Mr. Prathik Nayar

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, SCMS GROUP

Educational Qualification

  • MBA FROM PURDUE UNIVERSITY, USA | GRADUATED IN MAY 2022 WITH HONORS |
  • B. TECH IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FROM SREENIDHI INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, HYDERABAD|GRADUATED IN MAY 2020

Employment History

  • Worked as the Administrative officer at SCMS Group of Educational Institutions.

  • Worked for 8 months as a community assistant at Purdue University from October 2021- May 2022 and was awarded best employee of the month of April.

  • Worked for 9 months from September 2019- June 2020 at Speed-Sport Automotive, Delhi, India

Teaching Interests

  • Road Safety
  • Marketing
  • Operations

Key Responsibilities

Currently serving as the Deputy Director of SCMS Group of Educational Institutions and delivering sessions for the SCMS Institute for Road Safety and Transportation.

Training Programmes / Workshop / Seminars Attended

  • Crash investigation certification from Qatar University, IRF and Qatar Transportation and traffic centre.
  • Certified trainer on Road Safety from IDTR (Institute of Driving and Traffic Research), Kerala
  • Completed an online program certification on Innovation Management from International Business Management Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Achievements

  • Assisted in building an Autocross car, according to the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) specification which went on to win the Indian National Autocross Championship 2019 at Speed-Sport Automotive, Delhi, India.
  • International Remote Control (RC) racer.
  • Won the 2019 Sri Lankan National Championship in Colombo at the Nitro Racing Championship (NRC)
  • 2nd runner up in the 20-minute endurance race at the 2019 Sri Lankan national championship in Colombo at the Nitro Racing Championship (NRC)
  • Only Indian to attend and participate in the European RCGP 2019 racing series.
  • Completed the driving session at the BMW Munich track in July 2019.
  • Selected from hundreds of applicants for Google’s machine learning course.
  • Marathon runner
  • Brevet 200km cyclist
  • Built a JQ Racing Black edition (THE CAR) and gained knowledge about 4-wheel drive cars

Projects and Internships

  • Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology | October 17th – 25th, 2017
  • Successfully completed the design and theoretical analysis of a bio-binders and how they can help the environment.
  • Successfully completed an internship at TATA Power Solar, Bangalore.
  • Successfully completed an internship at Makers Hive, Hyderabad

Conferences

Presented a paper titled ‘How academic brilliance can be used in road safety?’ in the Annual Road Safety conference on December 5 and 6, 2023, under the auspices of the ‘Asia Pacific Road Safety Observatory’ (APRSO) held at Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines

Membership in Professional Bodies

  • Chair – Road safety in Yi (Young Indians), Kochi chapter
  • Life member- Kerala Management Association(KMA)
  • Institutional membership- Asia Pacific Road Safety Observatory(APSRO) 
  • Institutional membership- Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety.