6+ years of product development and partnership experience across online and mobile payments, Financial services CRM, and e-commerce. Skill Sets: Product development, product management and Business strategy, Marketing Strategy, Competitive Analysis
Product Manager @ From October 2015 to Present (1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaMBA candidate- Class of 2015 Fuqua School of Business @ From August 2013 to May 2015 (1 year 10 months) Partner Technology Manager MBA Intern @ • Developed sales strategy by building Gross Merchant Volume (GMV) forecast model for Google Wallet Instant Buy (IB). Recommended a list of 200 merchants to be integrated with IB.
• Designed and conducted market research to estimate the total number of loyalty cards used by consumers across top 50 retailers in US. Presented strategic recommendations and new feature suggestions to increase the daily views of Google Wallet Loyalty Cards by 3x.
• Analyzed market data, competitive and customer information, macro-economic trends and feature parity on the digital wallet landscape; recommended feature pipeline to increase market share and growth.
• Developed the Google Wallet Instant Buy API plugin for Hybrid apps, enabling easy and seamless integration through HTML instead of platform dependent native coding. From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer @ • Developed and launched customer analytics tools improving customer experience for 1M sellers worldwide by providing strategic outreach to 300M users. Increased revenue and customer subscription by 45%.
• Created Hadoop warehouse to extract and store data from relational databases, designed and developed 10 different complex financial reports to large enterprise accounts; increasing revenue by 15%.
• Achieved 95% reduction in manual labor by automating the testing process (functional and technical). Lead a scrum team of 6 engineers to develop the automated testing platform that reduced QA review time by 65%. From April 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 3 months) Senior Solutions Consultant @ • Analyzed customer’s business requirement, created user stories and developed new features to customize product dashboard in the Oracle Private Wealth Management CRM, thereby increasing the revenue by 15%. .
• Collaborated with customer’s business decision makers and lead 10-member cross-continent SCRUM based agile team to implement the product in 8 countries thereby increasing the customer base by 25%.
• Developed innovation capability by establishing a Centre of Excellence for developing Business analytic reports platform; trained a 12 member team for 3 different projects
• Developed system requirements, created flow mapping and standardized logical data model to facilitate efficient data transfer between the reporting platform and several other interfaces. From August 2007 to April 2012 (4 years 9 months)
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy and Decision Sciences @ Duke Fuqua School of Business From 2013 to 2015 Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering @ Anna University From 2003 to 2007 Balaji Mohanam is skilled in: Java, Agile Methodologies, MySQL, Big Data, Hadoop, XML, Requirements Analysis, SDLC, Software Development, Python, Product Management, Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Sales Strategy, Competitive Analysis, Revenue Forecasting, Demand Forecasting, Financial Analysis, Financial Accounting, Market Intelligence, Managerial accounting, Managerial Economics, Managerial Finance, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance, Cash Flow Analysis, DCF Valuation, Pro Forma Development, Product Development, Mobile Payments, Online Payment Solutions, User Experience Design, Test Automation, Business Strategy, Data Analysis