PAVAN HUDEDAVAR

SR PRODUCT MANAGER

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 +919620511735 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr Product Manager, Risk & Payments
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 [email protected]
Western Union Money Transfers |
 Bangalore, India, IN
Product: Western Union goal of digital expansion by launching WU.com on web and app with purpose to
move money for better across all regions resulted in de-centralization of team and formation of focused
SUMMARY group at regional level.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Product Management:
Diligent Product Manager
Steering complete gamut of product management functions in Payment domain.
offering years of industry
Planning funds-in options such as Bank transfer, Cards payment, Wallet Payments for each country and
success, including product
its phases for country launch.
roadmap development, market
Optimization and enhancements opportunities with existing vendors for strengthening fraud detection
research and data analysis.
and minimizing fraud risk.
Highly skilled in identifying
Implemented Risk Strategies for WU+ Digital Bank across Europe
opportunities to maximize
Managed group of 5 member team which includes 3 Product owners and 2 data analysts.
revenue. Driven and strategic
Engage closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define a roadmap for the credit card & merchant
with proven history of
services businesses that meets business and consumer needs, while meeting critical deadlines and
superior market penetration
budget constraints
and product launch prowess.
Set product vision and lead road mapping, goal setting, story writing, project execution, and product
roll-out strategy
Enriched experience in
Work closely leadership on Risk and Fraud Strategy.
building product with strong
understanding of end-to-end
Key Achievements:
payment transaction process .
Risk Initiative for Card IO usecase:
Possess domain experience
The annual fraud loss due to chargeback on Credit/debit resulted in loss of 3 to 3.5mn loss.
in:
Implemented initiative where name on card is captured using scan option at Front end and is compared
Issuing - Debit, Prepaid
with profile name of sender using fuzzymatch for approval of transactions.
Acquiring - SWITCH,
Payment Gateway, ACS, Product Manager, Payments & KYC
Merchant Management HDFC BANK LTD |
System
Product: SmartBuy is a platform only for display of offers extended by Merchants to HDFC Bank's
Expertise in defining product
Customers.
roadmap entailing
functionalities that span across
Roles & Responsibilities:
8+ lines as well as high level for
leadership.
Leading the Product Management for SMARTBUY. This includes prod live products – KYC, Name
Aligning the engineering
Screening and Payments
efforts to roadmap,
Providing leadership and overall direction for Product Management, Strategy, Design and Releases, in
prioritizing book of work,
lieu of rapidly changing, highly competitive marketplace.
acquiring insights on
Monitor emerging trends, industry developments, regulatory change and security enhancements across
competitor products,
the mobile payments industry.
developing product
Translating complex functional and technical requirements into detailed software development sprint
positioning and pricing,
plans and release schedules. Keeping sales and other stakeholders informed of the release plans.
analyst connect to socialize
Engage clients through product demos, workshops and other touch-points.
efforts and obtain buy-in on
our direction.
Engaging in delivering Point of contact during development, implementation, and post go-live for queries, requests, or new
demonstrations and product requirements/ enhancements.
releases/launches, building Delivered product is validated with definition of ready and post successful demo, approve stories.
business cases for additional Managed a team of three product owners.
investments to build
functionalities and interfacing
with cross functional teams Key Achievements:
Identifying opportunities for
monetizing and Optimization for SMARTBUY product :
commercializing products with KYC was verified for SMARTBUY using DL and Passport earlier which resulted in verification success rate
appropriate contextualization, around 57%.
that may be required for the Implemented KYC verification using Aadhar(ID) and PAN(Credit rating) which resulted in increase of
same. successful verification by 15%.
Play a central role in aligning
Product Owner
the needs of business units
with the capabilities delivered
Oracle India Pvt Ltd. |
by IT and serve as a liaison Roles & Responsibilities:
between those groups
throughout the entire SDLC Developing product baselines; monitoring & controlling engineering efforts with respect to cost,
Collaborating with internal resource deployment, time overruns.
stakeholders to conceptualize, Driving business strategy & 'big picture' focus for the assigned business unit.
define and build additional use Articulated product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to development teams.
cases in Regulatory Responsible for acquiring, building and grooming talent to build successful product teams within the
Compliance group and also contribute to the organizational needs.
Strengths include strong Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with Scrum teams.
analytical thinking and Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
problem solving skills, strong Applied Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management
teamwork skills and ability to process.
handle projects independently,
ability to be detailed yet
Business Analyst
strategic and conceptual,
excellent interpersonal and
IBM India Pvt Ltd. |
communication skills. Roles & Responsibilities:

Creating and developing functional system requirements for improving performances, quality, external
KEY SKILLS
interfaces, and constraints
Checking and analyzing derived requirements that meet the customers’ requests
Product Management
Outlining specifications of the requirements using standard templates for both used cases and detailed
Team Management software
Monitoring the changes in baseline requirements through effective application of change control
Data Analytics
processes and tools
Solution Architecture
EDUCATION
Regulatory Compliance
B.E.( EEE )
Product Roadmap
Bangalore Institute Of Technology(VTU) ,VV PURAM BANGALORE | Bangalore
SQL Data Analysis

Oracle Scrum

agile development