About

Himanshu Ahuja is an accomplished, committed and creative manager with over 15 years of experience in successfully delivering IT products and projects. He has worked with both Fortune 500 companies such as Google and boutique firms such as NBCUniversal, Mattel, Orbitz, WSJ, and others. Himanshu has a strong client-facing and client-management experience, with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management. Himanshu has handled multi-million-dollar projects with a prime focus on UX, product roadmap, solving actual problems, customer and team success, creative systematic solutions, proposing and implementing Agile practices. In the last few years, he has successfully managed, mentored, and led a cross-functional team of QA, Data and Business Analytics, and Business Intelligence team members, and reduced staff turnover to 0. He has also managed time, cost, and schedule for ongoing and pilot projects. Himanshu has worked closely with counterparts in Senior Product Management and other Senior Project Managers to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap. He has administered Agile/Scrum processes, including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives while coaching team members on the Agile process. Himanshu has successfully led an initiative to introduce Scrum to Product/Project department for over 5 projects in Product and Engagement (Support) department, increased client base/revenue with new offerings in Analytics, Data Visualization, and Product Support. Himanshu has conducted sessions, interviews, questionnaires, and on-site workshops with 50+ attendees/stakeholders and being the voice of the customer, provided valuable insights and translated user needs into Business Requirements and Use cases, User Stories, Epics, and Features. He has ensured successful product delivery by providing subject matter expertise, guidance, and post-production support, that increased engagement by over 300% Q/Q and reduced queries by 200% Q/Q in Agile-led projects benchmarked against non-Agile projects. Himanshu has increased product adoption rate by over 60% within the first 3 months with extended training and engaging lessons. He is responsible for customer success, maintaining a strong business relationship, and successful project delivery with high-profile clients such as Google, NBCU, Mattel, NHL, NFL, Rogers, The Wall Street Journal, Dun & Bradstreet, Orbitz - ebookers, HotelClub, and RatestoGo. Himanshu Ahuja