SAFE Certified Agile Product Director, Entrepreneur, Strategist
Hello!
I'm Umang Shah
I’m a Product Director and Manager with a passion for design thinking, agile methods, and innovation using Data Science, AI and Machine Learning.
I bring over 19 years of professional experience, with over 10 years in leadership roles delivering products and services in the telecom, healthcare, urban-planning and government domains.
Product Management
5+ products designed, developed, and successfully brought to market
Product Strategy
Over 10 years in leadership roles managing product development and strategy
Innovation
I’ve built successful products and companies from the ground up and have set industry standards in the domains I’ve worked in
Leadership
I act as a data, analytics and product management subject matter expert on the teams I lead
Lived Experience
Ask Me About...
- My experience with Entrepreneurship
- Interesting experiences in my 19+ years working with Big Data Analytics and Visualization
- How I leverage Design Thinking to champion Customer Experience
- Why Market research and Competitive Benchmarking are key parts of my Business Strategy
- How I've managed Solution Delivery in local, national, and international markets
Product Spotlight
Localia @ RS21
Localia is a data-ready location intelligence platform that delivers insights for any area of interest across the US. Localia combines anonymized location data with social, health, climate and other determinants to help stakeholders understand utilization/visitation of public spaces.
Localia is built for use cases in Parks & Rec., Urban Planning, Economic Development, Healthcare Commercial Real Estate and Disaster Resilience.
Localia’s features include a customizable dashboard, ML based occupancy estimates, custom geofences, Interactive GIS maps, Filtering and Aggregation as well as an Automated Data pipeline and CI/CD.
Platform Spotlight
MOTHR @ RS21
Building and deploying AI/ML models takes 6-7 different highly paid experts working on a project for 6-9 months, and even after a large upfront capital investment, only 15-20% of AI solutions become viable products.
MOTHR is an AI Engine that allows RS21 to rapidly design, develop, deploy, manage, and scale robust AI/ML based products and solutions across a variety of environments in a repeatable way.
Platform Spotlight
CX @ RedMango
At RedMango Analytics, I led the development of a proprietary in-house big data analytics platform that:
- Helps drive action oriented data analysis
- Scales the use of data and analysis across the organization
- Automates business and decision making workflows
- Manages and improves customer experience
Umang brings a humble and thoughtful leadership approach to his teams. In every conversation he takes as much time is needed to hear his team’s ideas, work through questions and concerns, and ideate a path everyone is aligned with. He’s a great leader that I’d love to work with again any day.
Matt Makofske
Health Solutions Analyst @ RS21
Umang is also a gifted technical analyst and geospatial SME. I have personally seen him conduct a number of very technical analyses for our team across domains including health and healthcare, risk and resilience, location intelligence, and more—even under the most ambiguous of requests. Many of these involved data manipulation, data retrieval/prep, analysis and insights generation, and packaging into a final, presentable deliverable. I have learned a ton from Umang, and have barely scratched the surface here.
Stefany Goradia
VP of Healthlab @ RS21