Drafting data-informed QBR and MBR value-add notes for Executive leadership
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Technical Product Director
Nike
06.2021 - Current
- Led WORKDAY Reporting and Analytics products for NIKE Inc.
- Total value realization of approximately $15M savings for Nike by migrating to Workday and divesting approximately 31 applications across Nike's HR Technology
- Met strict deadlines, coordinating moving parts in product team and orchestrating well-designed flow.
- Identified productivity bottlenecks and devised innovative solutions while remaining conservative with resources.
- Worked collaboratively with developers, senior-level stakeholders and partners to collect data on deficiencies and provide solutions to long-standing issues.
- Oversaw product design and roadmap and coordinated aspects of development and rollout.
- Conceptualized long-range product roadmaps and strategically designed according to market data and research.
- Drew from market data to assess product health and drive success.
- Designed and coordinated processes applicable to numerous projects for design efficiency and continuity.
Principal Product Manager
Global Operations And Logistics, Nike
10.2017 - 6 2021
- Built Product roadmaps to fulfill Operations, Analytics and Advanced Analytics needs of Geo/Global MPO and Commercial Analytics
- Built analytics solutions on top of Cloud platforms at NIKE such as AWS-NGAP and SNOWFLAKE, using BI tools and TABLEAU
- Built Adv. Analytics solutions, example - Machine Learning (Clustering) approach in order to identify root cause of delivery failure in Digital Fulfillment process
- Maintained legacy solutions (as old as 2011) running off of SAP BW and Teradata
- Worked with multiple teams in business such as Commercial Analytics, Order Management, Logistics to gather requirements for new solutions or enhance existing products
- Collaborated across teams in Global Tech such as CREATE, MOVE, SERVE, EAP and ED&A to ensure the team adheres to the latest enterprise guidelines to benefit scalability and data quality
- Hosted Strategic Roadmap and Demos for Tech and Business leadership, this helps in identifying interdependency of roadmaps and products
- Chaired and facilitated Planning and Design workshops to identify user behavior and use cases
- Provided QBR and MBR notes as value drops to Senior Leadership
- Drafted Product Release documentations, tracked Product usage stats and closely involved in Product Transition Management
- Worked with NIKE Corporate teams to host Product's Learning and development toolkit in Nike's NIKEU portal for new hires to adopt
- Tracked Agile metrics such as epic/feature burndown, sprint velocity, to encourage team to retrospect and improve
Engineering Tech Lead - Master Data Management
Enterprise Data Governance, Nike
6 2016 - 11.2017
Data Analytics Consultant - Supply Planning
Nike
11.2015 - 6 2016
Application Systems Manager - JDA Supply Chain
DSW
12.2011 - 10.2015
Oracle Hyperion Consultant
JPMorgan Chase
06.2010 - 10.2011
Data Warehouse Consultant - Glbl Supply Planning
Nike
10.2008 - 6 2010
Data Analyst
Golfsmith
02.2008 - 10.2008
Data Warehouse Consultant
World Bank
05.2007 - 10.2008
Education
Master of Arts - Computer Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 01.2006 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Raipur University
India 01.1999 - 01.2003
Skills
Stakeholder and Consumer Relationship
X-Technology Relation and Dependency Mapping
Root Cause Analysis and Problem-Solving
Technical direction and Product strategies
Product Roadmap development and expansion
Product Team Leadership and coaching
Product sampling and usage evaluation
Business and technical gap-analysis
SAFE Practice and Agile Method
Information and Systems Architecture Data Model
Logical and Physical Data Model
Advanced SQL and PYTHON for Data Analysis
Datamart, Data warehouse and Data Lake Concepts
Cognos BI Solutions
Tableau for Vis and Analytics
Lifecycle Management - JIRA and VERSION ONE
GITHUB and BITBUCKET
Big Data Computing Concepts
Integration tools - EDI, FUSION, APIs and Informatica
Workflow Tools - Airflow, Jenkins, Autosys
Certification
Product Management, University of MD
Timeline
Technical Product Director
Nike
06.2021 - Current
Product Management, University of MD
06-2020
Principal Product Manager
Global Operations And Logistics, Nike
10.2017 - 6 2021
Product Owner, SAFe
06-2017
PCEP, Python Institute
02-2016
Data Analytics Consultant - Supply Planning
Nike
11.2015 - 6 2016
Big Data Course Certification, MIT X
11-2015
Vulnerability Management, Qualys
05-2015
Application Systems Manager - JDA Supply Chain
DSW
12.2011 - 10.2015
Oracle Hyperion Consultant
JPMorgan Chase
06.2010 - 10.2011
Data Warehouse Consultant - Glbl Supply Planning
Nike
10.2008 - 6 2010
Data Analyst
Golfsmith
02.2008 - 10.2008
Data Warehouse Consultant
World Bank
05.2007 - 10.2008
Master of Arts - Computer Science
Wayne State University
01.2006 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Raipur University
01.1999 - 01.2003
Engineering Tech Lead - Master Data Management
Enterprise Data Governance, Nike
6 2016 - 11.2017