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Product Marketing, Digital Transformation

Vishal loves developing products and solutions that create an impact.

He works with CXOs and Founders for the digital strategy and growth of the firm and has mentored over 500+ engineers for their entrepreneurship initiative.

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Education

IIM Ahmedabad

2017

Certification from IIM-A On Project Management under executive education

IIT Bombay

2012-2014

Masters in Technology - Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

CPI 9.68 out of 10

Project with Indian Railways

Gujarat University, L D College Of Engineering

2006-2010

Bachelors in Information Technology

University Topper and Gold Medalist

Experience

Founder

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towardsdigital.co,⁠

Aug 2020

We do 2 things very well

Helping software engineers transition to digital product manager role with out unique 6 step process through our program called PM Elite

Helping educational institutes undergo digital transformation and develop their digital strategy in 3 months through our 4 step program called DX Elite

Sr Manager, Digital Transformation and Growth

Innovation and Research Foundation, Nov 2019 - Aug 2020

Development of Digital Strategy for a 20 year old education firm

Development of Go-to-market plan for the consulting venture into one of India’s premier AIPMA plastic association.

Setup and hiring of consulting arm to make inroads for innovation in various firms

Sr Manager, Product

AppitSimple, Dec 2018 - Oct 2019

Head 2 product for AppitSimple - SoftwareSuggest & CallHippo

Responsible for creating company strategy on new products, current product roadmap

Setup of product team with 4 product managers, scrum process for 25+ member tech team

Led New design of SoftwareSuggest pages which brought 25% improvement in goals completion

Involved in Marketing, Sales and Product related initiatives to drive growth

Operations Research Consultant

ORMAE, Dec 2018 - Mar 2019

Problem Solving through data analytics, Optimization for clients of ORMAE

Involved in consulting for 4 separate firms with combined market cap of 1 Trillion Dollars

Optimization, External Expert

McKinsey & Co, Oct 2017 - Dec 2018

Working as external consultant in driving infrastructure related decisions for a large engineering client on billion dollar project.

The project involves making decisions on cost saving through modelling and tool development.

Vice President

BNI - Business Network International, 2018

Part of Leadership of a local chapter of 50 Businessman in the capacity of Vice President

Involved in chapter growth and direction of chapter

Involved in leading the activities of 6 Membership Committee responsible for chapter operations and important decisions

Manager - Operations

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Housing.com⁠

, June 2014 - Aug 2017

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Housing.com⁠

is Mumbai, India based real-estate portal which allows customers to search for houses.

Department Head for 65 member team, with reporting to Chief Business Officer (CBO)

Delivery execution of 16+ Content Products, platform supply maintenance of 45K+ Project Listings, 13K+ Builder profiles.

Re-engineered processes to increase productivity by 200%, client servicing TAT reduction by 70% and operating cost reduction by 24%.

Increase content writing output by 333% with same manpower

Re-engineered drone shooting operations pan-India through algorithmic scheduling to increase collections by 533% in a month with same manpower.

Planned and executed integration of operation processes and developed comprehensive product offering strategy for combined go-to-market with

Proptiger.com⁠

post merger.

Mentor

Young India Challenge, 2016 - Present

Young India Challenge is 2 day(s) experiential national event for top creative young minds.

Mentored 19+ teams, 2000+ members on business plan and approach.

Company Coordinator, Placement Cell

IIT Bombay, 2013 - 2014

Coordination with past recruiters for campus recruitments, handled 50+ firms with likes of Optiver, HSBC Global, Nomura.

Collaborating with team for cluster success, planning and execution of events.

Received Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding contribution

Software Engineer

Cybage Software Pvt Ltd, 2010 - 2011

Collaborated with 19 team members on 3 important software development projects in a short time.

Worked on Asset Management System for Toyota. Provided technical solution recommendations by conducting SWOT analysis.

Vice President, Corporate Relations

AIESEC, 2009 - 2010

AIESEC is World`s Largest not-for-profit youth run organisation in 127 Countries, which develops leadership by facilitating International Exchanges

Part of 9 member executive body, delivered 94 international exchanges and received National Contribution Award

Organised 1 week long National Leadership Development Conference for 600 Members

300% growth in number of partners with the likes of Vadilal, Adani, Italia Group and 500% growth in International Exchanges.

Conceptualised and Organised AIESEC Ahmedabad`s first Youth-To-Business Conference.

Led team of 14 members, won Best Delegation Award 2 times in Local Conferences.

Skills

Management:

Soft Skills:

People Development | Team work | Client Servicing

Technical:

Analytical:

Strategy:

Operations Strategy | Product Rationalisation | Cost Reduction

Outliers

Part of Deep Impact Mission - NASA, 2005. Only 0.0009% of the world population was part of the same

All Indian Rank 192, 99.88 percentile in GATE Computer Science, 2012

Passed intermediate drawing examination with Grade A, 2002

Trained on Six Sigma, Situational Leadership

90.9% in Matriculation - 2004, 89.8% in Intermediate/+2 - 2006

Personality

Strengths

Idealistic

Seek and Value Harmony

Open-Minded and Flexible

Very Creative

Passionate and Energetic

Dedicated and Hard-Working

Weakness

Too Idealistic

Too Altruistic

Impractical

Dislike Dealing With Data

Take Things Personally

Difficult to Get to Know

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Education

IIM Ahmedabad

IIT Bombay

Gujarat University, L D College Of Engineering

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Education

IIM Ahmedabad

IIT Bombay

Gujarat University, L D College Of Engineering

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