Northern Kentucky University - Computer Science
Product Management at Samsung Electronics America
Consumer Electronics
Raj Kiran
Akula
Mountain View, California
Experienced Product Management leader with a demonstrated history of working in advertising, consumer goods, finance, healthcare, and technology firms.
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science - College of Informatics
First graduate student to teach 2nd year undergraduate course.
Taught class sizes of 20-40 students Java, Object Oriented Programming II.
Principal Product Manager
Developing a Product Roadmap for end to end campaign planning tool, that manages $2B+ in yearly sales.
Includes:
Integrating with different ad platforms, upstream, downstream system for sellers and account managers to plan advertising campaigns and generate one IO or contract for a sale in one unified system.
Defining and creating new feature sets that help drive efficiency for operations, finance, sellers, and account managers.
Product Management
Raj worked at Samsung Electronics America as a Product Management
Director of Product Management
Revamped entire dev team (15 USA and 6 Manila head count) by establishing an agile development methodology and upgrading existing talent with new skill sets(training and hiring).
Created a new pricing strategy for our payment services and products using a value based approach versus a traditional cost plus strategy; presented results to the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer.
Finance Manager
Built business case to increase investments in developing online sales for the Family Care Category which accounted for 1% YOY sales growth for the category.
Identified intervention tactics at Club Retailers to ease sales declines and created an action plan that reversed the trend.
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Economics, Finance, and Strategy
Master of Science (M.S.)
Computer Science
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Mathematics and Computer Science
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science - College of Informatics
First graduate student to teach 2nd year undergraduate course.
Taught class sizes of 20-40 students Java, Object Oriented Programming II.
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