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- Seasoned and passionate Product Management and solution management professional with 14 years of unique experience of complete product life cycle management that includes building growth strategy, setting business goals, product management and solutions management, product research and development, and consulting.

- Seasoned and passionate Product Management and solution management professional with 14 years of unique experience of complete product life cycle management that includes building growth strategy, setting business goals, product management and solutions management, product research and development, and consulting.

- Specialist in "solution development and management" for building industry specific vertical solutions using multiple products.

- Expert in building cross-functional, cross-organizational teams with the customer to identify, prioritize, and design solutions for meeting customers’ needs and business goals of organization.

- Strong project and team management skills on highly complex projects with rapid results.

- Hold Masters (MS) degree in Computer Science (CS) in collaboration with MIT Sloan School of Business.

Specialties: APM Solutions, Building SaaS applications in the areas of ecommerce and healthcare, SaaS, Strategic Business Planning, Business and Product Strategy Development, Product Management, Solution Management, Cloud computing, Agile Product development, New Product Launches, Competitive Positioning, Industry Analyst Relations, Total Customer Experience, Global Business, ECM solutions, BPM solutions, SaaS solutions for ISVs, Big Data Solutions, Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQLSenior Product Manager @ AppDynamics is the leading Application Intelligence Platform for modern app architectures in both the cloud and the datacenter. Backed by IVP, KPCB, Greylock & Lightspeed, AppDynamics has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) MQ (2013 & 2012), an Innovator in APM (2011) and a Cool Vendor in IT Operations Mgmt (2010).

Hundreds of companies such as Netflix, ExactTarget, Orbitz, Expedia, Edmunds.com, Williams Sonoma, FamilySearch use us to monitor, automate & analyze production applications, and 100k+ users have enhanced their apps using AppDynamics Lite, our free product. Customers love us because we

1. Make app intelligence accessible to small & large enterprises alike through Self-Service try/buy channels combined with both SaaS & On-Premise deployment options

2. Radically simplify application intelligence administration through auto-discovered app flow maps & self-learning business transactions

3. Reduce Mean-Time-To-Resolution through deep diagnostics w/ less than 2% overhead in production even for distributed, high-volume, mission-critical apps

4. Offer a single platform that brings together Application Performance Monitoring, End User Experience Management, Application Analytics and DevOps Automation

5. Wow customers through amazing customer service, proven by our world class NPS of 84

As a Senior Product Manager for the overall platform, currently responsible for building overall GTM infrastructure and improve self sign-up experience. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr.Cloud Solutions Manager for SaaS and Digital Solutions for ecommerce @ As a solution manager for “Rackspace SaaS and Digital Solutions for ecommerce,” currently responsible for building overall business strategy, setting business goals and building GTM plans to meet revenue goals. Responsibility also includes choosing a right mix of Rackspace and third party ecommerce platforms like Magento, Oracle Commerce, hybris and Intershop for building the next generation solutions using OpenStack, the Open Cloud technology. Solutions Management expertise also include hands on experience with Hadoop Clusters, MongoDB and NoSQL technologies. From October 2012 to August 2014 (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. Cloud Products Portfolio and Market Strategist @ As a Cloud Products Portfolio and Market Strategist, responsible for market intelligence and providing market insights to executives. As a part of this role:

- Provided recommendations to Product Management Team for various product features

- Completed business analysis and opportunity sizing for various solution initiatives at Rackspace

- Analyzed competitive moves and provided strategic recommendations about how Rackspace should react From September 2011 to September 2012 (1 year 1 month) San Antonio, Texas AreaSenior Product Manager @ Open Text, a world renowed enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content.

Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 50 million users in 114 countries.

•As a Senior Product Manager developed business strategy and product roadmap for developing industrial solutions on top of horizontal Electronic Content Management (ECM) product platform.

•Hosted quarterly Healthcare Customers Advisory Board (CAB) meetings for expanding healthcare footprint and building solutions for the healthcare industry.

•Hosted quarterly business updates meetings with leading Healthcare and ECM industry analysts and received accolades for successfully building Analyst Relationship (AR) program

•Successfully delivered the committed releases on time with the highest quality using Agile software development methodologies. This resulted in boosting sales pipeline in healthcare industry. From December 2008 to August 2011 (2 years 9 months) Technical Product Manager/ Customer Solutions Lead @ •As an Advisory Software Engineer led Websphere Process Server (WPS) Customer Solution team. This was a team of nine engineers distributed geographically.

•The team was responsible for designing, developing and stress testing WPS solutions using products like WAS (Websphere Application Server), WXD (Websphere Extended Deployment), WPS (Websphere Process Server), WESB (Websphere Enterprise Bus), WID (Websphere Integration Developer),

•Worked extensively with WPS customers facing problems in moving from the development environment to the production environment.

•Wrote a Redbook on WPS production topologies and guidelines for choosing a right topology for a given business solution.

•Designed and developed WPS Stress WiKi and defects dashboard that were frequently used by the upper management to find current health of the product during the release. From August 2005 to November 2008 (3 years 4 months) Development and Design Engineer @ •As a Staff Software Engineer in Websphere Process Server (WPS) development team, I was responsible for design and development of various WPS features like Business Object and Role Based Access Control (RBAC).

•Led development cycle for various features and managed team of 4 engineers in IBM, China. This resulted in the timely delivery of the product with the highest quality.

•Led UNIX testing team for the globalization testing. Managed a team of 8 people from 8 different countries. Successfully completed testing in 40% of the budgeted time. Received special appreciation for leading this activity. From August 2002 to August 2005 (3 years 1 month) Research / Teaching Assistant @ •Worked with industrial customers for defining business use cases for Semantic Web concepts.

•After understanding customer requirements, developed a strategy for showcasing industrial use cases for Semantic Web concepts.

•Drove the strategy of showcasing Semantic Web industrial uses case to completion. From August 2000 to July 2002 (2 years) Research Scientist Intern @ •Summer Intern at this esteemed research organization for two consecutive summers.

•Researched business use case for ‘Real Time Collaboration’.

•After interacting with real customers and understanding business use cases, developed a strategy for implementation of Real Time Collaboration Engine.

•Implemented Real Time Collaboration engine as per the design.

•As a result of outstanding performance as an intern received a job offer from IBM at the end of internship in spite of bad economy and IBM hiring issues. From May 2001 to August 2001 (4 months) Software Engineer @ From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Larson and Toubro India Ltd (L&T), Mumbai, India @ As an intern designed and developed material procurement system for the Materials Planning department of India’s largest Manufacturing firm. This system reduced manual activity of meticulous calculation from 1.5 hours to few minutes. From June 1997 to December 1997 (7 months) MS, Computer Science @ University of Maryland Baltimore County From 2000 to 2002 University of MumbaiUniversity of Mumbai Mahesh Gandhe is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Business Strategy, Product Management, SaaS, Storage, OpenStack, Solutions Development, Business Solutions, Business Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Integration, Retail Marketing, Product Development, SOA, Product Marketing