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Vikasini Iesukapalli

Houston,Texas

Summary

Experienced Product Manager with 17 years of experience and a strong background in Analytics and AI. Skilled in defining product vision, strategy, and translating complex business needs into actionable roadmaps. Well-versed in Agile methodologies and multiple product prioritization techniques including ICE & MoSCoW. Demonstrates a deep understanding of both inbound and outbound product management. Proven ability to align cross-functional teams and deliver customer-centric solutions. Worked with various enterprise companies across diverse domains. Successfully managed a $20M platform modernization project, delivering scalable, data-driven solutions across business, operations, and engineering functions. Additionally, I am the founder of InsightIQ—an AI-powered dashboard product, where I led the entire journey from development to marketing and sales.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Leader

InsightIQ | Elevon Global Tech
01.2024 - Current
  • Designed customer segmentation models and outage scoring engines using cloud-native AI infrastructure (Azure, AWS) for large-scale deployment.
  • Integrated utility domain use cases such as smart metering insights, failure pattern detection, and compliance dashboards into both platforms.
  • Founded Elevon Global and led the design, development, and go-to-market strategy for InsightIQ, an AI-powered analytics dashboard platform.
  • Defined product vision and strategy, built MVP, and executed roadmap using lean/agile practices.
  • Conducted customer discovery, user interviews, and competitive benchmarking to validate product-market fit.
  • Collaborated with engineers and data teams to build modules for Test Case Analytics, Defect Statistics, and Project Progress.
  • Created a “Chat with Data” feature, enabling users to interact with structured data using natural language.
  • Managed partnerships, staffing, sales pitches, and solution delivery for clients in oil & gas and utilities domains.
  • Oversaw P&L, vendor management
  • Led pre-sales demos, partner onboarding, and certification program for clients using InsightIQ dashboards.
  • Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
  • Coordinated design meetings and decisions with internal departments and teams.
  • Launched successful products by conducting thorough market research and identifying customer needs.

Product Owner | Data Analytics

Motiva LLC
06.2023 - Current
  • Directed a $20M digital transformation program covering asset operations, outage management, commercial billing, and financial operations. Defined and managed the end-to-end program roadmap, ensuring alignment across executive leadership, delivery teams, and strategic partners.
  • Led platform modernization efforts by integrating legacy ERP systems, commercial deal data from Right Angle, and operational logs into AI-powered dashboards and cloud-based analytics pipelines.
  • Defined and managed the product backlog for analytics use cases, integrating data from SAP, RightAngle, TMS, Pega, and third-party systems.
  • Partnered with business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models and dashboard requirements.
  • Oversaw the development of real-time Power BI dashboards, covering predictive maintenance, outage analytics, billing accuracy, and regulatory reporting.
  • Enabled cross-functional analytics across finance, operations, and supply chain through centralized reporting and AI-enhanced visualizations.
  • Led data extraction and modeling strategies using SAP Datasphere, enabling harmonized views for actionable decision-making.
  • Delivered insights to leadership through KPIs, sales and inventory analytics, and operational risk forecast.
  • Designed and delivered business-critical reporting systems by sourcing and modeling data from SAP Datasphere, Right Angle, and third-party systems into unified Power BI dashboards. Reports included predictive maintenance insights, work order prioritization, cash flow tracking, and regulatory readiness metrics.
  • Established real-time data pipelines between SAP S/4HANA, operational systems, and Power BI using SAP Datasphere and Azure Data Factory, enabling dynamic reporting for supply chain, finance, and asset integrity teams.
  • Enabled predictive maintenance and operations forecasting through AI/ML models, identifying potential asset failures and optimizing service intervals to reduce downtime and O&M costs.
  • Standardized reporting across finance, operations, and maintenance by automating manual workflows and establishing a central reporting hub, improving decision-making accuracy and stakeholder transparency.
  • Collaborated with business users to define KPIs and visualization standards, ensuring dashboards met operational requirements and supported faster resolution times and improved SLA compliance.
  • Streamlined data ingestion, cleansing, and transformation processes, eliminating reporting silos and reducing turnaround time for insights by over 40%.
  • Led cross-functional teams of engineers, analysts, and product leads, implementing agile delivery practices and facilitating weekly cadence sessions to unblock execution and maintain velocity.
  • Tools & Platforms: SalesForce,TMS, SAP ,ims, RightAngle, MBC,Blackline,Pega,Kyriba, Bloomberg,PowerBI, Machine learning Algos,Bizlink,detrack,getupside
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Reduced time-to-market by effectively coordinating resources, tasks, and timelines within the team.

Product Owner

ExxonMobil
02.2020 - 05.2022
  • Acted as a strategic bridge between business users and global product teams across multiple markets, aligning digital product initiatives with business growth objectives.
  • Led PI Planning and product roadmap definition, prioritizing features based on user feedback, operational data, and competitive insights.
  • Translated complex stakeholder requirements into user stories and managed end-to-end delivery through Agile processes.
  • Delivered key value-driven enhancements across procurement, finance, and warehouse operations, improving process efficiency and user experience.
  • Managed vendor-supported platforms and ensured system reliability and performance across tools like Ariba, Salesforce, and integrated ERP systems.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent execution of digital warehouse strategies and operational reporting.
  • Tools & Platforms: SAP MM, SAP FICO, Ariba, Salesforce, JIRA, Power BI

Automation Manager |SAP| | Retail |

Wipro
09.2016 - 02.2020
  • Domain: Retail (Tradestone, Shopify Integration, Returnly Integration, Sterling, ESB Middleware Testing)
  • Tools: Postman (API Testing), Database Verification (Postgres, SQL, Oracle)
  • Project Description: AEO is currently integrating Todd Snyder with Shopify, Returnly, and internal AEO platforms. Our QA team is responsible for validating end-to-end flows covering price setup, product feed, inventory snapshot, order creation, shipment processing, shipment history, LIT/TLogs, and returns to ensure smooth integration across systems.
  • Actively participating in daily Scrum ceremonies.
  • Leading a QA team of 4 and ensuring timely delivery of all assigned Jira tickets.
  • Preparing detailed end-to-end cascade documents for business validation.
  • Ensuring that all items marked “Ready for QA” are thoroughly tested and taken to business signoff.
  • Creating comprehensive test scenarios for each Jira ticket.
  • Coordinating with business stakeholders for clarification and issue resolution.
  • Setting up and maintaining Postman collections to run ESB jobs (e.g., product feed, item feed).
  • Monitoring and analyzing Grafana logs to identify system-level issues.
  • Performing backend data validation across Postgres, SQL, and Oracle databases

Lead TFS Test Specialist

Shell
11.2011 - 06.2016
  • Resource One, a single integrated global system in Shell which Captures production forecasts, volume estimates and maturation forecasts and provides latest estimate/latest view and portfolio analysis facilities
  • Provide support to the user community.
  • Validating requirements
  • Collect the queries related to requirements and get them resolved.
  • Review test cases.
  • Functional testing
  • Be updated on the latest testing techniques, strategies, testing tools/ test frameworks in Automation
  • Improving the test process.
  • Ensuring Automation is updated on updates test scripts.
  • Analyzing Test Automation results
  • Determine appropriate metrics that enable the team to understand and continuously improve their Processes, techniques and technologies from a quality perspective.

BA |Jewel Suite Subsurface Modelling

Baker Hughes
08.2013 - 08.2014
  • Jewel suite subsurface modeling: Jewel Suite is a 3D reservoir modeling application for the Oil & Gas industry. The main functionality of this high-tech application is to build 3D reservoir models to calculate volumes of oil and gas.
  • Provide quality assurance leadership within the scrum team.
  • Set up and implement testing / QA standards within our scrum team(s)
  • Champion a test-driven approach for the team
  • Develop suitable test techniques
  • Determine appropriate metrics that enable the team to understand and continuously improve them.
  • Processes, techniques and technologies from a quality perspective
  • Typical Activities
  • Aid the definition/refinement of business requirements by helping to derive usage scenarios and acceptance test criteria.
  • Designing tests to aid learning and mitigate risks.
  • Work with developers to create automated tests.
  • Work with developers to identify and carry out appropriate performance and load testing.
  • Participate in the work planning and tracking process.
  • Work with our Test Lab (acceptance testing) to help build certifiable releases.

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2011 - 01.2013
  • Organizing a status call with prospective customers before each product demo
  • Coordinating Offshore activities
  • Facilitate smooth execution of projects.
  • Developing Test Cases based on Specifications and Design Documents of assigned projects as primary tester (Manual Test cases
  • Assist the Project manager of the assigned project in test planning, where applicable.
  • Manual Test execution of the given application as Primary tester
  • Contribute to Process definition/management, domain knowledge buildup and other.
  • Regular interaction and generation of Functionality and UI Requirement documents
  • Testing Regression Test Cases
  • Delivery reports generation.
  • Performing Regression testing Activities
  • Reviewing team members’ Test cases and Scripts
  • Participate in Sprint planning and get the task list and estimates from team.
  • Collaborate with change control board (CCB) to secure release slot and get ‘Go /No Go’ decision.
  • Work with the release test team to ensure experience is tested on multiple platforms like Ios, android, various web browser versions and operating systems.
  • Facilitate communication upward and across project teams including project status.
  • Participate in daily scrum meetings and facilitate other agile rituals.

Software Engineer

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
07.2008 - 03.2012
  • Web services Testing (SOA testing), Web application Testing
  • Major Responsibilities: Facilitate smooth execution of projects.
  • Developing Test Cases based on Specifications and Design Documents of assigned projects as primary tester (Manual Test cases
  • Assist the Project manager of the assigned project in test planning, where applicable.
  • Manual Test execution of the given application as Primary tester or as backup tester Invoking Services by using SoapUI Tool
  • Contribute to Process definition/management, domain knowledge buildup and other.
  • Regular interaction and generation of Functionality and UI Requirement documents
  • Testing Regression Test Cases
  • Delivery reports generation
  • Reviewing team members’ Test cases and Scripts
  • Participated in JAD sessions for requirement, feasibility and risk analysis with various stakeholders, including designers, developers, QA and management to identify critical and high-risk areas of the application.
  • Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
  • Consistently met project deadlines by effectively managing time and prioritizing tasks according to importance.

Education

Post graduation - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX
05.2024

Product Management -

Great Leaning
Great Learning ,US
02.2023

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU
Hyderabad, India
04.2007

Skills

  • Product Strategy & Visioning: Product lifecycle ownership, roadmap development, KPI alignment
  • Strong Experience creating Road map Types based on your workflow (Agile Product Roadmaps , Release X Feature Roadmaps)
  • Road Maps Types based on the design style ( Timeline based , Now/Next/Later) also Portfolio based Roadmaps, Goal oriented Product roadmaps and Feature based roadmaps
  • AI & Analytics: AI/ML integration in product workflows, predictive analytics, dashboard automation
  • Product Lifecycle Management: Agile/Scrum methodologies, backlog grooming, sprint planning
  • Inbound & Outbound Product Management: User research, competitive analysis, GTM strategy
  • Tools & Frameworks: ICE & MoSCoW prioritization, Jira, Azure DevOps, Infinity, Postman
  • Customer-Centric Design: User personas, journey mapping, feedback integration
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinating design, development, QA, sales, and marketing teams
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Metrics tracking, experiment design, performance optimization
  • Market Research & Positioning: Value proposition design, differentiation, competitor benchmarking
  • Founder Mindset: End-to-end ownership of product—from concept to commercial success
  • AI/ML Products: Predictive Analytics, NLP Interfaces, Computer Vision Models
  • Utilities Domain: Demand Forecasting, Smart Grid Efficiency, Asset Maintenance
  • AI Dashboarding: Power BI, InsightIQ, Data Activation Platforms
  • Infra & Deployment: Azure Cloud, REST APIs, CI/CD Pipelines, Event-Driven Architecture
  • Value Chain Mapping: Asset Intelligence, Customer Insights, Operational Risk Models
  • Product Strategy: Roadmaps, Feature Design, GTM Launch, Product-Market Fit
  • Agile Delivery: User Story Mapping, Stakeholder Workshops, Prioritization
  • Scaled Elevon Global from concept to a revenue-generating AI product company with two enterprise clients and a growing pipeline across the utilities and energy sectors
  • Partnered with engineering teams to drive rapid iterations, optimize development resourcing, and reduce time-to-market for key platform releases
  • Owned the full Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for multiple product launches (InsightIQ, NeX-AI, and Motiva dashboards), from positioning and pricing to sales enablement and training
  • Partnered with cross-functional team engineering, operations, marketing, and customer success—to deliver unified GTM plans that aligned product functionality with customer expectations
  • Structured thinking (interviews → analysis → competitive intel → business case → pilot)
  • Project planning
  • KPI tracking
  • Product strategy
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Scaled Elevon Global from concept to a revenue-generating AI product company with two enterprise clients and a growing pipeline across the utilities and energy sectors
  • Partnered with engineering teams to drive rapid iterations, optimize development resourcing, and reduce time-to-market for key platform releases
  • Owned the full Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for multiple product launches (InsightIQ, NeX-AI, and Motiva dashboards), from positioning and pricing to sales enablement and training
  • Partnered with cross-functional team engineering, operations, marketing, and customer success—to deliver unified GTM plans that aligned product functionality with customer expectations
  • Structured thinking (interviews → analysis → competitive intel → business case → pilot)
  • Project planning
  • KPI tracking
  • Product strategy
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Scaled Elevon Global from concept to a revenue-generating AI product company with two enterprise clients and a growing pipeline across the utilities and energy sectors
  • Partnered with engineering teams to drive rapid iterations, optimize development resourcing, and reduce time-to-market for key platform releases
  • Owned the full Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for multiple product launches (InsightIQ, NeX-AI, and Motiva dashboards), from positioning and pricing to sales enablement and training
  • Partnered with cross-functional team engineering, operations, marketing, and customer success—to deliver unified GTM plans that aligned product functionality with customer expectations
  • Structured thinking (interviews → analysis → competitive intel → business case → pilot)
  • Project planning
  • KPI tracking
  • Product strategy
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Pricing strategy
  • Partnership development
  • Product positioning
  • Scaled Elevon Global from concept to a revenue-generating AI product company with two enterprise clients and a growing pipeline across the utilities and energy sectors
  • Partnered with engineering teams to drive rapid iterations, optimize development resourcing, and reduce time-to-market for key platform releases
  • Owned the full Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for multiple product launches (InsightIQ, NeX-AI, and Motiva dashboards), from positioning and pricing to sales enablement and training
  • Partnered with cross-functional team engineering, operations, marketing, and customer success—to deliver unified GTM plans that aligned product functionality with customer expectations
  • Structured thinking (interviews → analysis → competitive intel → business case → pilot)
  • Project planning
  • KPI tracking
  • Product strategy
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Scaled Elevon Global from concept to a revenue-generating AI product company with two enterprise clients and a growing pipeline across the utilities and energy sectors
  • Partnered with engineering teams to drive rapid iterations, optimize development resourcing, and reduce time-to-market for key platform releases
  • Owned the full Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy for multiple product launches (InsightIQ, NeX-AI, and Motiva dashboards), from positioning and pricing to sales enablement and training
  • Partnered with cross-functional team engineering, operations, marketing, and customer success—to deliver unified GTM plans that aligned product functionality with customer expectations
  • Structured thinking (interviews → analysis → competitive intel → business case → pilot)
  • Project planning
  • KPI tracking
  • Product strategy
  • Product lifecycle management

Certification

  • Azure AZ900
  • Generative AI at SAP
  • Introduction to Generative AI with Google Cloud
  • Generative AI Overview for Project Managers
  • Large Language Models (LLM)
  • ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
  • Introduction to Generative AI
  • Blockchain Basics
  • UIPath TestSuite
  • UIPath Test Manager
  • Continuous Delivery with GitLab
  • Certified scrum master (CSM)
  • Certified scrum PO (CSPO)
  • ISTQB

Timeline

Product Leader

InsightIQ | Elevon Global Tech
01.2024 - Current

Product Owner | Data Analytics

Motiva LLC
06.2023 - Current

Product Owner

ExxonMobil
02.2020 - 05.2022

Automation Manager |SAP| | Retail |

Wipro
09.2016 - 02.2020

BA |Jewel Suite Subsurface Modelling

Baker Hughes
08.2013 - 08.2014

Lead TFS Test Specialist

Shell
11.2011 - 06.2016

Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2011 - 01.2013

Software Engineer

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
07.2008 - 03.2012

Post graduation - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

University of Texas At Austin

Product Management -

Great Leaning

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering

JNTU

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