Tapan Nayak

• Drive product architecture & development of leading K12 education ERP solutions. • Orchestrate initiatives of agile practices, cross-functional collaboration & requirement fine-tuning. • Drive innovation projects, initiatives to fill product gaps, & new solutions from conceptualization to planning & product launch. • Product management of 3 Engineering led innovation projects. • Hire, mentor & coach managers and leads to nurture a culture of high performance, stability, and cohesiveness in & across teams.

Formalized an MVP through ideation sessions, development planning, requirements gathering & UxD for a product to solve the skill, behavior & personality fitment for a job through game-based evaluation, knowledge graph & AI. • Spearheaded a lead generation engine and productization of repeatable solutions for a successful Analytic start-up. • Developed product roadmap, go-to-market plan, technology & growth strategy for a dispensing technology start-up. • Advised a Club aggregator start-up in growth hack.

Streamlined operations, IP development, delivery and customer success with full responsibility of B2C & B2B customers of an E-learning market leader resulting in NPS jump from 29 to 60. • Formulated a culture of customer focus through cross-functional leadership, management of AVPs, Directors, managers, and general oversight of 140 employees. Decreased operational cost by 11% through consolidation of business operations of B2B and B2C delivery, streamlining budget and spending.

Founded and led a B2C business around information consumption, which attempted to serve over 100K consumers through a digital bulletin board. • Built a powerful SaaS product & mobile app which simplified information consumption through interest-based intelligent filters and AI-driven behavioral decision-making, powered by underlying data acquisition and analytics engine. • Led all responsibilities of strategic planning, product management, product development, & user experience design & complete business

Directed product management, engineering and software release management for a Higher Education ERP, Finance & HR modules. Established a culture to adopt a higher degree of automation, focus on quality release and embrace DevOps by developing automation & application lifecycle management tools. Engineered simplification of next-generation cloud ERP adoption through out-of-the-box solutions. Implemented DevOps and drove automation.