SWAROOP
ALWAR
Product Manager
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An experienced professional aiming for senior level assignments in
Product Management/ Project Management with an organization of
repute.
Work History
2017-07 -
Product Manager
Current
London Stock Exchange/Refinitiv, London
Bengaluru, Karnataka
• Built new product features like role-based news
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source suggestions, Company Significant news,
Phone
deduplication, Refinitiv Digest, etc. using Agile
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methodologies.
• Owned and managed products like Significant
E-mail
Developments, Thematic News Pages, and role-
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based suggested Lists.
• Created product/content roadmaps in
Skills
collaboration with business and strategy teams
for Reuters news.
Product Management
• Maintained and updated key documents like
sales aid, content factsheet and glossary, user
Upper intermediate
guides etc. for internal and external clients.
Project Management
• Reduced product managers’ response time for
client service requests by pioneering first e-
Upper intermediate
Content Management
Upper intermediate
Business Analysis
Business Strategy
Intermediate
Content Strategy
Upper intermediate
learning course on News on desktop.
2005-03 –
Content Manager
2017-07
London Stock Exchange/Refinitiv, Bengaluru
• Instrumental in cost savings of ~$100K through
content integration and automation.
• Handled multiple content sets like Significant
Developments, Officers & Directors, Descriptions,
Competitors & Weblinks.
• Collaborated with business and technical teams
to define requirements and implement innovative
solutions that meet corporate goals/create new
business opportunities.
• Generated key project documents such as
JIRA
requirement specs, functional specs, test cases,
Intermediate
and data and process models.
Confluence
Upper intermediate
ServiceNow
Products Handled
• Significant Developments: Concise descriptions
Intermediate
and tagging of crucial market-moving events
provided in near real time through desktop and
feed products.
• Thematic News Applications: News oriented
Languages
pages in Refinitiv Eikon/Workspace that are
focused on key events like Ukraine war, COVID-
English, Kannada, Hindi,
19, BREXIT, Elections, etc. happening around the
Tamil, Telugu
world.
• Role-based Suggested Sources: Suggest most
valuable sources for clients based on their user
profiles, asset classes or geographies.
Projects Handled
• News Significance: Introduced news Significance
tagging for Company news and later for other
categories like Fixed Income, Forex,
Commodities, Politics, etc. to enable customers
discover signal in the noise.
• Website Aggregation: On-boarded web
aggregated content from over 3000 sources to
Refinitiv platform to improve our news offering.
• News Discovery: Improved discovery of News on
Eikon by enhancing the quality of underlying
metadata maintained by multiple content teams.
• Green Belt Project for Capacity Planning:
Followed STEP approach unlike the usual DMAIC
approach. Reduced the lead time involved in
capturing corporate officers' data. The project
resulted in annual savings of around $44,000.
Tools Used
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Tableau
• ServiceNow
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Education
2002-06 -
MBA- Finance
2004-03
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi
(SSSIHL) -, Andhra Pradesh
GPA: 4.40
1999-03 -
B.Com.
2002-03
SSSIHL, Brindavan, Bangalore - Bangalore, Karnataka
GPA: 4.44
Accomplishments
• Received award for curation and launch of
COVID-19 App on Eikon/Workspace, 2020
• Won the Early Bird Prize and Best Idea award for
innovation across Thomson Reuters India, 2009
• Received the Bangalore Site Award for FAST
values.
• Nominated for Reuters Wall of Fame for Q4, 2007
Professional Enhancements
• Green Belt Six-Sigma Program
• Business Analysis Training
• Project Management Training
B1 B2 Visa/ Canada Visa
Yes
