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VIJAY JONNALA
Technical Product Manager
Austin,TX
Summary
Experienced product management professional well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and principles of product development. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move products efficiently through pre-production and production timelines. Excellent communicator: leverage technical, business, and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams. Business Process and Continuous Improvement Leader drives organization efficiency and resource productivity with digital transformation.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Technical Product Owner
General Motors
Austin, TX
01.2021 - Current
- Oversaw entire Vehicle Themes Digital product BO enablers deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding products, business, and technical landscape
- Developed and built future Vehicle Digital Products and services Microservices with UI to integrate Vehicle and Mobile channels
- Built roadmap for Big Data platform by working with stakeholders and users, and understanding pain points, needs and business impacts
- Demonstrated track record of using data and defining KPIs to measure success from both business and technology perspective
- Worked with product data analysts, data scientists, and architects to ensure reporting and analysis is clear and deriving key insights
- Mentored scrum teams with Agile/Safe principles for best quality product and quick to market
Sr.Product Manager
Cruzze Solutions
Austin, TX
12.2019 - 12.2020
- Served as organization's thought leader and subject-matter-expert on setting up PMO process, Product portfolio tracking, monitoring and risk management.
- Worked closely with clients and business leadership team on developing product solutions and strategy to win $5 million annual revenue
- Defined multi-tenant healthcare IT product solutions from concept phase to go live phase with detailed road feature map.
- Translated roadmaps into manageable product backlog
- Defined product roadmaps for product portfolio vision, planning, design, usability, and managed sprint planning and releases
- Led technology vision reviews and product roadmap discussions with development team
- Implemented Agile Scrum methodologies to accelerate product development to accommodate market changes and business priority
- Mentored product teams to stimulate product innovation by extracting ideas and initiatives coming from individuals and teams.
- Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes
Sr. Product Portfolio Manager
Shiloh Industries
Plymouth, MI
08.2016 - 11.2019
- Improved overall financial reporting by streamlining control processes and financial applications.
- Launched Product Life cycle management application for better visibility of product cost, quality and timing.
- Achieved 7% Operating Income and 9% resource productivity gain with effective product change management process/IT Tools
- Facilitated portfolio performance review and implemented new Profit improvement strategies.
- Communicated market developments, portfolio changes and annual performance information to leadership.
- Developed rebalancing strategies to minimize risk exposures.
- Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement
Senior Program Manager
DRiV Incorporated
Plymouth, MI
07.2010 - 07.2016
- Identified system needs and designed processes to support business requirements.
- Spear headed Senior leadership's Digital Transformation strategic project in developing and implementation of Sales Master Database, Product Life Cycle Management software.
- Recruited and developed employees for Engineering department.
- Led $180M annual sales new global product launches on time, cost and quality with superior customer satisfaction
- Managed executive portfolio reviews to resolve critical schedule, appropriation approval, risk mitigation plans and established senior management visibility
- Saved $1.3M annually by leading operations VAVE projects to reduce transportation and manufacturing costs
- Effectively Managed $15M budget for product development, capital investment, resource costs
- Managed $65M annual sales new products launched for Ford, GM & FCA customers from product development to production launch on time, cost and quality
Product Engineer
DRiV Incorporated
07.2006 - 07.2010
- Drove continuous improvement culture in engineering to provide clear product design standards, improve manufacturability through enhanced documentation and reduce engineering cycle time by 10%.
- Devised new products and features to boost customer satisfaction, reduce costs by 15% and propel product line to industry forefront.
- Tested completed projects for functionality and implemented changes to production methods to rectify issues in final products
Quality Engineer
DRiV Incorporated
05.2004 - 06.2006
- Led problem-solving activities to quickly identify and permanently resolve quality and productivity issues yielded "zero" customer defects 2 consecutive years .
- Developed traceability documentation to aid in investigating faults and defects.
- Integrated diagnostic automation to accelerate and sharpen post-production testing
Education
Post Graduate - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX 07.2020 - 03.2021
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Memphis
08.2002 - 12.2004
Bachelor of Engineering -
Osmania University
Hyderabad,India 06.1998 - 04.2002
Skills
Agile Methodology
Strategic planning
P&L Management
Product research and trend analysis
Team leadership and direction
Supply Chain Management
Software Development Life Cycle
Excellent Communication
Teamwork and Collaboration
Active Listening
Software
Machine Learning
Tableua
PowerBI
Certification
Scaled Agile: Certified SAFe 5 PO/PM
Timeline
Scaled Agile: Certified SAFe 5 PO/PM
07-2021
Technical Product Owner
General Motors
01.2021 - Current
Post Graduate - Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
University of Texas At Austin
07.2020 - 03.2021
Scrum Alliance: Certified Scrum Master
02-2020
Sr.Product Manager
Cruzze Solutions
12.2019 - 12.2020
Sr. Product Portfolio Manager
Shiloh Industries
08.2016 - 11.2019
Senior Program Manager
DRiV Incorporated
07.2010 - 07.2016
Product Engineer
DRiV Incorporated
07.2006 - 07.2010
Quality Engineer
DRiV Incorporated
05.2004 - 06.2006
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Memphis
08.2002 - 12.2004
Bachelor of Engineering -
Osmania University
06.1998 - 04.2002