I am the product head and subject matter expert for an artificial intelligence driven nanoscience and nanotechnology database. I am responsible for product development, market research and business development in one of the world’s leading STEM publishing powerhouses.
Professional Skills
Research Experience
Materials and analytical based chemical research including biosensing, graphene based solar cells, LED's and photocatalytic materials.
Guiding Ph.D and Master Students
Editing and proof-reading manuscripts
Tutoring under-graduate students
Grant and Proposal writing
Chemical modification of oxide semiconductor surfaces, in particular zinc and tin oxide, with the
ultimate aim of controlling their surface electronic properties for device applications.
Guiding Ph.D and Master Students
Editing and proof-reading manuscripts
Tutoring under-graduate students
Grant and Proposal writing
Work ExperienceMy executive management role entails:
1. Working with the executive board and management on the product development and sales strategy, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy and goals of the company
2. Leading customer focused and commercially rigorous product development, supports/coaches product leaders to build customer focused product cultures within their portfolios, including areas without a strong product function.
3. Leading collaboration with technical product leadership, software development to define and execute efficient ways of working, delivery and alignment both at the domain level and above.
4. Overseeing commercial performance and P&L for the product portfolio including full ownership of revenue, profitability, competitiveness, market penetration, user engagement and satisfaction
5. Determining sales and marketing strategies for established and emerging markets
6. Leading a team of experienced Product Managers
7. Executing and commission necessary market, competitor and user research, interpret results and shape into product vision and positioning
8. Developing changes to the pricing and business models based on the understanding of the target market(s)
9. Acting as the liaison between Marketing, Sales, content development departments, IT & Production
10. Engaging the relevant community through personal interactions and opinion leadership
11. Screening the market for content and technology opportunities to further develop the product
12. Representing the product internally and externally
2. Agile product management – updating and iterating on product development such as introduction of new tools for patent search
3. Contribution and management of product roadmap including cost management driven decisions
4. Working with the executive board and management on the product development and sales strategy, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy and goals of the company
5. Leading collaboration with technical product leadership, software development to define and execute efficient ways of working, delivery and alignment both at the domain level and above.
6. Overseeing commercial performance and P&L for the product portfolio including full ownership of revenue, profitability, competitiveness, market penetration, user engagement and satisfaction
7. Leading a team of product managers and acting as the liaison between Marketing, Sales, content development departments, IT & Production
8. Executing and commission necessary market, competitor and user research, interpret results and shape into product vision and positioning
9. Developing changes to the pricing and business models based on the understanding of the target market(s)
10. Engaging the relevant community through personal interactions and opinion leadership
11. Negotiation of contracts and agreement for abstraction and indexing with vendors and other organizations.
12. Represent Data & Analytics Group as the board member of US Research and Advisory Committee.
Product Development/Management:
1. Utilize Nano and Material science subject matter expertise to enhance feature sets on the database platform by working with developers, technical and UX designers.
2. Carry out use case studies, comprehensive platform testing, intelligence and market research activities and thorough feature analysis
3. Identify and implement analytics/metrics/KPIs to drive critical business processes and decision-making utilizing data science, web-analytics, and data mining
4. Up-to-date knowledge on scientific breakthroughs that impacts product and business decisions and developments.
5. Market research and marketing activities to carry out updates to platform
6. Engage Nano and material science diaspora on a social and personal level at various events and conferences.
7. Manage social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook pages
8. Writing technical and non-technical posts for both scientific and non-scientific communities
Business Development and Management:
1. Support North & Latin American sales teams in addition to Asia Pacific regions with thorough market intelligence, sales prospect lists, technical presentations, on-site visits & webinars
2. Carry out product training exercises for researchers, librarians, sales and marketing via on-site and webinar based technical presentations.
3. Create user resources such as product guides, white paper, and tutorial videos
4. Technical support for sales & marketing teams to build and grow database position.
5. Utilize workplace management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack and Trello for bug reporting and project management.
6. Account management and accounts development for SaaS-based products
As a Product Manager/Scientific Advisor - Nanoscience Technology. My responsibilities are two-fold.
Product Development/Management:
1. Utilize Nano and Material science subject matter expertise to enhance feature sets on the database platform by working with developers, technical and UX designers.
2. Carry out use case studies, comprehensive platform testing, intelligence and market research activities and thorough feature analysis
3. Identify and implement analytics/metrics/KPIs to drive critical business processes and decision-making utilizing data science, web-analytics, and data mining
4. Up-to-date knowledge on scientific breakthroughs that impacts product and business decisions and developments.
5. Market research and marketing activities to carry out updates to platform
6. Engage Nano and material science diaspora on a social and personal level at various events and conferences.
7. Manage social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook pages
8. Writing technical and non-technical posts for both scientific and non-scientific communities
Business Development and Management:
1. Support North & Latin American sales teams in addition to Asia Pacific regions with thorough market intelligence, sales prospect lists, technical presentations, on-site visits & webinars
2. Carry out product training exercises for researchers, librarians, sales and marketing via on-site and webinar based technical presentations.
3. Create user resources such as product guides, white paper, and tutorial videos
4. Technical support for sales & marketing teams to build and grow database position.
5. Utilize workplace management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack and Trello for bug reporting and project management.
6. Account management and accounts development for SaaS-based products
As a Product Manager/Scientific Advisor - Nanoscience Technology. My responsibilities are two-fold.
Product Development/Management:
1. Utilize Nano and Material science subject matter expertise to enhance feature sets on the database platform by working with developers, technical and UX designers.
2. Carry out use case studies, comprehensive platform testing, intelligence and market research activities and thorough feature analysis
3. Identify and implement analytics/metrics/KPIs to drive critical business processes and decision-making utilizing data science, web-analytics, and data mining
4. Up-to-date knowledge on scientific breakthroughs that impacts product and business decisions and developments.
5. Market research and marketing activities to carry out updates to platform
6. Engage Nano and material science diaspora on a social and personal level at various events and conferences.
7. Manage social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook pages
8. Writing technical and non-technical posts for both scientific and non-scientific communities
Business Development and Management:
1. Support North & Latin American sales teams in addition to Asia Pacific regions with thorough market intelligence, sales prospect lists, technical presentations, on-site visits & webinars
2. Carry out product training exercises for researchers, librarians, sales and marketing via on-site and webinar based technical presentations.
3. Create user resources such as product guides, white paper, and tutorial videos
4. Technical support for sales & marketing teams to build and grow database position.
5. Utilize workplace management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Slack and Trello for bug reporting and project management.
6. Account management and accounts development for SaaS-based products
In addition to Product management responsibilities. I am responsible for
1. Owning a multi-million dollar pipeline, spanning the Americas, Oceania, and India
2. Negotiation of contracts and agreement for abstraction and indexing with publishing organizations.
3. Data analytics and rights management for abstraction and indexing
4. Agile product management – updating and iterating on product development such as introduction of new tools for patent search
5. Contribution and management of product roadmap including cost management driven decisions.
• Authored 28 high impact research articles & two book chapters in prestigious scientific outlets including Nature, American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry
• Led the scientific project on early cancer detection that would ultimately be used by Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) research work
• Devised statistical models, data analytics methods and scientific software implementations for research needs
• Acted as chief SME in the development of a Machine learning algorithm for nanotechnology data curation activities with engineering team and carried out multivariate analysis and testing to draw relevant conclusions
• Collaborated with distributed team of engineers, designers, editors and data scientists across Wellington University, University of Auckland and Nanofabrication labs to modify semiconductor surfaces to control their surface electronic properties for photovoltaic devices
Education
Thesis work on "Iron Telluride and Graphene based Nanomaterials for Sensing and Photocatalytic Applications".
Conferences:
(1) National Institute of Material Science Conference, June 2012, Tsukuba, Japan. “Enzyme Mimicking Iron Telluride based Nanorods for the Detection of Glucose”.
(2) Indo-Taiwan Research Talk on Smart Nanomaterials, August 2012, Kanyakumari, India. “Iron Telluride and Graphene Based Nanomaterials for Sensing and Photocatalytic Applications”.
(3) Annual NTU Chemistry Graduate Research Sympsoium, December 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. “Iron Telluride and Graphene Based Nanomaterials for Sensing and Photocatalytic Applications”.
(4) Taiwan-US Air Force workshop, June 2014, Hualien, Taiwan. “Graphene-ZnO-Au nanocomposites for efficient reduction of nitrobenzene”.
(5) Carbon Conference, July 2015, Jeju, South Korea. “Graphene-ZnO-Au nanocomposites for efficient reduction of nitrobenzene”.
Conferences:
1. National Institute of Material Science Conference, June 2012, Tsukuba, Japan. “Enzyme Mimicking Iron Telluride based Nanorods for the Detection of Glucose”.
2. Indo-Taiwan Research Talk on Smart Nanomaterials, August 2012, Kanyakumari, India. “Iron Telluride and Graphene Based Nanomaterials for Sensing and Photocatalytic Applications”.
3. Annual NTU Chemistry Graduate Research Sympsoium, December 2012, Taipei, Taiwan. “Iron Telluride and Graphene Based Nanomaterials for Sensing and Photocatalytic Applications”.
4. Taiwan-US Air Force workshop, June 2014, Hualien, Taiwan. “Graphene-ZnO-Au nanocomposites for efficient reduction of nitrobenzene”.
5. Carbon Conference, July 2015, Jeju, South Korea. “Graphene-ZnO-Au nanocomposites for efficient reduction of nitrobenzene”.
Ranked 2nd overall in Master's Degree in Chemistry.
Worked on the "experimental and statistical evaluation of most significant alkali metal concentrations (Na and K) in various biodiesels and their prepared blends using flame photometry and Optical fingerprinting by FTIR and UV-vis Spectroscopy”
Short-Term training program on ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION in HPLC, GC, AAS, FTIR & UV-Vis spectrophotometer by VIT-TBI (Dpt. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India).
Merit Scholarship for Academic performance in Masters Degree (VIT University) (2008-2009).
2. Thesis: Experimental and statistical evaluation of most significant alkali metal concentrations (Na and K) in various biodiesels and their prepared blends using flame photometry and Optical fingerprinting by FTIR and UV-vis Spectroscopy
3. Short-Term training program on ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION in HPLC, GC, AAS, FTIR & UV-Vis spectrophotometer by VIT-TBI (Dpt. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India).
4. Merit Scholarship for Academic performance in Masters Degree (VIT University) (2008-2009).
2. Led the Blood Donation Campaign as the Director of Rotaract Club of Loyola College.
3. Conducted three national level inter-collegiate Chemistry events (Loyola-Chemfest).4.
4. Editor of the Loyola Titan Magazine (2005-2006).
5. Recipient of 25+ awards in Poster presentations, Debates, Quizzes at the national level.
Certifications
Prizes and Awards
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Project
2. Increased traffic by >30% YOY over a period of four years
3. Increased revenue five fold by strategic marketing via SEO & SEA optimization (Google AdWords, Google Display, Internet Classifieds) etc.
4. Closed deals with major multi-million dollar clients (including Shriram group, Sri Ramachandra University, SRM University, Ramcides, CavinKare, On Load Gears, Bharat Electronics, Aviation and Hospitality 5. Academy Pvt. Ltd., Grundfos Pumps Pvt. India Ltd., Lucas TVS, Leo Coffee etc.)
5. Created local and country wide business strategy for sales team.
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