Harish Hoon Application PackageHoon Harish V
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1017 Meridian Ave, Apt 2B Miami Beach
Home Address City
FL 33139
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5402308082
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harish.hoon@gmail.com
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HARISH HOON
harish.hoon@gmail.com | +1 (540) 230-8082
A mission driven, customer focused product manager who is passionate about leveraging technology and design to ship great products.
Successfully built and led product and technology teams to deliver business results. A proven track record of executing in faced-paced,
chaotic environments with compressed timelines and limited resources.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Product Lifecycle Management Agile Software Development User Experience Design
Strategy & Planning Technical Project Management Process Improvement
Product Marketing Marketing Technology Business & Data Analytics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CHEWY 2017 – 2021
Director of Marketing Product & Tech (2018 – 2021)
• Built a team of 16 product managers, data engineers and software developers to build and manage the ever-expanding
capabilities needed by marketing across targeting, execution and analytics to fuel Chewy’s growth.
• Saved $19MM through a reduction in customer acquisition costs (-$1.5/new customer) achieved by putting in place key
components of our marketing technology stack and driving their adoption.
• Rapidly iterated on our product roadmap through the company’s IPO and accelerated growth during the pandemic. Balancing
short and long-term priorities with input from our marketers, finance and c-suite.
Sr. Product Manager, Digital Marketing (2017 – 2018)
• Saved $3MM through initiatives that improved campaign targeting and execution. These initial savings justified an accelerated
investment in technology to support marketing efforts.
• Developed a 3-year product roadmap for a technology stack that would enable our marketers to efficiently scale the $400MM
program responsible for the company’s growth.
• Delivered on key roadmap initiatives that expanded the program’s reach through new channels, such as affiliates, connected TV
and mobile app marketing which in their first year brought in 100K new customers and $6MM in revenue to Chewy.
NIELSEN 2011 – 2016
Product Manager (2014 – 2016)
• Partnered with innovative startups in the retail industry to gain deeper insight into a shopper’s path through purchase and help
our manufacturing and retail clients better understand shopper behavior in a multi-channel retail world.
• Oversaw testing of commercialization opportunities with a leader in the in-store analytics space, entering into a commercial
agreement, coordinating global sales teams, and pursuing 15 total opportunities in four months.
• Led a client discovery initiative to help our product team transition to a user-centered product development process;
interviewed clients and created six personas articulating product features critical to retail, along with a playbook for the future.
Business Process Improvement (BPI) Program (2011 – 2014)
• Saved a $1.5M Facebook funded marketing program by implementing key processes that resulted in an 80% reduction in
program related issues between Nielsen and Facebook.
• Improved on-time client delivery for Nielsen’s premier product by working with engineering to reduce issues related to a data
feed from Facebook by 45%.
• Generated $60K annual recurring revenue for Nielsen and identified considerable time savings for the Disney Kid’s analytics
team, allowing them to focus more on value-added tasks.
PWC ADVISORY 2009 – 2011
Associate
Client: Leading Security Company
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• Provided strategic recommendations to the senior leadership team on the current state of enterprise mobility; advised on ways
the organization and service teams could further realize benefits using mobile devices in the field.
• Consulted the company through a make vs. buy analysis, coming to a decision on a platform that would enable the quick
deployment of applications for various mobile devices.
Client: Large Brokerage Firm
• Liaison between the operations Integration PMO, Client Services, and Margins groups; managed change, mitigated risks, and
advised senior management throughout program execution.
• Mobilized the operations integration office to improve management of program-wide issues, risk, dependencies, and resources
for one of the largest post-merger integration programs in financial services industry.
Client: Global Payments Firm
• Identified substantial cost savings opportunities by developing a sourcing opportunity qualifying framework.
• Improved cost efficiency by performing a competitor analysis and developing a targeted sourcing strategy for operations and IT
functions of a global payments company.
BLUE SLATE SOLUTIONS 2008 – 2009
Business Consultant
Client: Government Benefits Administrator
• Executed a $1.4M process improvement program for the customer service group that reduced costs, improved customer
service, and increased productivity through the automation of manual touch points using workflow technologies.
• Built the company’s project portfolio by working with different groups within the business to identify and analyze key metrics
relevant to their strategic goals and developing initiatives around them.
• Formulated and led cross-functional project teams comprised of top performers from consulting, client resources, and vendors.
GENERAL ELECTRIC 2005 – 2008
Project Leader, Plastics’ Divestiture (2007 – 2008)
• Developed the strategic IT roadmap for the HR group during a split form a parent company, including divestiture initiatives and
the formation of a new HR IT operations group consisting of 40 global applications.
• Led the most challenging initiative as part of the divestiture, which included changing the company’s time management system
used to pay 3,000+ hourly employees; completed in less than six weeks.
Information Management Leadership Program (2005 – 2007)
• Completed the Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP), a 2-year program for high-potential top performers from
across the organization with goal of providing them with management experience to take on leadership roles.
• Collaborated with schedulers, planners, and sourcing managers to design the new order fulfillment and tactical planning process
for GE’s Plastics European business valued at $1.9B.
• Increased promise data accuracy from 42% to 90%, leading to significantly better customer service and improved cash flow
through a $17.1M reduction in on-hand inventory.
• Saved $120K annually by leading a cross-functional team that addressed a faulty recipe calculation process that caused 30,000+
lbs. of reject material to be shipped from the second largest US plant to customers each year.
• Designed the global application security model using Sun’s Identity Manager; led an award-winning team of 14 direct reports to
execute the strategy that ensured compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) IT standards.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
SOCLIVITY 2011 – 2014
Co-Founder
• Established the startup to get people to engage more with others in the real world; released a consumer focused mobile
application for iOS (Beagle) that made it easier for friends to ideate, plan, and collaborate.
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• Launched the beta program and gained 300+ users in NYC through our product marketing efforts, maintaining a high
engagement rate of 25% of users logging in every day.
• Played the leading role in bringing the product to life, identifying and prioritizing product features based on user
feedback/ideas, the technology landscape, and the company’s strategic vision.
• Designed the user experience from functional wireframes to pixel perfect screen mockups; built out the team, recruiting, hiring,
and collaborating with engineering to develop the iOS application and Ruby on Rails web service APIs.
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Project Management Professional (PMP, 2011-2014), Project Management Institute
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Nielsen
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, General Electric