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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SuiteX-PM2 @ Office Web Growth | OPG | a11y Advocate | Polyglot

  • Education

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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      Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering 3.89/4

      Scholarship: RIT Merit Scholarship recipient & Selected as Graduate Delegate- Dept of Software Engg- Commencement-2020.Leadership:Founded ‘Tiger Strips’ program at RIT to promote & model leadership within the context of 16 community service & outreach events.Leadership: Co-founded ‘RIT Product pals’ & conducted 8 product workshops to help rally & build a community of 40+ product enthusiasts at RIT.Leadership: Served as VP-External affairs on RIT Newman… Show more Scholarship: RIT Merit Scholarship recipient & Selected as Graduate Delegate- Dept of Software Engg- Commencement-2020.Leadership:Founded ‘Tiger Strips’ program at RIT to promote & model leadership within the context of 16 community service & outreach events.Leadership: Co-founded ‘RIT Product pals’ & conducted 8 product workshops to help rally & build a community of 40+ product enthusiasts at RIT.Leadership: Served as VP-External affairs on RIT Newman E-board & developed programming to foster multi-cultural faith based relationships.Volunteerism: Organized 10 food donation drives & fundraised $3k for ‘Relay for Life’ by selling baked goods as a ‘Knights of Columbus’ member. Show less

    • University of Mumbai

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      Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science

  • Experience

    • CakeFactor

      Apr 2014 - Jul 2018
      Founder and Owner

      • Bootstrapped & founded an all organic cake baking studio with an $80 initial investment and grew client base to 250+ clients.• Individually designed, baked and sold over 420 cakes including 21 catered wedding cakes.• Designed 4 programs in baking & icing and conducted workshops for cohorts of upto 6 individuals to provide hands on experience.• Pioneered marketing campaign to rebrand programs, resulting in 125% quarterly profit growth (over $13,500).

    • Stellar Value Chain Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

      Jun 2017 - Sept 2017
      Supply Chain Engineer (Product Management)

      • Increased sales lead generation by 7% by building an ‘ROI-Estimator’ API & integrating within CRM.• Saved $1.8M by automating HR processes by customizing & integrating ‘Zoho Recruit’ across internal career page & 4 job boards.• Incentivized User Acceptance of ‘Zoho Mail’ and Zoho ‘Cliq’ by 85% by holding weekly product workshops and providing support.• Spearheaded 15% increase in IT Consulting by conducting technical product demonstrations & guided product selection.

    • Doordarshan Kendra

      Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
      Product Manager

      • Piloted time savings of 5.25 workhours by designing & launching an enterprise wide cloud based news production system on AWS.• Saved $2.7M in licensing fees by influencing Sr. Leadership to develop product in-house with a detailed business case and a MVP.• Achieved 97% of product goals cross functionally w/ engineering, design & business by creating, prioritizing product roadmap in JIRA.• Designed 3 iterative prototypes using Figma to optimize UX to solve target user’s painpoints as identified by user personas. Show less

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

      Oct 2019 - Jun 2020

      • Designed, developed an NLP tool to generate stopword lists using Python, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy & SQL from software artifacts.• Improved stopword detection efficiency by 45% by combining POS-Tagging & TF-IDF & sourced artifacts by creating a web scraper. • Saved $10,450 USD by defining & tracking OKRs & KPIs on interactive dashboards created using Pivot tables, PowerBI & Tableau.• Increased user session length by 22% on department Website by reducing page load time by 35 sec.• Maximised information accessibility by designing & developing ‘Connect’ & ‘People’ pages using Drupal, HTML5, CSS.

      • Software Engineering Research Assistant

        Aug 2018 - Jun 2020

      • Graduate Assistant (Technical Program Manager)

        Oct 2019 - May 2020

    • Catholic Newman Community at RIT

      Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
      Software Engineer (Frontend)

      • Amplified a 13% reduction in bounce rate on the website by incorporating responsive web design principles & redesigning UX.

    • EY

      Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
      Product & Technology Strategy

      • Optimized UX by 17% by storyboarding vaccination experience for the largest US Pharmacy chain as part of ‘Operation Warp Speed’.• Aligned end to end product strategy by moderating 4 ‘Think Tank’ sessions across leadership, customers and field teams.• Developed 3 automation frameworks using Power Automate to optimize product operations by 25% & support product strategy.• Drove 35% increase in positive Immunizer experience by facilitating detailed product walkthroughs for 150+ nationwide Pharmacists.• Accelerated business stakeholder buy in less than 16 workhours by creating detailed wireframes for 4 role specific product features.• Expedited 30% decrease in onboarding time by co-authoring a ‘New team member orientation & operational onboarding playbook. Show less

    • Microsoft

      Apr 2022 - now
      Product Manager 2

      Building Loop Components for the hybrid world and bringing your favorite Productivity Suite (Office) to Loop!

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Shimon J.
      Graduate Delegate-Department of Software Engineering-Commencement 2020 Rochester Institute of Technology May 2020 Was chosen to represent the department of Software Engineering at RIT as the Graduate Delegate for the Commencement 2020 Ceremonies.
    • Awarded to Shimon J.
      RIT Merit Scholarship Rochester Institute of Technology Aug 2018 Received a 65% Academic merit scholarship from RIT.
    • Awarded to Shimon J.
      Best Final Year Project - PCube Fr.C Rodrigues institute of Technology Feb 2017
    • Awarded to Shimon J.
      Top 15 Teams PAN INDIA Eyantra-IIT Bombay 2017 Was selected within Top 15 teams all over India for the ‘Puzzle Solver’ Robotic Theme at Eyantra Robotics Competition
    • Awarded to Shimon J.
      Best Summer Project Fr.C.Rodrigues Institute of Technology May 2015

  • Volunteer Experience

    • PM Mentor + Volunteer

      Issued by The Product Management Center at UW on Sept 2021
      The Product Management Center at UWAssociated with Shimon J.

    • Teacher

      Issued by Microsoft TEALS Program on Jul 2020
      Microsoft TEALS ProgramAssociated with Shimon J.

    • Conversation Volunteer

      Issued by Rochester Institute of Technology on Sept 2018
      Rochester Institute of TechnologyAssociated with Shimon J.