Vikash C Choubey

Product Manager - Airline Order Accounting & Revenue Accounting

• Product Management Lead for the largest Airline, driving multiyear and large size strategic products for the Airlines along side Amadeus as a strategic partner
• Scope management of 100 effort years, Release management and long terms roadmap to delivery value at critical project stage
• Driving strategic vision with agility and long term objectives, manage dynamic priorities and adjustments, maintain budget and capacity.
• Stakeholder Management: Close collaboration with Airline Leadership, End users and with offshore and global teams.
• Program Management: Support the large program through milestone trackings and representations in key project meetings.
• Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity through the innovative solutions and while tackling difficult tasks.
• Working across different products in Airline ecosystem products, industry transformations, Industry rules and compliance and US market specificities.
• Product launch and Go to market for a new strategic US market and for non-Altea Airlines, establishing a robust foundation for long-term growth and driving upselling initiatives.
• Cloud native (Azure) based solution implementation.

• Key Product: Amadeus Revenue Accounting & One Order (30+ Airline Customers)
• Spearheading product management of key customer accounts with total contract value of $150K+ Million
• Product management PoC for other key airlines like Air India, Vistara, Philippines Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines
• Own deliverables in tune of 25-45 effort years every year, managed teams of up to 40 team members
• Led product vision and strategy for Amadeus Payment & CC reconciliation, Archiving and Purge, Chatbot and Industry transformation
• Acted as Core Member of Industry Transformation group - IATA SwO Adoption user group
• Achieved Product stability and sustainability and cloud DB Storage cost reduction by 35% (€100K recurring savings)
• Improved User Guide and Release notes process, improved user adoption
• Organized several health checks & customer workshop that directly increased the customer satisfaction and increase in product adoption
• Achieved EUR140K+/ year incremental savings through effective vendor management and reduction in ops cost through automation
• Helped in gap reduction of >16MY in two key implementations, contributed to major deals conversion during pandemic period
• Worked on 100+ solution proposals and have provided efficient solutions
• Contributed to Competitive landscape, pricing models, product catalogue and service strategy for Core / baseline product
• Manage Customer Community workshops, mailers, Pre-Sales, Scoping workshops, and user trainings, Global stakeholder communication
• Participate in budgeting exercise, Manage Stream level Product Roadmap, LTP, and provide inputs to Release Backlog
• Product research, strategy and apply product methodologies
• Created blueprint for Amadeus Revenue Accounting Transformation
• Key contribution in bringing up the product from 7 to 30+ airline customers

• Led global delivery, maturity and implementation teams for Amadeus Revenue Accounting.
• Fostered collaboration among cross - functional teams, stakeholders to achieve project goals on time and within budget.
• Implemented solution forum, CCB and rigorous quality control measures to ensure reliable data collection, analysis, and reporting across all R&D projects.
• Ideation initiatives, contributed and enabled team into maintain technical debt and improvement ideas, 40+ ideas generated in first event. Fostered quality mindset in daily work.
• Strategically plan and manage product implementation using agile practices
• Team Management - Resource planning, team's motivation and performance reviews.

• Key Product: MonaLisa – NIIT Airline Tech GmbH (35+ Airline Customers)
• Led development and implementation of customized product for Ryanair with passenger volume of 160M pax per year
• As a subject matter expert, review and edit requirements, specifications, and business processes, making recommendations as appropriate
• Involved in Case studies, High level Estimation, Functional Specification & solutions to Client Business Requirements & needs
• Product demos to customers and Internal Stake holders, User Trainings
• Worked closely with pre-sales team with RFIs/ RFPs, product demos and conducting POCs to understand & demonstrate understanding of customer business
• Successfully integrated Revenue Accounting and Financial systems of 8 Airlines, defining complete GL bookings in Revenue accounting system and automated posting of journals to Finance
• As Project head at offshore was fully responsible for support and maintenance of 35+ airlines from offshore
• Client communication and ensuring customer satisfaction
• Managed development of key solutions including, GL Interface, Credit Card Invoicing & reconciliation/ chargebacks, ACH Proration, Revenue analytics, BSP DISH22 for HOT & RETs, EMDs, ADM Approval and Dispute workflow, SIS, ATPCO Limited subscription, FIM, GL Accounting Interface to SAP/ financial systems, Flight control and estimations etc