Nipun Tandon ntandon504@gmail.

com, +1-857-919-1665
IIT Bombay BTech, Cornell University - Executive Program in Management
Exec MBA UCLA (2022-2024)[Weekend Blended Program]

Data literate Certified Product Manager/ Agile Product Owner/ Scrum Master specializing in Education
Technology, Retail Business having a Strong Entrepreneurial Mindset with proven experience in leading large
Scrum Teams - both in person and remote. Co-founded 2 startups, channelled business growth from USD500k to
USD3MM. Managed 2 prominent unicorns leading them to client database increase from 4000 to 200K.

Professional Summary
 Experienced Product Owner with topnotch implementation and project management abilities. Highly
organized, methodical, and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across multiple teams.
 Extensive hand-on experience on Agile/Scrum development model with managing Product Backlog, Daily
Stand-up Meeting/Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review Meeting, User Story Grooming, etc

 Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders.

 Experienced in using Agile Project Management tools such as JIRA + Confluence.
 Experienced in successfully performing Scrum Ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standups, reviews,
retrospectives).
 Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities.
 Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.

Academic

 UCLA – ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT – EXEC MBA (2022-2024) [WEEKEND PROGRAM]

 CORNELL UNIVERSITY - JOHNSON BUSINESS SCHOOL Executive Program in Management (EPM)

 STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, ALBANY, NY - Masters of Science in Nanoengineering

 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (I.I.T.) BOMBAY B.Tech. & M. Tech. - Materials Engineering

Skills

JIRA & Confluence Software Team Leadership Supply Chain

Service Now Interpersonal skills Market research & trend analysis
Power BI, Tableau Agile / Scrum Methodologies Cross-functional teams
Google Analytics Product Roadmaps Market & Competitor Research
Advance Excel, SQL Product Lifecycle Management Definition of Ready (DOR)
Python, Machine Learning Offshore Team Handling
Definition of Done (DOD)

Certifications & Technical Skills

Scrum Alliance: Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe - POPM (under progress)
COURSERA: Python, Tableau, SQL, Machine Learning, A/B Testing, etc.
Udemy: Product Management, PowerBI

Professional Experience
EUROFINS GENOMICS LLC, KY, USA
International leader in scientific testing. Winner of USD 30MM funding by Dept of Air Force, USA.
Project Manager/ Product Owner, (OCT 2021-TILL DATE)

 Automated the labelling effort, in turn increasing efficiency accuracy and addressed client pain point of
faster turn-around.
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Exec MBA UCLA (2022-2024)[Weekend Blended Program]

 Delivered Supply Chain and Operations engagements at clients.

 Tracked and maintained KPIs related to procurement, order accuracy, order fulfillment and quality
assurance.
 Held brainstorming sessions to increase value of product.
 Headed daily scrum meetings, planning, reviews, retrospectives focussed to achieving outcomes, meeting
quality standards and deadlines.
 Handled task with the Offshore Team based in Bangalore, India
 Acted as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) liaising between research, technology, sales team.
 Instrumental in winning ~10% more orders leading to increased revenue.
 Wrote training manuals, updated SOPs and created new dashboards in PowerBI
 Updated RAID Log, created specific SMART Goals and led teams to achieve them.
 Weekly presentations to the Steering Committee focussed on project progress, issues and seeking direction
CISCO – KY, US (FEB 2020 – SEP 21)
Product Owner/ Scrum Master

 Created and owned user stories and product backlog. Defined product road map, product backlog timeline
and sprint timeline with team specific velocity.
 Organized Daily Scrum stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retrospectives
and efficiently time-boxed the events.
 Supported the execution of the Configuration Management (CMDB) process to ensure the consistent with
the ITSM strategy, global process goals and ensure coordination with all other IT processes (Change
Management and Incident Management).
 Provided daily support of Service Management Platform (ServiceNow), including Configuration, Integration,
Customization, Scripting, Azure, DevOps, Administration ServiceNow processes.
 Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong commitment, decision making, conflict
resolution and transparency among cross functional team members.
 Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into spring planning sessions. Successfully acted
as an agile coach and mentor for team members.
 Assisted team in self-management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burndown chart,
impediments list.
 Implemented Issues Tracking in Version One to effectively track impediments against user stories.
 Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
 Helping team in self-management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burndown chart,
impediments list.
 Prepared extensive cost - benefit analysis and buy or make analysis to support development and process
change requests.
 Ensure data security and governance, network access and keep the backup up to date.
 Maintaining and updating information systems so that they operate efficiently.
 Implemented/improved backup system ensuring corporate information availability
 Evaluating technology risks in order to develop a network & data disaster recovery plan and backup
procedures.

LAKSHYA EDUCARE – MUMBAI (JAN 2019 – FEB 2020)

Product Owner

 Instrumental in complete product roadmap for new product launch and detailed restructuring of the
enterprise.
 Initiated Market research team, drew surveys, formulated plans for creation and development of web based
Software as a Service (SaaS)
 Documented detailed requirements, wrote epics & user stories. Presided over Definition of Done.
 Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint
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Exec MBA UCLA (2022-2024)[Weekend Blended Program]

retrospectives.
 Facilitated requirement discussion with internal/external clients, stakeholders, Scrum Master and
development team

 Present user stories and Sprint backlog items (PBI) during Sprint planning; set user story points, work on T-
shirt sizing; clarify the scope for the Sprint and set up goals, test plans and delivery plans etc; make sure
each team member understand his/her tickets for the coming Sprint.

 Conduct Product Backlog refinement with the Scrum team to clarify user stories, define Sprint
backlog/scope, resolving impediments and estimate User Story Points/Efforts.

 Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities and providing backlog management, iteration
planning, and elaboration of the user stories

 Worked with Digital Marketing & Data Analytics Team to define Go-to-Market strategies for 3 different
regions on areas like improving sales, market penetration of services and corporate partnerships, improved
bottomline by 10 %.

 Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

 Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile
methodologies.

 Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for bi-weekly sprint releases.

 Employed Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to promote and ensure better hit ratio for products
 Led the development for another SaaS product to enable students to check their test solving ability and
immediate search of possible solutions towards incorrect questions.
 Employed individuals to work on Google Analytics for our process, that led to building new features and
increased engagement and conversion.
 Implemented my developmental model with the Dubai Center leading to 15% increased revenue.

FIITJEE (JAN 2015 – DEC 18)

Product Manager
One of the key National players in the multi-billion dollar Test Prep Industry, (70 centers across India & Middle
East), with over 5000 employees and an annual turnover of USD 66M.
 Implemented Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery real time as a process.
 Well versed in application development challenges in Android, iOS, Windows platform.
 Core application development in Python, experienced in API layering the application to make it compatible.
 Detailed discussion and handholding for multiple cross functional teams and matching stakeholder
expectation to development team goals.
 Wrote multiple FRDs (Functional Requirement Documents) and implemented A/B experiments to improve
conversion rate by 8%
 Planned and executed referral program for active customers, leading to loyalty customer increase of more
than 12000 participants.
 Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities and providing backlog management, iteration
planning, and elaboration of the user stories

 Worked with the Data Analytics team using Python & SQL to derive specific and meaningful outcomes for
student score improvisation. Achievement - All India Rank 13 (out of 1.1 million candidates).
 Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

 Built Power BI Dashboards, drew data from JIRA and Confluence and explained presentations as interesting
storytelling than powerpoint.
 Led a team of 8 developers, 10 testers, improved UX measures by 20% through increased user feedback.
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Exec MBA UCLA (2022-2024)[Weekend Blended Program]

 Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to
productivity.

 Collaborated with other product owners, team members, functional managers, development teams and
other scrum masters to ensure tracking of the common goal and brainstorm ideas.

 Managed MyPat (digital learning platform) to incorporate advanced digital practices, leading to effective
outcomes for clients.
 Reduced development cost by 25% by creating a plan to merge related products
 Played a key role in multiple franchisee tie-ups in B2B model, leading to year on year revenue increase of
USD2M.
 Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
 Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including
knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features.
 Gather stakeholder business requirements, determine and communicate product vision, prioritize product
features.
EMBIBE – MUMBAI, BANGALORE (JAN 2007 – DEC 14)
Most advanced AI powered Test Prep Platform. A subsidiary of Reliance Group, the biggest Industry House in
India. Current Evaluation is over 1 Billion USD.
Product Owner/ Scrum Master
 Spearheaded entire content development process for competitive exams like JEE, BITSAT (equivalent to SAT,
ACT).
 Led sprint reviews and daily scrums to realize full team engagement.
 Managed supply chain by Designing a process map for the test series and ensured that efficient flow of
information.
 Achieved 90% accuracy in the supply chain efficiency for smooth flow of development process.
 Lead a team of 20 members (including 2 scrum masters, and development team).
 Used Agile methodology, actively engaging with customers to remove customer pain points, developed the
product for user database of 40K.
 Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

 Reduced the auto-correct error rate from 9.5% to less than 3%.
 Conducted detailed research on similar Tests in China (Gaokao) and Brazil (ENEM).
 Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities and providing backlog management, iteration
planning, and elaboration of the user stories

 Partnered with other teams like Marketing, Data Analytics, Student Engagement etc. to offer Scrum
Increments.
 Joined at seed stage, saw the company grow though Series-A funding and my contribution led to obtaining
Series-B funding. Eventually, the company made a very successful exit
 Actively engaged with stakeholders to remove customer pain points.
 Played a leading role to develop a B2B model in partnering with major educational societies in the State of
Maharashtra. Obtained recurring projects worth INR Rs 2 crore for 6 years.
 Organized meetings & ensured both business parties and engineering’s involvements.
 Identify the business objectives, develop and implement a business strategy on projects
 Anticipates upstream and downstream impacts of the project and works with internal business groups to
adjust business tools and practices in order to support new features and functionality
PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS - MUMBAI (JULY 2003 – NOV 04)
Software Engineer
 Managed the GE Aircraft Engines project. Maintained and updated data using SQL.
 Maintained a business application using Oracle(Finacials) for GE Plastics (global Apps).
 Managed the GE Plastics project including - General ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Order
Entry.
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IIT Bombay BTech, Cornell University - Executive Program in Management
Exec MBA UCLA (2022-2024)[Weekend Blended Program]

 Completed training in C, Oracle 8i, Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica, HTML, VB Script, ASP and Unix.
Awards
Embibe Technology Champion
FIITJEE Excellence Award