Himanshukumar Kapadia

Product Manager || Solution Architect || Agilist

Experienced Software Product Manager and Certified Scrum Master with over 20+ years of experience in IT Industry. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, agile leadership and driving overall operational improvements. Recognized for inspiring development team members to excel and encouraging creative work environments. Collaborates with developer team, project managers and salespeople to implement application designs supporting customer needs and technical challenges with technology acumen.

Experience

Freelance Consultant

  • Helped Private educational institutes to adopt online teaching methodologies.
  • Working with textile based MSME’s to design and adopt the post Covid19 business strategy.
  • At personal front researching and defining NextGen School Management System model for SaaS and PaaS offering.
Nov 2019 - Present

Product Manager

  • Headed end to end Product Management for reengineering of legacy Payroll Platform to Next-Gen cloud based SaaS and Pass Platform for HR and Payroll Services.
  • Concept-to-launch of SaaS based Hospice Management System enabling easy to use, automated and stream lines business processes like Intake Management, Care Management, Billing and Bereavement, leading to expected 75% decrease in the need for physical paper for Healthcare System.
  • Ensured product met or exceeded expectations by gathering feedback and requirements and overseeing seamless, high-quality rollouts Bundling of services including new product development.
  • Collaborated with Marketing, Sales, Services team and market research to build Seamless User Experience for B2B and B2C segment to offer cutting age Cloud base SaaS and PasS.
  • Led cross-functional teams from Product Conception through launch and multiple iterations.
  • Effectively reduced project timeline for the entire project lifecycle by implementing Agile ideation plan, collecting and implementing 30% more ideas from employees than the historical best.
  • Created work plans and conducted war rooms to successfully bring product to market from a production point of view, reducing the time to target.
  • Optimization of process time for all required workflows.
  • Introduced product on both web and mobile platform as well as Test Driven Development strategy.
  • Handled internal and external stakeholders; evangelized the product vision and built trust by maintaining an accurate and achievable roadmap.
September 2011 - October 2019

Cloud Consultant

  • Set up internal development team for building migration PoC for enabling existing applications on azure cloud.
  • Migration of system which led to 20% decrease in infra cost.
  • Converted the capital infra cost into working infra cost helping client to run their business with same cost for two years.
September 2009 - August 2011

Corporate Trainer and Sr. Developer

  • Trained and Coched 2000+ developers on Microsoft.Net Technologies & Microsoft SQL Server
  • Mentored 10+ individuals to build their career in IT arena
  • Headed career guidance sessions for the Collages
  • Set up the .NET Practice Team, Implementing standard delivery process for Microsoft .Net Technology across the all locations
  • Automated ERP solution for training department as per ISO 9001 certification guideline basis leading to reduction in time taken staffing of trainers and helping sales team find efficient slots
  • Designed a .Net 2.0 based Policy Management Manual website for Freedman, USA, effectively reducing training time for Client by 10%.
  • Increased revenue by streamlining training content leading to higher content delivery in lesser hours.
  • Developed Floor Management System, Converted design specifications into computer code as well as VB programs to correct detected errors, Reviewed business requirements and needs during application designing and development processes
July 2000 - August 2009

Companies

Skills

  • Language

    • Gujarati, Hindi, English

  • Soft Skills

    • Excellent team- and relationship-building abilities, with both internal and external parties (engineers, business stakeholders, partners, etc.)
    • Strong leadership skills, including ability to influence cross-functional teams via diplomacy and tact
    • Passionate dedication to your craft and desire to work with people who inspire you on a daily basis
    • Finding the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems.
    • Helped employees create short-term and long-term goals and supported them along the way
    • Encouraged employees to step out of their comfort zones and take ownership of their projects
    • Describing the structure, characteristics, behavior, and other aspects of software to project stakeholders.
    • Defining features, phases, and solution requirements.
    • Providing specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered.

  • Technical Skills

    • Languages: C#, VB.Net
    • Frameworks: Microsoft.Net 2.0,3.0,3.5, 4.0, 4.5 || Micorosoft.Net Core 2.0, 3.0
    • Server Side Web Development Technologies: ASP.Net Web Forms, ASP.Net MVC, ASP.Net Razor Pages, Web API 2.0, WCF
    • Client Side Web Development Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, KnockoutJS
    • Data Development Technologies: EF Core, EF, LINQ, ADO.NET, T-SQL, JSON, XML, DTD, XSD, XSL/T
    • Database Development Technologies: SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 R2, 2017, MS-Access, MySql
    • Cloud Development Technologies: Windows Azure Core Services, Azure App Services, Serverless Compute Services, SQL Azure, Data Services, Cloud Storage Services
    • Application Architectures: Client/Server (n-Tier), MVP, MVC, MVVM, Cloud Architectures and Patterns (Azure), and Micro Services

Academics

Nov 2019 - Mar 2022
Master in Business Addminitration - IT Strategy

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Kerala

August 2010 - September 2012
Master of Science - Computer Science

Monad University, Hapur, Utter Pradesh

June 1995 - April 1998
Bachelor of Science - Physics

Vir Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, Gujarat

Professional Certificates and Achivements

CONTACT Me

Phone

(+91) 9342983083

Email

Email: mailme@himanshukumar.net