Gaurav Gaikwad

About Me

Product professional with proven track record of shipping high-value & innovative software solution as individual & leader. 7+ years of experience to lead 5 cross functional teams with customer orientation, great UI/UX & data driven approach.

  • Address Chicago, IL
  • e-mail gauravgaikwad777@gmail.com
  • Phone +1 (424) 261-4765

What I Do

User Centric Product Innovation & Market Research

Great PMs employ user science to identify high potential user problems and successfully evaluate a product’s user impact while evaluating market gaps.

Digital Product Management & Collaboaration

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Data Driven Product Strategy & Roadmapping

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Leadership & Management

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Testimonials

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Experience

2020 - Current
Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Technical Product Manager

Takeda is a world leader in manufacturing plasma products at commercial scale with over 140 donations centers in US & EU.

● Led Biolifeplasma donation platform & Payments system modernization & cloud migration effortswhich improved platform performance by 80%, reduce cost by 30% and increase overall product rating from 1.2 to 4.4.
● Relaunched web, Android & iOS mobile app for Biolife plasma app with revamped UI/UX and streamlined appointment, payment, referral program & plasma donation compliance to increase Monthly Active User base from 2M to 6M users.
● Designed complex Equipment Maintenance system with predictive analytics to optimize the maintenance cost of medical devices saving 25% of overall maintenance cost & 30% of facilities logistics efforts.

2018 - 2020
Neogov

Technical Product Manager/Software Engineer

Neogov is market leader in delivering Human Resource SaaS product for public sector.

● Introduced brand new product,eForms workflowwith integration onOnboarding app, which improved user efficiency by 25%, overallrevenue by 10% &added 2M new freemium users.
● Translated roadmap & feedbacks inwell prioritizedbacklogs leading to 20% increased sales year over year.
● Resolved Salesforce client issues collaborating with customer support team by providing solutions and technical details which led to 20% faster resolution time, 25% reduction in reported cases and increased NPS by 30%.
● Guided design team to ensure fluid & mobile responsive user interface to increase user retention & in-app time by 20%.

2015 - 2018
Think IT Loud

Founder, Product Manager

Entrepreneurial venture for generalist SaaS based mobile product development in financial accounting, tax, stock investment & logistics problem solving, while working for as Software Technology consulting for multiple clients.

● ConceivedTravoo, a travel integration app from inception to MVP to launch for makingcommuting faster and economical.
● Developed mobile solutions for Signal Expert to increase 30% MAU which delivers daily financial market analysis, risk and research data to multinational stock traders.
● Translated customer business strategies and operational objectives into user stories, business requirements, roadmap, wireframes, timeline & cost estimations for providing effective industry solutions.
● Analyzed market trends, competitive positioning, MVP feedback, pricing & revenue models for creating go to market strategy.

2015 - 2018
HR Cloud

Software Engineer

● DirectedMobile team of 6for Onboarding and employee Social Networking App which boosted sales by 30%.
● Guided Android & iOS app designs for UX design team on responsive web, mobile and Android material design patterns.
● Architected the platform with Mobile first approach for scalability, performance & reduce time to market by 30% for Minimum Viable product& 40% for following versions.
● Instituted impact driven customer engagement strategy collaborating with sales engineers & customer success team to implement idea & feedback board & integrate with Jira to improve customer satisfaction rate by 40%.

2014 - 2015
Vish Analytics Inc

Business Intelligence Analyst

● Conducted stakeholder interviews & user research to collect requirements &find existing problems in the current system which improved organization audit efficiencies by 30%.
● Created Tableau reports by analyzing Finance and HR report requirements to achieve 20% more thandivision KPIs.
● Analyzed master data source & data models for data modeling and create EDW from external data sources.

2013 - 2014
Illinois State University

ETL Developer

● Transformed the Data warehouse team from waterfall to agile development model to improve project efficiency, quality by 40% and stakeholder net promoter score from 5 to 8.
● Implemented automation testing to improve regression testing time which saved 30% of regression time for QA testing.
● Analyzed data via SQL for creating Informatica maps and workflows to load slow changing dimension tables into Oracle Datawarehouse for creating centralized single source of truth.

Education

2020
Product School

Product Management

2020
Kellogg, Northwestern University

Product Strategy Specialization

2014
Illinois State University

Master of Science, Information System

2012
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology

Product Skills

Leadership

95%

Research

65%

Stakeholder Management

80%

Customer Empathy

90%

Requirement Gathering

90%

Technical Skills

Microservices, API

95%

Mobile

85%

Data Analysis

100%

Java

75%

Javascript & Typescript

90%

Knowledges

  • Marketing
  • Print
  • Digital Design
  • Social Media
  • Time Management
  • Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Social Networking
  • Flexibility

Certificates

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance
Membership ID: 1055571

Digital Product Management

University of Virginia
Membership ID: 4QB357HB38VS

Product Manager

Udemy
Membership ID: 4QB357HB38VS

System Analyst

Illinois State University

Internet Application Development

Illinois State University

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

Oracle University

Portfolio

Media Project 2

Travoo

Detailed
Media Project 1

Signal Expert

Detailed

Blog

Contact

CHICAGO, IL

+1 (424) 261-4765

gauravgaikwad777
@gmail.com

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