VAIBHAV KHARPATE Mobile: 8982109778

Certified Scrum Master| Product Owner | Project Manager Email: vaibhav.kharpate@rediffmail.com

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Summary
A competent professional with over 9 years of experience, and software product management, product development, product
strategy and delivery and project management. Having experience of 3 Years as product owner to develop complex and
customer centric web (SaaS) based software products. Proficient in market research and analysis to strategies the out of the box
product development road map.

A strategic, innovative, and analytical thinker, skilled at bringing proactive solutions to difficult or high-pressure situations with
strong problem-solving and project leadership as well as interpersonal and communication skills. Highly focused on results,
details, and customer satisfaction. Proficient at building robust and positive long-lasting relationships with key clients,
organization management, and end-users. Have a huge passion for technologies with fast and easy learning, a self-confident
self-starter, who enjoys working in a team, known to be an expert, "go-to" person, equally developing people and making others
great. Give and achieve others’ respect equally externally and internally.

Key Competencies
Product Management | Requirements Gathering | Iterative Development | Presentation | User Stories | Interface | User
Acceptance & Functional Testing| Product Development| Product Strategy | Scrum | Project Management | Release Management
|Sprint Planning| Sprint Retrospective| Product Backlog Refinement

Professional Experience
Mobikon , Pune June 2019 – August 2019
Product Owner/Project Manager,
Key point contact for all cross functional teams for all product development queries Closely work with multiple
stakeholders to maintain & manage changing business needs for their linear and digital platforms. Product owner
performing structured development methodology and responsible for keeping lights-on of customer applications.

• Played a critical role in managing software development using Agile best practices.
• Managed several consumer product and interface projects, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to manage
data flow and dependencies.
• Owned product backlog using JIRA and TFS and partnered with business team to prioritize actionable items,
ensuring accuracy, timeliness and communicating findings to development team.
• Facilitated meetings with key stakeholders and Development teams to review and plan high priority items and
iterative cycles.
• Analyzed business needs for various projects and performed requirements gathering and functional specs with the
clients as the lead business analyst.
• Worked with project and customer management to facilitate communication between IT and business, including
open issues, project prioritization, resolutions, and project requests.
• Conducted analysis meetings with customers to determine and prioritize business and system requirements for
projects characterized by high-profile status, risk, and/or complexity.
• Communicated regularly with senior team members regarding task or project status and opportunities to improve
service levels or business processes.
• Structured business requirements and acceptance criteria in user stories to facilitate test plan creation.
• Responsible for planning and executing User Acceptance Testing sessions with key stakeholders.
• Worked closely with the transition and development teams to ensure issues are resolved and system can be launched
in a timely manner.
Dabbawalla.com |Startup, Pune/Bhopal June 2018- June 2019
Dabbawalla.com startup provides an AI-driven consumer engagement and predictive analytics SaaS platform to Engage
Customers, Gain Insights, Predict Behaviours, and Increase Sales for the F&B industry. It’s cloud-based platform is designed
to simplify and streamline the CRM functions of running a successful restaurant by providing true closed loop, customer
lifecycle marketing, off-line to online targeting and business intelligence.

• Client Acquisition: Oversee end to end client acquisition including marketing.

• Business Development: Identified the business areas to assign closeout, responsibilities and pinpoint process
improvement areas.
• Market Research & Analysis: Performed comprehensive market research and analysis in response to evolving market
conditions and proactively to support new business areas.

REI Systems, Pune June 2017 – June 2018

Senior Business Analyst- Product Management
Performed UAT, Sprint Activities, Release planning etc. Creates product document like version release notes, product feature
list etc.
• Was scrum master to guide the team with Agile/Scrum values and facilitate scum ceremonies.
• Acted as technical product owner for 2 teams with 20+ personnel (both onshore and offshore) on new initiative as
well as ongoing enhancement to other 6 existing products.
• Provided guidance and removed blockers for the team to ensure on-time delivery for each release.
• Helped product management team to define product roadmap and aligned release schedule
• Analyzed business requirement and discussed with the team to provide solutions and estimate.
• Made technical and design decisions to ensure best approach for fulfilling the business requirement.
• Analyzed and prioritized incoming production issues/customer inquiries for each sprint planning.
• Periodically provided feedback to the management on team member’s performance.

C-NET Infotech, Bhopal January 2015 – May 2017

Technical Lead| Product Specialist
Lead the engineering team and ensure the time driven development and releases. Coordinate with product owners to
identify the deliverable of the product. Act as scrum master to ensure the smooth execution of development sprint.
Manage code reviews to maintain the development standards and ensure the deployment of right code.

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies including daily stand up meetings, story grooming sessions, sprint planning, and scrum of
scrum meeting
• Serve as the primary business line team member/product owner on an established agile sprint team
• Act as the primary liaison between the business line & technology departments from idea to implementation of new or
enhanced system functionality
• Participate and provide meaningful input in the review, approval & prioritization of technology requests from across the
organization
• Collaborate with technology & business resources, and often facilitate, technology planning activities including product
& project planning, story mapping and sprint & release planning
• Work with product, end-users and SMEs to fully understand the goals, objectives and success criteria of approved
technology initiatives
• Perform system and business analysis to understand potential impacts & dependencies and provide sound
recommendations on systems solutions
• Produce clear, concise and accurate documentation including Project Charters, Business Cases, User Stories/Acceptance
Criteria and other artifacts as needed
• Own and groom the technology product backlog for the assigned Sprint Team. Responsible for the sprint team backlog
content & prioritization based on business value.
• Confirm sprint deliverables meet the business’ needs and expectations
• Participate in release activities and performs release validation
• Ensure quality systems solutions that meet the business needs
 • Interface with internal and external stakeholders and resources to ensure successful design, development, testing and
implementation of solutions that meet the client/user’s needs.

GVITech, Nagpur July 2010- Dec 2014

Sr. Software Developer – Product Development
Technology: ASP.NET, Ms-Sql, and PHP

• Designed and developed various abstract classes, interfaces, classes to construct the business logic using C# with OOPS
implementation.
• Developed the reusable framework for the application using the ASP.Net MVC framework 3.0.
• Designed and developed graphical user interfaces using silver light XAML and C#.
• Developed new user interface components for different modules using Kendo UI.
• Extensively used silver light data grid, items control and many other controls with paging and sorting for displaying
various data on to the page.
• Participated in making responsive web designs using Twitter Bootstrap.
• Used JavaScript to perform validations and catch the events on client’s browser.
• Manage team workflow and assignments
• Continually improve development, operational processes and procedures
• Work in a fast-paced agile environment developing features planned as part of a roadmap
• Develop clear, concise and well-tested code as part of a wider team through pair programming and code reviews.

Iper Business Solutions, Bhopal July 2008 – Dec 2009

Software Developer
Technology: ASP.NET, Ms-Sql,HTML,CSS, JavaScript.

• Collaborate closely with other Development, Quality Assurance and Operations teams
• Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner without assistance.
• Responsible for independently designing, coding, testing and database management by using VB.Net,C#,ASP.Net and
SQL Server with JavaScript.
• Designed database maintenance plans to set up core maintenance tasks to make sure that the database performs well, is
regularly backed up in case of system failure and is checked for inconsistencies.
• Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance.
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Education & Training:

• MBA Information Technology – Symbiosis Institute Distance Learning in 2018
• Master in Computer Applications- Makhanalal University Bhopal in 2010
• Bachelor in Computer Applications- Makhanalal University Bhopal in 2008

Certifications:
• Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance - 2019
• Diploma in Product Management – Upgrade Skill Services - 2019
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