Amit Nagar

VP, Hardware Business Development and Sourcing

Bellevue, Washington, United States

About

True Believer of Solving Problems via Collaboration. I enjoy taking on challenges that involve creating and executing end-to-end plan for launching products and features. My strong experience in Sourcing, Supply Chain, Cost Strategies and Product Launch deepens the understanding of product readiness and challenges around it. Skills and Tools: Product Management, Program Management, Cross-team lead, Launch Management, Go-to Market Strategies, benchmarking, business strategy, concept development, cost analysis, logistics, materials management, operations management, optimization, lean manufacturing, process engineering, project management, quality control, simulation, strategic, supply chain management

Experience

  • Valve corporation (6 yrs 11 mos)
    • VP, Hardware Business Development and Sourcing
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Director - Hardware Business, Sourcing and Supply Chain
      Aug 2019 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Senior Program Manager - Capacity Planning at Amazon Web Services
    Nov 2017 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Primary EC2 Capacity Planning and non-organic forecast lead for over 25 AWS Internal Services using EC2 across 70 Availability Zones in 21 regions and 30 instance family products.

  • Microsoft (6 yrs 10 mos)
    • Sourcing Manager
      Oct 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Global Launch Manager
      May 2013 - Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Product Quality Engineer
      Oct 2012 - May 2013 · 8 mos

  • Research Assistant at University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
    Jul 2010 - Jan 2011 · 7 mos

    Sustainability/Green Initiatives in Operations Management in different types of industries through: Analyzing trends through projects carried out at companies through the university Forming empirical conclusions between financial gains and sustainability-based projects

  • Business Development & Supply Chain Consultant at Professionalballroomshoes.com
    Jul 2009 - Dec 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Working on various aspects related to a start-up firm such as: Presenting business details and salient features on the website Cost analysis for overall business plan and reducing lead time based on different suppliers and products Better marketing and advertisement strategies