United Kingdom

Generalist Product Management

Platform Product Management

Front-end

Project Management

UX Testing

UX Research

Service Design Research

Hardware Design

MSc - Master of Science

Bachelor's Degree

Shreyas Prakash

Product Manager

Problem-solving

Time management

Project management

Asana

Bubble

Figma

Framer

Adobe Creative Suite

Linear

My role involves:
- Leading a cross-functional team of designers, engineers, medical, and delivery experts to build products that our users want and love.
- Driving ideation, strategy, and product execution. 
- Utilizing design, technology, and business insights to develop roadmaps and prioritizing feature development.
- Learning best practices to build digital solutions for public healthcare.
- Developing go-to-market and expansion strategies across India, Bangladesh and Indonesia
            

    
    

    
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Provided strategic consultancy for companies using various design tools such as user journey mapping, customer research, stakeholder analysis, brand identity etc

Previously:
■ Service design for better B2B customer experiences - Company (Konica Minolta)
■  Improving Feedback Response Rates for Surveys - Company (De Goudse)
■  Adoption of Plant Based Snacks in EMEA regions - Company (Lamb Weston)
■  Market penetration strategy for mashed potatoes in elderly care homes - Company (Lamb Weston)
            

    
    

    
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Healthcare based startup developing sterilising solutions for preventing hospital-acquired infections.  We have developed an AI-based UV-C  steriliser for elevators that automatically adapts to the environment and makes it pathogen-free.

■ Product Leadership roles in a team consisting of 4 product designers/engineers and led a team of three technicians.
■ Concept Development and Embodiment Design of UVfy after identifying the key problem of infections in hospitals.
■ Responsible for development of pitches for raising investment and involved in business model strategy
■ Developed a funnel to improve product features by collecting insights from primary market research, user testing and validation.
■ A/B testing of various growth initiatives to improve customer experience.
■ Scaled the product from 0 to seven hospitals across India as our early adopters
            

    
    

    
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Silly Stompers is a modular toy helping pre-schoolers (age 3-5 years old) spark interest in robotics using the medium of soft robotics. 

Concept Development Project that explores gender-accessible STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) education of pre-schoolers and was done in partnership with Applied Labs, TU Delft.

■ Conducted 4 design tests with 15 pre-schoolers to iterate and improve the concept despite lockdown in Netherlands
■  Plan and conduct user research activities to improve the usability of 
■ Advanced Prototyping techniques for the design of silicon based soft robotic toys
            

    
    

    
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Equarun helps deafblind people in safe, comfortable long distance running.

■ Design improvement from TRL0 to TRL7 Embodiment matching needs of all the important stakeholders (manufacturing partners, client, end users)
■ Responsible for the design of the circuit board which included the haptic interface making the sports device compact and user friendly
■ Conf. publication at the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Denmark (pending) on diverse teams could improve outcomes using dialogues
■ Concept Development through observation studies on deaf blind runners
■ Design Management Role in a team of 5 product designers, responsible for executing design tests, solving embodiment challenges and electronics architecture
            

    
    

    
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dCode WunderMind is an educational toy that helping children aged 6 to 9 to learn coding concepts, through a completely screen free and tactile interface. 

■ Featured as one amongst 30 semi-finalists of Philips Innovation Award 2018 among 500+ startups
■ Responsible for the Functionality Design which included detailing the embedded systems, identifying sensors easier for children to play with
■ Gained insights through co-creation sessions with 20+ children over a period of 6 months to design the product
■ Formulated vision, analysed user trends and market potential of screen-free coding and charted the product roadmap
            

    
    

    
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d.Hive Labs is an educational non-profit cultivating leadership skills among underprivileged children using design thinking

■ Design Leadership role guiding three facilitators to conduct dHive after-school programs which led to 12+ social innovations
■ Designed the curriculum for children aged 8-15 impacting 1200+ students
■ Concept Development of dHive Lab program through a 12 month pilot study with a focus group of 30 students
■ Led the fundraiser campaign to set up 2 innovation labs in rural India providing a platform for children from low-income families. 
■ Led outreach campaigns through partnerships with 3M India and Pune Innovation Park, Department of Science and Technology, India
            

    
    

    
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As a Rural Development Fellow, I lived in a tribal area in interior Maharashtra, India (Lobhi village) to provide skill based training for teenagers to tackle unemployment issues


■ Established world's first children-led rural makerspace in the village of Lobhi, Maharashtra
■ Trained 60 children of the age group of 11-21 in wood and metal work to run the makerspace
■ Trained a women Self-Help Group to run a micro-enterprise and helped provide market linkages to scale the business to increase the sale from 120 to 565+ units
■ Set up a multi-lingual library receiving 200+ books from various donors
■ Set up two toy libraries in collaboration with Toy Bank, Delhi in two upper primary schools of Lobhi and Chikala, Maharashtra
■ Designed various activities for engaging children in design and innovation as a part of the Rural Design Toolkit
■ Conducted an art exhibition to raise the awareness of menstrual hygiene
            

    
    

    
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As a Research Assistant at York university of Toronto, Ontario. I was part of the SEI (Sustainable Energy Initiative) team that constructed a Solar Charging station for electric vehicles

■ Drafted key policy for 100% Renewable Energy by 2050 for Woodstock city as a technical expertise committee member for Oxford County
■ Integrated System for Solar EV Carport and finalized on the 6.84 kW solar PV array as per requirement

■ Provided Design Requirements for kW scale Solar PV Plants at Waaree Energies Ltd. 
■ Analyzed Roof top solar systems such as grid-tied, off-grid and hybrid systems for technological feasibility
■ Provided excel based tools for shadow sizing and cable sizing to help improve the efficiency of the PV systems.

Shreyas Prakash🇬🇧