Product Leader and Technologist, committed to mission-driven organizations with 15+ years of success in developing enterprise solutions, having deep knowledge in creating, and managing product roadmaps, Go to Market strategies, Identifying Market-fit expansion opportunities and handling large-scale transformations.
Hi, I’m
Ashwin Pandey
Product Manager Principal
San Francisco,CA
Summary
Overview
6
Certificates
15
years of professional experience
Quote
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
Skills
Problem Solving, Design Thinking; Data Analysis, GTM Strategy, Market fit analysis
Software Architecture Design, Business Requirements Gathering;
Product Management; Strategic and Product Roadmaps; PI Planning; Product Development
Agile Methodology; Cross Functional leadership;
Healthcare - Payor, Pharmacy, Govt plans, Self Funded
Accounting and Finance, Inventory Management
Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, MySQL, JSON
PLSQL, C#, Rest API, Python, FHIR, EDI
Oracle Fusion (ERP), ORMB
AWS
Cloud services
JIRA software, Trello
Self-Motivated
Flexible and Adaptable
Multitasking Abilities
Excellent Communication
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Solution prototypes
Software Architecture
Service-Oriented Architecture
Software Analysis
Framework Development
Mentoring and training
Architecture improvements
Architectural Illustration
Project requirements analysis
Effective communication
Customer proposals
Balsamiq UI/UX Design
Fundamentals: Java Script, Blockchain, Azure and Google Cloud Fundamentals, Snowflake and Machine Learning - supervised learning
Certification
Professional Academy of Healthcare Management
Work History
Blue Shield Of CASan Francisco, CA
Principal Product Manager
2016.06 - Current (10 education.years_Label & 1 education.month_Label)
Job overview
- Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
- Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
- Compiled product and customer data to generate informed profit projections.
- Directed planning and budgeting efforts.
- Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
- Spearheaded collaborative efforts to bring products to market.
- Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
- Analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
- Assessed costs and estimated production capabilities to evaluate economic viability.
- Reviewed new opportunities to drive business strategy at planning sessions.
- Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.
- Coordinated design meetings and decisions with internal departments and teams.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Collected customer requirements, directed testing and conducted continuous evaluations to make proactive adjustments to marketing approaches.
- Communicated effectively with team members to deliver updates on project milestones and deadlines.
- Managed product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation.
Blue Shield Of CASan Francisco, CA
Solutions Lead Architect
01.2015 - Current
Job overview
- Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.
- Guided and influenced existing partners on recommended upgrades and enhancements to integrated solutions.
- Communicated with partners and clients to update product and implementation status at technical or functional level.
- Developed and delivered technical training designed to enable and educate software implementation partners.
- Conducted post-sale requirements gathering, analysis and documentation.
- Conducted technical workshops and education sessions for customers, vendor partners and business teams.
- Provided support during customer implementations and applied industry best practices.
- Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
- Worked closely with product teams to define and prioritize partner feature requests
- Worked with clients post-implementation on user testing, debugging, support and maintenance.
- Installed, integrated and deployed Accounting, Banking and Healthcare product in client environments.
- Managed and delivered advanced customization and configuration for provider payment solutions.
- Created strong relationships with key decision makers as trusted consultant of Commercial product line.
- Managed project scope, schedule, status and documentation.
- Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation.
- Created and implemented innovative business solutions to support corporate objectives.
- Conducted research to evaluate systems design and process efficiency.
- Assisted enterprise architecture and business teams in responses to customer and prospective customer evaluations, escalations and technical requirements documents.
- Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
- Customized in-development software to clients' current hardware environments, designing applications to span multiple systems.
- Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with employer business goals.
- Designed architecture strategies for large-scale system-wide application deployments.
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTSSan Francisco, CA
Solutions Architect
11.2012 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Perform Application, Data, Business & Technology fit-gap analysis to facilitate large scale transformations
- Prepare Technology and Solution Architecture blueprints, Systems Integrated design for transformation and migrations spanning various Technologies.
- Driving product implementations from Research and Initiation phase through deployment and support
- Creating and managing high performing engineering teams, Mentoring, and coaching to grow talent to the next level
- Delivery responsibilities for the E2E Integrated solution design, systems analysis, technical design, and development of specifications by leading group of cross functional teams by applying domain and technical expertise
- Customized in-development software to clients' current hardware environments, designing applications to span multiple systems.
- Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
- Participated in weekly meetings with client to discuss project direction and milestone achievement.
- Mentored team, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement.
- Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with employer business goals.
- Analyzed software architecture for weaknesses, recommending and designing application patches.
- Drafted visual representations of software architecture design for presentation to stakeholders.
- Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.
- Assessed under-performing software and developed actionable improvements.
- Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
- Defined enterprise processes and best practices and tailored enterprise processes for applications.
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
- Communicated software architecture strategies to senior leadership and third-party business leaders.
- Applied established development methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and Agile to architecture design.
- Designed architecture strategies for large-scale system-wide application deployments.
- Reviewed business success drivers, applying strategic prioritization to future architectural updates.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTSRochester, NY
Software Engineering Team Lead
11.2008 - 10.2012
Job overview
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
- Analyzed data to coordinate installation of new systems or modification of existing systems.
- Designed enhancements and updates for subsystems of end-user applications software running on local, networked and Internet-based platforms.
- Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
- Developed clear specifications for project plans using customer requirements.
- Partnered with development team on product development and application support plans.
- Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments.
- Identified and documented project changes with proactive budget oversight.
- Provided direction and guidance to process improvements and established policies.
- Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
- Worked with customers for needs analysis and to determine vendor costs.
- Promoted experience with Amazon Web Services.
- Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements.
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric infrastructures.
- Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members.
- Informed internal personnel and external stakeholders of project milestones.
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using C#, Java, PLSQL.
- Represented software applications engineering team during large and complex development projects.
- Introduced agile methodologies and development best practices to division to enhance product development.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
Software Engineering Analyst
11.2006 - 10.2008
Job overview
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Installed and configured software applications and tested solutions for functionality.
- Worked in team-driven environments and communicated effectively with stakeholders.
- Managed talented teams in various workflows to organize over 25+ development projects.
- Explained highly complex information in terms that were easily understood by non-technical people.
- Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
- Wrote code on Java, C#.NET, VB.NET platform using following tools: Eclipse, VS Code, Sharepoint etc.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Designed and developed forward-thinking systems that meet user needs and improve productivity.
- Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
- Used interpersonal and communication skills in interactions, enriching team collaboration, customer relationships on large scale project.
- Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
- Designed and developed analytical data structures.
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
- Analyzed work to generate logic for new systems, procedures and tests.
- Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
- Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
- Designed, developed, modified and debugged programs.
- Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
- Supervised work of programmers, designers and technicians, assigned tasks and monitored performance against targets.
- Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.
- Assisted in planning of web application software and system testing efforts.
Education
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological UniversityHyderabad, India
Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science and Engineering
2002.09 - 2006.05 (3 education.years_Label & 8 education.months_Label)
University Overview
Timeline
Principal Product Manager
Blue Shield Of CA
2016.06 - Current (10 education.years_Label & 1 education.month_Label)
Solutions Lead Architect
Blue Shield Of CA
01.2015 - Current
Solutions Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
11.2012 - 01.2015
Software Engineering Team Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
11.2008 - 10.2012
Software Engineering Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
11.2006 - 10.2008
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science and Engineering
2002.09 - 2006.05 (3 education.years_Label & 8 education.months_Label)