Shweta NairProduct Manager United States of America, Illinois, Aurora shweta@bld.ai | Shweta is a senior product management professional with several years of experience driving value and bringing success to various businesses in the b2c and b2b spaces. She works well in ambiguity and has created and implemented complex roadmaps from start to finish. She plans, builds and deploys $2M/yr worth of projects for her oil & gas and mining clients' accounts with her team of product managers, engineers, data scientists and UX designers.
She has been involved with Agile teams throughout her career, playing both operational and strategic product roadmap development roles. |
| Work Experiencebld.aiAugust 2021 - PresentAugust 2021 - Present Product Manager
- I perform a strategic and/or operational product management role tailor made for our enterprise and startup clients.
- In a strategic role I plan and conduct program level meetings that create the strategy for the entire portfolio of petroleum and mining products that are in the digital space for the pre-mining and exploration work over several years.
- I also learn new technologies to implement the vision for organizational transformation. I'm currently working on a virtual reality project that will trailblaze and develop a department.
- In an operational role for our top energy clients, one of our tools saves $9.5M over time.
- As a senior product professional, I also mentor our new and junior leaders by hands on coaching and 1:1 feedback.
- I utilize Product and Project management skills that include: Ideation and design of the product flow, wireframing of the tool with the design team, Project Release management, Jira and confluence management, stakeholder management, creation of the PRD, new tasks and features that can be groomed by the team along with the Product Sponsor. Direct report management, SAFe PI planning management for multi-million dollar programs.
SmartTwigs-IT Consulting firmMay 2020 - January 2021May 2020 - January 2021 Senior Product Manager
- Lead three product teams in the retail and F&B industries that went on to become our lead clients.
- Conceptualized product ideas, created MVP backlog and oversaw 2 products with developers, QA, ops, design.
University of Illinois at ChicagoAugust 2019 - December 2019August 2019 - December 2019 Teaching Assistant for Database management.
- Took my extensive industry experience to teach the most popular database management systems and tooling techniques.
- Assisted 2 classes of seniors in IDS 410 (total of 120 students) who enjoyed the subject and appreciated the coursework.
- Skilled in the UIC way of life as I tutored students, held office hours, graded assignments and proctored exams.
Infosys Ltd- IT Consulting firmAugust 2013 - July 2019August 2013 - July 2019 Senior Associate Consultant
- Achieved cost savings leading to secure repeat business for Infosys. Managed the successful rollout of 7 major products.
Govt of Kerala, IndiaJanuary 2013 - July 2013January 2013 - July 2013 Skill Development Executive for - A program for underperforming low income students
- Introduced concepts of IT for solving business problems with hands-on instruction to underperforming students.
- The students have an immense gratitude to the program and have gone on to become productive individuals of society.
EducationNorthwestern UniversityJanuary 2026 - January 2027January 2026 - January 2027 Professional Degree in Chief Product Officer Program University of Illinois at ChicagoAugust 2019 - November 2020August 2019 - November 2020 Master's Degree in Management Information Systems Cochin University of Science and TechnologySeptember 2008 - May 2012September 2008 - May 2012 Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology Skills3D Animation 3D Design 3D Modelling Agile/scrum/kanban Amazon Web Services (AWS) Apache Cassandra Business analytics Database management system Django Figma Gitlab Graph Databases Invision Java Jira Logistics Metals and mining industry Microservices MySQL R studio Strategy Supply Chain analytics |
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