Ashish Kulkarni
Wroclaw
Summary
Innovative product management professional enthusiastically pursuing a Senior Product Manager opportunity to leverage in-depth knowledge of product lifecycle management. Highly skilled in trend forecasting and competitive market analysis illustrated over16 years of superior industry performance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Product Manager
EPAM Systems, Inc
Wroclaw, Poland
06.2023 - Current
- Currently associated with Amex GBT for Payment Platform transformational program.
- Led product development for the launch of AMEX,WEX and Airplus Virtual cards resulting in cash flow benefit of $19M/Month.
- Enhanced Payment Platform for immediate collection of funds from non-refundable hotels resulting in direct reduction of debt by 32% and improved Payment Success rate to 99.4%.
- Ensured regulatory compliance by implementation of SCA on platform
- Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, fostering collaboration across departments for seamless product development.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction rates through proactive communication of feature updates, bug fixes, and other relevant information related to products managed.
- Mentored junior Product Managers in effective project management techniques and industry best practices.
Product Manager
EPAM Systems, Inc
Wroclaw
04.2022 - 06.2023
- Worked as Product Manager for Mastercard’s Immediate Payment Software (IPS), a real time Payment Service for the bank account based payments with ISO20022 messaging
- Led product development of Real time payment platform to enable P27 scheme i.e., Nordic Payment Regulator to transform the real time payment infrastructure for Swedish Banks
- Closely collaborated with P27 Scheme, Central bank, and Participant banks to devise the product development strategy, roadmap, and prioritization.
- Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
Product Manager
Fiserv Inc
Pune
08.2017 - 01.2022
- Contributed as Product Manager for a product called BillMatrix, an award-winning top-selling Bill Payment Product with revenue of $300 million
- Played a key role in the development and global launch of BillMatrix integration with the world's leading wallet products like ApplePay, PayPal, AmazonPay increasing the platform adaption rate by 35%
- Ideated and Managed concept-to-launch of fraud prevention product enabling the real-time fraud detection in a multi-channel environment thereby increasing the Fraud Capture rate to 98.4%.
- Prioritized roadmap in order to achieve product goals and metrics.
- Conducted market research to identify new opportunities and target markets.
- Launched successful products by conducting thorough market research and identifying customer needs.
- Developed product documentation to communicate upcoming features and products to internal teams.
Sr. Business Analyst
Xoriant Solutions
Pune
06.2013 - 07.2017
- Effectively implemented IT solutions to Mitigate FX settlement and liquidity risk in the world's largest FX market as Business Analyst.
- Built CLS FX Core for High-value settlements to customers, including banking & non-banking financial institutions.
- Key involvement in integration of CLS FX Core with NetReveal, AML Transaction Monitoring Solution.
- Coordinated with Business to assess and interpret core requirements & key features for projects.
- Facilitated user interviews, workshops, and JAD sessions to collate & analyze user stories and built crucial functional requirement specifications
Team Leader
R Systems
Pune India
06.2010 - 05.2013
- Involved in Global initiatives of Payments Sanctions & Transactions Monitoring for Barclays Bank as a Business Analyst
- Successfully worked on well-renowned Message Screening Product Suite- 'VRisk Suite' provided by Temenos
- Played a vital role in major implementations, including vRisk - AML Risk Manager, VWatch - Watch List Filtering, Skip Wizard, and GNR Module
- Liaised with Business to assess the requirements of the new initiatives and assessed functional & technical impact of various Change Request
Education
Masters - Software Engineering
BITS Pilani
Rajasthan IndiaSkills
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Agile/Scrum Methodologies
- Product Roadmaps
- SWOT Analysis
- MVP Creation
- Cross Functional Leadership
- Market & Competitor Research
- UI/UX Design
- Product Integrations
- Product Innovations & IP
- Product Metrics
- Go To Market Strategy
Certification
- CPM - Certified Product Manager
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Certified Professional for Requirement Engineering (CPRE), 2014
- Certified International Payments Systems Professional (CIPSP), 2014
Timeline
Sr. Product Manager
EPAM Systems, Inc
06.2023 - Current
Product Manager
EPAM Systems, Inc
04.2022 - 06.2023
Product Manager
Fiserv Inc
08.2017 - 01.2022
Sr. Business Analyst
Xoriant Solutions
06.2013 - 07.2017
Team Leader
R Systems
06.2010 - 05.2013
Masters - Software Engineering
BITS Pilani