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    • Career Summary
    • Professional Experience
    • Key Engagements
    • Education
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    • Elements of Product Mgm't
    • Writings on Business
    • Personal Blog
    • Works of fiction
    • Podcast
  • Photo Albums
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Summary

As a senior Product Management executive, I have over 20 years of experience in managing the development and modernisation of complex digital products globally, leading multiple product teams, transforming organisations and managing a large business. I have acted as a fractional CPO in many engagements, along with mentoring and managing Product Managers, Product Designers, and Full Stack Engineers forming high-performing teams from scratch through the delivery of successful products. I am also a recognised conference speaker, having presented at significant Product conferences such as Agile Australia, FST media and many other executive conferences.

Expertise

  1. Building successful digital products through lean, customer-centric teams
  2. Modernising Legacy Platforms for generating rapid ROI
  3. Transforming businesses into a modern product-centric organisation
  4. Bringing together the skills of management, business and digital consulting to offer a coherent approach for an organisation 

Career Highlights

Product Management

Product Management

Product Management

Experienced in managing the development of custom software products in financial services, life sciences, health care, government and telecommunications industries across Australia, Africa, Singapore, the UK and the USA

Management

Product Management

Product Management

Managed portfolio with a revenue of A$8m p.a.across multiple digital products. Experienced in working with C-level stakeholders to drive business outcomes across multiple initiatives

Strategy

Product Management

Transformation

Experienced in formulating and driving a growth strategy and managing various areas like Marketing, Operations, technology and Finance.

Transformation

Capability Development

Transformation

Led multiple business transformation initiatives through building successful products, infusing lean-agile principles, building high-performance teams, and incrementally delivering ROI

Capability Development

Capability Development

Capability Development

Managed multiple cross-functional and multi-cultural teams, helping individuals enhance their skills, grow their practices and develop careers

Publishing

Capability Development

Capability Development

Published articles, and presented in events across APAC

Professional experience

Fractional CPO, Startup in the US (Jul 2022 - till date)

The company is an early-stage startup that intends to revolutionise a dying industry through technology and sustainable practices. 

Achievements

  1. The startup are set to generate revenue in 5 months and be reduce time to profitability from over 5 years to < 2 years

Senior Director, Roam Digital/Stellar Elements (Jun 2022 - Jul 2023)

Stellar Elements/Roam Digital is a renowned end-to-end digital software consultancy in the US. Our clients are predominantly in the Financial Services and Insurance industries. My responsibilities include

  1. Manage digital product delivery similar to a VP of Product role, typically working with a C-level representative from our clients.
  2. Scope engagements ranging from new product development to modernising legacy platforms
  3. Manage a business of over A$8 million across sales, operations, marketing and capability development

Achievements

  1. My team was instrumental in driving the structuring and delivery of a complex remuneration platform for a large financial services institution
  2. Lead the creation of a robust marketing strategy which was subsequently implemented globally
  3. Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and track the success of the product and make data-driven decisions to improve product performance

Director, Product Management and Design, Pivotal Labs (April 2021 - May 2022)

Principal, Product Management, Pivotal Labs (Jun 2016 - Mar 2021)

Pivotal Labs Consulting (Acquired by VMware and renamed to Tanzu Labs) is a global software and services company based in San Francisco that provides cloud platform hosting and consulting services. They are renowned as a thought leader in Lean, UCD and eXtreme Programming. Pivotal has worked with some of the world’s most successful companies pre and post IPO including Google, eBay, AirBnB and Twitter.

Responsibilities included

  1. Manage the Business for growth (Marketing, Finance, Operations)
  2. Drive Customer Engagement and delivery of the digital product from discovery, launch and scale
  3. Create and execute a strategy for the growth of the business and individual accounts
  4. Manage teams and provide mentorship and guidance to ensure their professional growth and development
  5. Act as a fractional CPO for all the engagements to help clients from strategy to execution of their digital products

Achievements

  1. Was instrumental in the growth of the practice in ANZ by over
  2. Lead the transformation of a large government agency through a series of products from Single View of Customer, Digital Drivers Licence and a Whole of Government Payments platform
  3. Led the launch of a new product that saved the client $55M p.a in costs within the first year of launch
  4. Managed a team of product managers and provided mentorship and guidance to ensure their professional growth and development

Lead, Product Management, Thoughtworks ( 2011 - 2016)

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and software engineering to enable enterprises and technology disruptors thrive as modern digital businesses. With 49 offices in 18 countries, they are closely associated with the movement for agile software development. As a lead consultant in TW, my responsibility includes driving product development activities in complex engagements. The key activities include

  1. Facilitate inception and drive workshops to structure the engagement
  2. Architect business solutions in conjunction with technical leads
  3. Help clients create the product vision and strategy
  4. Create, prioritise and manage the project backlog

Enable agile and lean practices in the client organisation

My CV

My CV attached for your perusal. 

Venki CV (pdf)

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