Yashwanth R K

0 to 1 Entrepreneurial Journey; Built ZenPro, Up-skilling and Re-skilling business unit at Zenius to be one of the top training providers in Indonesia. Owned Inception, P&L, Product, Design, Content, Partnerships and hiring. - Established ZenPro as one of the top Skilling players in Indonesia. Net positive business; - >$8M in revenues - >50% growth in ARPU H1 vs H2 - 10x growth in People

At Simplilearn.com, a global ed-tech company into Up-skilling and Re-skilling, I was responsible for Platform and Learning Experience Products across Consumer and Enterprise Businesses. I led the product management team to build and iterate on products that deliver effective learning outcomes for our learners. Achievements: - Pivoted business into Cohort based Learning Programs from Flexi-Pass classes for better outcomes and completion rates of >75% - Built a new Engagement platform from grounds-up for conducting Online classes that provided learner insights, enabling onboarding of trainers, teaching assistants and effective learning delivery in Classes - Built Universal onboarding experience across product offerings to decrease time taken for onboarding learners by 65% - Built Platform capabilities ( APIs, Framework ) that enabled delivery of Simplilearn Courses on third party LMS enabling >2M revenue yoy - Built Integrated Lab experience as part of Learning pedagogy that enabled tech categories to grow over 100% yoy - Reduced Lab costs by 70% by work across Partners and adopting new technologies - Redesigned the learning environment to align towards Simplilearn’s Blended learning delivery model ~30% increase in project submissions - Built Engagement, Journey Automation by identifying user events that enabled us to setup engagement campaigns, gain deeper analytics on learner behavior, decreased inactive learners by 38% - Built accessibility features on the platform features - WCAG accessibility - Improved average course ratings by 10% by UX changes

Start4me was built as a platform for People to realize their Startup Dreams. We worked with Founders right from the idea stage to market; Idea feasibility, Key Metrics, deciding MVP features and Providing tech at a minimal cost to build the MVP. We worked with more than 8 Startups. I set up the company in India from Scratch and was responsible for Design, Product, Delivery, Operations, HR and recruitment.

Coinfan's mission is to provide everyone in the world with the habitat where they can find, learn, share and grow around the blockchain. Coinfan garnered over 400k+ views within 4 months of launch.

I advised FarmerFriend on Business Strategy, Vision, Growth models, Organisational Framework, Pitching, Hiring and Expansion. FarmerFriend was founded as an initiative to address plethora of problems faced by farmers including Farmer suicides, exploitation by middlemen, unfair pricing, illiteracy, lack of transparency in trade, readiness for changing global dynamics, challenges for sustainable development. The Vision was to create an empowering Framework for Farmer's to raise their voice, get best price for their produce, learn, share by leveraging ICT tools. www.facebook.com/beingfarmerfriend for more information.

Transitioned from Bank of America Merrill Lynch to Hewlett Packard - Worked to Create new process and Streamline Backup and Data related activities on Backup Management System, the Central point of access for all Backup related activities - Status check, new requests, Backup Analysis, migrations, reports etc - Worked on Improvement Initiatives by analysing Backup Success and Failure rates across regions - Worked with Stakeholders, Cross-functional Operations Teams, Developers for Business Critical Server Certifications including Quality, Compliance, risk mitigation, failover mechanisms

- Worked to create requirements, process maps, prototyping, designing docs of Knowledge Management Portal MVP for Employee Skill retainment/tracking/Management/Training within the organisation - Worked in Global Strategic Operations and Backup Team Analysing, Managing data, Standardising servers of different flavours of OS’s handling tens of Peta bytes of data/day - Developed a script for Backup Auditing to Reduce Man hours taken by 99.8% and increasing throughput by 400% per Month for >30000 Servers, eventually fully automating the process - Using Six Sigma techniques, Led of team of 18, including Senior management and Team Leads at various levels of organisation across the Globe as Stakeholders to build Backup Health Monitor System ( Six Sigma Green Belt Project) - Created a new process for Streamlining and reducing time taken to lookup backup Status, customised reports, reducing the time taken by upto 99%, used by critical Lines of Businesses across Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Structured and Established a new process to lookup Backup requirements, using lookup and parsing techniques of >50,000 Backup requests from hitherto broken processes and legacy Systems from acquisitions. Worked to Create a new portal, with a UI/UX friendly process to create new/manage/track/approve Backup requests - Participated in Transition Analysis of Merrill Lynch Servers, Standardisation and Migration of Merrill Lynch Servers into Bank of America Environment

Studied Various aspects of systems and modules of Kiran, Jaguar and Mirage Aircrafts, Inventory, Supply Chain Management, Information Management Systems at HAL