Overview
Work History
Skills
EDUCATION
Certification
Extras
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SABYASACHI NAYAK

SABYASACHI NAYAK

Seattle,WA

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification

Work History

Sr. PM

Amazon (AWS)
01.2022 - 08.2024
  • Led the AWS infra org from ideation to launch & execution of supply chain risk identification products.
  • Owned the high impact sub-tier BOM (bill of materials) collection roadmap for AWS datacenter racks.
  • Improved BOM coverage from 4% to 100% in < 15 months while reducing supplier on-boarding time by 25%.
  • Hired, mentored & coached a new team of 2 Sr. PMs, 2 PMs and 3 analysts.
  • Defined product success metrics (OKRs)/KPIs & developed monitoring dashboards (using SQL | Excel | QuickSight) for leadership to monitor NPI products’ risk score, supplier performance & overall visibility.
  • Presented product status report & proposed process improvements to leadership (SVP) each month.
  • Partnered & negotiated with AWS suppliers / OEM to introduce new processes & improve data quality.
  • Built the vision, long term strategy, & roadmap for a risk identification product. This involved requirement gathering from stakeholders, prioritization based on business impact, research, team identification, documentation & proposal to senior leadership, driving the team towards building and launching. This product enabled AWS to identify 700% new risk instances in Q1’24 compared to 2023.
  • Identified gaps in product by monitoring performance & supplier feedback. Partnered with HW engineering, supply chain & legal to address gaps & add features. Improved product adoption by 5x (3 to 18 suppliers).

Engineering Operations (Sr PM)

Qualcomm
08.2017 - 01.2022
  • Owned the company’s internal prototype HW operations (budget, supply planning, demand/forecast & tools).
  • Drove multiple flagship lineups, operating in parallel (S15MM+ budget each), catering to 10,000+ engineers across the globe in a fast, complex, & cross-functional env. Built and led a team of 2 PMs and 3 analysts.
  • Collaborated with leadership, engineers & factory/CMs to normalize demand & supply; ensuring engineering demands (devices & spares) are timely fulfilled to achieve business milestones between NPI & launch.
  • Developed leadership monitoring dashboards & tools around demand, supply, inventory, KPIs etc. (Excel | ERP | PowerBI | Sharepoint). The forecast tool reduced demand collection effort by 72% (80 to 22 hrs).
  • Analyzed historical data to identify patterns & introduced org wide processes (from concept to launch).
  • Conducted financial analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize supply chain costs that directly improved the bottom line of the company: A geo-driven manufacturing process that saves $ 4.7MM annually in logistics and improved average shipping time of prototype hardware by 40% (15 days to 9 days).
  • Optimized HW demand via stakeholder negotiation, saved > $11MM+ in HW expenses in FY21
  • Used Kinaxis Rapid Response. Recognized with multiple honors including spot awards and Qualstars.

Tech. PM (MBA Internship)

Intuit
06.2016 - 09.2016
  • Analyzed product requirements from leadership, helped prioritize features, defined high level technical requirements, standardized capacity planning, co-authored HLDR & guided teams prioritize work.
  • Enabled the entire BU (67 engineering teams) transition from Waterfall model to Agile.
  • Helped team breakdown features into stories and epics.

Principal (lead) Engineer

Motorola Solutions
01.2011 - 01.2015
  • Controlled the engineering customer interface for a walky-talky product - hired & managed a customer interface team of 7 engineers, serving customers in 17 countries.
  • Managed a product test team, of 16 engineers, that delivered 99.1% error-free product (improved from 92% for the previous version). Received several recognitions including 2 Moments Award.

Sr. Software Engineer

Alcatel Lucent & Infosys
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Gathered requirement from customer and authored design documents (HLDR, LLDR), & test plans.
  • Dev, test & consult (shell | PERL | UNIX | Proviso); Skip-level promoted
  • Designed and implemented test strategies. Worked as the pilot Scrum master for the org.

Skills

  • PDLC
  • Product road-mapping
  • Process improvement
  • SDLC (Waterfall; Agile)
  • Agile, Lean, JIT
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Demand & Inventory Management
  • Advanced Excel
  • SQL
  • Power query
  • Power BI; QuickSight; Tableau
  • Reporting & dashboarding
  • Sharepoint; Infopath
  • MRP / ERP (Kinaxis Rapid Response)

EDUCATION

MBA, UC San Diego, 2015 – 2017

  • GMAT: 760; GPA: 3.62
  • MIT Analytical Supply Chain Sim-Comp 2017 (World #5 out of 521)
  • University appointed Innovation Fellow (management consultant) to help local startups with market research, segmentation, go-to-market strategies, hypothesis, regression and A/B testing, etc.

Harvard Business School: Business Analytics & Economics.


BE, EEE, MIT Manipal, 2003 – 2007

· Winner: Brain of MIT, Manipal

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • AI essentials (Deeplearning.ai)
  • GenAI with LLM (AWS)
  • ML specialization (Stanford)

Extras

  • Member of MENSA International (IQ 162); Regional Math Olympiad # 14, CAT 99.71%le, XAT 99.83%le
  • Helped 20+ aspirants ace competitive exams.
  • Creativity outlet through paintings and photography
  • 9-ball billiards - Nationals; Cricket – Nationals; Handball – State

Timeline

Sr. PM

Amazon (AWS)
01.2022 - 08.2024

Engineering Operations (Sr PM)

Qualcomm
08.2017 - 01.2022

Tech. PM (MBA Internship)

Intuit
06.2016 - 09.2016

Principal (lead) Engineer

Motorola Solutions
01.2011 - 01.2015

Sr. Software Engineer

Alcatel Lucent & Infosys
01.2007 - 01.2011
SABYASACHI NAYAK