Dinesh Kumar Awasthi- Skype:dkawasthi
Product Manager with 14+ years of experience in online presentation sharing and e-learning domains. For last 7+
years I’ve worked to build great SaaS products that grew to multimillion
Core competencies
users and multimillion dollar revenue. Working in a startup environment
has honed my Product Management skills by giving me immense
opportunity to be innovative, experimental and take smart & quick
decisions.
Product Management
Product Roadmap
Go-to-market strategy
An individual with willingness to learn new technologies and domains, I
Customer empathy
always strive for excellence and love to deliver features that are great on
Cross-Functional Leadership
user experience, add to revenue and more importantly solve a user
Strategic planning
problem.
Competitive analysis
Analytical Rigor
Skill Summary
Product Sense
Detail oriented
Product Planning
Adsense expert
AdSense & DFP
Inquisitive
Google Webmaster
Cohort analysis
Decisive
Lead generation
Google analytics
Manage Prioritization
Facebook Ads
Requirements gathering
Wire-framing
User stories, Persona
SEO
Blogging
SMM
Agile Scrum
Professional Experience
Director & Head of Products- Xornor Technologies
Responsible for overall business, outsourcing, clients, operations. Handle Product
Management, Digital marketing for clients as well in house products.
Sr. Product Manager, WizIQ (PLM for Virtual Classroom, Content & WiziQ Recordor)
WizIQ is a SaaS platform enabling trainers and educators to deliver self-paced,
live online and blended learning with more than 1 billion minutes of learning
delivered. Virtual classroom is a live conferencing tool with whiteboard, chat,
document and screen sharing being used by teachers around the globe to deliver
more than 2 million minutes of learning per month. WiziQ Recordor is a PowerPoint
add-in that helps educators create video lectures.
● Successfully launched WizIQ Recordor (MS Windows 8 certified software)
with more than 3000 downloads within a month.
● Increased content upload by more than 100% by integrating Filepicker
which allows import from cloud services
● Delivered white labeled mobile apps of virtual classroom that contribute 10%
of monthly revenue
Sr. Product Manager, authorSTREAM.com
authorSTREAM is a PowerPoint sharing platform with more than 6 Million
registered users.
● Leading Product, support and marketing teams
● Successfully launched SaaS model which increased revenue by 40%
● Successfully implemented SPAM algorithm which resulted in 90% reduction
in spam content
● Launched a Facebook App which has more than 300,000 installations
● Got authorSTREAM embeds enabled on Twitter and Facebook timeline
● Successfully launched mobile website which increased Ad revenue by 30%
● Launched world’s first presentation Templates Marketplace with more than
60,000 templates and diagrams
● Launched a free PowerPoint add-in with more than 200,000 installation
● Successfully launched an iPad app which enabled PowerPoint presentations
on iPad
● Leading product management of in-house conversion engine that handles
back end PowerPoint/Keynote/PDF to Flash/video/HTML conversions
● Doubled the number of uploads by allowing import from G-Drive, Box and
Dropbox.
Education
B.Sc. (Mathematics), Himachal Pradesh University -)
National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) -)
MCA, Kurukshetra University -)
MBA (PGDM) from IMT Ghaziabad
CSTE, QAI (2008)
Languages and tools
C++, Visual Basic, HTML, MS SQL server, ASP .net (some), Flash (some)
Balsamiq, Trac, JIRA, TFS, Visio, MS Excel
