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PRANAV GIDWANI

Seattle,WA

Summary

Senior Product Manager with over 10 years of experience managing product life cycles from concept to launch. Expertise in cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning, and customer-focused development. Demonstrated success in enhancing products through innovative strategies and effective problem-solving. Consistently delivered high-quality products that align with market demands and contribute to business growth.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Product Manager

Edifecs Inc.
Seattle, WA
01.2025 - Current
  • Executed the company vision through strategic innovation, enhancing transaction workflow efficiency.
  • Designed features in a healthcare B2B SaaS product for workflow automation, achieving 99% compliance, and automating tasks.
  • Conducted product demonstrations while analyzing market trends for informed development decisions.
  • Collaborated with marketing and sales teams to conduct webinars, create targeted campaigns to attract potential customers, and showcase business value.
  • Developed and maintained 18-24 month product roadmap, prioritizing backlog items and features.
  • Secured cross-functional team buy-in for product features while resolving customer issues.
  • Managed stakeholder relationships to identify root causes, and propose effective solutions for critical issues.

Product Manager

Edifecs Inc.
Seattle, WA
03.2020 - 12.2024
  • Executed initial implementation of new modules by conducting customer review sessions and analyzing documentation.
  • Performed requirements analysis to convert business needs into technical specifications for engineers.
  • Collaborated with customers and internal teams to identify implementation challenges, using feedback for product enhancement.
  • Served as Scrum Master, ensuring adherence to time, resource, quality, and budget milestones in agile framework.
  • Managed full product life cycle, including requirements gathering, product release planning, user stories, and success criteria.
  • Defined and executed comprehensive user acceptance test plans alongside product launch activities and documentation.
  • Partnered with customers and UI/UX teams to design customer-facing dashboards and conduct testing on wireframes.
  • Conducted advanced analytics and reporting on healthcare metrics to identify issues and discern data patterns.

Sr. Business Analyst

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, WA
04.2019 - 03.2020
  • Collaborated with Product Managers and Software Engineers to design and implement features for internal invoicing platform supporting global AWS non-cloud lines of business.
  • Conducted gap analysis and risk identification, proposing engineering solutions for AWS global Marketing Sponsorship process improvements.
  • Developed Tableau dashboards to visualize contract expiry and revenue trends for AWS global Enterprise Support sales teams.
  • Identified and documented best practices and business processes in collaboration with various functions and sales operations teams.

Product Manager

Aetna Insurance
Phoenix, AZ
09.2017 - 03.2019
  • Managed critical Rx programs and products with $500 million in annual revenue through effective project planning and data analysis.
  • Led the data migration implementation to the Edifecs platform, achieving 95% accuracy for a successful go-live.
  • Cultivated relationships with multiple vendors for IT applications, PBM's, vision, and dental claims processing.
  • Streamlined encounter data mining processes to ensure high standards of data integrity.

Senior Business Analyst

Aetna Insurance
Phoenix, AZ
04.2015 - 08.2017
  • Defined product requirements and user stories in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Developed complex SQL queries and advanced stored procedures to analyze encounter data trends, reducing data integrity errors by 60% annually.
  • Automated ETL encounter file submission process using Microsoft SSIS packages, saving $800K in state sanctions.
  • Conducted Root Cause Analysis on raw encounter and claim data using Advanced SQL, improving error resolution by 10%.
  • Utilized data analysis to drive efficiency improvements across critical Rx programs and products, enhancing overall performance.

Data Analyst

Aetna Insurance
Phoenix, AZ
05.2013 - 03.2015
  • Conducted root cause analysis on healthcare data using advanced SQL and ETL techniques to enhance error resolution by 10%.
  • Analyzed large datasets to identify trends, patterns and correlations for business insights optimizing business processes' efficiency by 25%.
  • Developed and executed action plans for effective vendor management to enhance data quality.
  • Analyzed and documented business requirements for IT change requests and critical new implementations.

Education

Master of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
Tucson, Arizona, US
12.2012

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

University of Mumbai, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
Mumbai, India
06.2011

Skills

  • Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Suite
  • AWS cloud services: Redshift, S3, Athena
  • Backend Development - Java, C, C
  • Data visualization with Tableau
  • Web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Project management and Process mapping
  • Agile project management (JIRA)
  • Version control (GitLab)
  • Roadmap development

Timeline

Sr. Product Manager

Edifecs Inc.
01.2025 - Current

Product Manager

Edifecs Inc.
03.2020 - 12.2024

Sr. Business Analyst

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
04.2019 - 03.2020

Product Manager

Aetna Insurance
09.2017 - 03.2019

Senior Business Analyst

Aetna Insurance
04.2015 - 08.2017

Data Analyst

Aetna Insurance
05.2013 - 03.2015

Master of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

University of Mumbai, Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
PRANAV GIDWANI