Deepthi Jayachandran
Dallas,TX
Summary
Strategic Product Manager with proven experience in the tech industry for over 10 years. Known for robust leadership skills and adeptness at driving product development from inception to execution. Successfully implemented innovative strategies, improved operational efficiencies, and spearheaded cross-functional teams to boost product quality. Strong expertise in market research, data analysis, and stakeholder management and agile project methodologies.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager | Product Owner
Cardinal Health
Remote
03.2024 - Current
- Product manager for a transformation project of a legacy ordering platform used by pharmacists to order products from Cardinal Health. This project also includes building a single platform for customers using different storefronts in the legacy system.
- To integrate into the new platform, I identified customer needs through user interviews, surveys, focus groups, and other feedback mechanisms.
- Based on the needs determined, I developed a product roadmap to map out timelines and help prioritize features in order to maximize impact.
- Analyzed data from various sources, such as customer feedback, usage metrics, and A/B testing results, to inform product decisions.
- Participated in design reviews to ensure usability standards are being met throughout the product development cycle.
- Worked closely with engineering teams to ensure that feature specifications are understood and implemented correctly.
- Supported quarterly releases to production, performed UAT activities, and ensured that requirements continue for future releases.
- Managed product demonstrations for real customers at the Regional Business Conference, conducted by Cardinal Health, for the customers.
- Managed product lifecycle from concept through launch and post-launch evaluation.
Product Owner|Senior Consultant|
Cognizant Consulting
Bangalore, India
06.2021 - 07.2023
- Worked in a fast-paced, agile environment with the Product Owners for one of the world's largest publishing houses based out of the UK, for long-term product management, such as identifying problem areas in existing products, providing enhancement solutions, working closely to implement these changes, and providing post-production support.
- Was part of the team that maintained and modeled the data in Google Big Query that powered the analytics of the client's business
- The business offered online e-textbooks to students who had signed up for courses. We designed and implemented a new solution to aid the students access online textbooks without having to enter an access codes to retrieve the textbook thus avoiding delays in waiting for a textbook/ study materials
- Was part of the team that re-modeled an online subscription product to include more tiers of pricing, removed an existing subscription model, introduced more content and worked to seamlessly integrate the different sources of data such as Oracle, Salesforce, legacy Microsoft SQL Server into the Enterprise Data Warehouse that was in Google Big Query
- Provided reports to the upper management to make business decisions by identifying the necessary KPIs and create the report in Tableau
Product Owner|Project Manager
Payoda Technologies
Coimbatore, India
05.2019 - 05.2021
- Delivered multiple projects in the retail, security, and personal security domains.
- Lead a team of 10 members to build an e-commerce website in 4 months, under budget, and ahead of schedule.
- Lead the team in delivering a complex platform that allows internal users to manage their certificate-based authentication business model.
- Provided a solution for inventory management, service management, and customer hierarchy management for one of the world's largest telecom companies.
- Delivered an asset management system to one of the world's leading telecom companies, to allow them to view and manage all details of physical assets all over the world.
Data Analyst / Senior Business Analyst
Philips Healthcare
Atlanta, USA
01.2015 - 11.2018
- Developed Tableau dashboards for Service Operation Managers, enhancing data visualization and decision-making.
- Designed integrated platform, increasing efficiency by 50% for tracking FDA-mandated documents.
- Collaborated with leadership teams to identify pain points, establish KPIs, and ensure service SLA compliance.
Marketing Analyst
Hewlett Packard
Banaglore, India
03.2012 - 05.2013
- Engaged with Marketing Managers and Product Managers to identify products that need a boost in marketing strategy and work on the same by creating tools and dashboards. This brought about an increase of 2% in sales of cross-selling and up-selling the right products.
- Work with large amounts of data using SAS, MS Access, and SQL for analysis and reporting in dashboards.
- Automated Excel reporting to increase efficiency by up to 90% by developing an algorithm in VBA, and mentored other analysts on the team to learn VBA to increase overall team efficiency.
Education
SAFe Certified Product Owner
Scaled AgileMaster of Science (MS) in Management Information Systems -
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL12.2014
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Software Engineering -
PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, India05.2011
Skills
- Product roadmap
- User research
- Effective communication
- Stakeholder engagement
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Excel
- Tableau
- Data analytics
- Data warehouse
- SQL
- Project management
References
- Justin Franconi, justin.franconi@cardinalhealth.com
- Erik Schefstad, erik.schefstad@philips.com
- Tanmayi Pervela, ptanmayi@gmail.com
Accomplishments
- Bravo award - CardinalHealth (April 2024, August 2024 and June 2025)
- Quarterly Spot Award - Cognizant Technologies (03/2022)
- Spot Award - Payoda Technologies (01/2021)
- Quarterly Award - Payoda Technologies (08/2019)
- Game Changers - Philips Healthcare (01/2016)
- BizWiz Award - Philips Healthcare (10/2015)
- Rising Star Award (05/2012)
- Spot Award (09/2011)
Early Career
- Business Analyst at Mu Sigma Business Solutions - Jan 2011 to Feb 2012
- Intern at eBay - May 2009 to Dec 2009
- Project Intern at Daufenbach Camera - Jan 2014 - May 2014
- Project Intern at Sloan Valve - Aug 2014 - Dec 2014
Timeline
Product Manager | Product Owner
Cardinal Health
03.2024 - Current
Product Owner|Senior Consultant|
Cognizant Consulting
06.2021 - 07.2023
Product Owner|Project Manager
Payoda Technologies
05.2019 - 05.2021
Data Analyst / Senior Business Analyst
Philips Healthcare
01.2015 - 11.2018
Marketing Analyst
Hewlett Packard
03.2012 - 05.2013
SAFe Certified Product Owner
Master of Science (MS) in Management Information Systems -
University of Illinois
Master of Science (M.Sc) in Software Engineering -
PSG College of Technology