Shivraj Hiremath

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ABOUT SHIVRAJ HIREMATH

Fluent English experienced Senior Product Manager with an Executive MBA, persistent learner of products having excellent Product Management, Product Ownership & Product Development skills. I have over 12 years of experience in the IT Industry with more than 7 years of specialization into Product Management.Professional Skills: Product Manager, Product Strategy, Product Road mapping, Product Development, Product Management, Team Development, Backlog/Feature/Epic Prioritization, User Stories, Azure RP, Product Planning, Requirement Analysis, Leadership, Visio, SQL, Oracle, Balsamiq, Wire-framing.Process Expertise: Agile Methodologies, Agile SCRUM.Strengths: Storyteller, Insightful listener, Effective delegator, Conflict Resolver. My extensive experience in Agile-SCRUM product management, business analysis, requirement analysis, product strategy, and Product road mapping have taught me to align, grow and lead agile product teams through: Clearly understanding product vision & product strategy derived from business vision & strategy. Driving Product roadmap & executing Product backlog prioritization. Creation of scrum artifacts such as epics, features, and user stories using Visio, and Wireframes (Balsamiq). Owning Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective. Contributing to Release Planning & execution by providing necessary support in Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) I put customers at the core of all I do by: Practicing customer empathy by understanding customers\' & users\' pain points. Building products that perfectly align with customers\' demands and feedback. Ensuring value delivery to customers via business requirement & technical requirement analysis, requirement elicitation, and translation of requirements into workable products that customers love. I love to win, but helping a team win together gives me greater joy I build & value stakeholder & customer relationships which help in building better solutions for end users. Helping stakeholders and coordinating with other internal as well as external teams in achieving objectives. Empower agile software development team members in delivering quality work every time and helping team members work toward a shared purpose rather than just taking orders. I build feedback loops between all internal & external stakeholders to garner value & improve. I educate, refine and drive myself to be a better person. Staying calm and finding solutions during adversity comes naturally to me.