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Ashish A Ullal

Ashish A Ullal

Senior Consultant - Technical Writer
Mangalore

Summary

Seeking a position in an organization where my skills and abilities can be applied and developed along with the development of the organization.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Consultant – Technical Writer

MTX IT Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current
  • Developed high quality User Guides, Quick Reference Guides, Functional Specification
  • Documents and other technical documentations
  • Peer reviewed existing project documentations authored by junior Technical Writers
  • Coordinated with Business Analysts and Development team to prepare project documentation and delivery plans
  • Worked with Change Leads and Management to develop documentation standards
  • Worked with Quality Assurance team and other supporting teams to develop SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) and quality documents
  • Developed client presentations and provided clerical support to Project Manager when needed
  • Developed system maintenance and troubleshooting manual
  • Developed supporting materials such as illustrations, system diagrams, and other schematics using Lucid Charts
  • Good exposure on creating user manuals for Salesforce and MavQ applications
  • Developed user manuals, program documentation, training manuals, and operational procedures for various internal projects
  • Assisted in maintenance and updates of documents after application and business changes occurred
  • Liaised with IT staff to ensure quality, timeliness, and efficiency of technical document updates.

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Applied Materials
12.2020 - 11.2021
  • Handling end to end content development projects for various Business Units
  • Setting up of kick-off meet for getting the project started
  • Establishing project timeline for course launch and deliverables
  • Collecting the requirements from the SME’s for course creation
  • Defining the learning objectives and drafting the detailed course outline
  • Working with SME’s on creating the storyboard (Slide deck and audio script)
  • Assisting SME’s to draft audio script and create required graphics
  • Co-ordinating with the SME’s and scheduling the video recording
  • Reviewing the video recordings and providing feedback on edits and changes
  • Creating storyboards for the course, designing assessments and activities
  • Authoring and uploading the course content into the company’s LMS (OpenEdx)
  • Conducting a focus group review for courses before releasing it to the intended learners
  • Creating and maintaining supplementary reference materials
  • Refreshing the outdated courses with the recent updates
  • Conducting needs analysis to identify the potential training gaps
  • Managed a project-based and mentorship learning for group of specific learners
  • Exposure in working with various content streams in Engineering, Technology, Quality
  • Management.

Instructional Designer

Applied Materials India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
03.2018 - 12.2020

Note: Third Party Payroll from ASM Technologies

  • Creating online courses for the company’s internal stakeholders (Video Learning)
  • Conducting initial needs analysis for course creation
  • Initiating the kink-off meet for getting the project started
  • Collecting the requirements from the SMEs for course creation
  • Co-ordinating with the SME’s in refining the deck and preparing the audio script for video shoot
  • Co-ordinating with the SME’s and video editor during the video shoot
  • Reviewing the video recordings and providing feedback on edits and changes
  • Creating storyboards for the course, designing assessments and activities
  • Authoring and uploading the course content into the company’s LMS
  • Experienced in working with Open Edx platform for course creation
  • Conducting a focus group review for each course before releasing it to the intended audience
  • Creating and maintaining supplementary reference materials
  • Experienced in working with technical and engineering content.

Instructional Designer

Ocwen Financial Services Private Limited
03.2017 - 02.2018
  • Creating ILT (Instruction Led Training) materials for various Business Units to meet the training requirements
  • Perform TNA (Training Needs Analysis) and interact with Business Unit SME’s to design the training curriculum
  • Designing HLD (High Level Design) and LLD (Low Level Design) documents for the designed training curriculum
  • Creating storyboards for CBTs and WBTs
  • Creating Participant Guides, Leaders Guides, Job Shadow Checklists, URT’s (User Readiness
  • Test), Hand-outs, Worksheets etc
  • Creating User Reference Manuals, Policies and Procedure documents
  • Assisting the trainers in using the designed training materials (Training Decks and Job Aids)
  • Using various Accelerated Training methodologies to design the training manuals.

Instructional Designer

Karanji InfoTech Private Limited
03.2016 - 03.2017
  • Creating story boards based on the raw content as per the standards shared by the clients
  • Co-ordinating with the client on scheduling the project and meeting the project timelines
  • Reviewing the storyboards of freelance instructional designers
  • Co-ordinating with the graphic designers during the development of designed storyboards
  • Preparing course design for the E-learning modules as per the client requirement
  • Hands on exposure on working with corporate E-learning projects
  • Hands on experience in working for application demo projects using the tool Adobe
  • Captivate
  • Designing end to end E-Learning modules , which includes creating, user manuals, product notes, trainer guides etc.

HR Consultant

Recruise India Consulting Private Limited
07.2015 - 03.2016
  • Sourcing and screening valid CVs
  • Sourcing using Job portals to meet the client requirements
  • Following up the short listed candidates for offer and on-boarding.

Business Analyst

MResult Services Private Limited
04.2014 - 06.2015
  • Worked on providing back end support for email campaigning and cold calling process for the company’s new product / service
  • Worked on lead generation project for finding out prospective customers for the company’s new software product / service
  • Worked on Release Management Process in which the results are visible to the client in their frontend application
  • Preparation of guideline documents in consultation with US team for the smooth functioning of the Release management process
  • Prepared mock-ups and wireframes for some of the new projects
  • Worked on creating balanced scorecards for the client
  • Worked on quarterly survey process as a part of vendor evaluation project for the client.

Education

M.B.A - finance

Sahyadri college of Engineering and Management

B.B.M - undefined

V.T.U Belgaum, S.D.M College Of Business Management Mangalore Mangalore University

P.U.C Canara - undefined

Pre University College

S.S.L.C - undefined

Vishwamangala High School

Certified Instructional Designer - undefined

Carlton Advanced Management Institute

Certified in Information Mapping Fundamentals and Mastering Successful Policies and Procedures awarded by Manipal Prolearn. - undefined

Skills

    Storyboarding

Curriculum and Content Design

Micro Learning

Instructor Led Training

Training Needs Analysis

Technical Writing

Camtesia

MS Office

OpenEdx

Conflunce

Jira

PolicyTech

Timeline

Sr. Consultant – Technical Writer

MTX IT Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
11.2021 - Current

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Applied Materials
12.2020 - 11.2021

Instructional Designer

Applied Materials India Pvt Ltd
03.2018 - 12.2020

Instructional Designer

Ocwen Financial Services Private Limited
03.2017 - 02.2018

Instructional Designer

Karanji InfoTech Private Limited
03.2016 - 03.2017

HR Consultant

Recruise India Consulting Private Limited
07.2015 - 03.2016

Business Analyst

MResult Services Private Limited
04.2014 - 06.2015

M.B.A - finance

Sahyadri college of Engineering and Management

B.B.M - undefined

V.T.U Belgaum, S.D.M College Of Business Management Mangalore Mangalore University

P.U.C Canara - undefined

Pre University College

S.S.L.C - undefined

Vishwamangala High School

Certified Instructional Designer - undefined

Carlton Advanced Management Institute

Certified in Information Mapping Fundamentals and Mastering Successful Policies and Procedures awarded by Manipal Prolearn. - undefined

Ashish A UllalSenior Consultant - Technical Writer