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FALGUNI JESRANI

Senior Product Manager
Dubai,UAE

Summary

Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 17+ years of industry success, including product roadmap development, market research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch ability.

Overview

6
6
years of post-secondary education
16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

PRODUCT MANAGER

Mindware FZ LLC
Dubai, Middle-East
2017.10 - Current
  • Managing product distribution lifecycle for our Enterprise & SMB channel partners across MENA region for Juniper Networks & Sandvine portfolio, +$13mil revenue .
  • Build business plan for channel growth strategy for VAR's, provide enablement sessions and reviewing performance across region
  • Leading relationships with regional sales teams driving revenue growth, fulfillment of MBO's for continued growth in line with their objectives.
  • Retained 70%+ market share by actively monitoring competition, enabling new channel partnerships, and innovative marketing initiatives to realize maximum profitability.
  • Conducting quarterly business reviews with executive management for reviewing QoQ achievements & key performance objectives with vendor pool.
  • Improved operational efficiency up by 25% resulting satisfactory order management experience for channel partners.

SENIOR MANAGER - DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Visionaire FZE
Dubai, Middle-East
2013.03 - 2016.04
  • Spearheaded a challenging turn-key ICT project at Rabdan Academy -Tawazun, finalist at ICT Innovation awards (Channel Middle East) & Integration awards (Commercial Integrator).
  • Managed business relationships along with technology deployments for Government, Corporate & Education segments, $50Mil+ revenue over 5 years
  • Through e ffective cost reductions and operational improvements translated key customer needs into fit for purpose products & solutions.
  • Managed multiple, large-scale projects across 15+ sites simultaneously within GCC.

CHIEF PROGRAM MANAGER

Visionaire FZE
Dubai, Middle-East
2010.10 - 2013.05
  • Delivered an international award winning Green Data Center
    powering 55 campus buildings , built on Tier 3 standards for a
    project cost of $35Mil .
  • Executed 150+ ICT RFP's successfully with a team of subject matter experts underpinned by best of breed solutions.
  • Identified & managed sales opportunities through onsite/offsite demonstrations, client presentations and launching solutions through governance.
  • Collaborated with Business Development & Solution Architect teams to deliver favorable results in line with client expectation.
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.

Senior Solution Architect

Visionaire FZE
Dubai, Middle-East
2007.05 - 2010.10
  • Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution . Namely from vendors listed below:

ICT Infrastructure & Security - HP, Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Brocade, Huawei
Server, Storage & Backup - Huawei, EMC, HP, DELL, Fujitsu, NetApp, Symantec
Virtualization Technologies - VMWare, Citrix, Microsoft
Audio Visual Technologies - SMART, Crestron, Scala, Samsung, NEC, LG, RGB, Dexon, SHARP, QSC, BiAmp, Exterity etc

  • Successfully delivered projects inclusive of Gigabit wired/wireless networks, NAS/SAN, HPC Grid Computing 8.5 Teraflops .
  • Interfaced with cross-functional team of business analysts, developers and technical support professionals to determine comprehensive list of requirement specifications for new applications.
  • Conducted post-sale requirements gathering, analysis , and documentation.

SYSTEM INTEGRATION & QA ENGINEER

NOKIA Siemens Networks, FCCI contracting
Dubai, UAE
2006.06 - 2007.05
  • Executed Network quality analysis for DU Telecom project including implementation of 2G & 3G networks for Northern Eastern Emirates region.
  • Successfully deployed pilot phase of Digital Video Broadcast project over mobile devices project at Nokia did for Etisalat .
  • Implemented DVB-H system within UAE based Data center supported by Multimedia team from Finland wherein I managed HP-Unix Database Application servers running Nokia Broadcast Management systems, IPE Manager & Encoders which were streaming live content.

PROJECT ENGINEER

IMTAC Technologies LLC Oman & Dubai, UAE
Oman, Middle-East
2004.01 - 2006.05
  • 97% success rate in timely Service Desk ticket closures within 1st level for Tier 1 clients such as UNICEF, Tawoos Group & PDO.
  • Lead end to end implementation, operational training, & management for LAN/WAN network service, 24x7 data center operation, application systems, web internet operations with HP and Cisco infrastructure for various clients in Oman.
  • From February 2006, deputed in Dubai - IMTAC Technologies LLC to execute the Emirates airlines T3 Data center project & Maintenance of remote networks at Baku & Kazakhstan , with central control in UAE.
  • Supported leaders throughout decision-making and launch by providing regular compliance reports to drive process improvement and corrective measures.

Education

Masters of International Business - BUSINESS

University Of Wollongong
Dubai
2006.02 - 2008.10

Bachelor of Computer Engineering - ENGINEERING

Cummins College of Engineering(University of Pune)
Pune, India
1999.09 - 2003.06

Skills

    Research and trend analysis

Strategic Planning

Business Development

Product development

Business administration

Marketing and advertising

Timeline

PRODUCT MANAGER

Mindware FZ LLC
2017.10 - Current

SENIOR MANAGER - DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Visionaire FZE
2013.03 - 2016.04

CHIEF PROGRAM MANAGER

Visionaire FZE
2010.10 - 2013.05

Senior Solution Architect

Visionaire FZE
2007.05 - 2010.10

SYSTEM INTEGRATION & QA ENGINEER

NOKIA Siemens Networks, FCCI contracting
2006.06 - 2007.05

Masters of International Business - BUSINESS

University Of Wollongong
2006.02 - 2008.10

PROJECT ENGINEER

IMTAC Technologies LLC Oman & Dubai, UAE
2004.01 - 2006.05

Bachelor of Computer Engineering - ENGINEERING

Cummins College of Engineering(University of Pune)
1999.09 - 2003.06
FALGUNI JESRANISenior Product Manager