PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY    
 
HCL Technologies Ltd .  (April 2006  &ndash;   Till Date)    
13  years of IT  experience in  products innovation and digital service excellence    
 
   Experience  of  working   with  fortune  clients  like -   Johnson  Controls  Hitachi, 
UBS,  Lloyds  Bank - UK,  Elsevier -   US,  GE,  Quest  Diagnostics,  etc.   and 
M anaging  S takeholders   in  diverse geographies -   US, UK, APAC.  
 
 
   Agile  Product  Owner &ndash;   Extensive  e xperience  in  managing  Product  Backlog 
for  IOT products   via  D esign T hinking  A pproach   and   Digital Lean Principals.    
o   Managing  business  value s  and  prioritizations ,  EPIC&rsquo;s,  Features ,  U ser 
S tories ,  A cceptance  C riteria , release management.  
o   Stakeholder Management, Sprint Reviews, Product Backlog Refinement. , 
CI/ CD,   TDD.  
o   E xpertise  in  Requirements   M anagement   (BRDs,  PRDs,  FSDs,  SRS, 
NFRs),  Change Management , Cloud Strategy, Risk Managemen t.  
 
 
   Product  Manager   &ndash;   Extensive  e xperience  in  managing   S AAS   &amp;  IOT  based 
Web/ Mobile Apps Using  Azure DevOps /   C loud   based  software  platforms .   
o   Product  Roadmap ,  Market  Research,  Competitive  Benchmarking, 
Technological Trend Assessment and  Go - To - Market (GTM) strategy .  
o   S trategic  planning  for   managing   P roduct  L ifecycle   (PLM) ,  product 
platform selection &amp; its development ,  ability  to  develop  revenue   model .  
o   Product Release   &amp;  distribution   strategy ,  U ser  A cquisition /  E ngagement  
strategy ,  U ser  E ngagement  metrics,   m arketing &amp;  t raining Supports .  
 
 
   Certified  scrum  master  and  SAFe  4.6  Practitioner ,  experience   in  managing 
scrums, distributed agile, scrum  events , CFD, Burn - Up &amp; Burn Down   Charts .  
 
   Digital Transformation : Business  consultation   services to fortune  clients&rsquo;   area 
of  Digital technologies , IOT Apps,  DevOps  Cloud Platforms   and  BPM .  
 
   Experience in  D igital  Marketing Automation   &ndash;   Integrate CRM &rsquo;s   with marketing 
automation , Campaign Builder, Digital Advertising,  Marketo, Hub - spot.    
 
   Member  of  &lsquo;Disruptive  and   Transformational  Technologies&rsquo;   Centre  of 
Excellence ( CoE ).  
 
   Bid  Management/  Pre -   Sales   &ndash;   Rich  experience  in  managing  end  to  end  Bid 
response.  P rovide functional solutions in  RFP&rsquo;s/ RFI&rsquo;s   in digital technologies ,        
 
   Leadership  Role :  Experience  in  managing  large  team  of  product  owners , 
mentoring younger talents, pres entations to senior management.  
 
PROJECT TYPES    
 
   SaaS  based platform   using  subscription   model over Cloud.  
   IoT based Web/ Mobile Apps   on IOS &amp; Android.  
   Digital Interactive Voice AI &ndash;   Amazon Alexa, Google Home Projects  
   Azure DevOps , Azure  Cloud based App development/ Support  
   Magento   E - Commerce Platform  
 
TOOLS &amp; TECHNOLOGIES  
 
   Azure DevOps ,   Azure Cloud,  Magento , Digital Analytics ( Power BI, 
Tableau ), Hub -   Spot, Marketo,  MS Visio, BPMN 2.0   Process Modelling ,  
Pega 7.0, MS Project Plan,  JIRA and Confluence , Axure Prototype.  
 Master of Business Administration 
(Finance + Marketing)  
ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad  
2004 to   2006,  
 
Bachelor of Engineering 
(Chemical)   
Panjab Engg. College, Chandigarh   
1999 to 2003  VARUN MAROTHIA  
 
AGILE P RODUCT  OWNER   &ndash;   IOT/ SAAS  
Varun.marothia@gmail.com  
+91  9910091820  
HCL Technologies , Noida  
https:   //www.linkedin.com/in/varun -
marothia - 3410996/  
SKILLS  
EDUCATION  
 Product  Owner  &ndash;   Scrum/  Scaled Agile  
 
Product Manager  &ndash;   S AA S / IOT   Apps  
 
Azure DevOps /   Cloud  
 
Design Thinking   Approach  
 
Digital  Marketing Automation  
 
Digital Analytics  &ndash;   Descriptive/  Predictive  
DOMAINS/ METHODOLOGIES  
   IoT, SAAS,  E - Commerce -  
(Magento),   Digital   Marketing 
Automation ,  Retail -   Order to 
Cash ,  Industrial   Engineering -  
HVAC   (VRF, RAC) ,  E mergency 
Services (UK Policing)
 
   Azure  DevOps /  Cloud ,   CI/ CD , 
TDD, Pair Programming,  SAFe 
Agile, Scrum,   Kanban ,   Iterative, 
Waterfall

P rojects   Summary  
Product/ Project Name   Domain   Client Name/ Geography   Period  
RAC  Mobile App/ Alexa, Google 
Home App   IOT   &ndash;   Digital Transformation   Johnson Controls Hitachi, Japan   4 Months   
VRF Product Selection    Industrial Engineering  &ndash;   VRF   Johnson Controls Hitachi, Japan   12 Months   
Financial  Application Transition 
UBS   BFSI   UBS, Switzerland   16 Months   
Ops Application  Development   BFSI   Lloyds Bank, UK   17 Months  
CRM product Development   Compliance   Red Flag Group, Hong Kong   15 Months  
Automation of Order to Cash        Retail  &ndash;   Order to Cash;   
e -   Commerce   Southern Graphics System &ndash;   US   15 Months   
Exam Assessment Product   Publishing   Elsevier Inc.   23 Months   
IP Phone based application.   Healthcare   GE Healthcare, UK   3 Months   
Application Enhancement   Life Science   Quest Diagnostics, US   15 Months   
Mobile App Development   Emergency Services  &ndash;  
Policing   Wiltshire Police, UK   12 Months   
Mobile App Development   Emergency Services  &ndash;  
Policing   Hertfordshire Police, UK   12 Months   
 
 
Work Experience    
IoT based Mobile App for  VRF  Industrial  AC&rsquo;s/ Residential AC&rsquo;s         March 2019  &ndash;   Till Date  
( Johnson Controls Hitachi ,  China )  
 
Project Details -    
Undertook an embedded IOT project for JCH, Japan within &ldquo;Industrial Engineering  &ndash;   HVAC Domain&rdquo;. It involved 
developing a IOT based mobile application for their  Residential  air - conditioners at global level. The project involved IOT 
Mobile  App using Azure DevOps and Cloud platform, Hardware W i Fi Pairing with mobile app and ability to control full 
operations of AC units.   
 
Role  &ndash;   Senior  Product  Owner  
 
Responsibilities -  
   Product  AS IS Assessment  to manage communication between hardware and remote app.    
   Usability Study  &ndash;   Stakeholder Interviews, Affin ity mapping, Technology Trends assessment.  
   Product Owner  &ndash;   Agile based  Product backlog management,  Develop &amp; Prioritize user stories, Using Design 
Thinking approach &amp; DCO derived app requirements and documented the same, User story creations, Manage 
acceptance criteria&rsquo;s.   
   Product  Manager   -   Managed  region specific   program backlog   at global level , create d   product roadmap, 
involvement in defining strategy for User engagement,  product release management , managed user engagement 
metrics,  involvement in go - to - market plan, Product Launch  -   strategic planning to Tactical activities,  
   Release Management  &ndash;   Managin g overall releases to market, product version management, plan for usability 
testing, weekly status reporting to management.  
   Resource Management  &ndash;   Manage t eam of product owners (Approx.  5)   and mentor them   
 
Key Achievement&rsquo;s -  
   Successfully managed  program   backlog for 5  scrum teams   along with  feature  priority  
   Defined SAAS based revenue model.  
 
 
HVAC Product Selection Software                            March 201 8   &ndash;   Feb 2019  
( Johnson Controls Hitachi ,  Japan )  
 
Project Details -

Project targeted to develop Web , Desktop   &amp; Mobile  Software Product   for  HVAC  global  AC Equipment   selection that 
directly impact&rsquo;s their sales   Process .  Re - defining their customer&rsquo;s user experience, increase the bid win ratio and bring 
Hitachi brand among top 3 players globally were key drivers of  project.  
 
Role   &ndash; Product   Manager   cum Product Owner  
 
Responsibilities -  
   Senior Product  Owner   (Managing 5+ product  Owners )  
   Market Assessment of HVAC Software&rsquo;s,   
   P erform software&rsquo;s usability study across geographies,   
   Product Management  &ndash;   Competitive benchmarking with top 5 brands globally,  Asses  technology trends and  study 
m arket requirements,  p ropose a suitable  product  roadmap , g o to  m arket  p lan,  u ser engagement metrics,   p roduct 
d istribution  s trategy  
   Product  Owner   -   P roduct backlog management, Develop &amp; prioritize user stories,  acceptance criteria&rsquo;s, feature 
prioritization,  product release management,  Elicited  market requirements through primary research &amp; stakeholder 
interviews, create product  roadmap, product feature   study.  
   Release Management  &ndash;   Managing overall releases to market, product version management, plan for usability 
testing, weekly status reporting to management.  
 
Key Achievement&rsquo;s -  
   Successfully managed product backlog for  multiple   geographies along with region wise priority  
   Requirement Coverage  &ndash;   100%, Completeness &gt; 98%,   Leakage &lt; 2 %,  
 
 
 
Financial  Application Transition                            Nov   2016  &ndash;   Feb 2018  
( UBS Bank, Europe )  
 
Project Details -    
UBS had outsourced its apps transition projects to HCL. It involved managing application&rsquo;s transitions across geographies 
from either UBS intra - entity or external vendors. HCL took up whole transition project via apps risk management process 
and accordingl y validate the apps on - boarding to vendors or UBS  entity.    
 
Role   &ndash;   Application  Transition Manager (Head ed   team of 30+ Size across geographies)
 
Responsibilities -  
 
   Transition Management  &ndash;   Delivery of around 50 large transition projects per year .  Manage high level business 
function transition across geographies.   
   Application Analysis, perform risk assessment and get applications on - barded.  
   Transition   Governance -   Escalation Management, Steering committee meetings, Status reporting  
   Resource Managemen t  &ndash;   Business Analyst Resource   forecasting, Team handling, Rewards &amp; recognition, etc.  
   Deliver additional Value ideas and lead generation.  
 
Key Achievement&rsquo;s -  
   Successfully managed application transition projects of around 50 large transitions per year.  
   Successfully delivered L1 application with 100% risk assessment and on - boarding.  
   Generated value ideas of  scoping process   automation worth USD  28 K   
 
 
Application  Development                             June 2015   &ndash;   Oct   2016    
( Lloyds Bank, UK )  
 
Project Details -    
HCL was involved in HR process automation for Lloyd&rsquo;s bank in UK.   
 
Role   &ndash;   Product   Owner   cum Scrum Master  
 
Responsibilities -  
 
   Contribution in Agile Scrums in capacity of  Product Owner   cum  Scrum Master .  
   Product Backlog management,  Involvement in  Sprint  planning, Define User stories   and prioritize it , acceptance 
criteria  
   Product backlog prioritization ,  User Stories creation and define acceptance  criteria&rsquo;s .

   Manage scrum events, create burn down, burn up charts, CFD diagrams, facilitator for executing  scrums.  
   Involvement in  release management  
   Manage Stakeholder Escalations, product release.  
 
Key Achievement&rsquo;s -  
   Successfully managed product backlog for Lloyds operation area  
   Generated value ideas of process improvement worth USD 50K   
 
 
Development and  support of CRM product                         March 2014  &ndash;   May 2015  
( Red Flag Group , Hong Kong )  
 
Project Details -    
This project involved managing RFG&rsquo;s in - house CRM application from end to end. Team was responsible for managing 
product releases, enhancement and  support  
 
Role   &ndash;   Product Owner / Business Analyst  
 
Responsibilities -  
 
   Product  Owner   &ndash;   Managed product backlog, involvement in product life - cycle vision, feature prioritization, 
manage product releases.  
   Business Analyst  &ndash;   Managed business requirement, BRD/ FR D creation, process mapping using BPMN, 
managed team of BA&rsquo;s to guide in Process Modelling &amp; Requirement gathering   
   Along with above, also played role of engagement manager to help HCL deliver multiple projects smoothly and 
maintain client relationship.  
 
K ey Achievement&rsquo;s -  
   Standardization of business processes using BPMN  
   Automation of their risk assessment workflow  
 
 
Automation of Order to Cash                                        Nov   2012  &ndash;   Jan 2014  
( Southern Graphics System &ndash;   US )  
 
Project Details -    
This was a process re - engineering project involving integration &amp; automation of order to cash process at enterprise level. 
This involved sun - setting of legacy system AS/400 and utilize next - gen technologies for  bringing product  scalability &amp; 
efficiency   in  their order to cash management application.  
 
Role   &ndash;   Lead  Business Analyst   
 
Responsibilities -  
 
   Managed Business case deliverables   
   Integrated Enterprise level Order to Cash business process via common component based business processes.  
Integration of  multiple web - based apps with Microsoft Dynamics ERP  
   Requirement Management, gathering, documentation, use case modelling, Process modelling, Functional testing.  
   UAT Coordination, Coordination of production release.  
 
Key Achievement&rsquo;s -  
   Helped client in Sun  setting legacy AS 400 App, providing savings of 400 FTE&rsquo;s.