Mahender Raj Kalashikam
Product Manager
Phoenixville,PA
Summary
Diligent Product Manager offering 5+ years of industry success, including product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior client relationship management and product launch ability.
Overview
6
6
years of post-secondary education
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Manager
Elsevier Inc
Philadelphia, PA
01.2019 - Current
- Established success criteria (OKR's) for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress
- Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
- Coordinated design meetings and decisions across 5 internal departments and teams.
- Thrived in fast-paced, highly-adept team of Software developers. AI/ML teams and UI/UX to develop and prioritize product features and build product roadmap.
- Managed benchmarks, product demonstrations and testimonials for performance evaluation.
- Distinguished product issues and gathered information on customer experiences.
- Reviewed product development budgets, expenditures and research.
- Coordinated innovative strategies to accomplish marketing objectives and boost long-term profitability.
Product Management Consultant
CAQH
Washington, DC
08.2017 - 06.2021
- Spearhead product feature design and product planning efforts for integration between ProView and American Dental Association.
- Collaborated with UI/UX teams, drafted and led efforts to design customized ProView application for dental providers, addressing key pain points of over 200k dental providers in ProView.
- Conducted ethnographic market research through focus groups. Analyze, Interpret and synthesize learning from research sources, and draw actionable and executable conclusions for stakeholders.
- Led team's efforts in developing proprietary machine learning algorithm while assisting health plans in addressing emerging regulatory requirements around provider directory updates and accuracy.
- Worked with commercial teams to identify and lead data exchange opportunities between CAQH and various other provider directory centric organization to increase data accuracy by more than 50%.
Senior Product Analyst - Audience Products
Comscore
Reston, VA
10.2014 - 05.2017
- Supported product operational efforts in providing monthly marketing campaign performance reports for over 500+ clients spread across 7 nations.
- Collaborated with development teams to build product capability to specifically capture HTML 5 ads, while addressing industry wide change on how display ads were being published across internet.
- Drive ongoing development efforts to capture native ads published on various social networking sites.
- Led efforts for partnerships between comScore and other 3rd party players, eventually increasing number of marketing metrics we provide to clients.
- Worked closely with product teams, development teams, comScore's commercial teams and clients to identify key growth areas.
- Evaluate and prioritize product features across cross platform products, translate market needs into actionable user stories.
Product Management Intern
EBay Inc
San Jose, CA
05.2013 - 08.2013
- Performed large scale quantitative and qualitative research on experimentation platforms on companies such as EBay, PayPal, Yahoo, Microsoft etc.
- Analyzed key differentiating factors of eBay’s and PayPal’s experimentation platform to identify key areas where product can be improved in order to become market leader
Product Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
Education
MBA - Marketing
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 06.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Sciences And Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore, TN, India 06.2005 - 05.2009
Skills
Product Roadmaps
Market requirement research
Project Management
Business Relationship Management
Budgeting
Product lifecycle management
Research and trend analysis
Business administration
Business planning
Business Development
Strategic planning
Product development
PeopleSoft
Client communication
Market Analysis
P&L Management
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
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evening
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Accomplishments
- Partnership with NIH GARD to improve the accuracy of differential diagnosis algorithm by 34%
- Track and capture HTML 5 ads in less than 3 months after Google announced industry wide change.
- Improved provider directory accuracy by more than 26%.
- Partnership with ADA to capture more than 200k dental provider information for regulatory purposes.
Quote
Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
Product Manager
Elsevier Inc
01.2019 - Current
Product Management Consultant
CAQH
08.2017 - 06.2021
Senior Product Analyst - Audience Products
Comscore
10.2014 - 05.2017
Product Management Intern
EBay Inc
05.2013 - 08.2013
MBA - Marketing
Purdue University
06.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Sciences And Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology
06.2005 - 05.2009
Product Analyst
Cognizant Technologies Solutions