Sreeram Krishnan

Leading a large technology organization for Amazon India (Amazon.IN) in the areas of Selling Partner experience and B2B strategic initiatives.

Key Accomplishments: -Created an energized organization comprising of product technical program managers & directors - Established common cross-functional alignment for product launches across Engineering, Product management, UX, Operations, Business Development, Sales & Marketing aligning to product life-cycle model - Aligned execution to strategy and GTM plans through release planning, MVP, KPIs - Implemented project planning, tracking and oversight processes while also shifting engineering to a Balance Agile methodology to increase quality & product predictability. - Set up formal end to end product launch process including toll gates, deliverable templates, and measurement (KPI) models resulting in improved efficiencies of deliveries •Annual and quarter portfolio and release planning model was set up linking strategy to execution - Restructured executive program reviews with C-level CxO leadership team, enabling data-driven decision making -Lead Enterprise Agile transformation across the product lines resulting in reduced time to market from months to days and connecting strategy to execution •Managed the launch of various product lines for Yahoo! Worldwide - across Yahoo Commerce (Listings & Market places, Content to Commerce, Contextual Commerce, Social Commerce), Yahoo Small Business (PaaS), Yahoo Search and Global Media covering mobility and social media products •Direct the execution of technical product program management for Yahoo Global Media (Social media and platform) and Commerce with an annual revenue of 1 Billion $

- Built the team from scratch to grow to 125+ team, comprising of product program managers, engineers, architects and operations. Defined the product strategy, vision and multi-year roadmap for the digital e-commerce suite for one of the largest supply chain channel of Microsoft (revenue 20 Bn $ ). Managed product and technology roadmaps. Lead an engineering organization for digital e-commerce business. - Launched the digital e-commerce solution for Microsoft contributing to 50% increase in revenues from 15bn to 22 bn $ . - Established customer connect strategies to align strategy and roadmap to customer requirements - Managed team through significant changes such as transition from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum and organizational culture change to focus on quality. Established new and improved existing processes, tools, metrics, and reporting to maximize operational efficiencies. - Redesigned processes for responding to customer issues, reducing defect queue by 50% , number of escalations by 30%, and increasing customer NPS score from negative to +50%. - Demonstrated excellence cross-functional leadership across design, engineering, operations, business - Managed annual product portfolio of $ 30mn for end-to-end platforms and services for cloud platforms. Enriched technological capabilities for driving a self-service model which reduced platform on-boarding costs by 50%, leading to annual savings of $ 50mn (PaaS) - Managed launches of various cloud platforms PaaS - (ESB - Enterprise Service bus, Identify and Authorization, Master Data Management - customer analytics ) from product Inception through launch including defining product roadmap, vision and strategy. Managed product and technology roadmaps. - C-level product reviews with executive leadership teams for strategy, execution review and alignment

Managed product vision, roadmap and features for various enterprise products. 1. SharePoint Portal Server 2. Windows Developer Productivity tools (application lifecycle management) 3. MSN (Bing) Search - Handled both product management and program management efforts - Owned the cross functional engagement with UX Design, Usability, Legal,Engineering, Operations, Product marketing, Sales, BD, Customer Care - Conducted market research /customer site visits/customer study assessments to define the marker opportunity, product specifications, strategy - Authored product MRD, PRD and use cases - High level design architecture and functional specifications for the product lines - Managed the end to end launch of the products from Inception to delivery (schedule, risks, issues) - Tracked post launch metrics/KPIs for ongoing product enhancements - Incorporated customer feedback to drive backlog prioritization for the products across the BUs

-Devised strategy for application service provider hosting model (Application Service Provider) for Microsoft messaging platform on Exchange that resulted in enhanced sales in US mid-west region -Assisted sales teams in consulting assignments specific to knowledge management, enterprise application integration and messaging growing revenue in mid-west >$ 5mn

- Managed enterprise accounts in Asia Pacific for revenue more than 20 mn INR. - Designed, architected, implemented and technical program managed large enterprise customer engagements for Microsoft customers like BPCL, Kotak, Sundaram Finance, VSNL telecom on supporting back-office technologies, enterprise server products - SQL server, Internet products, Merchant solutions, Enterprise Messaging and Intranet - Pre-sale consulting to support sales ecosystem to bring in revenue of more than 1 mn INR - Provided enterprise architecture consulting to top 10 customers in Asia Pacific

- Managed enterprisewide ERP roll out for manufacturing, distribution and financials - Managed national communications hub for Unilever Asia - Pacific for enterprise wide messaging and collaboration on Lotus Notes - Analytics model design and implementation for manufacturing sites for business intelligence of ERP data

Application Development