LAVANYA IYER
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SUMMARY
A product manager, a clinician and a strategist with experience in launching, growing and optimizing digital products and
services. Very passionate about solving challenges to enhance user adoption, experience and satisfaction. Consistently
recognized for driving vision, consensus, and collaboration to manage multiple projects, launch new products and
services, achieve consistent growth and enhance user experience. Skilled in navigating through uncertainty to achieve
favorable outcomes
SKILLS
Product Management | Project Management | Strategy | Business Transformation | Process Improvement | Change
Management | Business Case Development | Value Stream Mapping | Business Requirements Gathering | Cost &
Efficiency Analysis | Customer Segmentation | Teaming & Coaching | Finance | Electronic Health Records | Market
Development and Intelligence | Power BI | Microsoft Office | Azure DevOps | Miro
WORK EXPERIENCE
MINDBEACON
Toronto, ON
Senior Product Manager – Product Management
05/2021 - present
• Led the product strategy, roadmap and operations for Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy product delivering
mental health services to 30,000 Canadians
• Analyzed 500+ user feedback and challenges, and introduced OKRs to the organization that helped drive
priorities, organize projects and launch several capabilities that improved CSAT scores by 50%, and increased
margins by 5%. Introduced data driven monitoring of key metrics to measure product success and reach
• Collaborated across product, data, engineering, clinical, sales, marketing, legal and finance and recognized for
consistently driving consensus among stakeholders and for enabling growth of the product and the organization.
Co-managed the product backlog with timely prioritization and tradeoff evaluation
• Developed go-to-market strategy to penetrate new markets and new segments and gain new referrals. Created goto-market materials and sales reference documents. Introduced new processes for clinical-product co-design for
new features. Built an interim process to collect outstanding revenue over $10,000 caused by a tech error
• Assisted with discovery and research of navigational challenges faced by clients and clinicians. Identified key
focus areas for improvement in information architecture especially layout and structuring of resources for
clinicians and clients. Guided UX research and product design teams to build initial frameworks to solve
challenges with largest impact. Created a training video for new clinical hires that helped them understand
differences in patient and clinical views of the platform.
• Co-led discovery and research to launch a navigation service for patients to enable better decision making, choose
the right therapy and to assist with benefits coordination. Partnered with sales and marketing to pilot the service
with two employer groups
• Analyzed data to understand top treatment programs utilized by clients at MindBeacon. Leveraged this data to
steer revisions to content, clinical redesign and eligibility questionnaire to improve client engagement by 25%
• Reviewed monthly P&L with finance and identified opportunities for revenue and cost improvements
• Conceived and led the development of new product features that increased client conversion by 70% through the
client funnels
• Identified, analyzed and mapped complex manual processes that impacted time to value for clients. Headed the
discovery of the problem, researched and validated user needs, analyzed time taken and operational impact and
guided development of initial designs for the solution. Collaborated with UX designers and engineers and enabled
automation of several processes through introduction of new product capabilities that improved the time to value
for clients by 80%
• Identified and quantified different sources of potential risks to compliance with HIPAA privacy and security
requirements. Led the business case and impact analysis and prioritized the initiatives to be completed in Q3
2021. Headed the discovery, business requirements gathering and use case development to enable launch of new
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capabilities that helped achieve 100% compliance. Notable achievements: launch of automated emails,
improvements to messaging UI that were at very high risk of non-compliance with privacy laws
Introduced new time-based pricing models that helped align clinician time input, clinical outcomes for clients
with efficiency
ALLSCRIPTS
Toronto, ON
Project Manager – Product Strategy
08/2019 – 04/2021
• Led strategy and development of Allscripts Hospital and Health Systems Product and Services portfolio worth
$350M. Guided strategic plans for cloud-based product lines and services. Governed and managed products
through their entire product lifecycle end to end, ensured up-to-date product documentation, and co-led product
and service launches
• Assisted with new solution development geared to launch Allscripts Community Health System Electronic Health
Record (EHR), a cloud-based EHR, including business case development, target market assessment, market
opportunity, solution modules selection, subscription-based pricing, competitive market assessment, and
development of financial model to host the solution on public cloud. This solution is intended for community
hospitals with beds ranging from 40-200. Co-led growth and expansion initiatives of Allscripts interoperability
platform by introducing availability of tiered model of the solution for the community hospital market
• Partnered with all corporate functions including product, development, finance, sales, marketing, and services to
deliver a rigorous, growth-focused demand and bookings plan to increase year over year bookings by over 10%
• Developed new processes and frameworks to define objectives and scope of services, metrics and Key
Performance Indicators, outcomes and to track them over time to analyze Return on Investment (ROI) and enable
rationalization. Influenced investment/divestment decisions. Accelerated new service offerings from ideation
stage to launch and go-live worth $10M.
• Identified dependencies and synergies between product and services and eliminated roadblocks to enable selling
new value-add services worth $4M impacting the 2021 bookings plan
Management Consultant (for Allscripts) – Corporate Strategy and Program Management
08/2017 – 08/2019
• Led digital transformation efforts for EHR and Population Health Management Solutions. Migrated solutions
from hybrid to public cloud deployments, capturing over 30% in infrastructure savings using market, proforma
and competitive analysis
ERNST & YOUNG LLP
Houston, TX
Senior Consultant – Healthcare Strategy and Operations
08/2013 – 05/2016
• I worked as a senior consultant in the healthcare strategy and operations practice working with payors, providers,
healthcare technology organizations and led projects focused on process redesign, growth initiatives, population
health strategy, investment/divestment decisions, vendor selections, interoperability redesign efforts and
compliance projects
HIGHMARK BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD/ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK
Administrative Resident – Planning and Process Design
Pittsburgh, PA
05/2012 –08/2012
EDUCATION
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Master of Health Administration
NAIR HOSPITAL DENTAL COLLEGE
Bachelor of Dental Surgery
State College, PA
Mumbai, India
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