Product Management Leader with a track record of driving revenue at scale — $30M+ annual revenue lifts via funnel optimization and experimentation at SeaWorld, 700K app downloads and $10B in client growth at Prudential, and 1M to 35M users at AccuWeather. Focused on consumer eCommerce, mobile, voice, and connected platforms. MBA from Penn State Smeal College of Business.
Experience
Director, Product Management — SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment
Large-scale consumer eCommerce platform spanning 12 park websites and driving hundreds of millions in annual ticketing revenue
- Drove $20M+ annual revenue increase by identifying drop-off points across the purchase funnel and deploying a structured experimentation program to optimize product pages, cart, and checkout flows.
- Increased customer satisfaction scores from 4.0 to 6.0 (+50%) by leading a user-centric redesign across 12 high-traffic consumer websites, addressing usability, findability, and clarity.
- Drove ~$10M in incremental annual revenue by improving site performance — cutting page load times by 15%, accelerating key user actions by 44%, and reducing checkout failure rates from ~20% to 6%.
- Generated $3–5M in incremental revenue by building and executing an SEO growth strategy that increased qualified organic traffic through technical optimization, content prioritization, and search intent alignment.
- Drove higher business impact across five specialized teams (product, engineering, experimentation, content, SEO) by enforcing shared prioritization and focusing capacity on the highest-ROI initiatives.
- Won 2 industry awards: UX excellence and experimentation-driven growth practices.
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Product Manager, Digital Product Development — Prudential Financial
Fortune 100 financial services company; regulated retirement & investment platforms
- Led the launch of Prudential Retirement’s first consumer-facing mobile app, retaining $350M in AUM while contributing to $10B in new client asset growth.
- Reversed poor app performance, increasing ratings from 1.8 to 4.8, driving 700K downloads and sustaining 100K monthly active users through product improvements and go-to-market execution.
- Pioneered the retirement industry’s first authenticated Amazon Alexa experience, earning external innovation awards and expanding secure, voice-based account access.
- Modernized retirement account management and transactional workflows by rebuilding core features with a mobile-first and accessibility-driven approach.
- Founded internal usability testing practice; oversaw $6M+ annual product development budget.
- Won Prudential Business Value Award for Innovation (2018).
Senior Product Manager — AccuWeather
Global consumer mobile platform with 35M+ users and multi-channel advertising revenue
- Led the strategy and launch of 25+ mobile products over three years, redesigning core app experiences to drive a 150% increase in advertising revenue, contributing ~$10M in incremental annual revenue.
- Scaled mobile apps to category leadership — improving ratings from 3.0 to 4.4 across 500K+ reviews, growing the user base from 1M to 35M, and increasing retention to 10M+ monthly active users.
- Generated $1M profit from paid app model over three years.
- Achieved #1 search result for “weather”, ranked #2 among 500+ weather apps on Google Play.
- Launched across Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Amazon, Nokia, Connected TVs, and wearables.
- Won W3 Silver Awards for Design (2013, 2014).
Student Consultant — AccuWeather
- Conducted product and market research while completing MBA; contributed to mobile strategy.
Lead Software Engineer — Various Companies
- Earlier career in software engineering across multiple companies before transitioning to product management.
Education
MBA, Marketing — Penn State Smeal College of Business
2011
Bachelor of Engineering, Telecommunication — PESIT, Bangalore
2003
Skills
- Product strategy & prioritization
- Experimentation & A/B testing
- Conversion & funnel optimization
- Consumer mobile
- Web & eCommerce
- Voice (Alexa)
- Connected TV
- Analytics & data-driven decisions
- User research & usability
- SEO & performance optimization
- OKRs
- Agile / Scrum
- Cross-functional leadership
- Vendor management
Awards
- Industry Award for UX Excellence (2024)
- Industry Award for Experimentation-Driven Growth (2023)
- Prudential Business Value Award for Innovation (2018)
- W3 Silver Award for Design (2014)
- W3 Silver Award for Design (2013)
Writing
The Lens — Newsletter on product management: prioritization, metrics, OKRs, and engineering partnerships. 11 editions, 2020–2021.