United States

Program Management

Technical Product Management

Growth Product Management

Platform Product Management

Project Management

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Plus Two

Meena Surendranath, CSM (She/Her)

Product Owner

Public Speaking

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Customer service

Project management

Product roadmap

Youtube

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

GitHub

Glassdoor

Jira

Confluence

UserTesting

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Time management

Team player

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Community management

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Relationship management

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Partner with Account Executives and Account Technology Strategists of Marquee accounts(Citi, Bank of America) to deliver enterprise solutions that meet business objectives and achieve revenue goals.
●	Lead regular project meetings with 15+ attendees, discussing project status updates and managing project risk.
●	Plan and coordinate envisioning & opportunity pursuit, remove business and technical blockers (risk management) , Orchestrating stakeholders across account, partner and customer teams, aggregate visibility on program portfolio 
●	Contributing to 3-Cloud (Azure, Dynamics and 0365) Excellence, Billed Revenue, ACR, Active use and customer satisfaction
●	Contributing to account revenue by increasing ISV Co-Sell motion and partner engagement

Trail Techworks is a Vancouver based startup company that builds and operates the technology that powers Trail Appliances – Western Canada’s largest independent appliance retailer.
●      Documented critical operational scenarios and delivered training to team of 50 during UAT phase of project.
●	Implemented comprehensive management plan for each project including $100K SharePoint migration project.
●	Collaborated with cross-functional team to develop product lifecycle for digital tags and CRM roadmap worth $50K each.
●	Created technical specification and requirement specification documents for utilized by up to 100 end users.
●	Developed comprehensive E2E test cases at application and multi-application levels, resulting in optimal quality product.
●	Identified business trends utilizing real data, preparing and delivering analysis reports to 10+ employees including executives.

Environment: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Planner, Visio, Excel, Word, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, Jeegy, Magento

●	Collaborated with leaders and stakeholders across organization to deliver OEM projects including largest OEM project worth $50K.
●	Managed implementation of new products and services including Salesforce CRM with up to 300 end users.
●	Integrated legacy systems and new ERP/CRM systems for reporting purposes, resulting in 30% increase in efficiency.
⦁	Implemented system integration - Integrating legacy systems and new ERP/CRM systems for reporting purposes using Dell Boomi 
⦁	Monitored the on-going performance of new solutions and business process by measuring results, and verifying deployment effectiveness.
Environment: Salesforce, Skype for Business, Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Exchange

●	Managed end-to-end business, functional, and UI requirements for DOMO project, delivering translated business requirements into accurate system requirements specifications for use by 6 developers.
●	Translate business requirements into accurate system requirements specifications
●	Analyze, design and document departmental SDLC processes
●	Collaborate with Business Partners, Analysts, Developers ,stakeholders

●	Managed $100K budget, strategically allocating resources to optimize productivity.
●	Hired 3 employees and provided training on business analysis, project management, and resource allocation.
●	Developed and implemented process improvements including automatic testing to drive 20% efficiency gain.
●	Designed and launched secure messaging applications for website and mobile utilized by up to 150 end users.
●	Planned sprints and facilitated daily calls with 5 clients including Macys and NETGEAR.

●	Built relationships with global clients and technical teams to deliver projects worth up to $50K.
●	Led transition and change management activities for new time and attendance application solutions that improved attendance by 15%.
●	Directed Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with up to 8 participants, streamlining communication.
●	Prepared dataflow analysis using use cases as well as data flow diagrams, state diagrams, and activity diagrams, and presented information at sessions with up to 10 attendees.

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