Vishal M.

- Own pivotal business portfolios for LinkedIn - Executive leadership engagement and collaboration with key cross functional leaders to drive the organizational planning to formulate semi-annual product roadmaps - Lead a team of Technical Program Managers; involved in hiring & developing the team, empowering TPMs to drive these charters effectively, and allocating TPM resources to key priorities basis impact - Establish robust processes and maintain high program management standards while collaborating with cross-functional leaders in Engineering, Product, UX, and others - Senior TPM leader within LinkedIn India, brought all APAC TPMs on a common forum to facilitate collaboration and best practice sharing among the APAC TPM community - Champion India-wide initiatives in partnership with the Site leaders, contributing significantly to LinkedIn's regional and global success

- Led a team of Technical Program Managers to deliver goals of the Transportation Financial Systems business that owns the technology platforms to facilitate financial operations in the transportation sector. - Responsible for talent acquisition, team development, and ensuring the team's capability to deliver programs and goals. - Create charter and remove obstacles by collaborating closely with leaders, stakeholders, and partner teams. - Drove the formulation of a comprehensive 3-Year Planning strategy and annual Operational planning to ensure our alignment with long-term objectives.

- Responsible for Amazon's B2B business web and mobile applications, and Amazon.in Category experience. - Led multiple cross-functional technology projects designed to elevate customer experience & enhance operational efficiency. - Managed complex, interdependent projects across various platform teams by surfacing requirements, negotiating agreements, fostering consensus, align schedules, and meticulously plan execution in collaboration with tech teams. - Built high-level cross-platform solution architecture and collaborated with Engineering, Product Management, and UX teams to craft project plans encompassing task estimates, timelines, risk identification, and management strategies. - Responsible for end-to-end program oversight, facilitating regular stakeholder communication and leadership reviews. - Established and refined processes, driven by feedback, to promote cross-team engagement, consistent project tracking, and transparent reporting across various categories.

Setup a company in the retail domain, and managed the entire Operations, Procurement, Inventory and Sales.

In addition to the responsibilities of Group Program Manager outlined below, I also setup a brand new Customer success Management function. Customer Success Management (CSM): • Built and setup the CSM function with team of Customer Success Managers & support professional for Adobe CaptivatePrime; the CSM team proactively engaged with customers at various levels, to ensure product usage & realize benefits. • Steered team for facets of account management & product support to improve product adoption and customer satisfaction.

Program Management: • Setup and led the Program Management team for end-to-end planning and management of multiple products for Adobe which included CaptivatePrime (A brand new Cloud hosted LMS product), ColdFusion, ColdFusionBuilder (An Enterprise rapid web application development platform), Captivate, Presenter, Director and Contribute. • Engaged with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders like Marketing, Sales, Product, Legal, Customer beta forums etc. to chart out plans and roadmap for the products. Responsible for stakeholder communications and leadership reviews • Led Program Managers for the planning, scheduling, risk management and tracking the product versions for release. 3P OEM Vendor Management: • Managed and negotiated various contracts with software OEMs including large companies with database drivers, security libraries etc., that provided software components to be included into Adobe products to augment their functionality.

Manage end to end (concept to release) program activites of two products - ColdFusion Server and ColdFusion Builder (IDE). Also responsible for overlooking the Flash Builder Program Managememt.

• Program Manager for the https://premier.microsoft.com/, a self-help online application for Microsoft Premier Customers. • Engaged a cross functional team to plan an end-to-end release of the web application. Defined functional specs taking requirements from Marketing team & engaged with the engineering to come up with resource planning, estimations. • Created schedules, identified risks to track the projects to completion and release.

Program Manger at MSN. Exchange and IT team

Program Manager for Microsoft Encarta language learning Suite