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Summary
Product Manager with 9+ years of experience building AI-powered platforms, high-scale consumer products, and intelligent workflow automation across enterprise and consumer environments. Built a 0→1 GenAI platform that cut decision cycle time by 60% and grew MAU by 40%. Delivered a real-time ML platform serving 1M+ users at sub-500ms latency. Led a 3M+ account cloud migration with 99.9% uptime. Deep strengths across the full PM toolkit: product vision and roadmapping, customer discovery, A/B and multivariate experimentation, API and platform strategy, data pipeline design, AI/ML productization (LLMs, model monitoring, explainability), and GTM execution. Consistently translates ambiguous problems into shipped products that move the metric that matters — at any scale, in any domain.
Experience
Product Manager — Gen AI Workflow Platform
RBC Bank
Built 0→1 AI doc-intelligence platform; reduced decision cycle time 60%
- Launched a 0→1 AI document intelligence platform that automated high-stakes decision workflows across 3 business lines, reducing end-to-end cycle time by 60% and saving ~4,200 analyst hours annually.
- Built and defended a product vision and phased roadmap under heavy governance constraints, securing $1M in incremental funding by tying every milestone to measurable risk-reduction and efficiency outcomes.
- Co-designed an explainable ML decisioning layer with data science and governance teams, implementing real-time feedback loops and model monitoring that maintained 97%+ prediction reliability post-launch.
- Owned adoption OKRs across 3 LOBs; drove MAU up 40% through instrumentation, enablement playbooks, and targeted lifecycle campaigns that doubled 30-day active usage.
- Redesigned onboarding and in-app engagement journeys using segmentation and behavioural nudges, lifting feature engagement by 30% and reducing onboarding drop-off by 15% via A/B tested flows.
- Led end-to-end discovery and delivery: ran 25+ VOC sessions, authored PRDs with API contracts, and drove cross-functional alignment across engineering, UX, data science, and compliance.
Product Owner — Transaction & Compliance Platform
TD Bank
Shipped real-time ML decisioning platform serving 1M+ users
- Delivered a real-time ML-powered decisioning platform unifying data science, UX, and governance inputs, serving 1M+ users with sub-500ms latency and 15% improvement in detection accuracy.
- Integrated external behavioural and financial signals into decision workflows, increasing approval rates by 22% while simultaneously reducing risk exposure by 9%.
- Led 15+ A/B experiments across onboarding, dashboards, and notification flows, improving user engagement by 18%, conversion by 18%, and reducing churn by 12%.
- Modernized mission-critical transaction flows to meet evolving compliance standards, delivering full regulatory alignment with zero disruption to daily processing volumes.
- Revamped API documentation and sandbox environments, accelerating partner integrations by 40% and reducing developer onboarding time from 3 weeks to under 1 week.
- Defined and shipped a KPI monitoring framework with real-time dashboards tracking SLAs, model performance, and business outcomes across all decision flows.
Senior Product Analyst — Platform Modernization
Bell Canada
Migrated 3M+ accounts to cloud; achieved 99.9% uptime
- Led the migration of legacy billing infrastructure for 3M+ subscriber accounts to a cloud-native platform, achieving 99.8% billing accuracy, 99.9% uptime, and reducing manual adjustments by 70%.
- Drove reliability and scalability improvements that enabled the platform to handle 2× concurrent load during peak billing cycles without degradation.
- Revamped CRM-billing API integrations and developer onboarding flows, reducing integration time by 40% and cutting support tickets by 25%.
- Launched a self-serve billing portal that improved NPS by +14 points and reduced inbound support volume by 25% within 3 months of launch.
- Shipped in-app upgrade nudges and contextual prompts that lifted plan upgrade conversion by 10%; ran design sprints delivering 3 pilot-ready features in 2 months.
Product Analyst — Data & Insights
ATB Financial
Built real-time marketing dashboards; lifted CTR 12%
- Built real-time marketing insights dashboards that enabled personalized campaign targeting across 4 channels, increasing CTR by 12% and contributing to a 6% lift in MRR.
- Architected a centralized data lake enabling self-serve analytics for 5 cross-functional teams, reducing ad-hoc data request turnaround from 5 days to under 4 hours.
- Diagnosed funnel bottlenecks using cohort and drop-off analysis; redesigned the signup flow improving conversion by 8% and reducing time-to-activation by 20%.
GenAI & Product Highlights
Predictive Risk Scoring & GenAI Intelligence
- Built a predictive + explainable risk scoring product integrated with origination workflows, reducing loan defaults by 8% and saving ~$2M in annual write-offs.
- Led transaction API redesign that improved throughput by 3× and accelerated partner adoption by 35%, contributing to $1.2M in new integration revenue.
- Prototyped a GenAI Risk Intelligence tool that extracts and synthesizes signals from structured + unstructured documents, reducing analyst review time by 45%.
- Designed an LLM Prompt Evaluation interface enabling non-technical reviewers to test and refine prompts; shipped an ethics dashboard surfacing fairness metrics and model drift indicators.
Education
Post-Graduate, Business Analytics
Sep 2020 – Mar 2021Seneca College — Toronto, ON
Post-Graduate, Global Business Management
Jan 2020 – Aug 2020Conestoga College — Kitchener, ON
B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
SRM University — Chennai, India
Certifications
SAFe Agilist (Scaled Agile) | Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 (Microsoft) | CSPO (Scrum Alliance) | CBAP — In Progress (IIBA)