About

Alok Dave is a seasoned Product Owner/Manager and Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience building on-premise and SaaS Cloud services in the Digital Compliance, Information Governance, and Information Management domain. He has worked with industry-leading products like Enterprise Vault, eDiscovery Platform, and Enterprise Vault Cloud. Alok's skills span across business, products, domain, and automation. He is proficient in customer/market research, requirements analysis, value proposition, user experience, stakeholder management, product strategy, customer success, agile development, release management, test planning, backlog grooming, and product strategy. He has expertise in products such as Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Enterprise Vault, Veritas Enterprise Vault.Cloud, Veritas eDiscovery Platform (Clearwell), Veritas Data Insight, Veritas Information Classifier, Compliance Accelerator, Discovery Accelerator, MS Azure, MS Exchange, MS SQL, and storage devices. His domain expertise includes messaging, archiving, eDiscovery, compliance, backup/recovery, information governance, data classification, data retention, and data management. He is also skilled in automation tools such as Service Virtualization, API Automation, Micro Service, Parasoft, and SuperTest. Currently, Alok is working as a Product Owner/Sr. Engineering Manager at Veritas. In his previous role as a Product Owner at Symantec, he was responsible for the core module of Microsoft Exchange Archiving in Enterprise Vault product. He was a member of the founding team for Agile Methodology roll-out in the Engineering Team. He researched and wrote 100+ user stories, mapped the journey, pain-points of user personas, and managed feature planning, prioritization, and road map planning. He partnered with the UX team to build a prototype, ran a persona-based workshop to get feedback, defined the MVPs, KPIs, and success metrics of multiple features across product releases. He also delivered 60+ hours of classroom training for support engineers and sales teams. He led QA activities of 5 major/10 minor releases for 2 different products and ran customer-facing POCs/Demo, helping pre-sales team in cross-sell/up-sell opportunities. He won 10+ awards from stakeholders for demonstrating a customer-first mindset, action, and execution. Alok holds an Executive MBA in Product Management from the Institute of Product Leadership, a Post Graduate Diploma in Advance Computing from IACSD, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from Dr. Bab