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Shashank Sharma

Seattle,WA

Summary

Impact-driven product & program leader with 7 years at FedEx and a decade of success launching revenue-generating platforms, modernizing legacy infrastructure, and delivering pricing and rating solutions at scale. Skilled in end-to-end product delivery, cloud transformation, and cross-functional execution that drives measurable business outcomes.


Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Owner / Program Manager, Pricing & Rating Systems

FedEx
01.2018 - Current
  • EU Pricing & Rating Launch (TNT Integration): prioritized feature backlog and partnered with 12 PM/ENG/UX teams to deploy localized, granular discounting across UK, NL & BE in 90 days; platform now powers 10 K+ daily shipments and projects >$1 B in incremental revenue.
  • Legacy-to-Cloud Modernization: decomposed 30-yr COBOL rating engine into Spring Boot micro-services; executed a blue-green rollout (zero-downtime deployment strategy) that cut mainframe compute 83 % (300 K→50 K MIPS) and saves $36 M annually while 4xing release cadence.
  • Customer Pricing Map (AI-ready analytics): ideated through user interviews, shipped v1 in one quarter, and piloted LLM-based natural-language querying; lifted WAU/MAU 40 % and cut support tickets 65 %.
  • Enterprise Pricing Request System (ePRS) Optimisation: introduced self-service workflows and automated approvals—boosting proposal throughput 15 % (535/month) and freeing 200–300 analyst hours/week, accelerating ~$400 M pipeline.

Global Strategic Pricing Analyst (MBA Internship)

Cargill
06.2017 - 08.2017
  • Analyzed pricing leakages across 3 business units; recommendations projected to add $12 M margin.

Business Analyst (Enterprise Content Management)

Pyramid IT Consulting
01.2012 - 01.2016
  • Shipped document management and workflow features that increased revenue 20%, drove 67% adoption, and saved $1.3M in client ops costs.
  • Won $400 K RFP by crafting technical workaround and leveraging Microsoft Gold partnership discounts.

Education

MBA - Marketing, Pricing & Strategy

University of Rochester, Simon Business School
Rochester, NY
06-2018

B. Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Gautam Buddh Technical University, J.S.S. ATE
Noida, India
06-2010

Skills

  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ‑900) SAFe PO/PM
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Tableau, SQL, Redis, Ab Initio, SOAP & REST APIs, Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Git, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, Prompt Engineering (basic)
  • Pricing & Monetization Strategy Product Road‑mapping & Prioritization
  • Data Analytics & Experimentation Cross‑Functional Program Leadership (ENG UX Biz) Agile / Scrum
  • Stakeholder Alignment Cost Optimization Customer Interviews & MVP Loops LLM Product Awareness

Interests

Music producer and former state table‑tennis champion

Passion for travel and culture – lived in three countries; multi-lingual – German, Arabic, Hindi and English

Timeline

Senior Product Owner / Program Manager, Pricing & Rating Systems

FedEx
01.2018 - Current

Global Strategic Pricing Analyst (MBA Internship)

Cargill
06.2017 - 08.2017

Business Analyst (Enterprise Content Management)

Pyramid IT Consulting
01.2012 - 01.2016

MBA - Marketing, Pricing & Strategy

University of Rochester, Simon Business School

B. Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Gautam Buddh Technical University, J.S.S. ATE