ashwin chandrasekaran

Conducted primary and secondary research on the technology and consumer products sector

Product Institute is a Product Management school that teaches students to think like a product manager. I coach students in the program.

Built products that drive Masterpass acceptance globally. Some key achievements are: 1) Streamlined the merchant onboarding experience. Reduced time to onboard and integrate from weeks to hours 2) Led efforts to deliver a native Masterpass checkout experience for in app purchases. Key initiative for driving MAUs and repeat usage

Developed new digital solutions and global partnerships to scale merchant acceptance of Mastercard. Created an ecosystem of fintech partners (solution providers), bank partners, payment facilitators and payment gateway providers to promote a new set of standards for accepting contactless payments through mobile devices

The ODX platform is a white label, end to end solution consisting of automated applications, decisioning, fraud monitoring, analytics and servicing. We enable financial institutions to optimize the delivery of working capital to small businesses. ODX is a subsidiary of OnDeck Capital [NYSE: ONDK] and our expertise and insights are backed by 11 years of online lending with over $10 billion delivered to businesses globally.

* Serve & Bluebird are low fee banking products, promoting financial inclusion to un/under banked in America. As a product manager, I oversee check and cash deposit features for the platform. I am passionate about delivering products that add value to my customers and am an advocate for lean and agile product development * Launched the Mobile Check Deposit (MCD) feature on iOS and Android for Serve; check submission volumes grew 67% between July and December 2014 * Led integration, testing and go to market launch for cash reload partnerships with Walmart, 7-11 and Family Dollar * Defined product roadmap, prioritized feature backlog and monitored impact on KPIs * Worked closely with Risk, Mobile and Portfolio teams to increase adoption and profitability * Ideated, wireframed and collaborated with engineering teams to prototype at department hackathon

* Ipreo is a market data, investor relations and financial technology firm. I was the product owner of the Directed Share Plan platform that was used by investors to purchase stock at pre-IPO prices. Clients included technology, energy and consumer good companies * Generated $100K in revenue through implementations and custom enhancements in 2012; $200K projection for 2013 * Used customer feedback to redesign orders page; increased orders by 5% * Conducted usability testing via Webex; results helped prioritize enhancements that reduced production support requests by 15% * Created wireframes, PRDs and test cases for engineering and QA teams in Ukraine and India; motivated teams and reduced communication barriers * Responsible for acquisition of 2 key clients that generate $250K/yr in transactions

* Provided product support for a portfolio of trading applications * Generated ad-hoc reports using Excel and pivot tables outlining the fund’s monthly performance; results were used to assess the fund’s profit and loss * Documented detailed functional specs and users guides for automating the trade reconciliation process

* Supported the Project Management team within the technology group * Documented use cases and product workflow for a Portfolio Management tool * Lead Business Analyst on the upgrade of a help desk management system; coordinated activities and resources to migrate a group of 30 users, prepared documentation including release notes, user guides, and FAQs * Determined AS-IS state of the portfolio analytics reporting process, identified pain points and proposed the TO-BE state that improved the accuracy of data reported

Oversee the Business Travel Accounts (BTA) platform for the US and Canadian markets. Platform is used by large and mid sized companies for booking and centrally billing business travel for individuals without corporate cards. Responsible for defining the customer experience, product construct and service design for the platform including implementation of tokenization for a secure business travel mobile experience