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Anand Rajaram

Product Manager

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Professional Profile

I create products that people use, love and pay for. I am a Data-driven Entrepreneur with strong background in Product Management, Customer Development, Analytics and Technology. I love working on Mobile Apps, Cloud Platforms, Big Data and excel at establishing and motivating agile, distributed teams.

I am Built for Startups™.

Work Experience

Aug 2007 - Present

Co-founder, Chief Product Officer

OfficeDrop (formerly Pixily)


  • Owned Overall Product Strategy and Delivery, Customer Experience and Lifecycle marketing.
  • Launched OfficeDrop's mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android from concept to success. After launch, Mobile apps contribute 75% of new Free users.
  • Reinforced a data-driven mindset and transparency by defining dashboards for Marketing, Customer Service and Product teams
  • Delivered key partnerships with Evernote, FreshBooks and Intuit from concept to completion. At its peak, the partnerships contributed over 90% of new users
  • Evangelized Lean Startup and Customer Development philosophy to decide what we developed and Scrum for how we developed products.

Aug 2001 - Aug 2007

Senior Consultant and Vice-President

jPeople


  • Co-Inventor in a pending Patent for configuring SaaS applications. Architect and Lead in flagship client project, eWorkplace-Voyager (>$100 million budget) the launch pad for Fidelity Investments’ expansion to HR Outsourcing.
  • Mentored client’s employees on best practices and set direction for development standards, policies and quality initiatives for a software development team of 30.
  • Maintained revenues over $1 million despite industry trends towards outsourcing. Led the Training Practice and increased its contributions to total company revenue by 60%. The training practice provided new growth opportunities to the company at a time of industry-wide cuts on IT infrastructure spending.
  • Established lightweight and automated quality audit processes for Fidelity Investments. This increased product quality, resulted in 70% fewer production issues, minimized lost revenue due to application downtime, and an increase in customer satisfaction index from 80% to 90%.

Jun 1997 - Jul 2001

Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer

PwC, Specialized Software and IBM India


Held key software engineering positions, delivering e-commerce applications in Java and C++. Key accomplishments in this period include:
  • Led the PwC team in the design and implementation of a proof-of-concept that resulted in revenues of over $1,000,000 to the firm and the client, and showcased the firm’s competencies in the eMatrix product. This win formed the basis for the firm’s eCPC practice in the Greater Boston and New England area.
  • At IBM India, Promoted to Senior Software Engineer in 18 months ahead of the company’s average of 2 years and the first in my 27-person cohort to be promoted.

Skills / Tools

Product/Customer Development


Scrum master, Product Owner, Mockups (mobile, desktop and web apps), API definition and implementation, Customer Interviews, Usability interviews, Competitive Analysis, Market Definition.

Software Development


Java (Expert), Ruby/Rails (Advanced), C/C++ (Advanced), R (beginner), Objective-C (beginner), Sql (advanced), mongodb (beginner), AWS (advanced)

Analytics and Lifecycle Marketing


Cohort Analysis, Email Marketing, A/B testing, Heatmap Analysis, Funnel Analysis, Pivot tables, Presenting data.

Select Content

techrepublic.com

10 Things I hate about developing for Android.

kissmetrics.com

Pricing page analysis using KissMetrics & KissInsights.

performable.com

Optimizing Conversion rates with 5 Qualitative and Quantitative tests.

atlassian.com

Agile Development at OfficeDrop.

Questions every startup faces.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology & Science (India)

B.E (Hons) Computer Science, M.S (Hons) Economics


Completed the Dual degree Honors Program with Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Masters Degree in Economics.



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