Karthik Seshan
Senior Manager of Product Portfolio - Global Commercial Technology (L7 Product Leader) @Colliers
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Manager of Product Portfolio - Global Commercial Technology (L7 Product Leader) @Colliers
Toronto, ON, CA
Managed a multinational portfolio of business-critical software products.• Directed the intelligent automation of revenue-generating business processes using AI, resulting in profit margin increment for the business.• Led product development by directing a cross-functional team reporting to me of Developers, QA Analysts, Business Analysts, ScrumMaster and Product Manager and grew the products in portfolio in terms of $ revenue/savings for business and size of user base.• Created product portfolio roadmaps covering multiple business lines by collaborating with senior business leaders.• Ensured the implemented ideas or proposals for new initiatives contributed toward increasing profit margin in addition to delivering any intangible benefits to the business.
EDUCATION
University of Toronto
Agile Essentials in Project Management
Dr. D. Y. Patil University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
University of Toronto
Project Management
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
MBA, Strategic Management and Marketing
SKILLS
ABOUT KARTHIK SESHAN
Summary: A passionate product leader with over 15 years of progressive experience in delivering delightful experiences to the users and impactful results driving business growth. My experience spans across the Healthcare (~7 years) and the Commercial Real Estate (8+ years) industries. My experience to-date has focused on building scalable data and intelligent automation (i.e. AI-driven) enterprise products that have driven business outcomes.Skillset and Knowledge Areas:• Product Management - SAFe-certified Product Manager/Owner, 5+ years of product strategy leadership experience and 15+ years of product delivery leadership experience, founded and scaled-up product management capability, managed a portfolio of 15+ multinational (~70 countries) products, 10K+ users• Program Management – award-winning Program Manager, PMP and CSM certified, 15+ years of progressive leadership experience, delivered 50+ large and medium-sized products/programs, managed budgets over $5M, founded and scaled-up agile delivery practice for multinational org, led Agile Continuous Delivery transformation• Digital Transformation – led large-scale initiatives in healthcare and real estate industries that digitalized mission critical business processes. Eg. Transformed SickKids hospital’s Operating Rooms from relying on a paper-based patient charting system to using cloud-based electronic medical records application with touch-screen interface• Artificial Intelligence – been a co-founding team member of an AI-driven drug discovery start-up, led the development and training of Machine Learning models to solve business problems• Data Management and Governance – won the 2023 CIO Awards Canada for the Enterprise Data Strategy program that I led as a Program Manager for Colliers. Experienced in enterprise-wide implementations of MDM, data governance, metadata management, data cataloguing, analytics and reporting• Organizational Change Management – Prosci-certified Change Practitioner, managed enterprise-wide changes to business processes, policies and culture and catalyzed adoption of technology solutions by over end users located in over 70 countries• Team Building and Coaching – 10+ years of experience in hiring, building, and coaching high-performing agile software development teams of 10+ members. Trained and certified in people management and coaching• Process Improvement – proficient in process analysis and mapping, and in developing viable future state models by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders
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