Som Nayak

MBA'20 · UNC KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL

From Bhubaneswar, India. Recently worked as Product Marketing Manager in Silicon Valley, CA. Worked 7 years in Project Management and Business Development in energy industry.
Currently pursuing full-time MBA at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Like to play video games & volley ball. Website designer. TV shows buff. Tech Geek.

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Experience

Product Marketing Manger Intern

Gamma Networks

Created SEO and social media strategy; defined user stories and product roadmap by conducting market research; developed product wireframes; developed automated one-click LinkedIn web crawler chrome extension to gather potential enterprise leads.

Summer 2019

Business Development Manager

AIV Inc

Founding member of Dubai office; managed P&L and devised go-to-market strategies for valve products; achieved 33% YoY sales growth; led negotiations and increased revenue share of new businesses by 30% in three years.

March 2014 - Jun 2018

Project Manager

Pentair

Collaborated with product engineering, quality, and 50+ international vendors; gathered customer data; built project roadmap and risk mitigation plans to deliver $25M+ projects in 2 years for world’s largest oil & gas fields.

July 2011 - March 2014

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School

Master of Business Administration

GMAT 730; Concentration in Marketing and Operations; Enrichment in Data, Digital Analysis and Technology

Vice President – Learning & Development of Blockchain Club, Active member of Business Technology Club

July 2018 - Present

National Institue of Technology Rourkela, India

Bachelor of Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

Played for university volleyball team for 4 years

Organized 4 multiplayer online games events involving 150+ players during annual technical festivals

July 2007 - May 2011

Projects

Website v1

April-Jun 2012

Hosted with Google App Engine & Google for Work (Gsuite)

Website v2

Mar-May 2014 (Unpublished)

Responsive one page website

Website v3

May-Jul 2016

Made light and dark theme versions
Frameworks: Bootstrap, Animate.css, Flexsider, Lightbox
Designed loader with CSS3 Animation - Check Codepen
Implemented formspree contact form
Moved DNS management to Cloudflare

Website v4

May-Jul 2017

Used Codepen.io for development work
Implemented website wide HTTPS
Focused mainly on reducing the size and fast loading by reducing number and minifying js and css files
Used Cloudflare CDNs; moved domain to Google Domains
Used Lazy Loading of images to further speed up loading

Website v4.6

v4.5: Aug 2018 - Upgraded to Bootstrap 4.1.3 and FontAwesome 5.3.1 - Redesigned Recommendations section - Completely revised content and photos - Numerous bug fixes
v4.5.1: 19 Mar 2019 - Upgraded to Bootstrap 4.3.1 and FontAwesome 5.7.2 - Updated Resume and Gallery
v4.6: 28 Jun 2019 - Hosted with Firebase

Website v5

Aug 2019

Mobile-first design. JS theme load (also follows OS/browser theme settings)
Image Sprite and load from DataURI

Toastmaster Magazines

Oct 2017 - Mar 2018

Designed quarterly and anmnual magazines for Dubai Toastmasters club and divison

Toastmaster Posters

Oct 2017 - Mar 2018

Designed posters for Dubai Toastmasters club and divison

Chrome Extension: Grow Your Professional Network

July 2019

Grow Your Professional Network - Know the people you need to connect to grow your network and unlock sales opportunities.
With this app, you can easily find out who are the 1st degree connections who can connect you to more people. It helps in reaching out target customers through 1st degree connections.

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