Tufts University

Product Manager at Young Alfred

New York, New York, United States

Young Alfred

Product Manager

At Wayfair, I focused on our delivery network technologies. Specifically, I worked on improving our products and systems within the warehouse to ensure accurate order data and warehouse equipment and capacity. - Guided team of engineers to build new systems for tracking inventory, through developing UI with PHP and React and improvements in our android app, creating visibility on building capacity and equipment use, and directing traffic efficiently within the warehouse- Ran user interviews, usability tests, and created UI mockups to decide product requirements (95% usability score)- Developed metric definitions and SQL queries to get data points to create a Tableau dashboard to allow field leaders to have visibility into capacity constraints and labor allocation - Drove a 46% decrease in YOY criticals/1000 orders by training the IT services team to tackle the proximate issues and reprioritizing engineering resources towards investigating and fixing root causes- Led product launches with a cross-functional team of operators, training, process, and engineering at 40 buildings in 6 months

Wayfair

Senior Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager

Andorra is a seed stage startup building software to facilitate impact investments for institutional investors. At Andorra, I oversaw changes to the product according to client needs. This involved directing the product development team, based in India and designing new product features. I also organized development work using product roadmaps to ensure successful synergy and implementation. I also established processes for onboarding data from users and developed classification guidelines for the database.

Andorra Capital

LogMeIn Innovations is a special team focused on finding the next moon shot product for LogMeIn. Over the course of three months, I worked with a small team of product managers, UX designers, software engineers, and data scientists to validate user problems and design product solutions using agile methodology and lean startup thinking. During my time, I wrote new user stories, led grooming sessions, and managed the backlog  with the engineering team to focus development on high priority targets in an agile environment. I also analyzed user research to create journey maps and personas to understand user habits and hone in on the key pain points that our new product would solve. Finally, I conducted market research to gauge the product's position in the field, estimate pricing, and identify opportunity areas for growth.

LogMeIn

Product Management Intern - Innovations

The Academic Technology Fellows work supports the IT department at Tufts University by prototyping and maintaining new technology-based solutions to enhance teaching and learning at Tufts. With a team of designers and engineers, I built a natural language processing application to digest data and analyze trends to help Tufts University administrators make decisions. Some of the other projects I have worked on include helping Tufts researchers display their data on custom made Google maps and created guides to help Tufts professors better use the technologies offered by the university.

Academic Technology Fellow

The Entrepreneurial Leadership Program manages the most popular minor at Tufts and also runs an organizes university-wide programs to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. As an intern, I helped organize, manage, and run ELS events including Startup Weekend and Tufts 100k competition. I also created and maintained the Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies department’s website to serve as a central hub of Tufts entrepreneurship and innovation on the web at <a href="http://tufts-ten.com">tufts-ten.com</a>.

Entrepreneurial Leadership Program Intern

The Tufts Entrepreneurs Society serves the Tufts community by maintaining the VentureLab, an incubator on campus, and building a more visible and active entrepreneurial community. In the past year, we have grown the incubator from 15 to 38 startups and created a network of over 70 mentors to advise and push our student ventures forward. I organized and ran office hours, coaching nights, pitch nights, and marketing campaigns while also consulting individual startups in the venture lab and connecting them with the resources they need.

Tufts Entrepreneurs Society

Co-Founder

Neelam Construction Corporation is located just outside of New York City and provides the New York Tri-State area with general contracting services. Over the course of the summer, I gained experience in running a successful small business and participated in the contracting industry decision-making process.

Shreenath Bhanderi

Shreenath Bhanderi