Abhishek Varier
Abhishek Varier is a seasoned technology/product executive with over a decade and a half of expertise across various industries. He has demonstrated exceptional ability in delivering results in high-pressure, rapidly-evolving settings and possesses a knack for assembling, overseeing, and nurturing top-notch teams. With a robust technical background and proficiency in an extensive array of technologies including cloud computing, data analytics, ML/AI, and software engineering, Abhishek stands out as a visionary strategist with excellent problem-solving abilities and the capability to articulate complex technological ideas in a business-friendly manner.
Throughout his career, Abhishek has made significant contributions to driving business growth, formulating product strategy, and fostering innovation by developing and implementing pioneering products utilizing advanced technologies.
He holds a Bachelor's degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University (India) and an MBA from Coventry University (UK).
Work Experience
Sep 16 - Present :: Senior Project Manager | Nineleaps Technologies Bengaluru, India
Program Management: Actively led a cross-functional team of developers to drive business value for customers through a highly focused approach to problem understanding, resulting in successful delivery of projects and exceptional outcomes.
Product Management: Worked very closely with the stakeholders on getting the use cases captured and then based on user research created the MRD/PRD. Successfully designed and led product roadmap, use case prioritisation, delivery and monitoring/feedback to capture and share key learnings & enabling us to scale new launches.
Mar 16 - Sep 16 :: Senior Consultant | VJNNS | Fametoonz Bengaluru, India
Program Management: Spearheaded a cross-functional team of NGO members to deliver significant impact by taking a customer-centric approach, utilizing deep problem understanding to drive growth and achieve the mission of providing pure drinking water to remote villages in South-Eastern India through digital transformation and efficient project management.
Product Management: As a product leader, drove the daily operations of a talented team of artists, animators, and audio-visual experts to produce innovative animations for education and awareness programs globally, showcasing exceptional leadership, project management, and strategic thinking skills.
Sep 14 - Mar 16 :: Project Manager | ProdIntel Technologies | Tarento Technologies Bengaluru, India
Product Management: Led the sales efforts from APAC market and built long term contracts and took over the product management from customer engagement model. Identified the market gaps for the product with customer interactions and extensive user research. Worked on building nextgen healthcare domain products to cater to US and Canadian Markets for elderly care
Product Management: Led 16 projects integrations as part of ProdIntel acquisition by Tarento and successfully applied agile methodologies to ensure business continuity and delivered key business value. The CSAT score post transition was the highest for my contribution.
Jun 13 - Aug 14 :: Business Development II | IonIdea Interactive Bengaluru, India
Business Development: Owned the New Zealand sales development efforts in driving business growth across edutech and healthcare industries. Executed the process improvement for sales over the Singapore market efforts and contributed nearly $1M.
Mar 11 - Jun 13 :: Business Development | Zenith Software Bengaluru, India
Business Development: Started the sales cycle for APAC market primarily focused into Australian market and established long term contracts. Identified, developed and executed the necessary process gaps in the sales funnel and worked very closely with stakeholders in making it a primary growth indices.
Business Development: Lead a small team of 3 sales executives in running the Australian market sales. Envisaged and planned for the sales growth engine towards the New Zealand market and gained strength within a short period by establishing long term relationships.
Jun 07 - Jan 09 :: Quality Assurance | Gameloft SE Hyderabad, India
Quality Engineering: Cleared 45 production ready builds under casual, action and sports genre games. Created and developed core competencies for Blackberry device testing process
Education
Feb 09 - Dec 10 :: Master of Business Administration | International Business
Coventry, Great Britain
Dissertation: Benefits of Free Trade Zone - Research on the role of participating companies in socio-economic development of the host nations for having the Free Trade Zones
Research Work: Strategic Analysis of NIKE - Proposed plan for strategic positioning and repositioning NIKE in the market
Research Work: International Expansion for THORNTONS - A novel approach in expanding the company to untapped markets using GMMSO3 software
Aug 02 - Jul 06 :: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Bengaluru, India
Subjects: C Basics, Object-Oriented Programming, Operating system. Below listed are few projects I undertook during my academics:
Software Engineering: MBank - Created a Java based mobile banking PoC
Software Engineering: Nemo - a rule based engine, built using Microsoft Speech API, to recognize voice commands on Windows XP and perform requested tasks.
Scrum Certified Master
Scrum Alliance
Credential ID 527015
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Benchmark Six Sigma
Leadership: Practical Leadership Skills
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Bill George on Self-Awareness, Authenticity, and Leadership
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