Ashit Prasad - Product Manager, FPL Technologies

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Work Background

FPL TechnologiesProduct Manager

Mar. 2023Pune, Maharashtra, India● Building digital credit card stack for the app generation. ● Collaborated with growth, risk, engineering, design, operations, compliance and legal to build the customer-onboarding journey of One Cobranded Credit Cards https://www.getonecard.app/ .

CytelProduct Manager

Nov. 2020 - Feb. 2023Pune, Maharashtra, India

Cognizant Business ConsultingProduct Owner

May. 2019 - Nov. 2020Bengaluru Area, India● Currently serving as a product owner to build a mobile app to handle end-to-end sales activities of a leading Indian Life Insurer. Liaison with business stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of the users, develop customer journey maps, identify gaps and brainstorm solutions around it ● Collaborated with business, UX and engineering to build a product roadmap, conduct CBA to scope and prioritize activities and write PRDs to drive the development process through design, development, release and iteration ensuring timely deliverables and optimal resource utilization ● Documented parameters for risk assessment methods used to price treaty reinsurance contracts for a leading US reinsurer ● Followed AGILE. Responsible for sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming, scrum stand-ups and writing user stories with acceptance criteria ● As a member of Digital CoE, conducted extensive research to develop POVs on emerging business and technology trends across the Insurance value chain with a focus on AI, Blockchain and IoT. Developed a Blockchain based POC to help Insurance companies ensure GDPR compliance thus, avoiding hefty fines ● Developed a POV analyzing the pain points of plan sponsors and participants emerging out of the changing landscape of the US retirement industry and brainstormed digital solutions aimed at addressing the same. Brainstormed use cases & developed customer journey maps. Developed a POV on impact of COVID on Insurance Industry. Developed newsletters and various other thought leadership assets. ● Used domain knowledge to shape multiple RFP responses. Worked on creating functional scope document, functional architecture, effort estimation and resource loading ● Actively involved in business development; Increased credibility and client awareness by performing competitor analysis, developing technical/non-technical marketing presentations, POVs and newsletters for sales presentations & client meetings

BlazeClan TechnologiesProduct Owner

Feb. 2017 - Apr. 2018Pune Area, India● Single-handedly developed a prototype analytics solution integrated with Tableau that led the company to win a deal with its first European client. Saved significant costs for the client ● Managed a team of 5 to develop an Analytics based solution for the Govt. of Brussels to drive smart commerce planning. Reduced turnaround time by 35%, increased visibility and enhanced revenue by 50% ● Conducted workshops and interviews with the client to gather business requirements, brainstormed use cases, developed PRDs to drive the execution phase ● Held sprint review sessions with the client at the end of each sprint ● Followed AGILE methodology; used JIRA to create Epics, User Stories, bug triage, manage and prioritize the product backlog. Conducted daily Scrum meetings. Finalized User Stories by taking a sign off from the client. Generated WSR to update the client and ensure development is aligned with client’s vision and objective ● Developed wireframes using Balsamiq to walk client and stakeholders through the structure of design, gather feedback and iterate to finalize the high-fidelity mockups on Invision by working one-on-one with UX designers. Defined REST API specifications and DB schema.

InnoplexusProduct Developer

Jun. 2015 - Oct. 2016Pune Area, India• Responsible for end-end development of a product, which leverages AI and Machine Learning with Life Sciences and Healthcare data to help Pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug development, and reduce time to market of a drug. • Studied and implemented latest web technologies and standards for web development and application performance such as AngularJS, ReactJS, D3JS/DimpleJS, NodeJS , GulpJS, GruntJS, Javascript, ES6, Web 2.0, HTML 5.0, CSS3, SASS and LESS. • Worked with SME Life Sciences to understand the drug discovery process and build rich visualizations around it to provide data-driven insights into the drug discovery process to Pharmaceutical clients. • Worked with SME UX to develop products with user-centred design principles. • Served as a web consultant and developer to plan and implement regular product re-writes ensuring the use of latest cutting-edge technologies for application development, thereby improving performance of the application. • Collaborated with the QA team to develop and review test cases.

InnoplexusCS-Intern

Dec. 2014 - Jun. 2015Pune Area, India• Worked on a data analysis tool as a member of the UI team. Worked on designing the UI for the same. • Worked on technologies like HTML, CSS, AngularJS and PHP. • Worked closely with data scientists to understand client requirements and gain overall product knowledge. • Worked on developing highly complex web applications using technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, AngularJS, Grunt, Gulp, d3 and AJAX. • Designed and implemented flow of Application logic and interaction between components. • Worked on MVC and component-based architecture. • In-depth understanding of MVC and component based architectures. • Used GIT for version control. • Used AGILE methodology for projects. • Created technical documentations for applications.