akshay gavai

* Asia's first environment friendly certified 5-star hospitality chain * Designed, prototyped, tested, and lead the entire product lifecycle of a bedside console unit that resulted in 150% increase in customer participation. * Manage healthy relationship with business stakeholders and cross functional delivery partners who were essential in product development process and ensuring long term success for product. * Managed the iterative lifecycle of the including concept, scope, specifications, prioritization, design, implementation, user acceptance testing, quality assurance, deployment and maintenance. * Defined and prioritized the product backlog translating high-level requirements into user stories and reviewed implementation. * Worked closely with Engineering, Operations and Developers to define Product Vision, Roadmaps and Release Plans. * Promoted the product, pushing for rapid adoption by defining clear goals and KPIs around customer value and developed strategies to achieve them.

* Executed and built high quality products with an eye towards user experience, driving the product process from data, user research insights, and business needs. * Measured impact and iterated on existing products, driving continuous improvement aligned with business goals. * Independently conducted market research and strategic planning; identified new potential product solutions and marketing strategies. * Developed a deep understanding of customers by conducting research, data analysis, customer interviews, and usability testing. * Collaborated with developers to design A/B Tests and used analytics to determine optimum features and best user experience to achieve high trial conversions. * Led discussions with founders and developers to determine feasibility, value proposition, level of effort estimations, and strategy for execution and timing.

* eGo CarShare is one of Colorado's leading car-share providers * Conducted market research to evaluate competitors’ products and used SWOT framework to inform overall product strategy. * Created user stories in collaboration with marketing and operations to inform on-going product development and product roadmap. * Developed priority list of product features for new mobile app based on customer feedback, web analytics, existing technology, and required timeline. * Led focus groups consisting of existing customers to create and define a seamless user experience for upcoming mobile app.

* Largest organic dairy cooperative in North America * Engaged with multiple business stakeholders to capture user needs and translated into product requirements for initiating product development. * Supported, analyzed, and improved operational processes that accelerated the team, including feature design review, event tracking and analysis, and bug management. * Effectively ran end-user focus groups as well as stakeholder workshops to identify opportunities for improving customer experience, content management, and business processes. * Developed product manuals in the form of videos using screen capture technology and created a repository for end-user support. * Ensured solutions promote digging into the problem space, simplification, accuracy and an increasingly higher level of productivity for users. * Created prototypes using a various of software tools to help developers understand user stories and overall user experience.